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Washington Apple Pi Journal, July 1986

1. 36 Coit Valley Computers QUAND 15 DeJarnette Hampton M 61 Matzen Peg ee 29 Sk Dan Ed QE don ae Field Bruce F 18 Milrod Martin 66 70 aka Ware Unlimited aa 43 Golden Robert 14 Moore Paul 22 Innovetitns for Computers ARA ate Hardis Jonathan E 48 49 Morgan tein David 63 Landmark Computer Laboratories 21 KE Rene nd e uo re Mee Ed MAP i i oe gt 9 o KS aga E meek Johnston Thomas 24 Trusal Lynn R 52 MinuteWare Publishing ane 2 Kinal George 30 35 Warren Stephen C 54 Wage TEER IDUCE TUE i aee 25 Kirby Patricia 16 Warrick Tm 4 0 ant s stan e ee sooo 9 a o 13 Klugewicz Chris we Bits e 45 Wartow Ronald o e o 20 22 Be sinet te ado ar ne a A 57 Lambert Al 12 Youell Adrien 9 Technical Sales amp Service 5 Tysons Corner Center 2 2s 14 VF Associates s ee ewe ee ee ee 47 72 July 1986 Washington Apple Pi o NT uu d i elex TWX 510 600 1221 trademark of General Computer Corp Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple 0 are trademarks of Apple Computer Inc WASHINGTON APPLE PI LTD 8227 Woodmont Avenue Suite 201 BUR BATE Bethesda MD 20811 U S POSTAGE PAID L2 PERMIT 5
2. TS V1 T SG 1 IF LEFTS T 1 THEN SG 1 39 RETURN Next we input the data for the TO FROM WHOM column Here again we use the same principle as before The only thing to notice here is that we restrict the length of the string to 12 characters and we use the first character of this field to indicate whether the item is income or expense If it is income we use the sign as the first character and make SG equal to 1 We also decrement the check number by one if we are automatically numbering the checks This means of course that the user will have to enter deposits before withdrawals when using the automatic check numbering mode so that the withdrawal will have the same check number as the deposit 40 July 1986 1955 T 2 30 HTAB T GOSUB 60 HTAB T CALL 958 T 32 AMT R C GOSUB 70 60 TS ES PRINT 2 IF Q 1 THEN CALL 868 61 GET E T T ES IF ES CHRS 8 AND LEN T 1 THEN GOTO 58 58 IF Q gt 1 THEN CALL 1008 GOTO 60 59 GOTO 1945 62 PRINT E GOSUB 5 64 IFE CHR 13 THEN C VAL T GOTO 66 65 GOTO 61 66 GOSUB 26 IF C lt 0 THEN SG 1 67 C ABS C IFC lt 99999 THEN C C SG SG 1 RETURN 68 HTAB 1 VTAB 24 PRINT CANT ACCEPT A NUMBER THAT BIG VTAB L HTAB T GOTO 60 70 IFC 0 THEN SG 1 71 IF SG 2 1 THEN INVERSE C ABS C GOSUB 72 RETURN 72 X C C INT C GOSUB 50 75 T RIGHTS STRS INT X 1 0001 100 2
3. Back arrow conversion to DELete has 9055 EA NOP been eliminated from this version 9056 EA NOP 9057 C9 1D CMP SiD 9059 DO 03 BNE S905E gt Replace CTRL SHIFT M with open bracket 905B A9 5B LDA 8SSB i 905D 60 RTS 905E C995 CMP 595 9060 D002 BNE 9064 gt Replace forward arrow with TAB 9062 A909 LDA 4 09 9064 60 RTS 9065 AD A9 CO LDA SCOA9 Entry point for character output OUTCHR 9068 29 16 AND 16 906A FO F9 BEQ 9065 Loop until buffer is empty 906C AD 7690 LDA 9076 906F 8D A8 CO STA SCOA8 Send it out 9072 20C590 JSR 90C5 Local echo 3 NOPs if not wanted 9075 60 RTS 9076 00 BRK lt Temporary storage location LAST 9077 A920 LDA 20 DOWNLOAD Section HOTAP 9079 8SFF STA SFF 907B A000 LDY 800 V Preload buffer pointer 907D 84 FE STY SFE Buffer starts at 2000 8192 907F AE 7690 LDX 9076 9082 A9 0D LDA 8S0D Send outa 9084 8D 7690 STA 9076 carriage retum at 9087 206590 JSR 9065 start of downoad 908A 20AD 90 JSR 90AD First character received is discarded 908D 20AD 90 JSR S90AD MAIN RECEPTION LOOP 9090 C91A CMP 1A CTRL Z means End of File 9092 F016 BEQ 90AA If CIRL Z received retum 9094 E000 CPX 00 NV 9096 F003 BEQ 909B Convert Upper to lower case if user wants 9098 203F90 JSR 90F 909B 91 FE STA SFE Y Character received to buffer 909D 09 80 ORA 80 Set High bit 909F 20C590 JSR 90CS
4. Display it 90A2 C8 INY l 90A3 DOES BNE 908D Loop unless onc pagcfull received 90AS 4C 3390 JMP 9033 90A8 EA NOP i 90A9 EA NOP 90AA 84 FE STY SFE l 90AC 60 RTS 1 90AD AD 00CO LDA C000 90B0 2C10C0 BIT 010 Received data processing during downloads contd on pg 35 Washington Apple Pi LAP COMPUTERS PART 8 4A pata CommunicationsTrouble Shooter amp Building an Adapter for your Mac for RS 232 by George Kinal If you prepare a Quick amp Dirty interface cable as described previously for connecting your laptop to another computer with all the handshakes on cach side ticd together and with the null modem what a non descriptive name crossover of pins 2 and 3 you have at your disposal a powerful test device for solving RS 232 interface problems You see by tying all the handshakes together at the lap computer end actually only 4 and 5 really need to be con nected together you enable the laptop to both send and receive data regardless of what s connected on the other end of the cable I ll give two examples In one case a fellow WAP member was developing an interface between an Apple Super Serial card and a computer controlled video disk player V DP Apparently the Apple was sending data to thc VDP because the latter was responding to commands But there were no prompts or status messages being received from the VDP The question was whether the VDP the SSC or the Apple software
5. O3FF Page Three Routing Shps DOS Vectors 9600 BFFF Pages Nine six thru BF DOS Pages C oh thru C F Switchboard Device Svilches Pages D oh thru E F Interpretation Branch Applesoft Interpreter FOOO FFFF Pages F ch thru F F Operations System Monitor mmrov lt vo Imz v gt I Washington Apple Pi When you place a character in a memory location anywhere on the four pages devoted to the Text Screen that character appears on your monitor instantaneously The first four pages in memory zero page and pages one through three are used primarily by Assembly Language programmers and we will not spend much time on those pages here except to note two things First what you type in at the keyboard is stored on page two the keyboard buffer where it can be accessed by the program that is running on the computer and second that page one is known as the System Stack and contains small bits of information that have been placed there in order temporarily The Stack by the way contains the addresses in memory of the program lines which immediately follow GOSUB statements This is how the Apple knows where to return to after executing a GOSUB The Workroom areas are what we call free RAM It is in these areas that our program lines arc stored for execution along with any data that are used by and for that program Any data including program code that is processed by the
6. Washington Apple Pi The Journal of Washington Apple Pi Ltd Volume 8 July 1986 Number 7 Button down Guide to the Apple ProDOS Revision of Comm Term Family Home Money Manager Part 3 Exel Scatter Charts of Several Dep Vars eMucha DA S pages 64 67 In This Issue Officers amp Staff Editorial os 3 Lap Computers Part 8 George Kinal 35 President s Corner Tom Warrick 4 Family Home Money Manager Pt 3 Brian G Mason 36 WAP Calendar SigNews o e een Early Journal Deadlines s s 5 sw ce ee onus AD Event Queue General Information Dealer s Corner 7 The Musical Apple Raymond Hobbs 42 Apple Teas sa ao ae Amy T Billingsley 7 Letters fo the Reiter ak wo I tae m ew eo RS WAPUHotlifiae o o we were ee weve ee 8 The View from Durham Chris Klugewicz 44 Meeting Report May 24 Adrien Youell 9 WAP Acrostic ss ss a Professor Apple 46 Angle M NEWS ca ewes ww a David Ottal tnt 10 Mae d EAS ai e na iatha E Hardis 48 Commercial Classifieds Classifieds os 11 Mea Culpa Jonathan E Hardis 49 Apple SIG Disketeria Al Lambert 12 MacNovice Column Ralph J Begleiter 50 PISSIG NAWI 4 e aao yo a aa Robert Golden 14 Frederick Apple Care 4 69992 9555 6 w MZ WAP BBS Phone Numbers ss 4s 54 v9 vs v 14 Macintosh Bits and Bytes Lynn R Trusal 52 EDSIB MENS 5 2 56e cw 0 Patricia
7. e QUICK LOADER PROM BD PROM BURNER 765 00 33 00 39 00 SPECIAL PERIPHERALS COOLING FAN WITH SURGE PROTECT e 58 W POWER SUPPLY e SHIFT KEY MOD KIT CALL FOR OUR FREE CATALOGUE UPS SHIPPING 00 per ome plus 6 00 per printer or monitor e Computers 30 00 APPLE SOFTWARE e COPY M e ESSENTIAL DATA DUPLICATOR PLusWorks RUNS APPLEWoRkS ON Il 4 e WRITE CHOICE WORD PROCESSOR PRINT SHOP e TURBO PASCAL PLEASE NOTE PRICES CHANGE OFTEN PRICE ON DATE OF PURCHASE APPLIES SPECIAL LASER 128 APPLE lic lle COMPATIBLE 415 00 10 surcharge per 30 days for purchase orders SSEEESESSSESESESEEEE LONG DISTANCE CALL TOLL FREE FROM ANY TONE GENERATING PHONE DIAL 950 1088 IF YOU RECEIVE A RECORDING DIAL 800 446 4462 INSTEAD WAIT FOR TONE DIAL 363 1313 SSSSBSESSESESESSESEE BESBUAPPLE lic CORNER BEER e SECOND DISK DR FOR lic e HOTLINK TO PARALLEL PRINTER e GRAPPLER C e PRINTER OR MODEM CABLE e DISK DRIVE CABLE ADAPTER e 9 16 GAME 1 0 ADAPTER MULTI RAM CX 256K MULTI RAM CX 512K 119 00 8231 WOODMONT AVENUE BETHESDA MARYLAND 208 STORE HOURS Monday through Thursday 12 noon until 8 p m Friday 12 Noon until 6 p m Saturday 11 a m until 5 p m July 1986 47 MAC Q amp A by Jonathan E Hardis Q What s new I don t have a Help On the Mac I used to be able to take a snap shot picture of the
8. PD library offerings together Al has spent many many hours on this project so far and is preparing a number of new disks for the coming months His article in this issue explains some of the things you can expect from our initial offerings which you may purchase through WAP just as with any other PD disk Getting a PD library going in 1986 was one of my major goals as your SIG Co Chairman and I am very pleased to sce it finally happening Not only will it be an excellent local resource for our members but it will also provide additional income for WAP and thus additional attention for the community within our users group Any additional programs you would like to provide for the PD library are welcomed Bring them with you to the next meeting By the way I have been making available to SIG members a copy of one of my data bases Specifically it is a fairly complete listing of all known Apple PD offerings around the country Bring a formatted diskette to the next mecting and we ll provide you a copy It includes listings for each software item who sells it the price and a description of 10 July 1986 what the software does Great way to compare prices and offerings I also recently got a copy of D A Datasystems catalog on disk and would be happy to make it available for copying as well SUN DATA CHANGES Some changes have been going on at Sun Data Actually now its name is Sun Systems Remarkcting Pr
9. Shipping on modems 5 Ground 8 Air monitors 10 See terms on facing page Hayes Avatex Appie Mate respective registered trademarks of Hayes Microcomputer Products E E DataComm Cermetek Micro COIT VALLEY COMPUTERS 14055 Waterfall Way Dallas TX 75240 214 234 5047 14 July 1986 Washington Apple Pi 7 Meg lle G4Oklic Don t buy yesterday s card that doesn t offer battery backed up STATIC RAM or 65C816 new Apple technology just because it s advertised alot You can buy Checkmate Technology s State Of The Art MULTIRAM RGB RAM CARD with BATTERY BACKED UP STATIC RAM optionsthat can load amp save programs like AppleWorks for 10 years Itis a FASTER amp LESS EXPEN SIVE REPLACEMENT FOR HARD DISKS is USER EXPAND ABLE TO 6 MEGABYTES compatable with all 10096 3rd party software hardware has an optional real 16 Bit 65C816 slot saver Co Processor card sharp 80 columns super Double Hi Res amp BUILT IN RGB It s a direct substitute for Ramworks II or Apple Ext 80 column cards amp has an amazing 5 year warranty Unlike Ramworks Il MultiRam fits ALL even Euro Apple Ile s can t interfere with slot 1 cards amp has no soldered chips MultiRam RGB expands to 1 Meg main RAM 4 Meg s piggyback RAM 2 Meg s BATTERY BACKED UP RAM Multi Ram lle expands to 768k amp can piggyback w MultiRam RGB A POSSIBLE 7 MEGABYTES IN ONE SLOT MORE THAN RAMWORKS II amp Flipster FREE APPLEWORKS EXPANDER SOFTWARE that l
10. So NOPs appear in 9007 9009 and 89015 9017 2 Extra code was needed to detect the buffer full condi tion This code is squeezed into 9033 903C 3 Originally COMM TERM madc provision for replac ing the back arrow 88 with the DELcte character Since the back arrow is now accepted by most systems and the e has a DEL key anyway this code was eliminated Thus the NOPs in 9052 9056 4 9077 9079 Old COMM TERM buffer started at page 1C or memory location 7168 This program needed more room so the buffer starts at page 20 location 8192 5 S90A5 90A9 see note 3 above 6 S90C5 90D5 The old code simply sent data to be dis played to good ole SFDFO Sec instructions at 909F 9012 and 9072 But many control characters cause 80 column board difficulties especially those that switch the computer back to 40 column mode Also the screen clear Curl L takes a long time to process during which data is lost So the code here filters out all control characters except the carriage return Cul M Since this little routine is at the end of the machine language section it could be casily modified if you wanted to only filter out some control characters or to translate characters One change that I recently realized would be desirable is to permit Ctrl H the backspace to come through as well 5 CONCLUSION I encourage readers to try out improve and comment upon this program I realize it s not terribly elegant but perh
11. Telephone Attn Disketeria CITY STATE ZIP 8227 Woodmont Avenue Suite 201 WAP Membership No Bethesda MD 20814 Washington Apple Pi July 1986 71 WAP TUTORIAL REGISTRATION The following three WAP tutorials are being offered to Apple owners on Tuesday evenings from 7 30 to 9 00 PM at the office 8227 Woodmont Ave Bethesda MD The tutorials start promptly at 7 30 if you bring your computer please arrive 15 minutes early to set up You may sign up for any or all of the series They are designed for the beginner and will be repeated monthly A revised outline of the tutorials was given in the October 1985 issue of the WAP Journal However the 3rd tutorial has been changed as follows It will introduce AppleWorks Apple s integrated Word Processor Database and Spreadsheet for use with Apple c e and when patched by Norwich Plus Works or similar software An AW Data Disk will be available for use or copying during the tutorial It contains several small less than 10K examples of databases and spreadsheets in addition to instructions in the form of an AW word processor file The tutorial is designed to guide new AW users through the procedures for using adding to and altering existing files The particular files used will be chosen in response to requests from registrants WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF APPLE No Tutorials in June July HOW TO USE YOUR APPLE SOFTWARE and August They will C e POPULAR APPLICATIONS
12. The question arose whether TIC has many campers with emotional or discipline problems There are a number of such campers but few real problems Karen s belicf is that children are discipline problems when they fcar their time is being wasted If they feel teachers are interested in what they are doing they will usually go along she said or if they feel they have some say in their activitics Success of Computer Camps Today Computer camps once flourishing have decreased greatly today especially the franchises Even camps with computer components are being phased out according to Karcn unless Washington Apple Pi they have someone who is really excited about computers In the Washington D C arca there is a local camp and some national camps offering computer components Summer computer activities are also available at Y s and through a group called Computer Summers that will bring their exper ience to you and which Karen regards as a good program Reasons for this trend are not fully clear TIC has had a number of dropouts from other computer camps or even schools complaining that they could not take off and do things The camp has occasionally been written up in the Washington Post but word of mouth and rcturnees account for a large percentage of campers Despite lack of plans for TIC to take adult computer campers perhaps with continuing success TIC will expand for those of us adult kids at heart who would ju
13. below but it does allow you to make exactly one backup of the master disk I haven t tried making a second and I m kind of worried about trying The backup master acts just like the original disk Backups made through the Finder require the master disk to be inserted This is a fairly reasonable policy and I won t inveigh against Microsoft for it it s just that I wish copy protection in the Apple world would disappear as rapidly as it has in the IBM world Steps in the right direction Some software that is NOT copy protected Borland International s SideKick for the Mac why doesn t everybody follow Philippe Kahn s lead At its introduction SideKick came in two flavors protected and not protected I guess Borland saw the hypocrisy of selling only non copy protected SidcKick to the IBMers and both sorts to the Mac crowd because copy protected SideKick disappeared within a month Hurrah for Borland Borland also has some of the most reasonable prices for software I ve ever scen I just wish they d hurry up with Mac Turbo Pascal Apple s Macintosh Pascal is another product whose copy protection has becn removed With its new release Mac Pascal is now as unprotected as MacWrite which I think is contd Washington Apple Pi only reasonable for a programming language I told you so A column or so ago I said that the Mac Plus SCSI I refuse to call it the scuzzy interface for me it s the ess see ess eye port would promote
14. it did not recognize That word in fact was mis spelled Although not extremely fast I rate Spell quite highly overall Lightning While MacSpell has been on the market for a while MacLightning is a relatively new product on the Mac There is an IBM version marketed by Borland with most of the same features When you run Lightning a new menu item appears at the top right of your screen From this menu you can select various options Among these are toggle the automatic check while you type feature check a selected portion of the document and check a text document stored on disk As of this time Lightning only works with M soft s Word The method by which words are replaced is linked as you will read later to the particular word processors method for changing text This seems to me to be a bit of a drawback as it requires corrections to be done one word at a time Lightning offers an automatic option which I found inconvenient After typing a word which is not in the diction ary you can choose to be greeted by a beep At this point you can issue a command to check the spelling and re enter or correct the word Since I make quite a few typing mistakes this approach would slow mc down immeasurably I prefer to check the document after I have completed a rough draft Unfortunately Lightning can not correct the entire docu ment in a single step Rather it has a check selected text contd on pg 70 July 1986 63 MUCHA
15. storing the number of the category in the array CT R This save us some memory over storing the whole code or category name in a string array In line 1963 we set the reconciliation flag to zero This indicates that the item we just entered has not been reconciled with the bank statement yet In linc 1964 we increment the line number by one and the check number by one We set NS to the value of R and then increment R We only permit a total data base of 300 entries If R is equal to or greater than 299 we tell the user to return to the menu If L is less than 23 we simply return to line 1904 for more input Once L gets to be 23 or larger however we set the bottom of the scrolling window above line 22 to protect any messages below that line do a line feed with the CALL 922 which moves everything within the scrolling window up one line and theri reset the bottom of the scrolling window Then we go back to line 1904 for more input Scrolling is a way to keep visible as much data on the screen at one time as possible L is reset to 22 to retain the position of the cursor on the screen since we use L for our VTAB commands That is enough for this month We will continue with this program next month showing you how we will deal with the other selections possible from the Main Menu Put your budget disk in your drive and type SAVE ENTER DATA You now have two program modules and the beginning of a third one on your disk Ed Note
16. this is the area that was labeled Work Area on our previous map Now the Work Area has a number of designated functions and the map shows where they are located in the Apple You ll notice that the locations mem ory addresses are designated in blocks of addresses Actually there are 65 536 distinct addresses that the 6502 can access Each group of 256 addresses is called a page of memory The map uses this terminology as well Let s look at these thirteen blocks of memory one at a time The functional designations are somewhat whimsical but represent the types of operations that actually go on in the Apple For example the two Graphics Departments are really the hi res graphics screens When any data are placed in the memory locations claimed by either one of the graphics screens and if the screen is turned on the data will instantly appear as graphics images on your monitor What turns the graphics screen on It s the area I have termed the switchboard The switches are not physical any operation which accesses a memory location designated as a device switch will throw the switch In a BASIC program this is commonly done by using PEEKs and POKEs The HGR command in BASIC simply performs a couple of POKEs to get the graphics screen turned on The same type of operation works on the text screen 0100 OIFF Page One Company Spindle File The Stack 0200 O2FF Page Two Company Mail Room Keyboard Buffer 0300
17. 00 SPECIAL WHILE THEY LAST THINK TANK 85 so ING TUTOR 17 DAZZLE DRAW 38 5 Scholastic Ed Series 22 00 COPY II PLUS for II Ile IIc 28 00 COPY II MAC ec occsss 262 900 DAVID DOS II 02290 NEW COMPLETE LINE OF MACCESSORIES BY KENSINGTON Bii 7 90 Mouse Pocket 8 00 eaning Kit W Pocket 18 75 Dust Cover 10 00 This ad is written a month in advance Since prices are subject to change please call for current pricin We attempt to meet all advertised prices COMPUTER DEN Ltd 11716 KEMP MILL ROAD SILVER SEKING MARYLAND 209072 CO01 6439 52868 answer questions that arc of gencral interest to most readers Sunday Thursday 10 A M 9 F M Please send your questions to Q amp A Washington Apple Pi Free delivery to Cr vstal City Ltd 8227 Woodmont Avenue Suite 201 Bethesda MD UFS shipping Quantity Discounts Available 20814 6 ImIMEAImBIImmIEI BL ILmI ILIELELIILI ILI LI LI L I IIL LILEL LI L LILI Washington Apple Pi July 1986 19 Controlled Mayhem in Chicago by Ronald Wartow Taking a busman s holiday to solidify old and forge new gaming software contacts as well as to meet many of the company representatives with whom I had been speaking over the last few ycars I attended The Consumer Electronics Show CES in Chicago along with 125 000 others CES is open only to the consumer electronics industry not the public However I was able to attend as a represe
18. 1450 SS 21 The first item in the file will be the number of records which will be kept in the variable NS Each record will have associated with it a check number the month the day the vendor the amount the budget category and the bank reconciliation flag After each of these fields has been read in the file will be closed and the flag SS will be set to 1 to indicate that there have been no changes made to the file at this time ERROR HANDLERS 19996 GOTO 19999 19997 IF T Y THEN PRINT OP FD PRINT CLS FDS GOTO 1500 19998 GOTO 1400 19999 Y PEEK 222 IF Y lt gt 5 THEN POKE 34 0 20000 IF Y 254 THEN VTAB 22 HTAB 1 CALL 958 PRINT ERROR PLEASE TRY AGAIN ENTER DATA HERE gt RESUME 20001 IFY 2 5 THEN GOTO 150 20002 IF Y 2 6 THEN VTAB 5 PRINT FILE NOT FOUND PRINT PRINT DO YOU WISH TO CREATE A NEW FILE WITH THIS NAME Y N INPUT TS IF T Y AND T N THEN 20002 20003 IF Y 2 6 GOTO 19997 20004 IF Y 2 77 THEN VTAB 24 FLASH PRINT MEMORY FULL FOR C 1 TO 200 NEXT NORMAL GOTO 1500 20005 IF Y 2 22 THEN POP GOTO 1500 20006 IF Y 2 9 THEN HOME VTAB 10 FLASH PRINT DISK IS FULL PRINT NORMAL PRINT REMOVE CURRENT DISK INSERT ANOTHER INITIALIZED DISK THEN TRY AGAIN GOSUB 28 RESUME 20999 PRINT ONERR CODE Y 21000 X PEEK 218 PEEK 219 256 PRINT ERROR AT LINE X END As we have done in our previous program modules we contd Washin
19. 694 500 Sub total Other Expenses 10 398 16 302 5 904 11 660 TOTAL CASH EXPENSES 102 518 118 526 16 009 107 443 CASH SURPLUS DEFICIENCY 19 170 6 352 12 818 1 944 e 68 July 1986 Washington Apple Pi BYLAWS CHANGES Pursuant to Article XV of the bylaws of Washington Apple Pi Ltd notice is given of the following bylaws changes which were made at the June 11 1986 Board of Directors meeting New material is shown in bold italics material deleted is underscored ARTICLE V SECTION 1 CLASSES OF MEMBER SHIP There shall be three four classes of membership individual family student and educational institution and corporate patron Members of each class shall have equal voting powers Any member of the immediate household holding a student or family membership shall bc entitled to all privileges of membership except that the student or family membership is entitled to a single WAP Journal and a single vote Institutional members Educational institutions and corporate patrons shall exercise the privileges of membership through a single individual and shall be entitled to a single vote As determined by the Board of Directors educational institutions and corporate patrons may be entitled to multiple copies of the Journal SECTION 2 ELIGIBILITY Membership in the Corporation WAP is open to any person or nonprofit educa tional institution interested in computers of amy manuf acturer size or kind New family members and patrons m
20. 77 PRINT TS 78 NORMAL T STR C TS C VAL T SG SG 1 RETURN HOW MUCH Now for the AMOUNT column After setting up our tabs we GOSUB 60 which is the routine for INPUTing amounts If Q 1 that is we are in the ENTER DATA mode then we clear the entire line from the cursor to the right Then we go to the GET routinc If the first character of T is a backspace then we GOTO 58 If we are in other than the ENTER DATA mode we just backspace and then go back to the GET routine Otherwise the backspace takes us to the previous field TO FROM WHOM line 1945 After hitting lt RETURN gt we set C to the VALue of TS Then we test to make sure the number is not too large and then retum to line 1955 After clearing the screen from the cursor down we resct the tab to prepare for right decimal justification set the array variable equal to C and GOSUB 70 The routine at 70 is the one we use to ensure that all our dollar amounts are printed with two decimal places and with the decimals aligned First we sce if the amount is negative If it is we set SG equal to 1 If SG is 1 because of line 70 or if it already was 1 because we sct it this way because we are dealing with a deposit we print thc number in inverse on the screen Now all we have to worry about is the absolute value of C that is C without a plus or a minus sign so we do this with the substitution equation C ABS C Next we will be doing some operations on C s
21. 935 5617 Word Juggler e Carl Eisen 703 354 4837 PFS Bill Etue 703 620 2103 Word Perfect James Edwards 301 585 3002 salen Ginny Spevak 202 362 3887 Word Star Leon Raesly 301 439 1799 uickFile II J J Finkelstein 301 652 9375 Dana Reil 301 350 3283 Pro 4 John Staples 703 893 5985 mene isiPlot Leon Raesly 301 439 1799 Calls until midnight are ok 8 July 1986 Washington Apple Pi MEETING REPORT May 24 1986 Computers Education HFS Hard Disks tor Mac by Adrien Youell Dave Wyatt set up school at 9 30 with a very erudite talk on computers and learning This was a run around idea jerking almost philosophical presentation concerning many aspects of computers in and for education Really it was a spoken essay I use the words computers and learning inten tionally because Dave a Brit expertly introduced by Peter Combes another Brit modestly related by yours truly yet another Brit has had extensive experience in education computers and linguistics and he is not an unthinking computer idolator Dave introduced us to multiple aspects of computer use within the sphere of learning that computers may be perceived as self educators as learning aids as training aids and as productivity tools As a conceptual base it is not sufficient to think of computers and learning and computers in education as synonymous Dave used an Apple e as a slide projector prompt for screen notes He did not demonstrate educational progr
22. Apple c serial ports or super serial card If you haven t read the article it is worth getting a copy Copy II Mac Version 5 2 of Copy II Mac is available and supports n contd Washington Apple Pi new HFS of the Macintosh Plus This is an minor revision and as such both the Copy II hard disk and MacTools sections do not yet support HFS disks Only the Copy II Mac portion of the program supports HFS at this time Since the program is designed to work with 128 K Macintoshes it docs not contain the latest version of the system or finder There is a procedure on thc disk to modify the program to boot on MacPlus and Mac computers with 800K drives The next major revision should be available by the timc this newsletter appears The list of copyable programs usually supplied in writing is now a MacWrite file on the disk allowing it to be viewed on the screen or printed out i with th P For those of you who have a Macintosh Plus and make extensive use of Excel I have improved its speed and performance by using Copy II Mac to place the program system folder and all files on the same 800K disk To accomplish this I did the following I first initialized a blank disk as an 800K disk I then used the Copy II Hard Disk option to copy Excel to the 800K disk and then quit Copy II Mac Finally I transferred the system folder and my Excel files to the disk by dragging them to the 800K disk I was surprised how fast 15 tax forms with all th
23. BD 2321 IF BD 300 THEN GOTO 2370 2322 IF BD 1200 THEN GOTO 2380 2323 IF BD 2400 THEN GOTO 2390 2325 REM ELSE WRONG RATE 2327 GOTO 2310 2370 POKE R2 22 REM 300 BAUD 8N1 2372 GOTO 2400 2380 POKE R2 24 REM 1200 2382 GOTO 2400 2390 POKE R2 26 REM 2400 2400 RETURN 2500 REM FOR 6850 TYPE CARDS 2510 PRINT PRINT CARD DIP SWITCHES SHOULD BE AT 1200 BAUD 2511 PRINT PRINT INPUT CHOOSE BAUD RATE 300 OR 1200 BD 2520 IF BD 300 THEN GOTO 2550 2525 IF BD 1200 THEN GOTO 2570 2530 GOTO 2510 REM WRONG INPUT 2550 POKE 49326 3 POKE 49326 22 RETURN 2570 POKE 49326 3 POKE 49326 21 RETURN 2600 REM SCREEN OUTPUT SECTION 2610 IF NOT C8 THEN IF BD 300 THEN POKE 34 2 POKE 35 18 IF BD 2400 THEN POKE 34 4 POKE 35 16 2620 IF NOT C8 THEN GOSUB 3000 2628 PRINT PRINT 2635 PRINT WILL REMOTE COMPUTER ECHO INPUT YOUR KEYBOARD INPUTS Y N E9S 2640 IF ASC E9S 89 OR ASC E9S 121 THEN POKE 36978 234 POKE 36979 234 POKE 36980 234 2643 HOME PRINT CHRS 12 2699 RETURN REM TO MAIN PROGRAM 3000 REM UPPER CASE CONVERSION NEEDED 3010 PRINT PRINT 3020 PRINT DO YOU HAVE A LOWER CASE CHIP 3030 INPUT TYPE Y OR N PLEASE LAS 3040 IF LEFTS LAS 1 Y THEN L4 1 RETURN 3050 LA 0 POKE 36942 32 RETURN REM NO L C CHIP contd on pg 34 July 1986 33 TELECOM SIG NEWS by Dave Harvey The Telecom SIG was held after the WAP mcecting on May 24
24. BEST OFFER TAKES ALL Apple j monitor double disk drive numeric keypad system saver 80 column and super serial cards all manuals plus ASCII Express Microsoft Dow Jones Investors Workshop Flight Simulator Il Mint condition Call 301 724 4004 or write Greta Granct P O Box 1695 Cumberland MD 21502 FOR SALE Portfolio Manger for invesuments 79 50 Many superioritics to Dow Jones Market Manager which sells for 299 no inferiorities Call Newt Steers 9AM 9PM at 301 320 5820 or write 6601 River Road Bethesda MD 20817 4929 to place orders or for fuller information Washington Apple Pi July 1986 CLASSIFIEDS WANTED TO RENT Family with no pets needs apartment condo home to rent in the Gaithersburg German town area for August 14 22 Contact Linda or David Morganstein 301 972 4263 WANTED TO BUY Used Macintosh computer extemal drive Prof Hardy Williamsburg VA 804 229 2333 home 804 253 4342 office or call Walt local 998 5686 and Icave message WANTED TO BUY 128K with Imagewriter Call Marty Snyderman at 654 6423 day or evening FOR SALE Mac software Omnis 2 database Mac Fortran Microsoft Chart CP M for the Mac and Quartet Call David 301 972 4263 FOR SALE Dow Jones Market Manager used about three times listed at 299 only 40 Market Manager Plus latest version used exactly once lists at 249 only 100 Call Newt Steers 9AM 9PM 301 320 5820 FOR SALE Lisa MacXL wit
25. Because the LaserWriter only allows a fcw uploadable fonts at a time I am including the sample Adobe fonts on separate pages for manual paste up I hope Bernie docs not get too upset with me for this Let me know how the Softstrips work Jim Lanford Micro Dynamics Ltd PO Box 55982 Washington DC 20011 202 723 0050 58 July 1986 T Jw Tir 4 a yd i i 1 d mi Jigja li m i p nl Aj i jy ji ii Jr al ji Ni a i i i N w n Ju ipe IN mp Ji am iti 1 d A fij un i T n Y ui M Ni di a a ji H m i conitd Washington Apple Pi ITC American Typewriter Medium ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 1895456789062865 ITC American Typewriter Bold ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 1234567890 amp S amp ITC MACHINE ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPORSTUUWXY2 12345678908666 ITC Benquait Book ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 1234567890695628 ITC Benguait Bold ABCDEFGHIJALMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 1234567890 amp ITC Friz Quadrata Regular ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 12345678908 ITC Friz Quadrata Bold ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijkimnopqrstuvwxyz 1234567890 amp ITC Garamond Light ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 12345678906565 ITC Garamond Light I
26. Below are listings for 10 macros to accomplish all of the formatting options that I use regularly Other formatting keyboard shortcuts can also be easily created By using the shortcut macros provided in this article you can create custom OPTION COMMAND letter sequences that save you many trips to thc Format menu Ten Useful Keyboard Macros Macros don t have to be long to be powerful Each of the macros listed below is only three lines long The first line names the macro and includes the letter that will be used to identify it For example since OPTION COMMAND f will be used to align text to the left I have named this macro Align Left OpCmd f The second line of each macro contains the command to actually accomplish the formatting For aligning text to the left this command happens to be ZALIGNMENT The third line of each macro is RETURNOQ which signi fies the end of the macro That s all there is to it The three macros in column A align the contents of sclected cells to the left OPTION COMMAND f center OPTION COMMAND g e right OPTION COMMAND h The seven macros in column B are uscful for formatting numbers with no decimal places two decimal places e dollar sign no dec places dollar sign two dec places OPTION COMMAND z OPTION COMMAND t OPTION COMMAND d OPTION COMMAND s percent sign no dec places OPTION COMMAND r e percent sign two dec places OPTION COMMAND p date
27. Compatible Direct Output to Plotters Element Selection Types of Elements Plotting Service Plot from MacDraw MacDraft and EZ Draft up to 22 X 34 D Up to six colors can be plotted By Layer Color Group By Type All Elements All Visible All In Window Part in Window Points Lines Arcs Fillets Circles Ellipse B Spline Curves Symbol Libraries Text CrossHatching Washington Apple Pi July 1986 51 o FREDERICK APPLE CORE A SLICE OF THE WASHINGTON APPLE PI OFFICERS amp CHAIRMEN President Scott Galbraith Vice President John Lee Secretary Treasurer Bruce Taylor Librarian Tony Svajlenka Newsletter Editor Kathy Kenyon Newsletter Chairman Lynn R Trusal SIG MAC Chairman Lynn R Trusal SYSOP Scott Galbraith The Frederick Apple Core meets the second Thursday of each month in the large conference room of the U S Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases Ft Detrick Frederick MD 21701 5011 at 7 30 PM July 10 Program to be announced HOTLINE MEMBERS Lynn R Trusal 301 845 2651 Scott Galbraith 301 865 3035 Kurt Holter 301 663 4199 Bruce Taylor 301 371 6181 The above members of the Frederick Apple Core FAC have agreed to field questions on Apple computer hardware and software for FAC members Please no calls after 10 00 PM The SIG MAC of the Frederick Apple Core meets on the fourth Tuesday of cach month in the same location and at the same
28. Directors at which there is a quorum by the affirmative vote of two thirds of those Directors present and voting at the Board of Directors meeting of which the member charged received notice a quorum of Washington Apple Pi Directors being present The member charged shall receive prompt written notice of the Board s action ARTICLE X SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS AND SLICES SECTION 5 SLICES The Board of Directors may recognize groups of WAP members outside the Washington D C area as slices of WAP Slice members shall be entitled to the full benefits and privileges of membership in WAP In all other respects the Board of Directors shall have the power to regulate by resolution the formation activities and dissolution of slices The officers of a Slice shall be given notice whenever feasible of any action to be taken by the Board or the membership involving the activities of the Slice No Slice shall act in the name of or take any action that would bind the Corporation NEW MAC PROGRAMMING BOOK Kurt Schmucker a fellow WAP member has written a book Object Oriented Programming for the Macin tosh which has just been published by Hayden Book Company Kurt who conducts technical seminars for Produc tivity Products International has put his expertise into print illuminating the object oriented approach to developing soft ware for the easy to use yet difficult to program Macintosh The object oriented approach
29. EXAMPLE Suppose you wanted to compare the rates of corrosion of four different metal alloys One way is to make three corrosion test specimens from cach of the alloys A B C and D All twelve specimens would be simultan eously immersed in salt water after one week one specimen of each metal is pulled out Al B1 Cl and D1 and the weight lost by each specimen is recorded After three weeks a second specimen of each metal is pulled out A3 B3 C3 and D3 and again the weight lost by each specimen is recorded After four weeks the same process is repeated for the last four specimens then the weight lost by cach metal is plotted according to the length of time it was immersed Figure 1 is the finished plot This figure compares the corrosion of the four different metals The horizontal axis what Excel calls the Categories axis shows the elapsed time in weeks The vertical axis what Excel calls the Series axis shows the weight lost to corrosion by each specimen Metal A corrodes fastest loses most weight per weck metal D corrodes slowest loses the least weight per weck 20 00 15 00 Weight Loss 10 00 3 00 6 0 000 00 OS 10 15 20 25 30 35 Elapsed Time Weeks Figure 1 Finished Scatter Diagram Strictly speaking this is not a true scatter chart because if it were then 1 lines would not connect the data points and 2 the data points would show more well scatter However the procedure shown b
30. GOTO 1904 1915 HTAB 4 GOSUB 25 After clearing the screen we print the data entry title at the top of the screen and the column titles underneath 40 VTAB 2 PRINT CHK MO DA TO FROM WHOM TAB 30 AMOUNT CAT 41 PRINT POKE 34 3 L 4 RETURN Then we set the top of the scrolling window under the column titles set our current vertical line number to 4 and RETURN This takes us to line 1904 The ENTER DATA routine starts from this linc and gocs to line 1970 and then returns here In line 1904 we GOSUB to line 162 162 B B 1 IF B 1 lt 10 THEN PRINT 163 PRINT B 1 RETURN This is the subroutine for printing the line number on the screen followed by a period We now move along to the check number If S2 is set to 1 then the conditions in lines 1905 and 1906 are both false and the program falls through to line 1907 where C is set to the value for S1 However if S2 is 0 then the user wishes to manually enter the check number This is permitted with thc INPUT statement in line 1905 The GOSUB to line 26 in line 1905 is done to get rid of any stray messages that we might have put on line 24 26 VTAB 24 HTAB 1 CALL 958 VTAB L HTAB T RETURN Note how we use L and T to keep track of our linc and tab positions at all times so we can return to that position whenever required If the user simply hits RETURN nothing is required except to move on to the next field However if anything else is INPUT for the
31. John Voglewede 460 3047 Rich Wasserstrom Past President David Morganstcin Editor Bemic Urban Head Software Libr Jim Little Office Managers Gena amp Bemie Urban Journal Staff Associate Editor Gena Urban 229 3458 Store Distrbtn Raymond Hobbs 490 7484 S olurn us Apple Charlene Ryan 836 0463 DisabledSIG Jay Thal 202 244 3649 EDSIG Peter Combes 251 6369 GAMESIG Barry Bedrick 534 7891 MacNovice Ralph Begleiter 340 329 Pascal PIG Bob Platt 806 353 9723 Bruce Ficld 340 7038 acQ amp A Jonathan Hardis 330 1422 Meeting Reports Adrien Youell Musical Apple RO Hobbs Softviews David Morganstcin 972 4263 Telecomm Dave Harvey 527 2704 Review Coord Jim Burger day 337 7900 Review Coord Raymond Hobbs 490 7484 Revicw Coord David Morganstcin 972 4263 EE dd zAlexander 474 5310 Regina Litman 585 0044 View fom Durham Chris Klugewicz 262 1816 Disketeria Staff Jim Little 762 3215 John Malcolm Joy Aso Ed Lan Pat Foreman Gordon Stubbs Nancy Little Richard Langston IT SigMac Disk Staff Dave Weikert 301 06 4461 John DeMarco Gary Elliott Andy Gallant William Jones contd SEE Disk contd Ralph Mullendore Shirley Weaver DOS 3 3 Lib Pascal Lib Mike Hartman ProDOS Lib J T Tom DeMay Jr SigMac Lib Larry Halif Group Purchases Rich Wasserstrom venings 7 00 9 30 Head Reading Lib Walt rancis Apple Tea Coord Amy Billingsley A
32. Joystick required Mockingboard enhanced THE DAM BUSTERS Accolade A simulation of an R A F World War II bombing mission Lots of gauges maps and screens Joystick and keyboard controlled Apple series with 64K HARDBALL Accolade Baseball game simulation with lots of strategy options like 8 different possible pitches Joystick and keyboard controlled Apple scries THE PAWN Magnetic Scrolls for Firebird Atari ST version Contains stunning graphics and reportedly a very sophisticated parser Scheduled for conversion to the Macin tosh and Apple series computers e board and joystick are still alive and well Speaking of joysticks however the package mentions optional joystick control but I didn t see any word of it in the manual and no amount of fiddling with keyboard control keys would activate the joystick After a rather long boot 55 seconds Colossus displays a hi res chessboard which occupies the upper left 60 of the screen The right and bottom of the screen are used for mes sages and credit for the author At this point the user is presented with a wide variety of options all selectable through control keys You can select the level of difficulty of course by directly assigning the average time the machine will think about each move Or you can assign both yourself of contd Washington Apple Pi Colossus each a time to finish all moves for the game You can even put the program in its to
33. LQ e NEC P6 LO OKIMATE 20 COLOR PRINTER ACCESSORIES e 2500 SHEETS OF PAPER STANDARD PARALLEL INTERFACE e GRAPHICS PARALLEL INTERFACE CARO e MICRO BUFFER IN LINE e PRINTER STAND e SWITCH BOX 2 WAY e SWITCH BOX 4 WAY DISK DRIVES e DISTAR e CONTROLLER MONITORS THOMPSON 1000 LINES SAKATA COLOR MITSUBISHI RGB COLOR MODEMS SMARTEAM 1200 EXT e EASY DATA 1200 EXT US ROBOTICS 1200 EXT PROMETHEUS 1200A INT US ROBOTICS 2400 CHIPS e EPROMS 2716 2732 2764 e EPROMS 27128 27256 64K SET OF 8 e 256K SET OF 8 NEW PRICE 9 NEW PRODUCT 269 00 219 00 299 00 419 00 209 00 289 00 31 00 119 00 169 00 299 00 189 00 189 00 219 00 269 00 Washington Apple Pi GENERAL ITEMS e SURGE PROTECTOR 6 OUTLET WITH SURGE PROTECT e CABLE GENDER CHANGER COMPATIBLE COMPUTERS LASER 128 e VF PC APPLE amp IBM COMPATIBLE e VF PC IBM COMPATIBLE GAME 1 0 DEVICES e CH MACH Ii JOYSTICK CH MACH Ill JOYSTICK l O PORT EXPANDER 9 16 OR 16 9 ADAPTER SLOT EXPANSION e 16K RAM CARD FOR Il 64K RAM CARD FOR II e MULTI RAM 64K MEMORY 320K MEMORY 512K MEMORY 1 MEG MEMORY e SERIAL INTERFACE CARD e SERI ALL e SLOT 3 CLOCK e Z 80 BOARD TITAN ACCELERATOR lle e WILDCARD I COPY CD e MULTIPLE SLOT CHASSIS SINGLE SLOT EXTENDER
34. MDCStuffCI DISK RANGER DiskRanger 2 1 My Disk Catsloger New Cansan MicroCode 136 Beech Road New Caman CT 06840 203 966 6969 49 95 List Labels Index Cards extra Mainstay 296115 Canwood Street amp goura Hills CA 91301 18 931 6540 49 95 List Labels extra Trograms which only produce labelsidirectories Es MacLabeler HFS myDiskLabeler 2 1 Ideaform 908 Esst Brigas TanficM 14 52556 515 472 7256 49 95 S amp H List Labels extra Wilisms amp Macias Products Spokane Ink Airport Bus Part PO Box 19206 Spokane WA 99219 Ho mail order houses Must be ordered directly 44 95 Color 54 95 66 July 1986 Please note several common aspects of these programs 1 they all work with HFS director ics and are generally very Catalog Keeper fast 2 all of the catalog in Quick amp Dirty Utilities Volume 1 ers produce disk file Dreams of the Phoenix sereen display and hard PO Box 10273 copy printing including Jacksonville PL 32247 laserprinting support 804 396 6952 3 except for myDisk 39 95 List Labeler all of the list prices can be significantly improved upon by purchasing through good mail order houses such as the MacConnection 800 MAC LISA or through WAP s group purchase program and 4 to avoid costly diecut labels sold by these commercial programs some people use paper output trim to size and affix with rubber cement Others use full pag
35. PR 3 35 PRINT CHRS 12 60 POKE 216 0 63 HOME PRINT NOTICE USE CTRL T TO SWITCH MODES 64 FORI 1TO 1000 NEXT 80 PTR 254 REM FE 90 D CHRS AxRS CHRS 13 CAS CHR 1 CZS CHRS 26 91 PXS DATA 100 OUTCHR 36965 REM 9065 OUTPUT ROUTINE CALLING ADDRESS 110 LAST 36982 REM 9076 STORAGE 32 120 130 150 155 160 165 170 172 173 174 175 180 190 200 220 222 225 230 250 260 261 330 335 340 350 370 371 380 390 430 470 485 490 500 510 520 530 540 545 550 560 590 591 July 1986 ADDRESS FOR OUTPUT HOTAP LAST 1 TERMA 36864 REM 9000 ALC STARTING ADDRESS GOSUB 2000 REM INITIAL SETUP PRINT CHRS 12 CALL TERMA REM TRANSFER TO MACHINE LANGUAGE CODE PRINT PRINT PRINT SELECT ONE OF THESE PRINT D DOWNLOAD CAPTURE PRINT lt U gt UPLOAD SEND A FILE PRINT Q QUIT PRINT lt C gt DO DISK CATALOG INPUT A IF AS D OR AS CHRS 100 THEN 590 IF AS U OR A CHRS 117 THEN 260 IF A C OR A CHRS 99 THEN PRINT D CAT PX INPUT TYPE RETURN IF THROUGH AS HOME PRINT CHRS 12 GOTO 155 IF AS Q OR A CHRS 113 THEN 225 PRINT RETURNING TO TERMINAL MODE GOTO 155 IF UNSAVD THEN GOTO 710 HIMEM 38400 PRINT PRINT GOOD BYE PRINT END INPUT APPLE SOURCE FILENAME AFS AF PX AFS ONERR GOTO 520 PRINT D VERIFY AF PRINT DS OPEN AF PRINT DS READ AF
36. Reach Technologies in Austin Texas Apple says that we should terminate what ever that means the Mac SCSI bus after the last device in the chain Why don t we do this in practice Terminators are built into the popular SCSI hard disks So the problem is really the reverse If you want to daisy chain more than one device you have to open them up and remove the terminators in all but the last device Termination on a transmission line means to install resistors from the line to ground The resistance should equal the characteristic impedence of the transmission line By doing so signal pulses are absorbed by the resistors If you didn t do so the pulses would reflect backwards toward the Mac and perhaps interfere with subsequent valid data I backed up my Mac hard disk with PCPC s backup program Then I erased the disk and restored it from the backup But now I can t boot from the disk Why The files all seem okay when I boot from a floppy The Restore does not write the boot blocks to the disk Finder does Boot from a floppy and move the System and Finder out of the System Folder on the hard disk Then move them back in That should fix thc problem I expect FEdit Plus will be able to write boot blocks to a hard disk too Q I cut some characters out of the Key Caps contd Washington Apple Pi Q Help desk accessory but they appear only as rec tangles in the clipboard window Wh
37. System Apple Writer The Filing System for Apple Writer 99 95 When ordering please specify ProDOS or DOS 3 3 Version Send check money order MC VISA Include 2 shipping 301 995 1166 for Apple It s Unique Writer for Apple He or IIc There s Nothing Like It It s Easy If you know how to use Apple Writer then you already know how to use The Filing System It s that simple There is no need to learn a new program It s Powerful Learn the three top computer literacy topics word process ing Apple Writer database Filing System and program ming WPL and all you have to learn is one set of commands Apple Writer s It s Flexible You have complete access to your data since the data is stored as normal Apple Writer text files Even formatted print outs and reports can be saved and edited like normal Apple Writer files Other Features wW One database per disk No limit to the number of disks in a database wW Up to 100 fields per record Print all fields or some fields wW Print field names or just the data wW Print a report with up to 8 columns WY Reports automatically format column headings W Printouts and reports may be saved and edited It s Text Oriented No limit to field size You can enter reviews paragraphs descriptions abstracts patient information etc without being limited to 40 80 or 100 charac ters like
38. The one year anniversary of this column Yeah yeah big deal my summer address 12400 Kembridge Drive Bowie Maryland 20715 werrereseacecroseceoresreooeeeseresteeoeaectoesrersorecseeoepecosersesassete soonte eoserer ona CompuServe ID 72437 3267 July 1986 45 LIUM i ee a a A Ka bus 2 MERE BRE Be S BREIAE a D Ba W W AA ai arr NUT Definitions Words A Affirm Oponly M Dan Rather e g cam mm LL wama 143 2 31 19 49 55 99 9 53 92 41 128 38 B Now Testament ee a ela N Gives Strength X EI DN vlc Book 8 14 129 89 13 93 10 to 45 34 114 115 59 139 111 130 c Closos o Speaks softly E EET e AES AT UPC CNRC OR 113 50 76 106 68 40 90 62 52 63 51 22 105 D Treat or Pantry P Rhythmical a 24 118 B8 12 61 M Composition 371 23 1 135 E Take Ploasuro In ow LLL LL ILL 39 15 103 75 144 Q Having Certain art Roof 108 101 65 27 33 13 17 97 F Nearby Dwellor pP T RM 119 109 138 16 132 123 91 116 conar tuet ion R Ontario City G Hot Sleeping PETITES 82 142 107 44 73 55 117 121 134 94 140 H Young S God Fr PERS Dolinquents or 21 104 B5 72 60 102 29 81 2 Firestarters Ti Everything I Miss Hearst p Everywhere 36 141 48 57 58 67 74 56 U The Iceman p CREME ETE TERIS TES J Bring to Freedom eee mme me paman LL D ae 29 jah C V Having Good X Bernio g Article Flavor 131
39. a natural part of success are also emphasized When a child complains This docsn t work it did yesterday the counsclor would probably respond Let s print it out and sec what happened Rod who as head teacher supervises the counselors encourages them to ask the children leading questions Sometimes the staff gets a little frustrated because the campers are not Icarning as much as the counsclors would like But the TIC philosophy is to step in only when needed Selection amp Acquisition of Computers The first summer TIC had only Apples chosen because the people who care about computers and children tend to have Apples at home Now there are also 12 PCjr s and 4 Commodores added through parental request However Karen wants to phase out the Commodores duc to higher equipment failure and also to differences in Basic As for the possibility of adding the Macintosh Karen has great reservations because of its very success at simplifying the computing process It won t Ict the kids do the things we want them to My son got up from a Mac 5 minutes after sitting down at it and said It s too easy it docs everything for you He could not use his hard won knowledge TIC will not however remain totally Mac less two individuals are bringing their own Mac s this summer Since TIC is not considered a school under the Apple purchase plan Karen has had to do some fancy footwork to afford and buy computers Her original plan was
40. and once again I m a happy telecomputcerer erer yeah right Prometheus explanation of my problem the number one voltage regulator a little IC with only 4 pins had blown All I know is that it works just fine Nostalgia My Mac is two years old this month I m one of the Macintosh pioneers I bought my machine before Apple dropped the price from its original 2495 and before there was such a thing as a Fat Mac It s been a long two years full of changes most of them for the better The Mac got more memory more software and finally more speed Jerry Pournelle of BYTE tumed from snobbish distaste to grudging support of the machine Apple lost a visionary but gained a manager The LaserWriter became Apple s most successful product ovemight The funny looking multi colored apple became as acceptable as three large blue letters in the business world It s been a long and interesting two years I for one shall be very interested to see what turns up in the next two In famous last words Recommended reading Joanne Greenberg s In this Sign A book about deaf people in the world of the hearing absolutely fascinating as well as thought provoking Guaranteed to change the way you think of deafness Recommended listening Philips digital Com pact Disc recording of Bach s six Brandenburg Concertos performed by I Musici An incredible recording of some incredible music The harpsichord has to be heard to be believed Next month
41. and was conducted by Gcorge Kinal No formal pro gram was scheduled so there was just a question and answer session About 10 members were in attendance at the mecting After a few question about the WAP BBS system there was a general discussion about the announcement made by Rich Wasserstrom pertaining to the new 1200 baud modem that WAP will now be selling through group purchase The modem is called AVATEX 1200 The discussion centered around the various ads that have been appearing for this modem and the wide range of prices that are being advertised for it As an example one store in Annapolis was advertising this modem for less than 80 00 There was some discussion about the special 9 pin DIN connector that some of the Laptop computers use and what is a good source of supply for this non standard connector One solution in case a proper connector can t be found is to cut off the unused pins on a regular DIN connector and use that to plug into your Laptop computer Serial cards will be needed if an external modem is pur chased One card that was brought to the mecting is marketed by Memory Plus for 59 00 plus 3 00 shipping and handling Their card Model SSB 1 is compatible with Apple s Super Serial Card A cable is needed with the modem to be fastened to one of the openings in the back of the Apple Memory Plus s address for ordering is 2632 West Baseline Mesa AZ 85202 A member asked when the next tutorial would be for
42. check number we have to make sure the INPUT has no problems The variable S1 has the check number whether derived by Washington Apple Pi the computer or entered by the user This value is placed into the variable C If C is less than 0 then this is the signal we are using to indicate we wish to go back to the Main Menu This is taken care of in line 1907 We are not going to permit check numbers higher than 9999 since we do not have much room on our 40 character screen If the number is too large we go to line 1913 which prints the necessary message takes us out of automatic check numbering if we were in that mode decrements the screen line number and starts us over again at line 1904 Otherwise we place the value of C in our array variable CN R and get ready to print the check number on the screen We do this by first placing our cursor at HTAB 4 and clearing the line to the right of the cursor by the subroutine in line 25 25 PRINT CALL 868 RETURN Now get ready to print the check number right justified Set the column T to 7 Then jump to the subroutine for right justification starting at line 50 50 POKE 36 T 1 IF SG 1 AND PR THEN CALL 1008 51 FORAz1TO4 IF ABS C gt INT 10 A THEN CALL 1008 52 NEXT A IF SG 1 THEN INVERSE IF PR THEN PRINT lt 53 PRINT C RETURN The cursor is placed at T 1 by a POKE 36 to that value This is the first place we run up against the flag PR This f
43. doc for 9 2 When the full 9 2 docs are available we will provide you with a single disk once again These disks also contain System 3 2 and Finder 5 3 in Beta version they seem to run well G Softviews contd from pg 63 feature To check the entire document you must first issuc the Word command to select all the text then ask Lightning to check the spelling for the selection The authors recom mend you not select more than 10 pages at a time for checking The only method of checking an entire document is to save it to disk as text only Lightning can check an entire text only file on disk it can not check a Word file on disk Frankly I don t like Lightning s approach to spelling cor rections After checking the selected text a list of misspelled words is prepared as you can sce in the Misspelled window below Initially the words are listed as they were found Thus a misspelled word which appears twice in the document will appear twice in the list Sce the word Hayden s in the misspellings list You can alphabetize the list after which duplicates are removed Each word must be looked up in the dictionary After finding a substitute Lightning offers you M soft Word s Change menu You make the corrections one word at a time I much prefer the Spell method of checking the document and correcting the words on the fly With Spell the corrections go very quickly compared with the time it takes to usc the Change window Li
44. fice eeereveecere coe enceeecee 31 July 1986 TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 1 gt 3 GameSIG Thursday 7 30PM Off 3rd contd DisabledSIG DisabledSIGj7 00 PM 7 PM CCCC ccce 8 9 10STOCKSIG Executive 8PM Office Board SigMac Prog 7 30 PM 7 30PM Lady Office of Lourdes 15 16 17 Pascal SIG 8 00 PM Office 22 23 24 Apple EDSIG Ch of Com 7 30 PM Bldg DC Office 7 30 PM 29 30 31 BBS Comm FEDSIG 7 30 PM Office Office 7 30 PM August 1986 TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 5 6 7 SigMac 7 30PM Lady of Lourdes GameSIGs0ff 7 30 PM 12 13 14STOCKSIG Executive 8PM Office Board FAC Slice 7 30 PM 7 30 MRIID Office Ft Detrick 19 20 21 Pascal SIG 8 00 PM Office 26 27 28 BBS Comm FEDSIG NO EDSIG 7 30 PM 7 30 PM meeting in Office Office August eeroceoococooece kah akak ak hahah ababaka FRIDAY 4 Have a good Holiday 0ffice Closed 11 coeoocwec 18 n ovcve 25 FRIDAY ceuvcecervcecee l Deadline for Journal articles eo T lt Thursday 7th contd DisabledSIG 7PM CCCC 15 22 ereeoeoroere 29 cecoccccccccc SATURDAY Deadline for Journal articles is July 3 12 MusicSIG 1 30 PM Call Ray Hobbs 19 Forth SIG 12 Noon Office 26 WAP Meeting Apple amp Mac 9 AM USUHS AN SATURDAY 2 9 MusicSIG 1 30 PM Call Ray Hobbs 16 Forth SIG 12 Noon Office 23 WAP Meeting Apple II amp ac M 9AM USUHS w
45. form on which to enter your information test it out Enter some sample information about one of your products or clients If everything works smoothly you re set If not now s the time to make adjustments to the form Now start entering your data Copy names addresses etc onto the first form When the form is full your data base program will present you with a clean form on which to enter information about the second client And so forth perhaps after every record is complete some programs do this automatical ly No sense having to re enter all that stuff just because the power failed and you forgot to save as you entered infor mation Your data base program will probably tell you on screen how many different records you have in your file Each record may be given a number You ll always be allowed to add or delete records from your file later on so don t skimp Enter everything you need Many data base programs certainly the best ones allow you to enter financial or numerical information in fields which can be automatically totalled or counted by the computer later on The very best data bases even allow more sophisticated number crunching within the file For instance you may want the data base to calculate automatically the total number of widgets bought by all your customers in the file Or you may want to average the number of orders placed per month or 9 AM To 9 PM 7 Days A Week By Appointment Only Profess
46. fraction of a second and then tries to turn on again This causes the power light to flash or blink and a clicking noise can usually be heard from the power supply If there is a catastrophic failure a small fuse inside the power supply will usually blow before any regular houschold fuse There should be no problem turning on the power to the printer with a disk in the disk drive If this is your problem I suggest that you check your household electrical wiring especially the ground connections Perhaps plugging only the computer not the printer into a surge suppressor would help If your problem is that disks get ruined when you do a PR 1 to access the printer tum your Apple off and remove and replace all the cards to recstablish the connections to the motherboard If possible you might borrow a friend s printer card to see if that has the same problem e Where is the Black Box found in the adventure game Transylvania A Thanks to Ron Wartow creator of Pixel s Revenge who says the Black Box is in the clearing with the statue Scarch and wear cloak wear ring wave hand leave but return after the streaking flame is seen in the sky and enter the saucer to get the Black Box Q amp A answers questions about the Apple family of hardware and software I cannot answer all letters but I try to COMPUTER DEN Ltd 30 or more off on all software for all AFFLE computers including Mac C Itoh ae tis 1 180 CPS 3 470 00 Fa
47. however assumes that you know all this terminology so it s hit and miss for a while until you know your way around First I ll lay a little MIDI ground work then I ll write down a short glossary of Common Musical Usage You actually don t need a computer to go MIDI but since this is a column in a computer rag I m going to skip the no computer part There are three main parts to a computer based MIDI sys tem First the computer It s used to manage the synthe sizer m n singl f music It manages the system Period Next you need a synthe sizer The synthesizer produces all of the sounds that come out of the system Synthesizers come in many sizes and price ranges as cheap as 200 and as expensive as you want to go They have the capability of playing from one to sixtcen or even thirty two notes called voices simultaneously and are generally capable of producing a variety of different sounds called timbres Be careful most of the synthesizers on the market today may have multi timbral capabilities but can produce only one timbre at a time The last item you must have is a sequencer This is the software that makes the computer manage the synthesizer In addition you will need an interface between the computer and the synthesizer I consider this to be part of cither the synthesizer or the 42 July 1986 The Musical App k Id like to toot my hom for a little bit Actually I m computer take your choice so it doe
48. if the computer or the user will be entering the check numbers In line 1818 we initialize some variables SS is set to 0 This is the flag which tells the computer that some changes have been made to the data D1 is the variable that holds the current date R holds the record number The first record will be record number 0 B will hold the line number printed on 38 July 1986 the screen MIS holds the name of the current month MI holds the number of the current month V1S holds the current vendor name Moncy coming in such as a deposit into the checking account is noted by typing a as the first character of the TO field We will get into this in a little more detail later This fact is noted for the user on the screen and includes a prompt for stopping data entry by typing a 1 in either the check number field or the month field Doing so returns the user to the Main Menu If the computer is putting in the check numbers the first field available for the user to input anything is the month field 1900 HOME INVERSE HTAB 8 PRINT DATA ENTRY FROM KEYBOARD NORMAL GOSUB 40 1904 VTAB L HTAB 1 CALL 958 GOSUB 162 T 4 1905 IF NOT S2 THEN INPUT TS GOSUB 26 CALL 958 IF T THEN 1915 1906 IF NOT S2 THEN S1 VAL TS 1907 C SI IF C lt 0 THEN 1500 1909 IF C 9999 THEN 1913 1911 CN4 R C HTAB 4 GOSUB 25 T 7 GOSUB 50 GOTO 1916 1913 HTAB 1 VTAB 24 PRINT CHECK TOO HIGH S2 0 B B 1
49. if we should lose the clipboard and have to repeat this we will be a step ahead of the game next time through What we changed was the copy of the Puzzle DA we put into a single file Now select and Open either from the File menu or by double clicking the System file Select and open its pM contd Washington Apple Pi Obriver 9 Desk acc Size 932 ID Wy Dwner type E nt E file Do a Paste and you will see the Puzzle DA appear with an ID of 31 Close both the DRVR and then the System windows Say yes to the question about saving the changes This is the important save At this time your new System is being updated with the renumbered Puzzle DA If you are finding this as exciting as I did you might Quit from ResEdit for a rest Before lying down however please check that a working Puzzle DA has been installed That was casy right Well so long as the DA has only the DRVR file it is that easy Unfortunately most DA s have other pieces Magical things called STR s or DITL s or PICT s You probably don t know what they all do but you can renum ber and copy them just as you did with the DRVR resource Next let s try the Alarm Clock When you open the AlarmClock file you will sce that in addition to a DRVR it has a PICT Begin be renumbering the DRVR just as we did earlier only use an ID of 30 this time After you have Pasted the renumbered DRVR into the System open the PICT file Using ResEdit you can see what
50. it shocbox plastic file case or any other non metallic container and organized their disks by function Using some cutoff 3x5 index cards you should group disks by category word processing graphics tclecommunications and so on For most of us the need to label and to catalog disks sooner or later becomes apparent It s an annoying and a bur densome task to do by hand particularly if your handwriting is as bad as mine Software developers have met this need by developing label and catalog programs Font catalogs are available in programs such as Font Display or Font Librarian and graphics catalogs are available in MacPaint and in speciality programs such as PicturcBase While these represent broad and interesting aspects this article concentrates on general labelers and catalogers of disks and programs In the early days of the Mac revolution several brave souls developed programmer utilities to label or catalog disks Some of these still exists as public use programs in DA form in some cases or in stand alone applications such as that on SigMac disk 36 They re not bad and have only a small shareware cost Other users employ colored ribbons labels or disks to distinguish types of disk collection If these meet your needs well and good There are five main programs which provide solid cataloging and labeling functions which I recommend These are Combination Labelers and Catalogers Em E liant EJ s Le MDC Ii
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52. m d yy OPTION COMMAND m These macros can be created either by opening a new or existing macro sheet and typing in the information exactly as it is shown in the macro sheet below or by using thc macro 60 July 1986 recorder function If you ve never used Excel macros before I suggest that you create a new macro sheet by selecting New from the File menu and choosing Macro Sheet and then typing in the information just as it is listed in this article If you have some experience with macros you might want to try the recorder Although using the recorder is usually the easiest way to crcate macros my experience is that with macros that are this short it is faster to type in the informa tion Note If you have a Softstrip reader from Cauzin you can enter the macros directly since they are included with the article A Developer s View published elsewhere in this Journal If you don t have a Sofistrip reader type in the information just as you sec it in the macro sheet below Once you have typed in the macro information you must define cach macro by using the Define Name command under the Formula menu Command L Click on the title cell for each macro and then sclect Define Name For example select cell A4 and then type Command L The Define Name dialog box will appear sce diagram below The title in cell A4 will appear in the Name box SAS4 will be displayed in the Refers to box In the Macro box click Command
53. merit Now in retaliation I will start a vicious rumor about Ron he is actually programming although to be sure it is a game that I understand will be called Pixel s Revenge amp Service on Apple ll Apple ile IBM and IBM Compatibles We Test Clean and Align Your 5 1 4 Floppy Disk Drives Factory Service on Epson and Okidata Printers Expert Repairs on Other Brands 90 Day Warranty on All Service Work On Site Maintenance Agreements Available For More Information Call 698 0347 Technical Sales amp Service 9820 Dorr Ave Fairfax VA 22031 July 1986 5 SIGNEWS WAP SUNDAY MONDAY July 1986 Apple SIG meets on the 4th 777 77 777777 777777 Wednesday of the month at 7 30 PM in the Chamber of Commerce Bldg 1615 H Street NW DC The July meeting will be on the 23rd AppleWorks SIG offers two mecting options 8 00 AM before the regular meeting and 12 Noon after thc Apple II Q amp A session Attend either or both DisabledSIG meets on the first Thursday of each month at the Chevy Chase Community Center 7 00 PM The next meeting will be on July 3 dPub SIG Desktop Publishing will meet on Wednesday July 2 at 7 30 Pm in the PEPCO auditorium at 1900 Penn Ave NW EdSIG the education special interest group meets on the 4th Thurs day of the month at the office 7 30 PM The next meeting will be on July 24 See EDSIG News elsewhere in this issuc FEDSIG m
54. name If we don t we are taken back to line 1400 for another try If we do then the file is created on the disk by opening and closing it with this name and then we are taken to the Main Menu We have seen Y equal to 77 before This happens when we run out of memory We have also seen Y equal to 9 before This happens when the disk is full We have provided for Y equals 22 in this program Y would equal 22 if a RETURN occurs without a GOSUB Hopefully the program is designed so that the user would never get this error However in case the user does something completely unexpected this error handler is provided and takes the user back to the Main Menu Let us assume the user chose to use the default name for the data file at hit lt RETURN gt getting error 5 which as we saw above would take us to line 150 150 PRINT CLS FD 152 VTAB 24 FLASH PRINT NO DATA IN MEMORY POKE 216 0 FOR C 1 TO 1000 NEXT C NORMAL GOTO 1500 Line 150 closes the file we tried to OPEN in line 1415 We let the user know that there is no data in memory and then proceed to line 1500 for the Main Menu By the way the POKE at memory location 216 sets the error handler back to zero so if another error is encountered we will need a new ONERR GOTO statement to deal with it The old command will no longer be in effect I think it is finally time to talk about the Main Menu Here we will offer the user all the options they will have in using this progr
55. of providing a member with a monthly Journal and maintaining his or her membership record averaged about 23 00 last year according to my preliminary calculations This problem was recognized in mid year and the membership responded by raising dues from 20 00 to 25 00 a year All other club expenses were paid principally out of group purchase and disketeria revenues The budget for the fiscal year beginning on June 1 will be close to balanced WAP s cash balance was depleted somewhat over the year thanks in some small part to the purchase of a Limelight video projector but is still quite healthy So although the club as a whole had a very good year there is still room for improvement In particular I would like to see WAP devote more human resources to retaining our current members Similarly we need to work harder at bringing in more volunteers and keeping them involved Our tutorial program although very good could be enlarged in scope to serve more members I have other ideas as you do and WAP is always in the market for good ideas I d welcome your letter or phonc call or lcave me a message on the telecommunications system Lafayette Park board 31 We will have our annual Future of the Pi mecting a Saturday morning get together at which we discuss the big picture for the club sometime in September Many of you remember the shall we say interesting Apple II meeting we had in March with Jef Raskin and Adrien
56. page a pain I used it with pre gummed page labels and it worked just fine even though borders are not clearly marked 696 90 9 9 09 9 9 4 90 09 06 6 amp 9 6 06 5 y e LA Its a nice program and the most flexible I have seen or used MDC IF is a fine combination label and catalog program It produces a split screen the right portion of which produces labels by highlighting and printing while the left portion of the screen produces catalogs It has many of the same functions as Catalog Keeper and permits the limited addition of direct text input It categorizes files ncatly as Washington Apple Pi follows System Files Word Processing 4 Graphics Paint Oraw preadSheets S File amp DB Managers Games amp Entertainment Tools and Utilities Fonts F Communications Desk Accessories Disk Utilities It s an effective and solid program WAP sells this through its Group Purchase program at a solid discount It is space inefficient though and in my opinion is not as flexible as the stand alone Catalog Keeper or myDiskLabeler in cach of their respective functions Lastly Disk Ranger is a sweet program that I like a great deal It was the first combination labcl catalog program of which I was aware and is intuitively easy to usc It lets you place up to 24 or 48 filenames on your label content and also permits you to use the disk ti
57. s copy and play it on the IBM PC s late at night the only good usc I ve ever found for an IBM PC When I bought my Mac I expected that Flight Simulator would be out rather rapidly since the Mac s graphics were far superior to any other computers Well two years later here it is Needless to say it was with great apprchension and expectations that I booted the program after forcing myself to make two backup copies I was not disappointed The graphics are faster and more detailed than I remember from the IBM and Apple J days though with the Mac s patterns it s more difficult to distinguish between types of scenery than with colors and the mouse is a joy in comparison to the keyboard All in all I love the program but I have a few negative comments first the 128K version is handicapped As in crippled It doesn t have sound autopilot clouds and a myriad other things I m not sure why that is but it kind of bothers me Also there arc a couple of small bugs in the program all having to do with the display occasionally the water will suddenly dry up and become land At other times the display freezes when you re looking out a side window or down at the ground Both problems can be corrected by choosing S the view from the spotter plane and then returning to the cockpit view Still it s annoying Finally Microsoft has copy protected the program It s a keyed disk copy protection scheme sec my discussion of copy protection
58. screen Cmd Shift 3 or 4 when a menu was pulled down What do I do on a Mac with the new ROMs On the Mac you necd the help of a desk accessory called Camera It s a public domain program and I hope it will come out on a SigMac disk What s become of Assimilation Process I vc heard repeated rumors that they went bankrupt in the area of Outline Proces sing software ThinkTank now comes in version 1 3 which works on a Mac Living Videotext has also announced MORE a follow on product to ThinkTank that has more fcatures Further LVT now has competition through a desk accessory called Acta On Dreams of the Phoenix s 12C calculator there is an icon for help What do you have to do to get it to work Chris Allen replies They couldn t find a good way to present help within the memory size limitations desk accessories live under It isn t implemented Hayes Equivalent modem Using Smartcom I can I place a call by using the telephone icon Normally only fully Hayes equivalent modems can be controlled automatically by Smartcom But there is a work around for other modems as well Create an autopilot sequence containing the modem control strings such as Autotype ATDTxxx xxxx followed by a Wait for Connect and make it the Auto Log in sequence Then while in Direct Connect mode clicking on the telephone icon will execute this sequence Gato 1 3 doesn t work with the new Mac ROMs Cal
59. time Mac owners in the local arca are welcome Call Lynn R Trusal at 301 845 2651 for details July 22 Program to be announced August26 Program to be announced MACINTOSH BITS AND BYTES by Lynn R Trusal Frederick Apple Core DAK ADC Modem I received more phone calls about the ADC 300 1200 baud modem WAP Journal December 1985 than any other article I have written for the Journal The latest DAK catalog still has the modem listed so it is still available I have used it for about 12 months with no major problems The only problem noted by myself and other users was the speaker it does not totally cut out after the connection is made Static can still be heard through the speaker I solved the problem by turning off the speaker with the volume control on the back of the modem The general consensus is that the ADC modem is made by Prometheus This rumor was furthered by the fact that the original manual was identical to the one supplied by Prometheus More recent shippings have included a shorter manual which has been rewritten I got the impression from DAK that they were forced by Prometheus to make this change Many other people have asked me about a cable for the modem The pin outs from a Mac to Hayes compatible modem are as follows Mac Modem 1 1 3 7 5 2 7 20 and 9 3 If you don t want to make your own I recommend buying a Mac to Hayes Smartmodem cable from Compu cable which is available from MacConnection
60. to the printer Now to the perennial question has anyone figured out how to solve the Apple Writer II underlining problem if the underline command is in cffect at the end of a line it continues at the extreme left edge of the next line regardless of the left margin setting You are correct of course about using ESC with the shift key mod On unmodified Apples the first ESC puts Apple Writer in the upper case mode and the second ESC actually enters the escape code When the Apple Writer II shift key mod option is chosen only one ESC is needed My explanation of the use of Cul V to enter printer Strings may not have been clear let me expand it here Apple Writer II and e normally use control codes to access menus and other program functions The control V is a special character to tell Apple Writer not to interpret any following control characters as commands but rather enter them in the text A second Ctl V makes Apple Writer revert back to its original mode Any normal characters imbedded between Ctrl Vs letters punctuation digits etc are entered directly in the text as they normally would be V ESC V X is equivalent to V ESC X V Whether or not a control character letter or what have you is interpreted by the printer as a command depends on the printer not on Apple Writer This leads to another common problem If you imbed a number of printer commands in a line many of the eharactets ue Washington Apple Pi swa
61. was at fault Connecting the laptop to the Apple we quickly found that the SSC was sending but not receiving data This quickly isolated the problem to a bad chip on the SSC While modifying the UBBS programs for the WAP Telecommunications System I needed a way to simulate what happens when a call comes into the system Now the bulletin boards use smart modems which issue result codes for each condition For example for modems set to give numeric instead of the more often employed verbose result codes a typical sequence is 2 2 5 CR which represents two rings followed by a 1200 baud connection With verbose codes the modem would issue RING RING CONNECT 1200 Since I don t have the luxury of two telephone lines and would prefer not to tie both up even if I had using the laptop as a modem result code simulator proved remarkably effective I would type 2 2 5 CR for 1200 baud 22 1 CR for 300 or 2 2 10 CR for 2400 and the UBBS program on the Apple would think that a modem was telling it that a call had just come in The lap computer would also show on its display thc initialization sequences that UBBS sends to the modem c g AT S0z2 etc It is obvious that with the right interconnecting cables the lap computer may be used to test hardware modems printers other computers as well as software including discovering what character sequences a program issucs to a serial port and by trial and error wi
62. what number it had in the source it gets the next lowest number that is available If you use Fon DA mover to copy a single DA 10 a new file and examine it with ResEdit as we shall see it is given ID 64 July 1986 number 12 The next DA entered into that file will get ID number 13 ctc Ron Duritsch s basic idea sounds simple just figure a way to put five DA s into a System file and give them numbers 27 through 31 After this just use the Font DA mover to copy the remaining 15 into the System file Now for the fun part I used Apple s ResEdit Resource Editor program version 1 0D11 to move and renumber things While the idea of Editing Resources may sound scary fear not You don t have to know why it works or what the words mean All you will be doing is Cutting and Pasting things and renumbering them by typing in numbers It is all quite easy albeit treading unfamiliar ground First decide on the five DA s you will install as numbers 27 through 31 Use the Font DA mover to create a single file for each one If you have not done this before you will find it no great challenge When clicking on Open for the destination file select New and enter a catchy name like AlarmClock for the Alarm Clock DA etc Put these five DA s onto an 800K disk with a System and Finder In the examples below I show you what you will get if you try Puzzle AlarmClock and Chooser Remove all but one DA from the System file You might combine th
63. 0 available from Big Red Apple Club 1105 S 13th St 103 Norfolk Nebraska 68701 Ken De Vito with the aid of Gina Doggett s c system discussed and demonstrated the use of an inexpensive modem as part of an Apple c system Members planning to buy a modem will find the following recommendations useful 1 Call the WAP office Ask that a personal password and number be assigned to you for the WAP Bulletin Board System 2 Attach the modem to the c by a cable that costs 10 15 The telephone is plugged into the modem 3 Recommended software for use of the modem ASCII Express The Professional 88 00 and Apple Access that can send AppleWorks documents without conversion to Text or ASCII Files 59 00 4 The new WAP BBS 986 8085 986 8086 or 986 4715 can now handle multi users and have them access 32 boards by dialing and connecting to a single number The AW SIG will attempt to provide and demonstrate a live demonstration of this and other Telecommunication Systems during their July Noon Meeting The AppleWorks SIG Telecommunicators appreciate the sweat and strain that the WAP BBS Crew expended during the last 9 months to develop a Super BBS System for us now if we could just get some more AW Telecom municators AppleWorks SIG will not meet in June so that members can attend the WAP GARAGE SALE July s meetings will be at both 8 00 am and Noon 6 ALL Hours Consultants ENC 301 236 4004 Custom Programmin
64. 01 00E1 0001 0095 B5 B9 B5 117 B5 1F1 10E1 1095 B5 1C3 e July 1986 49 MacNovice Column by Ralph J Begleiter Using a Data Base Part 2 If you re poised for action using a Macintosh data base program but you ve never used a data base before you need to understand some jargon that s related to creating a useful file of material Try imagining the data base file as similar to that cabinct full of manila folders which probably comprises your current data base First there s the file cabinet itself In Macintosh terms call it the data base It s the repository for all your stored information Next within the cabinet are those separate folders each representing a different state or customer for instance or a different product Think of them as files In a Macintosh data base a file will appear on your screen desktop as a document created by the data base program you re using Just as a MacWrite letter appears as a distinct document on the desktop e Third in your file cabinet within each folder there are individual sheets of paper Think of them in your computer data base as records On each sheet of paper you have written jpformation which constitutes Figure 1b the heart of your data Probably the Record Sheets sheets of paper arc similar for cach folder In other words you re collecting the same pieces of information for clients in each state or about each different pro
65. 02 878 6647 evenings or 802 655 9451 days e APPLE SIG DISKETERIA by Al Lambert GREETINGS and welcome to the new SIG disketeria My name is Al Lambert and I am the SIG librarian Along with many others I have labored for the last year to organize and develop this new disk section for Apple users Obviously we are quite excited and would like to take this opportunity to introduce our first four disks and tell you more about what s to come and invite feedback from all WAP members Our goal in creating this new disk library is to serve the needs of the Apple user here in Washington as well as the larger community in general Much of what is offered on our disks came to us from other sources but what we feel is unique about them is that they 1 are organized by category 2 are all self booting disks there will be some exception to this and 3 offer programs that have been debugged to the best of our ability as well as altered to address the same output devices for instance all address printer for hard copy This has been done to facilitate use by the many novice users In addition it is our plan to publish helpful information about each program as well as instructions in the WAP Journal We feel this is very important as much of the Public Domain software is completely undocumented And while not always difficult to use it is often very difficult for a novice to figure out the instructions
66. 120 112 100 5 W Moves to One M L Swaeping Blow e CPP Eme P a Side 28 54 124 47 77 35 ANSWERS TO LAST MONTH S WAP ACROSTIC It s working After all these years of effort there is evidence Words of greater cooperation between Apple and the User Groups A Bo Peep I Runways Q Deafen WAP has benefited in many ways That means that you dear B Effete J Beneath R Itself reader have also benefited C Reive K Abate S Tsetses Author Bernard Urban D Naphthalenic L Nathaniel T Offertory Work WAP Editorial E Apathy M Worths U Referec Source Washington Apple Pi Journal April 1986 p3 F Rewaken N Associate V Irving G Dogwood O Padded W Arthur H Uranometry P Esteems X Logia amp 46 July 1986 Washington Apple Pi MACINTOSH CORNER WETERE e SS DD DISKS BOX OF 10 19 00 SS DD DISKS CASE OF 50 89 50 10 DISK STORAGE BOX 36 DISK STORAGE BOX 514 INCH DISKETTES amp STORAGE e SS DD BOX OF 10 e SS DD PAK OF 25 SS DD CASE OF 100 SS DD CARTON OF 500 2 NOTCH DS OD BOX OF 10 8 2 NOTCH DS DD PAK OF 25 18 50 e 2NOTCHDSDD CASE OF 100 69 00 e 10 DISKETTE CASES 2 25 EACH 5 for 10 00 SPECIFY COLOR CHOICES BEIGE BLACK GLUE GREEN GREY RED e 75 DISK CASE PRINTERS PANASONIC P1091 120 CPS CITIZEN 120D 120 CPS CITIZEN MSP 10 160 CPS e CITIZEN MSP 15 WIDE SILVER REED 500 LQ PANASONIC P3131
67. 2 THEN GOSUB 25 GOTO 1916 1927 D120 FOR I 1 TO 12 READ M1 MIS IF M1 C THEN I 12 NEXT GOTO 1930 1928 NEXT 1929 GOSUB 25 GOTO 1919 1930 RESTORE HTAB 8 CALL 958 T 10 GOSUB 50 PRINT MO R C MI C T 12 GOSUB 26 WHAT MONTH IS IT Next we get ready to enter the month After clearing some temporary string variables we will be using and printing our question mark in the proper place we print the month that we have put into MIS at the bottom of the screen and notify the user that if that is the month he wishes to enter all hc has to do is press RETURN If that is what the user docs the program GOES TO line 1924 Otherwise we start creating the string T by adding the character GOTten in line 1919 to the latest version of TS This is called concatenation for those of you who like big words Now if the last character GOTten was a backspace and that makes T one character long the user is trying to backspace to the previous field So we decrement B and go back to line 1904 Otherwise we GO to the SUBroutinc at line 5 5 IF ASC ES lt 32 AND ASC E lt gt 8 THEN RETURN 6 IF ES CHR 8 AND LEN TS 22 THEN T 7 IFES CHR 8 AND LEN TS 52 THEN T LEFIS T LEN T 2 10 RETURN Here we examine ES to sce if it is a valid character not a control character and not a backspace If it is we return to linc 1922 which takes us back to line 1919 Next we provide for the case when
68. 34 5047 14055 Waterfall Way Dallas Texas 75240 NAME ADDRESS CITY na ee STATE ZIP PHONE SHIPPING TOTAL MC VISA July 1986 14055 Waterfall Way Dallas Texas 75240 15 EDSIG NEWS by Patricia Kirby Thursday July 24 at 7 30 p m Newsroom for Education by Carol Thomas There will be no EDSIG meeting in August Meeting Report Thursday May 23 Watermelon amp Word Processing the TIC Summer Computer Camp Experience Summertime and the kcyboardin s casy Wish you could have gone to a summer computer camp espccially where there were Apples Or wonder what such a camp would be like for your own children EDSIG was curious about computer camps so invited for its May 22 meeting Pi member Dr Karen Rosenbaum who four years ago started the TIC Computer Camp on the grounds of Mt Vernon College in Arlington Va Journal readers have probably noted the camp in recent ads Accom panying Karen was Rod Uveges TIC s head tcacher plus a videotape of campers thriving on screen and sports activities at the day camp Educational Philosophy amp Curriculum TIC is in many ways a progressive educator s drcam Karen commented becausc there are no curriculum goals the children set their own As an educator I want them to get excited about what they arc doing and also get some control over things to be masters of something TIC is not unstructured however It attempts to b
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70. 48 different solutions and for the second a help mate in three moves which was advertised as having two solutions the program cranked out eight different solutions I have written to the Federation to call this to their attention and to recommend that they consider using this program Lest you despair over ever beating this strong chess opponent I tried a so called forced win I had discovered against Sargon III and written up in the May 1985 issuc of the WAP Journal against Colossus Chess IV at an intermediate mode Although Colossus didn t fall into the trap as completely as Sargon had by the time thc program realized what had happened it was too late and mate was inevitable in several moves There were some things I didn t like about the program The 3 D display I thought hard to read especially when the bishops were on squares in front of the King or Queen Also the program s opening depth and breadth of repertoire seemed very limited to me most of the time it kept playing one or two obscure opening lines and I kept beating it the same way over and over Last the manual could be a bit friendlier it took me considerable head scratching to figure out how to make some of the options execute If you like chess I strongly recommend that you purchase this program Flight Simulator contd from pg 24 yourself circling around the Seattle Space Needle scaring those in the restaurant into ordering another drink or headin
71. 60 9600 Reston Copy Center 11800 Sunrise Valley Dr lt Reston VA 22091 mplete service information amp price s Sheet available on request me m Roquitod Clionts responsible for disk back up fout noice 860210 July 1986 57 A DEVELOPER S VIEW by Jim Lanford This month we will take a look at updates of three products described in previous columns the Cauzin Soft suip Reader MacLightning and Mach 1 and at samples of some Adobe uploadable fonts Cauzin Softstrip System Reader If you read other computer magazines you have probably noticed advertise ments for the Cauzin Softstrip Reader As I mentioned a few columns ago we bought one in January at MacFest The reader works quite well It reads strips in ads and articles with out problems It was even able to read a strip listing Cauzin employees on a Cauzin business card I just received a copy of the Stripper program Cauzin distributes Stripper in the form of StripWare as opposed to Software Stripper allows any Mac and ImageWriter to print low density Softstrips Low density strips contain about 1200 bytes per strip Cauzin is going to release a LaserWriter program which will print medium density data strips Medium density strips contain about 2200 bytes per strip and high density is about 3800 bytes per strip I have included a sample Softstrip to see how this new technology will work in the WAP Journal The test file is the Excel macro sheet desc
72. 8 01 90BF A8 AS ADDENDUM After the above article was submitted it was pointed out that the program would not display the backspace This wreaks havoc particularly with the WAP Telecommunications System s word wrapping process I suggest that the following patch be made to SSC OBJ and SSM OBJ From ProDOS BLOAD SSx OBJ Then CALL 151 cr You should see the asterisk Monitor prompt Type the following sequence exactly including spaces 90C8 0D C9 87 FO 09 C9 88 FO 05 C9 9F BO 01 60 20 ED FD 60 cr Now type BSAVE SSx OBJ AS9000 ES90D9 cr In the above the x is either M or C as appropriate In the previous code the only control characters permitted to pass through to the display were SOD carriage return and 87 Ctrl G bell The patch adds 88 Ctrl H backspace to the permitted list You may add other characters the same way if necessary LISTING OF ProDOS COMM TERM PROGRAM 5 REM COMM TERM 10 REM BASED ON TAFT BYTE 6 82 15 REM MODIFIED BY G KINAL WASHINGTON APPLE PI 1983 1986 18 REM COPYRIGHT G V KINAL 1986 19 REM RELEASED FOR WAP DISKE 20 REM TERIA SALES ONLY ALL 21 REM OTHER RIGHTS RESERVED 22 REM ac e de je je jede oj ne jc je jeje je je sje ak jeje joe 23 HIMEM 35840 25 HOME PRINT CHRS 12 26 ONERR GOTO 60 27 HOME PRINT GOING TO 80 COL MODE IF AVAILABLE PRINT 28 PRINT REMINDER CTRL T TO CHANGE MODES 29 FOR I 1 TO 2000 NEXT I 30 PRINT CHRS 4
73. 9 Still no success Instead I got strange results I ve really tried to track down the answer myself I ve reviewed all the manuals for my hardware and then some I perceive that too many manuals are written for the computer cognoscenti and not enough for the computer illiterate like myself Your recommendation of one or a few reference marks preferably including one which begins at the See Spot run level will be most welcome Assume I am an abject dunderhead who needs to be told every keystroke to enter except that I know that ESC is really ESC ESC if the shift kcy mod is not in effect First the real answer then some explanation In order to do super or subscripts using the NEC printer or the Apple Imagewriter printer you must first put it in the Incre mental Line mode You can leave it like that for the rest of the document or if you wish you can return to thc normal Logic Seeking mode which prints a little faster To get to the Incremental Line mode on the NEC send ESC that s escape left bracket hex S1B 5B This is no problem using an Apple e but there is no left bracket on the I keyboard Page 53 of the Apple Writer II manual describes an alternate method for entering the left bracket With the shift key mod installed type CRTL SHIFT N The total command from Apple Writer is V ESC CRTL SHIFT N V You were correct in your assumption that line feeds are needed between steps 3 and 4 and 8 and 9 Thus the entire se
74. 94025 me and that s why I write this Linda Morganstcin Ask for a copy of our Apple or Macintosh catalog containing hundreds of other programs Also ask about our volume Comments on Mr Raskin s Letter discount prices for 10 or more of any one item Dear Editor I wish to make a few comments on Mr Raskin s letter in the May Journal as it pertains to my review of his SwyftCard 3 shipping and handling per order UPS 4 MD residents add 5 sales tax No charges or COD s Prices subject to change Call for items not listed I was a bit surprised to hear that the setting of the dip switches would have no effect on the operation of the Swyft COMPUTER WARE UNLIMITED Card In that case why mention setting of the dip switches at P O BOX 1247 COLUMBIA MD 21044 contd on pg 56 301 854 2346 Washington Apple Pi July 1986 43 The Vico From Durham by Chris Klugewicz Well I m back in Washington for the summer having survived my junior year at Duke The last few wecks have been pretty hectic as I mentioned in last month s column and I ve got a ton of stuff to sift through Ah well onward The mailbag Okay Im on a list somewhere the mail from computer related companies is sitting on the floor in my room in a stack two fect high No kidding And the file in my filing cabinet that s labelled Computer Stuff is filled to overflowing In case anybody s interested all this junk includes offers of subscriptions to A ni
75. ATIONS PROGRAM ERM tines SSM OBJ and SSC OBJ and thc system files ProDOS and BASIC SYSTEM all on a disk with prefix DATA I suggest you rcad the description of thc DOS Comm Term in January 84 WAP for a better understanding of how it works This version because of its automatic configuration requires the user to specify very little after the RUN COMM TERM command After defining the baud rate you want and whether you need local echo you will immediately be in dumb terminal mode One difference in this version is that there is no on screen prompt to tell you that you arc in terminal mode Most users will cither be connected to a smart modem in which case typing AT should get you an OK from the modem or in the laptop TELCOM connec tion the Apple screen will show anything typed on the laptop keyboard As in the previous version a Ctrl T will escape from thc terminal mode and give you a short selection menu for up and downloading One item that confuses many users is the question ENTER COMMAND SEQUENCE TO SEND TO HOST TO INITIATE DOWNLOAD This is simply whatever string of characters you would type to tell the other side to send the desired information For example suppose you wanted to capture message 254 from our Telecommunica tions System bulletin board In terminal mode you would send the R command and the System would ask which message number you want to read At this point you should escape to the
76. Apple Corporation is stored in this work area and moved in and out of the other functional areas for processing as necessary The various managers involved are called upon to perform their tasks one at a time Although this kind of processing may seem oppressively bureaucratic with its various functions being performed hither and yon within the computer by sundry middle managers it operates quite smoothly because every manager has a particular set of tasks to do and no manager will ever en croach on the functional arca managed by any other manager The Apple 4 does not tolerate interoffice politics or turf battles PERIPHERAL OPERATIONS Now that we have taken a short look at the hardware how can we work through that maze of managers and functions After all as users of the Apple J we must interface with this miniature corpora tion hidden inside the machine Fortunately on the most basic level all of the interfacing is pretty much taken care of for us Let s look at a typical operation typing something on the keyboard and seeing it appear on the monitor screen The Director of Foreign Operations is always on the lookout for messages coming into the Apple from the outside world the outside world in this case means YOU Up in memory on the C oh page there s a signal light Whenever a key is pressed that light goes on Since the Foreign Opera tions office is well staffed there will always be a runner avail able who will b
77. Ave Peoria Il 61604 RANDOM NUMBERS AND OTHER GOINGS ON You may also have noticed that Frank Moore of The Magazinc has begun adding hardware to his offerings at Pair Software Included are a new monitor by Teknika and Star printers He s been offering Data Spec switch boxes for some time In his most recent issue by the way he had an interesting comparison between the and the IBM PC Apparently the IBM can not generate a true random number The program shown below should generate a complete random graphics display of screen dots like the accompanying program does Instead you ll get a set of bars on the screen Frank suggests the next time an IBM type crows about his her machine s abilities suggest they scc which computer really is better at least at generating random numbers Apple IBM 10 Home 10 Screen 2 20 Invoke Bgraf Inv 20 X RND 640 30 Perform grafixmode 2 1 30 YSRND 2 a Washington Apple Pi Apple IBM 40 Perform grafixon 40 PSET X Y 50 Perform fillport 50 Go To 20 60 x RND 1 559 70 Perform dotat x y 80 Goto 50 The Magazine is also working on a group purchase of 512K memory upgrades from On Three possibly including its new Desktop Manager utility If interested write Frank Moore at 3201 Murchison Way Carmichael CA 95608 Phone is 916 485 6525 OVERSEAS A user group in Britain The British Apple System s User Group BASUG has an excellent magazine ca
78. BBSI 1 Disk 1 136 WAPABBSI 1 Disk 2 137 IAC 21 Spreadshect A 138 IAC 23 Utilities G 139 IAC 24 Education 3 140 Education 4 141 Special Data Bases 142 IAC 28 Pinball Games 143 Sports 144 TAC 27 Applesoft Prog 145 Apple Logo Tool Kit 146 Logo Documentation 147 App Logo Samp Prog 150 EDSIGI Elem Mati 151 1983 Tax Template 152 IAC 31 Miscellaneous 153 Investments A 154 Investments B 155 IAC 33 Miscellaneous 156 IAC 35 Applsft AW e 157 IAC 36 Arcade Games 158 Apple Logo Programs 159 Recipe Filcs 160 Utilities amp Games 161 Wizard Worker 162 Games E 163 Graphs and Displays 165 Happy Holid Tappy Holidays 166 Charts and Gra hs 167 IAC 40 Pilot Lang 168 IAC 41 amp 47 AW Uul 169 Hayes Term Prog 170 Love s Follies Uul 171 Cat Graphix 172 Print Shop Graphics 173 Riley s Pers Instru 174 Imageworks M 500 Master Catalog Listing Eamon Series Volumes 180 Dungeon Designer 181 Beginners Cave 182 Lair of Minotaur 183 Cave of the Mind 184 Zyphur Riverventure 185 Castle of Doom 186 Death Star 187 Devil s Tomb 188 Caves of Treas Isl 189 Furioso 190 The Magic Kingdom 191 The Tomb of Molinar 192 Lost Isl of Apple 193 Abductor s Quarters 194 Quest for Trezore 195 Underground City 196 Merlin s Castle 197 Horgrath Castle 198 Deathtrap 199 The Black Death 200 The Temple of Ngurct 201 Black Mountain 202 Nuclear Nightmare 203 Feast of Carroll 204 The Master s Dungcon 205 The Crys
79. CDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnoparstuvwxyz 1234567890 amp ITC Souvenir Light Italic ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 1234567890 amp 5c ITC Souvenir Demi ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 1234567890 amp S c ITC Souvenir Demi Italic ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijkimnopgrstuvwxyz 123456789088 c July 1986 EXCEL MACRO SHORTCUTS TO ALIGN TEXT AND FORMAT NUMBERS by Audri Gordon Lanford Ph D Many people are afraid to try using macros because they seem complicated almost like another language While macros are written in a special language Excel macros can bc fairly easy to create In this article I d like to show you how you can create a number of very useful macros that can be used whenever you work with Excel There are two things that Excel does not do casily that I really wish it would do First there are no Excel keyboard shortcuts for aligning text Multiplan on the other hand has command keys to align text to the left center or right COMMAND f g h respectively Naturally you can align text in Excel by choosing Alignment from the Format menu but keyboard shortcuts would be very uscful Second formatting numbers also requires using the menu options Although Excel has a wide range of options for formatting numbers and many additional formats can be created there are no keyboard shortcuts to format numbers The solution Macros of course
80. Crane TV personality and hcad of Software Country GOLDEN OLDIES THE CHESS MASTER 2000 and Brian Fargo who did an adventure which drove me nuts DEMON S FORGE and is now head of Interplay Productions THE BARD S TALE Brian was kind enough to give me a little glimpse of THE ARCH MAGE S TALE a greatly enhanced followup to THE BARD S TALE EA distributes all of the above products To further rub the salt in the wounds Mr Hawkins gave me a press release that listed in addition to THE CHESSMASTER 2000 and OGRE no less than 5 new Apple titles Thomas M Disch s AMNESIA BATTLEFRONT MURDER PARTY Timothy Leary s MIND MIRROR and SCAVENGER HUNT MicroProse executive Deborah Musick confirmed that her firm continues to strongly support Apples She introduced me to Ed Bever one of their wargame simulation programmers Their recent releases SILENT SERVICE and CONFLICT IN VIETNAM are high on the bestseller charts A SubLogic representative assured me that the scenery disks for FLIGHT SIMULATOR II were on the way in the fall for Apple computers Tom Frisina President of Accolade a relatively new company promised that PSI 5 TRADING COMPANY a space strategy game long awaited for Apple will be released in the fall Jack Dott of Avalon Hill showed me a Macintosh football game slated for the future and said that the Expansion Disk of UNDER FIRE will appreciably speed the game up Several new Apple titles will be released in the near futur
81. DA s by David Morganstein We all love Desk Accessories They expand the power of the Macintosh by letting us do things we hadn t planned to do when we decided to run a word processing sprcadsheet or graphics program Thcy let us delete files telecommunicate play a game see what timc it is and a host of other useful functions without having to leave the current application run a separate program and retum later There is only one problem with them They take up space If you are running with 400K disk drives you probably have not taken advantage of many of the dozens of uscful DA s that are available either through the public domain as shareware or as a commercial product After all the 400K disk can barely hold the System Finder printing resource Scrapbook and a few fonts However with the advent of 800k drives and reasonably priced hard disks space has taken a back scat Or so it appeared As hard disk users have discovered it appeared as though you could have access to only 15 DA s at any onc timc This turns out to be the limit that the Font DA mover program will permit as it attempts to load a new DA into the System file This limit varies by 1 depending on Fon DA mover version number Version 3 2a3 allow 15 Several people already discovered methods that can help you to beat the system ahem First you can use the Font D mover to install the DA directly into the program rather than in the System file Several sp
82. FOR YOUR APPLE resume in September The fee for each tutorial is 10 00 with an Apple monitor and disk drive 15 00 without monitors available for lst 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 Tutorials at 10 00 with equipment Tutorials at 15 00 without equipment t oomoOmemmempemeqmecmmqemmemmqmmememewememememememm SigMac is sponsoring a series of two monthly tutorials for the beginner The fee for two tutorials is 30 00 They will be held at the office from 7 10 PM on Monday evenings You are strongly urged to bring your Macintosh These tutorials fill up quickly call the office to verify space before mailing in your registration Monday July 21 and 28 Monday August 18 and 25 Please check the desired tutorials and return this form with fee s made payable to Washington Apple Pi Ltd to Washington Apple Pi Ltd Name Attn Tutorials 8227 Woodmont Avenue Suite 201 Daytime Phone Evening Phone Bethesda MD 20814 Total Enclosed INDEX TO ADVERTISERS INDEX TO AUTHORS t t C Rotes or E E T Begleiter Ralph J 50 Lanford Jim 58 e a e e e e Back Cover Billingsley Amy T 7 Lanford Audri G 60 All Hours Consultants ds DEN Blazina David 25 Levine Boris 28 Clinton Computer Center te l Connelly Rosemary 57 Mason Brian G
83. GET C IF C THEN GOTO 370 POKE LAST ASC CS CALL OUTCHR PRINT C GOTO 370 REM EOF DETECTED FINISHED POKE 216 0 REM CANCEL ONERR GOTO GOSUB 920 FOR I 1 TO 500 NEXT I GOTO 160 BOO PEEK 222 PRINT DS CLOSE AFS IF BOO 5 THEN GOTO 470 IF BOO 6 THEN PRINT PATH NOT FOUND GOTO 470 PRINT ERROR NUMBER BOO OCCURRED GOTO 470 IF NOT UNSAVD THEN GOTO 595 PRINT FLASH PRINT PREVIOUSLY CAPTURED FILE NOT SAVED TO PRINT DISK AND WILL BE LOST PRINT NORMAL INPUT SAVE PREVIOUS FILE FIRST CCS contd Washington Apple Pi 592 IF LEFT CC 1 Y OR LEFTS CC 1 CHRS 121 THEN GOTO 710 595 HOME PRINT CHR 12 INPUT GIVE AN APPLE TARGET FILE NAME AF 596 AF PX AF 600 CNV 0 605 IF LA OR C8 THEN CNV 0 GOTO 630 REM USER HAS LOWER CASE DISPLAY 610 INPUT UPPER CASE CONVERSION Y N C 620 IF LEFTS C 1 Y THEN CNV 1 630 PRINT ENTER COMMAND SEQUENCE TO SEND TO 631 INPUT HOST TO INITIATE DOWNLOAD 634 IF DL THEN GOTO 690 REM NULL 635 FORI 1TO LEN DLS 640 POKE LAST ASC MIDS DLS I 1 650 CALL OUTCHR 660 NEXT 690 POKE LAST CNV 700 CALL HOTAP 710 UL 256 PEEK 255 PEEK 254 711 PRINT IF PEEK 255 129 THEN PRINT CHRS 7 PRINT BUFFER FULL CAPTURE TERMINATED PRINT 712 INPUT SAVE CAPTURED FILE TO DISK NOW Y N CH 713 IF LEFTS CH 1 N OR LEFTS CHS 1 CHR 110 THEN UNSAVD 1 GOTO 860 714 H
84. I also reccived interesting in sight into how software houses view users groups Some houscs are hesitant to provide review software to clubs for fear of the spread of software while others actively support clubs particularly the big ones and still others are making a concerted effort to make clubs beta test and revicw sites Many interviews were conducted at the show itself Other more exotic interview locations were a Hawaiian luau attended by several thousand thrown at the Chicago Aquarium by Computer Software Service a distributor Mindscape s fabulous 50 s rock and roll party at a nightclub fcaturing Del Shannon Bobby Vce The Drifters and Junior Walker and the All Stars and a Rush Street decpdish pizzeria at 2 00 in the morning The press never sleeps The highlight of the show for me was meeting and chatting with many of Apple software s most talented and famous executives and developers read software artists or pro grammers or designers or whatever What follows is a re count of some of the pcople that I met and what they told me THE CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW CRIMSON CROWN and OO TOPOS TRANSYLVANIA will sell for 17 95 for 5 1 4 disks and as well as 19 95 for 3 1 2 disks Same prices for XYPHUS and SWORD OF KADASH Thcir popular applications software GRAPHICS MAGICIAN and COMPLETE GRAPHICS SYSTEM will be 39 95 apiece with the Macintosh version of the former to cost 49 95 for two disks The
85. Kirby 16 There s a Revolution Going O0n Stephen C Warren 54 Music SIG News o Raymond Hobbs 17 Macintosh Family Newsletters Rosemary Connelly 57 Bee we eee ee a ore oec se ERE Pied 19 A Developer s View sose coa Jim Lanford 58 The Consumer Electronic Show Ronald Wartow 20 Excel Macro Shortcuts Audri G Lanford 60 GAMESIG News ssis osso e Ronald Wartow 22 Excel and Scatter Charts Hampton M DeJarnette 61 Colossus Chess A Review Paul Moore 22 Softvieus 5 0David Morganstein 63 Flight Simulator A Review Thomas Johnston 24 Mucha DA s es 6 David Morganstein 64 Star Fleet I A Review David Blazina 25 Of Labelers and Catalogers Martin Milrod 66 A Button Down Guide to the Apple Raymond Hobbs 26 WAP BUGUE osc 2 ve 55 ES Myerson 68 Thank Vou SIV ECUS e s o o ao Boris Levine 28 ByLdws CHANGES 5 5 9 59 AppleWorks SIG News e e oo Peg Matzen 29 Disketeria Dispatch a Martin Milrod 70 ProDOS Comm Term Comm Program George Kinal 30 Dieketaria Dicer Form a wo x ae wo om ew o Telecom SIG News e e e a Dave Harvey 34 Tutorial Registration Form Indexes 72 For information on joining WAP see General Information page 7 Brera M ac C O R N E R T P The Mac Oniy Software and Peript herals Store Independence Month Sale July 4th July 26th Most Software amp Hard
86. Macintosh Printers A General Steve Hunt 301 262 9080 General Walt Francis 202 966 5742 Donald Schmitt 717 334 3265 Leon Raesly 301 439 1799 Rob Clark 804 872 9070 Joan B Dunham 301 585 0089 Chart Terry Monks 703 471 4610 Apple Color Plotter John Day 301 621 7543 Comm amp Modems Steve Hunt 301 262 9080 Apple Daisy Whecl John Day 301 621 7543 Concertware Skip Horvath 703 536 4091 Daisywriter 2000 Bill Etue 703 620 2103 Excel David Morganstein 301 972 4263 Henry Greene 202 363 1797 AA Mark Pankin 703 524 093 IDS 460 Jeff Stetekluh 703 979 8249 File Vision Steve Hunt 301 262 9080 Lap d John Day 301 621 7543 Helix Jim Be 703 662 0640 MX 80 Jeff Dillon 301 434 0405 Harvey Levine 301 299 9380 NEC 8023 Bill Mark 301 779 8938 Inside Mac Jon Hardis 301 330 1422 Okidata Michael Proffitt 301 874 2270 Lang C Pascal XLisp Carolyn Komada 703 691 1986 Dan Robrish 301 530 4202 MacDraw Tom Berilla 301 434 3256 Scribe Phil Leber 703 378 4391 Tom Parrish 301 654 8784 Silent Bruce Field 301 340 7038 MacLion DBMS Mark Miani 202 362 8123 Spreadsheets Leon Raesly 301 439 1799 MacProject Jay Lucas 703 751 3332 Walt Francis 202 966 5742 MacTerminal Jon Hardis 301 330 1422 Lotus 1 2 3 Walt Francis 202 966 5742 MS BASIC amp MS File John Love 703 569 2294 Ray Hobbs 7 30 10 301 490 7484 Multiplan John Boblitz 301 356 9384 Multiplan Terry Prudden 301 933 3065 John Love 703 569 2294 VisiCalc Walt Francis 202 966 5742 S
87. NT HIT lt RETURN gt FOR PREVIOUS MENU 1605 VTAB 18 HTAB 1 INPUT WHICH CS IF C THEN 1500 1606 Q VAL C IF Q lt 14 OR Q gt 21 THEN 1605 1607 QN Q 13 1610 ON QN GOTO 4500 1305 1305 1310 1310 800 200 1350 1620 GOTO 1600 The Main Menu consists of two screens The first screen is divided into three sections general data entry Budget manipulation and Check manipulation The second screen is divided into two sections Printing options and Miscellaneous functions Hitting RETURN by itself switches between the two screens The ON GOTO command is used extensively here but as you can see many of the choices Ep July 1986 37 to the same line number This is because these lines provide the chaining to the other programs However because chaining retains the values of the variables when we get to the other programs Q and QN retain their values and we can direct the program to the proper line number in the other program by the value of Q or QN We saw this already in lines 20 23 of the program BUDGET 1 85 last month That program is used to 7 PRINT BUDGETED CATEGORIES 8 CHANGE BUDGETED CATEGORIES 9 SAVE BUDGETED CATEGORIES and 21 INITIALIZE NEW BUDGET Sec last month s article for details We take the opportunity in the first screen to clear memory of old unused strings with the statement X FRE 0 in line 1507 This program creates a lot of strings and this is a convenient time to ge
88. NoDecOpemdz 0000000 0000000 0 0000 2FORMAT NUMBER 0 RETURN Two Dec OpCmdt FORMAT NUMBER 0 00 RETURN Dollar No Dec OpCmd d FORMAT NUMBER 2 720 2 880 RETURN Dottar 2 Dec OpC Doltar 2 Dec OpCmd gg 7 FORMAT NUMBER 9 90 2 280 00 RETURN Peh No Dec mdr FORMAT NUMBER 0 RETURN P 2 Doc OpCmdp 2FORMAT NUMBER 0 005 RETURN Date md DateOpCmdm o i 2FORMAT NUMBER m d yy RETURN Thanks Bill Etue contd from pg 28 kind of diversion like a game should be included I invoked the principles listed in some earlier articles especially the ones about increasing user independence and using available programs So I included HANGMAN by the above men oned Bill Etue It has several virtues permitting play against the computer and against an opponent and it has real grotesque graphics So with some misgivings that I will mention later I added it to the disk which I tumed over to the teacher with whom I had been working PART III MOSTLY HEARSAY BUT WELL VOUCHED FOR After a suitable interval I inquired How did the disk go It worked very well And how about HANGMAN Oh they loved it They Oh yes we had children from all the other first grade classes coming to the Special Ed area wanting to play And the teachers too were delighted And what about the image of HANGMAN The image What it stands for Th
89. OME PRINT CHR 12 715 PRINT WRITING FILE TO DISK STAND BY PLEASE 720 ONERR GOTO 890 725 D CHRS 4 726 PRINT D CREATE AF TTXT 740 PRINT DS BSAVE AFS AS2000 EUL TTXT 790 PRINT D CLOSE 831 UNSAVD 0 REM FILE HAS BEEN SAVED 840 PRINT CHRS 4j CLOSE 860 PRINT PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE 870 GETCS 880 PRINT PRINT RETURNING TO TERMINAL MODE GOTO 160 890 BOO PEEK 222 POKE 216 0 900 PRINT ERROR NUMBER BOO OCCURRED 910 GOTO 840 920 PRINT PRINT END OF TRANSFER BACK TO TERMINAL MODE PRINT RETURN 2000 REM CARD SELECTION SECTION 2001 D CHRS 4 2004 PRINT PRINT INVERSE 2005 PRINT ASSUMES I O IN SLOT 2 PRINT 2006 NORMAL 2010 IF PEEK 49925 56 AND PEEK 49927 24 THEN C8 1 GOTO 2030 2020 C8 0 REM ELSE NO 80 COL CARD 2030 IF PEEK 49669 24 AND PEEK 49671 56 THEN CC 1 SS 0 GOTO 2060 REM 6850 TYPE CARD 2040 IF PEEK 49669 56 AND PEEK 49671 Washington Apple Pi 24 AND PEEK 49676 49 THEN CC 0 SS 1 GOTO 2060 REM 6551 SSC TYPE CARD 2050 PRINT NO COMM OR SSC TYPE CARD FOUND IN SLOT 2 END 2060 IF CC THEN PRINT D BLOAD SSM OBJ GOSUB 2500 GOTO 2600 2070 IF SS THEN PRINT D BLOAD SSC OBJ GOSUB 2300 GOTO 2600 2300 REM FOR APPLE SUPER SERIAL CARD 2305 R1 49322 2307 POKE R1 9 REM DTR RTS ON NO PARITY 2308 R2 R1 1 REM CONTROL REGISTER 2309 PRINT PRINT 2310 INPUT BAUD RATE CHOOSE 300 1200 OR 2400
90. PHANTASIE one of GAMESIG s recommended games of this genre Apple by Paul Moore Colossus Chess IV is the latest chess program for the Apple II series Written by Martin Bryant this British offering is distributed in the United States by Fircbird Licensees Inc It will run on any Apple II with 48K of RAM and will allow in 64K machines use of an optional 3 D display and adjustment of Colossus s willingness to accept a draw offer Colossus Chess IV comes as a single disk with the program on one side and sample games and problems on the other and is packaged with a 19 page user manual explaining its features The disk has an arrow on it pointing to the ominous message Disconnect Peripherals but after two weeks of experimenting with Colossus my modem printer Mocking 22 July 1986 COLOSSUS CHESS IV A Review series with 48K WIZARD S CROWN SSI Another recent release A fantasy role playing game that permits the unusual choice of combat either akin to wargame tactics or a quick resolution of combat Apple series with 48K CONFLICT IN VIETNAM MicroProse A wargame whose subject is obvious employing MicroProse s unique wargame interface wherein the joystick is used exclusively for play Apple series with 64K Joystick required Flip side takes advantage of 128K 111 page manual SILENT SERVICE MicroProse A critically acclaimed submarine simulation run entirely by joystick Apple series with 64K
91. PI Accounting GL AR AP PAY INVENTORY each 245 COMMUNICATIONS Ascii Express Professional best DOS PRODOS prdpran H Crosstalk best program for CP M ose CoapuServe Starter Kit password amp 5 free hours 13 ODDS amp EN0S Print Shop Print Shop Cospanion sess 36 29 Newsraoa Clip Art caries ah PAN KA a EE AN 99 19 Pinpoint cc cece cece eevee jake Sou Rire E Typing Tutor III s MEX re dO Kensington 5ystea Saver Fan u surge pr rotector 66 Kraft Joystick TG Joystick Hayes Mach III 83 35 39 KoalaPad Graphics Tablet with graphics software 65 Curtis Emerald Surge Protector 6 outlets amp cord 45 Flight Sisulator II Microsoft Ward what MacWrite should have been 119 Excel best Mac spreadsheet available 245 Basic interpreter saanane 99 Chart presentation business graphics 85 M File uo A NAN Bg Aa 119 Hultiplan AREA CT Ga PAD RH e eee 119 c MacEnhancer has tha ports Apple forgot 173 I Filevision graphics database systea 119 N Odesta Helix database for the serious user 249 T Dollars amp Sense accounting w graphics D Oo Sidekick 6 aise Gaia bie e o AA EEEE ROLE ERES 5 Iosega Bernoulli Drive 5 10 20 neg resovable ica H MacLion progranasable database for Macl 239 MacForth Level IL ccc cece cece eee en en nnn 169 HIPPO cC EDITT 99 Kensington HacModea 300 ba
92. PPLE SUPER SERIAL CARD AND OTHER 6551 CARDS INSTALLED IN SLOT 2 9000 AD A9 C0 LDA SCOA9 lt Start of normal terminal mode TERMA 9003 29 08 AND 808 9005 F011 BEQ 9018 9007 EA NOP These NOPs have to do with removal 9008 EA NOP of cursor management 9009 EA NOP 900A AD A8 CO LDA SCOA8 900D 203F90 JSR 903F Process 9010 09 80 ORA 80 Received 9012 20C590 JSR 90C5 Character 9015 EA NOP 9016 EA NOP Likewise no cursor management 9017 EA NOP 9018 2C00CO BIT C000 901B 10 E3 BPL 9000 gt Keyboard data processed 9 1D AD 00 CO LDA C000 9020 2C10C0 BIT 0010 9023 C994 CMP 4 94 If CTRL T keyed then 9025 F0 3D BEQ 9064 EXIT 9027 205090 JSR 9050 902A 8D 7690 STA 9076 902D 206590 JSR 9065 9030 4C 0090 JMP 9000 Back to start of loop 9033 E6 FF INC SFF Point to next page of memory 9035 AD FF 00 LDA SOOFF 9038 C981 CMP 4 81 Is buffer full last page is 80 903A FO 6E BEQ S90AA If so will store and exit 903C 4C 8D 90 JMP 908D ELSE go back whence came from 903F C9 0A CMP S0A Replace line feeds 9041 DO 02 BNE 9045 with 9043 A901 LDA S01 Non printable CHR 01 9045 C961 CMP 4 61 9047 9006 BCC 904F CONVERT 9049 C9 7B CMP S7B UPPER TO 904B BO 02 BCS S904F LOWER CASE 904D 49 00 EOR 50 t 20 if conversion desired 904F 60 RTS ans 9050 29 7F AND S7F 9052 EA NOP 9053 EA NOP 9054 EA NOP
93. Paul Simon 15311 Bauer Lane Laurel MD 20707 RSVP to Paul 490 8395 evenings from 6 10 PM Direc tions 95 North toward Baltimore Take 2nd Laurel exit 198 toward Burtonsville Go 1 mile to Bauer Lane Turn right to 3rd house on right 15311 Apple Tea Laurel MD Sunday July 13 4 6 PM Musical Apple Making Music with a Computer at the home of Raymond Hobbs 8405 Snowden Loop Laurel MD 20708 RSVP to Ray 490 7484 Directions Take Balt Wash Pkwy toward Baltimore Take Route 197 exit toward Laurcl Go about 1 2 mile to 3rd traffic light Montpelier Dr Turn left Go 1 mile to Snowden Loop Turn right to 8405 100 fect on right Apple Tea Bladensburg MD Thursday July 17 7 9 PM on AppleWorks The Works with Ken DeVito Hosted by Sister Patricia at Elizabeth Seton H S 5715 Emerson Street Bladensburg MD 20710 RSVP 864 4532 to Sister Patricia or leave message Take Baltimore Washington Parkway to Route 450 Annapolis Road toward Bladensburg Go 1 block to traffic light Turn right to 57th Ave Continue on 57th Ave past stop sign Go 1 2 block Turn right on Emerson Seton School is on right Use main entrance and someone will direct you to the Tea DEALER S CORNER Frederick Computer Products offers Washington Apple Pi a 26 users group discount on any hardware or soft ware from Apple Computer Group purchase discounts on third party hardwarc or software may also be arranged Frederick Computer Products and Service Ce
94. QUIRIES WELCOME Q INNOVATIONS FOR COMPUTERS OF WESTMINSTER l PO BOX 1603 WESTMINSTER MD 21157 Ne Trademarks Mouse Cleaner 360 ICE of Westminster Apple II E C Apple Computer MEEMI SEE SE NENNEN ME ISS A Washington Apple Pi July 1986 55 academic applecart where young upstarts will begin to threaten the entrenched hicrarchy of well published scholars Now that s a new twist All of a sudden because Joc Newcomer in the sociology department has a Mac LaserWriter combo he ll automatically become the expert in demographics because he did it himself I have news for Joc if he is worth anything the only thing D Pub has going for him is a springboard to a better publisher than himself Face it Academicians hardly care a damn about text production distribution page layout and proofreading It s still up to the independent book publisher to handle the dirty work and that doesn t come cheap Just look at the scenario say I m a scholar who knows everything there is to know about demographic analysis and yet I can t find a major publisher to pick me up on contract for a textbook So I go through a new network of desktop publishers They cost money and the prices will not stay low For now most combo owners settle for 10 25 00 per hour consulting Still to consider keyboarding time is expensive proofreading and editing takes time and page make up where the Mac Laserwriter combo is used will take the place of pastc up and lay
95. RMAC able by canco Introductory price 379 j PAN Now TECHNOLOGY TAI Othe some or dering s may am 24 l Other Furniture 30 40 DATAFRAME 20 Simply put the hard disk Apple chose over every Misa uL EST LEES Programer s Zone other SCSI to introduce the MacPlus In stock now 2n r 195 Thenew TML Pascal utlitesare only at MacCorner Call for Special b Bd Med 79 now available at the Programmer s Zone Apple Pi Pricing upgra e aay Z Basic 75 Pe EEES 2Meg Max 2 485 TML Pascal 75 LowDown20 899 SCSI Port 512 99 The price leader amongst SCSI Hard N f 3l occ disks 22 megs of raw value IL MID I M adn ess Included 3 megs of PD programs AN oe 1000 SOG Micropert paper EAN 2400 box 29 PUN gos M d d eas Image Writter Midi for the mac from the most professional to the For those desiring a higher performance SCSI Ribbons Box die hobbyist oriented programs now in demo amp in stock hard disk at a good price In stock now of six 3 95ea Concertware Plus Midi 99 a de Performer 239 HD 20 949 muysn Box of 10 Midi Interface E 61349 SSDD 3 1 2 Casio CZ 1000 39 MES ee Sony 16 95 CZ 101 299 Note Most HarDisk prices do not include SCSI cable Casio Patch Librarian iiis 49 purchased together with midi interface Kome THAN p E bem ji aracxin jes e All prices reflect a 5 cash discount and verifiable WAP membership Ioue Local 330 9116 Area 340 7032 8653 zetts Av arema 1 b
96. STED WITH ONE YEAR WARRANTY questions do you have a joystick All IC s Socketed Full Documentation an 80 column card and lower case X eet capability After these questions you are prompted to boot the other 16K RAM BOARD 64K 80 COL BOARD side and you are given the names of e Expands Apple Il Or 1t ea CH all the designers You are then From 48K To 64K SIO Renace ai in Anne 5 Pascal amp CP M Compatible 39 00 gt ier Keplacement tor Apre 39 00 asked what word is on x line of y ag tended 80 Column Card a a page If you make a mistake it i gives you another chance If you 128K RAM BOARD 256K 80 COL BOARD make another mistake it prints a s Expands Ilr 64K to 196K e 256K Expandable to 1 0 Megabytes message to the effect Pirate get Saturn Titan Software Compatible Software Selective 40 80 Columns ff me th Bs Combine with PLUSWORKS XM and 100 Extended 80 Col Card Compatible 0 S game at you copi Expand Your APPLEWORKS DESKTOP to FREE Software Expands APPLEWORKS DESKTOP This was very frustrating since the 135K on Your Apple or Franklin to 252K 1014K with 1 0 MEG i 3 bie doesn t fully explain the Above BD w o memory 65 Above BD wo Software 89 y PLUSWORKS XM Software 39 512K with Software 139 The game itself is accompanied 128K Bareboard Ltd Quantity 10 1 0 MEG with Softwar 238 by cute music which sometimes E gets a bit repetitive Sometimes pamuwun SUPER SERIAL BOARD 80 COL
97. T consists of two characters the last of which is a backspace This makes T a null string Finally we provide for the case when T consists of more than two letters the last one of which is a backspace This makes T equal to what it used to be minus the last two characters the backspace and the character backspaced over OK We continue getting characters in line 1919 until RETURN is pressed at which time the program jumps to line 1924 Remember of course that the user is INPUTing the number of the month here The string T is changed into a number by the C VAL TS expression in line 1924 Now if RETURN was the only key pressed the length of TS will be zero and C takes on the value stored in M1 and we can go directly to line 1930 Otherwise we have to check the value of C to make sure a legitimate number was entered Again if C is less than 0 this is the clue the user gives the computer to return to the Main Menu If C is 0 or if C is greater than 12 then we have to clear the line and start all over again at linc 1916 Otherwise we can READ the DATA in line 1700 to match the number of the month with the name of the month and then print the number of the month right justified from T 10 line 1930 1700 DATA 1 JANUARY 2 FEBRUARY 3 MARCH A APRIL 5 MAY 6 JUNE contd July 1986 39 7 JULY 8 AUGUST 9 SEPTEMBER 10 OCTOBER 11 NOVEMBER 12 DECEMBER 1701 DATA 13 Finally we print a slash t
98. Telecommunications These have been held in the past and were well received by the membership George thought that one could be held if enough interest was expressed and suggested calling the office to express this interest Gcorge announced that he has revised his COMTERM program that he had written a while back so that it can now be run under the ProDOS operating system and will be available in the Disketeria soon In answer to a question about the CP M communications program Modem 740 it was pointed out that this program as available in the Disketeria is compatible only with the Applicard and that the program would have to be revised to work with the ALS CP M card There is a new public domain program that replaces this program and at present is not available in the Disketeria but will be soon Regarding text file conversion from and to the CP M ProDOS and DOS 3 3 operating systems ASCII Express Professional provides a utility that converts from one format to the other and also Quality Software sells a program that converts all of these operating systems as well as Pascal That program sells for less than 40 00 The last item discussed was changing the place and timc that the Telecom SIG meets t was agreed that in the future starting in July the Telecom SIG will meet in the WAP office on the 2nd Monday of each month at 7 30 PM G 34 July 1986 ProDOS Comm Term contd from pg 33 ANNOTATED LISTING OF MACHINE LANGUAGE ROUTINE FOR A
99. This is the 3rd article of a 9 part series which began in the May 1986 Journal Brian has been receiving quite a few requests for copies of his program on disk sce his first article for details One such request was from as far away as London The following is quoted from a letter written by another member Walter Blackmer Dear Mr Mason Your tutorial on Applesoft by working through a program is exactly what is needed to help people like me get into pro gramming This article alone makes my joining WAP worth while I fully intend to work my way through the program with you during the remianing installments but can t wait that long to have a good program for this purpose Enclosed is my check for 5 Please rush the disk and instructions back to me EARLY JOURNAL DEADLINES Because of a meeting in July and a show in August the deadlines for the August and September Journals are early We would appreciate your help in this matter Deadline for articles for the August Journal is July 3 the Journal must be ready for the printer on July 16 Deadline for articles for the September Journal is August 4 the Journal must be ready for the printer on August 13 If you can get your material to us earlier than the deadline so much the better G5 July 1986 41 ms by Raymond Hobbs tooting several horns trumpet coronet trombone and tuba all on a synthesizer controlled by my Mac MIDI is what made this possible and MIDI is
100. UMN BOARD The Te ells humorous messages flash on and off Similar To Apple s Super Sena Card Similar To Videx Videoterm the screen such as ATTENTION 50 19 200 Baud Selectable 49 OD Were amp Lower Case Generation 49 00 ALL CREW MEMBERS Tonight Communication amp Terminal Use e Inverse Video x RS 232 CABLE 10 MALE MALE 40 80 COLUMN SOFTSWITCH the theater will be playing Earth All 25 Lines Connected 12 95 For Above Board 14 95 Wars a movie about a war on Old Z80 CP M BOARD EPROM PRO Terra Firma The quality of the text oii ie else 1S n and Sand enjoyable e Low Cos Merpah Carpalible CPM Board Programs 2716 thru 2764 5 Volt EPROMS en Startin c game you are Supports nd 64K Apples Reads Wntes Copies Compares 8 8 M Turbo Pascal Compatible 39 00 Verihes amp Checks For Blank EPROMS 49 00 allowed to choose your ship from WA over 30 titles All the star cruisers anane n ile NUMERIC KEYPAD are replicas of one another SO it e Simlar to HAYES MACH Ill s doesn t matter which you choose Large Fire Button on Stick a and Decima sn Then the game prompts you to Selectable Self Center PAP MB ETE YS ens amp Non Self Cente choose a mission of either short seed MS es 39 00 medium or long duration Depend i THE FINE PRINT ing upon which mission you Shipping is extra on ALL ORDERS Minimum Shipping amp Insurance is 2 50 amp po y COD Okay 1 90 UPS or 2 40 Postal Y
101. VTAB L HTAB T CALL 958 PRINT CD J 1962 CT R J 80 T E PRINT 2 81 GET ES TS TS ES IF ES CHRS 8 AND LEN TS 1 THEN 110 82 PRINT ES GOSUB 5 84 IF LEN TS 2 THEN 81 85 IF LEN T lt S ANDES lt gt CHRS 13 THEN 81 86 GOSUB 26 FOR J 2 0 TO NC IF LEFTS TS LEN TS 1 CDS J THEN POKE 34 3 RETURN 87 NEXT FOR J 0 TO NC 88 IF LEFTS T 2 LEFTS CDS J 2 THEN 92 89 NEXT 90 VTAB 23 HTAB 1 CALL 958 PRINT WHAT 91 GOTO 80 92 HTAB 1 VTAB 23 PRINT IS CTS THE CATEGORY YOU MEAN POKE 3422 93 INPUT Y N C IF C Y THEN POKE 34 3 RETURN 94 IF C lt gt N THEN 92 95 NEXT GOTO 90 110 IF Q lt gt 1 THEN CALL 1008 GOTO 80 115 GOTO 1955 1963 R R 20 1964 L L 1 81 S1 1 1965 NS R R R 1 IF R gt 299 THEN VTAB 23 HTAB 1 FLASH PRINT MEMORY FULL RETURN TO MENU NORMAL FOR Z 1 TO 1000 NEXT 1967 IF L lt 23 THEN 1904 1968 POKE 35 22 CALL 922 POKE 35 24 L 22 Washington Apple Pi 1970 GOTO 1904 The subroutine at line 80 was discussed when we went over the program we call BUDGET 1 85 See last month s Joumal Again we are being forgiving if we get the first two characters of the code right we will be able to discover the category we are looking for Note that if the first character is a backspace we are taken back to line 1955 which is where we enter the Amount field Note also that we are only
102. Youell on the SwyftCard Well Jef to his credit has been trying to work out the hardware problems in Adricn s SwyftCard Jcf s latest letter to Adrien mentions a point well worth sharing with everyone Onc of the problems of this industry is that in mixed vendor systems every component may be correct but yet the total ensemble docs not function due to unexpected interactions In this case the user tends to blame the problem on the last component added This may Washington Apple Pi have been the problem with Adrien s system but it is onc worth remembering if you ever have what you suspect may bc hardware trouble Always try the device you suspect on another system and always try removing other cards or devices to see if the problem is one of negative synergy to coin a phrase In my own experience I ve had cards that work fine separately but simply will not co exist peacefully in the same computer What we need of course is a Philip Habib for peripheral cards I promised Ron Wartow our GamceSIG chair that after I finished Macintosh Wizardry I would come out of the closet and admit I actually do play computer games Ron as some of you may know has been giving me gricf goodnaturedly of course over the fact that I spend too much time programming and not cnough on games Thanks in part to Ron s tips on finding the blue ribbon and the chute from Level 9 to Level 10 however I can now proudly display my Wizardry certificate of
103. a PICT is sort of At least you can sce the pictures that go into the AlarmClock As an aside ResEdit can be used to change many of the pictures strings of text dialog boxes and fonts in your system but we are not going to talk about that one here Select the pictures and use the GetInfo option again This screen shown below is a little different from the DRVR GetInfo Here we see a strange ID of 16000 but a familiar owner ID of 12 Change the 12 to 30 just as you did for the DRVR Magically the 16000 ID changes to 15359 E Owner ID Sub ID Pictures from RlarmClock ate a rom Al 1 Type PICT Size iD 16000 diner Sub ID MOEF Washington Apple Pi If you don t want to know any more about what these numbers are skip to the next paragraph You won t be missing anything you need to know Resources have families of ID numbers so that the Macintosh operating system can pull together all the pieces when they are needed This is a very handy approach since the pieces can be developed separ ately by different people yet be linked together when neces sary The formula for defining the family of ID numbers is ID 32 DRVR ID 16384 DA number 12 will have a family built around 32 12 16384 16000 The first PICT resources needed by DA number 12 will have an ID of 16000 If there is a second it will be ID 15999 Keep adding one for each additional PICT The same system wi
104. alance skill building on the one hand and individual discovery on the other although the emphasis is on the latter Karen tells parents We do not claim to teach the children anything but what she means is that campers will take off as they get intrigued by the problems and challenges presented in the curriculum at the teachable moment The children s discoveries are not only important to them selves as individuals but also to cach other s learning process Much of this learning GameSIG members will be pleased to know occurs in game programming We like it best Karen commented when children write games and share them with others It s intrinsically interesting for them to write a game When they say I want to play Jim s game that is inspira tonal The core curriculum entails programming Basic includ ing advanced and graphics Pascal Assembly Language and Logo recently Terrapin Logo There is also some word pro cessing for the younger children Math and reading skills are not taught directly but do enter in all the same TIC curricu lum like a good knife is constantly being sharpened refined and upped especially as campers whet their own skills cach scason Sessions and Activities TIC offers 4 day camp sessions per summer cach 2 weeks long Many campers attend more than one session cach season All campers of all ages engage in a mix of computer and sports activitics a half day for cach to fo
105. am THE MAIN MENU 1500 POKE 34 0 HOME PRINT TAB 9 HOME MONEY MANAGER PRINT 1501 PRINT 1 ENTER DATA PRINT 2 SAVE DATA PRINT 3 SORT DATA Washington Apple Pi PRINT 4 QUIT PRINT 1502 PRINT BUDGET PRINT PRINT 5 PRINT BY CATEGORY CHANGE DELETE PRINT 6 CLOSE OUT END OF MONTH PRINT 7 PRINT BUDGETED CATEGORIES 1503 PRINT 8 CHANGE BUDGETED CATEGORIES PRINT 9 SAVE BUDGETED CATEGORIES PRINT 1505 PRINT CHECKBOOK PRINT PRINT 10 LIST CHECKS CHANGE DELETE 1506 PRINT 11 CHECKBOOK BALANCE PRINT 12 RECONCILE TO BANK STATEMENT PRINT 13 DELETE RECONCILED RECORDS 1507 PRINT INVERSE PRINT CLEARING GARBAGE FROM MEMORY X FRE 0 HTAB 1 CALL 958 NORMAL PRINT Ctrl G 1508 VTAB 24 HTAB 7 PRINT HIT RETURN FOR NEXT MENU VTAB 23 HTAB 1 INPUT WHICH CS CALL 958 IF C THEN 1600 1509 Q VAL C IF Q lt 1 OR Q gt 13 THEN 1508 1510 ON Q GOTO 1800 2100 1310 900 2500 1305 1300 1300 1300 2700 1310 1310 1310 1520 GOTO 1500 1600 HOME PRINT TAB 9 HOME MONEY MANAGER PRINT 1601 PRINT PRINT REPORTS PRINT 1602 PRINT 14 THIS MD PRINT 15 THIS MS PRINT 16 ESS PRINT 17 YDS PRINT 18 YS 1603 PRINT PRINT MISCELLANEOUS FUNCTIONS PRINT uuu U PRINT 19 SPACE REMAINING PRINT 20 CHANGE CURRENT MONTH PRINT 21 INITIALIZE NEW BUDGET 1604 DTS M YRS VTAB 23 HTAB 5 PRI
106. ams Larry Halff dominated the Mac mecting with a run through Red Ryder version 9 2 and concepts of HFS I have seen a very good article on HFS in MacWorld May pg 93 99 but Larry was the first to mention blessed files Now I am not entirely naive but Larry was definitely one up on me and as it appeared to the rest of the audience who gave him a hard time By the way HFS Hierarchical File System how many know that it differs from MFS and what MFS stands for sec below Jay Heller who is the new SigMac chairman and hopefully the new Vice President Macintosh when you read this introduced the main topic of Hard Disks for the Mac This whole arena has been expanded by third party vendors using the SCSI Small Computer Systems Interface port As was evidenced at the mecting where the DataFrame 20 was discussed members were not aware that the SCSI port is a rhomboidal 25 pin connector the two circular 8 pin connectors arc for printer and modem Yes you have to get new cables Thankfully the discussion produced some com mon sense advice as well as new hard disk information The best items were Don t do it if you don t need it and Hard disks are not for the faint heartcd There is now an embarrassment of riches in hard disk choice both in features and price and decisions not only affect the size of your pocketbook but also your analytical powers as to speed reliability and longevity It cannot be gainsaid that Com
107. and easily a 1200 baud modem could become a part of their systems Henry Dubester agreed to serve as Librarian of the group he will assemble the reviews of the disks obtained from the TAWUG meeting in New Orleans and forward them to the WAP Library Reviews of selected disks and AppleWorks related articles tips will also be maintained in the SIG Library and periodically published in the WAP Journal Selected useful bits of information from the Q amp A session follow The group agreed that this SIG was particularly interested in applications of c communication with ProDOS but e and J ers using AppleWorks are always welcome Fingertips Mike Ungerman informed us that Finger tips contains a rather difficult manual However the beauty of it is that one can escape from AppleWorks into Applesoft and retum with this software More Later Macroworks from Beagle Brothers latest version 2 2 does repetitive processes with a solid apple and a keystroke and now has a 4000 character storage capability instead of the old version 1 0 216 character limit It provides an overlay to AppleWorks the keys mean different things on the three functions If you have the older version send your proof of purchase corner into Beagle Brothers for a FREE upgrade Mike Ungerman is hereby requested to give an uplaod and download demo from the WAP BBS Boards at the next meeting where we have a modem on line maybe July s meeting Joe Hassan stated that th
108. aps it will give someone the raw materials for something better The Apple DOS and now especially ProDOS public domains need some decent communications software likc those available under CP M MS DOS and even laptop computer operating systems I am working on ways to usc the machine language rou tines plus some simple code to perform at least auto dialing and other simple Macro functions It s easy to see what s needed a series of text files or file entries containing thc auto dial command strings c g AT DT 9868085 lt cr gt and some menu additions allowing selection of these strings which would be sent out just like the upload segment sends a file Other improvement suggestions are welcome P S Maybe you don t like the COMM TERM BASIC program I don t blame you The binary code xxx OBJ might still be useful in writing a better application driver user interface For example suppose you want to transmit a character out of the serial port Simply store its value use ASC AS in LAST 36982 then CALL OUTCHR 36965 A CALL TERMA 36864 puts you into dumb terminal mode which can be exited by the Cul T APPENDIX Code changes to change SSC OBJ into SSM OBJ The following list is identical to the one that appeared in the January 1984 article but is repeated for reference Hex Location SSC OBJ SSM OBJ 9001 A9 A4 9004 08 01 contd July 1986 31 900B A8 AS 9066 A9 A4 9069 16 02 9070 A8 AS 90B8 A9 A4 90BB 0
109. ar Just that Survival Tests your skills and intelligence 12 July 1986 Codebreaker Audition for the CIA or State Department Civil War Recreate or rewrite famous battles Calorie Counter A hideously honest program Life A version of Conway s Life your screen lives Basic Utility Volume 1 Ascii Lister 1 amp 2 Lists the ASCII values for characters Find Replace Find amp Replace text strings Line Printer A Taylor Pohlman screen dump Catalog Run British authored HELLO type program Textfilemaker Create new textfiles Mortgage Figure out your mortgage payments interest File Reader Read your text files Scroller Subroutine or stand alone screen scroller Automenu Menu making HELLO type program Textfile Copy Copy your text files Manual Menu Manual HELLO type program Textfile Dump Send your textfile to screen or printer Epson Select Set up special printer control codes Compare Utility Compare two basic programs for differences Search Utility Scarch for text strings Sosbuffer Demo Demonstrates your printer buffer Basic Bootprogram Short HELLO for your own B Basic disks Mailbase Create your own mailing list Hex Dec Converter Taylor Pohlman converting routine Basic Utility Volume 2 Rename Directory Shorten directory names for backup Text File Scroll Scroll thru text files Disk Drive Cleaner Runs the disk drive for cleaning S T E P A great sequential text e
110. are is executed We can however get an overview of the process by looking into the method by which the Apple runs a BASIC program Some of the information I m going to include here is FALSE however I ll correct it just a little further on well maybe not exactly false just over simplified temporarily Here s the BASIC program I m going to use in my example 10 INPUT A 20 PRINT A 30 END Anybody who doesn t understand what this program does give Bruce Field a call What happens when this program is typed in at the key board The Applesoft Interpreter understands that any line beginning with a number is a line of BASIC code Therefore no SYNTAX ERROR message is displayed on the screen The interpreter also understands that commands preceeded by line numbers are to be deferred that is the commands on that line will not be executed until an un numbered command RUN is typed in The Manager of Office Services is told to simply store the BASIC line of code in memory starting on page Eight Subsequent lines are treated the same way 28 July 1986 each one being placed in memory after the one preceeding it When you type RUN at the keyboard the Interpreter recognizes this as the command to get started interpreting the stored lines Starting at the beginning of page Eight each line of code stored in memory is interpreted and acted upon in tum If gibberish is encountered you guessed it SYNTAX ERROR appears like magi
111. automatically sorts your data alphabetically or numerically by name address or any of the other fields you created on your form The calculations take place on numer ical fields And the ficlds are rearranged according to your own preference For instance you might want a list of all customers who bought wigets Your computer will give you a list starting with the pames of customers who have wigets in their records Or you might want a list of all customers sorted by states The computer will print a list of states with customer names next to each state Or you might want a telephone list in which case the phone number will be prominently displayed As we say in the trade tune in again next time for some help getting your data base to report to you the way you need your information sorted Meantime start building your data base form and enter your information e Appointment 424 3942 VISA 702 Twinbrook Pky ee mn Rockville MD Call For By Bidgeport Special introductory Price Single User Package Call Fo Pricing On Multiple User and School Packages Display Features 256 Drawing Layers 6 Screen Colors 7 Line Styles Zoom All By Factor Zoom View Pan View Modify Elements Copy Rotate Scale Erase Trim Ends Divide Equal Remove Segment Edit Line Arc Curve Edit Dimensions Place Lines at Exact ends center and Intersections of lines Circles amp Arcs Scaled Drawing A to E Size Dynamic Dimensioning IGES
112. ay shall be required to pay an initiation fce if under the conditions prescribed by the Board of Directors SECTION 4 LIMITATION OF AUTHORITY Except as otherwise specified in these Bylaws no member shall act in the name of the Corporation WAP or take any action which that would bind the Corporation WAP SECTION 6 EXPULSION A member may be expelled from membership in the Corporation WAP for a failure to pay the annual dues for more than thirty 30 days after the due date thereof or b engaging in activities prohibited by thesc Bylaws or any rule or practice adopted by the Board of Directors of which notice has been given to mem bers Damaging WAP property or disrupting WAP services Shall be ground for expulsion Before any member may be expelled for engaging in prohibited activities written charges specifying the alleged cause shall be filed with the Secretary and a copy thereof shall be served on the member charged and he shall The member charged shall be given notice of the meeting of the Board of Directors at which the member s expulsion is to be considered and the member charged shall be allowed a hearing before the Board If the Board determines that the prohibited activities are correctable the member charged may at the discretion of the Board be given an opportunity to correct such conduct If such member continues to engage in prohibited activities he The member charged may be expelled at any mecting of the Board of
113. bbleMac and MacUser see below magazines catalogs from Educomp Lyben and Sorbus computer suppliers two offers to join the BYTE Information Exchange FileVision magazine The New Zork Times a bunch of product announcements from Koala Ehman Engineering T Maker Warp Nine Engineering and others two issues of Semaphore Signal and more I ve been trying to sift through all of this plus get through four back issues of BYTE and MacWorld MACWORLD mAC wORLD whatever and have only succeeded in making a small dent in what has to be donc It s getting tough to see the floor of my room Ah well at least it s better than an empty mailbox Now that s determination To MacUser magazine goes my prize for most determined to either get a subscription or drive me crazy Over the course of three months I got six count em SIX offers for a charter subscription to the magazine Four of these came to my home here in Washington two went to Durham Three were addressed to Christopher J Klugewicz two were addressed to Christopher Klugewicz he s a cousin and one was addressed to Chris Kugewicz who From perusing all of these offers I ve noticed something interesting the deal they re offering gets better as time goes on Christopher J and Christopher were offered about half the newsstand price and the magazine cost 3 50 per copy at the time they had to decide by February 10 Chris however who got his offer just rec
114. bels although it also produces individual disk directorics which some people may find uscful It cannot catalog items across disks which is in essence what a catalog program does DiskLabeler 2 1 is only available from its authors in Spokane Washington Unlike all of the other programs mentioned here it is not sold through mail order houses It is the most versatile of the label programs I have used and by the time you read this it will directly support color printing on the IW II using the multicolor ribbon Users can freeform completely a label creating your own contd Catalogcr only Washington Apple Pi icons see below or grab icons from application resources m eea AA aapa papa an iDisk contents f Completely freeform entr H FEDT iunmpinianmmimmmmmimm i 5 28 86 It runs on all Macs supports HD20 Hyperdrive and other hard disks and its authors have a fine technical support line at 800 752 4400 All text strings arc in resource files so that they can be changed for say forcign language usc Its detriments are that it uses unique 9 on a page diccut labels which I found difficult to line up to the printhead To most effectively use all 9 labels you are encouraged to savc the label files you produce until you have 9 and then print them all at once with automatic placing across and down the
115. c club on its ear last month was an cven greater plcasurc Richard Garriott aka Lord British Origin Systems whom I met about a year ago talked to me for an hour and a half principally about ULTIMA V and OGRE The former still incomplete will be twice as big as ULTIMA IV and will contain lots of new specials and features that we ve come to expect Richard welcomes suggestions on what club members would like to see in ULTIMA V Just write to him in New Hampshire He was carrying the game in his shirt pocket but our inability to find a Unidisk prevented an advance look The latter game which he demoed for me is a faithful recreation of a popular strategy board game and looks very promising Richard was accompanied by his brother Robert who has more degrees than even Bernie Urban Dave Albert remember Lord XYPHUS and Chuck Beuche aka Chuckles the jester who has appeared in every ULTIMA and co author of Mark Pelczarski President of Polarware Penguin announced AUTODUEL The above products will be distributed by his firm s return to lower software prices Check out these Electronic Arts prices Their Comprehend Interactive Novel Series Roger Buoy President of Mindscape graciously greeted contd 20 July 1986 Washington Apple Pi fe me despite the fact that recent Journals had given unfavorable reviews to two of his company s products The company has continued to donate software including UNINVITED a newly released gra
116. c on the screen When the last line of code 30 END is encountered the interpreter recog nizes the command as a signal for a coffee bread and execu tion stops Now let s add some complications First if another pro gram was already in memory at the time the new one was entered the new lines 10 20 and 30 will simply replace the old code lines 10 20 and 30 No big deal if the old program had no intermediate line numbers like 5 15 and 25 How ever it S best to play it safe Before entering our code in from the keyboard we should type in the word NEW on its own line The Interpreter understands NEW as thc command to erase any old programs in memory That wipes the slate clean and keeps our program from getting mixed into another Our second complication occurs when instead of typing the program in at the keyboard we load it in from disk Actuall commands like LOAD and SAVE are not understood by the Applesoft Interpreter Instead they arc intercepted and interpreted by the Operating System Before confusing anybody further I will shut down this introduction to the Apple but before I do I will boil down a lengthy future discussion of DOS to a rule of thumb If you start up the Apple with a disk in drive 1 the DOS commands such as LOAD and SAVE will be interpreted and will run properly This is because starting the computer up with a disk automatically loads another program called an Operating System into the co
117. ce Micah inside Back Cover Don t ever forget to check advertisers in J WAP I think Micah has some way yet to come when you appreciate my vicw that Hyperdrive is The Standard The current MACazine Vol 3 No 6 pp 11 14 casts some doubt on this fondly held view and I do not even own a Hyperdrive Internal drives per se is anotherkettle of worms when it misbchaves you lose your drive and computer I am near to despair If only things were more simple You realize these remarks apply to Apple and Mac My Apple friends are caught in the same decision crisis albeit with different machines but with the same decision paramcters Jon Hardis said that a useful pointer to consider is to think to recoup the cost in one year Friends I Award You Sccond Sight So there you have been awarded a blessing The MacWorld article in the June issue on page 103 has an uncommonly reasoned review I think it sets the scene for many of us The Club has a pay copier and the journals are there Because so much was said of altcrnate systems I list only the outlines because the appropriate companies advertise in Mac magazines and because relevant systems were not working at the mecting I was going to go on about Pcak Systems Mirror Proapp Warp 9 and Univation InfoWorld June 9 but commend you to the current journals and Icon Review Catalog summer 1986 The ultimate last of the mecting was Flight Simulator demonstrated by Tony Anderson Tony w
118. cheap hard disks Well lately I ve seen at least three 20 MB hard disks for under 900 Hopefully as more are developed the price will drop even further like to 395 which is the price of a good 20 MB drive for the IBM PC and its clones By the way Has anyone noticed a particularly scruffy looking group hanging around the Mac parts of the WAP meetings wearing beige T shirts emblazoned with a mystical design Who are these rogues What do they want Can they be stopped Why do monks have Macs in their faces Copy protection My views on this subject were expressed in my first column nearly a year ago August 1985 but for the benefit of new readers and new members TII state them again Also the fact that Flight Simulator is rather well protected is annoying me at the moment I think that copy protection in any form is harmful to the individual user and to the software industry as a whole the very people protection is supposed to help Legitimate users cannot back up their software at least not easily so many won t back it up at all Everyone who s had a computer long enough has learned to back things up disks are just too easy to foul up Me I learned the hard way I lost a 2000 line database program that I was writing for my Atari 800 No backup Ialso get reminded now and then last month I lost all of my old View from Durham columns when my disk suddenly developed problems No backup Lord what fools these mortals b
119. could follow the adventure Unfortunately this technique leaves out the more hair raising fly through type experiences Examine the books yourself A Mac user might want to buy one anyway to get the flavor of what you can do with the simulator Ws almost midnight You re over Jersey City New Jersey pointed across Upper Bay of the Hudson River and toward the Statue of Liberty as well as the lower tip of Manhattan The city is a festival of lights in the distance as you d expect Beyond the statue are the familiar World Trade Center Towers Around the city you can see several tower beacons flashing in the distance In the pitch dark beyond you re going to look for the blue runway lights of Westchester County airficld The editor in the Apple II FS2 allows you to change not only the position and the weather such things as cloud layers and wind sheer which I never learned about until I bought these books but also your heading airspeed and the settings for all your controls This means that you can enter the parameters given for an adventure and exit the editor to find contd on pg 23 Washington Apple Pi E i have the best Once you have entered your choice a screen is STAR FLE ET i A Review displayed with the mission objective Moving around is very bland since the little symbol by David Blazina representing your ship always points upward even when you move to the left The graphics are very crude with every little symbol
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121. d level adjusting altitude with precision entering the pattern at an airport and Janding on target For me a bigger thrill than hot dogging through the open hanger was making the final left turn out of the pattern to find the runway right in front of me and being able for the first time to land straight down it No more anxious grass landings Even without thc flight instruction you can enjoy most of the adventures even the hair raising ones In several of them you don t even have to know how to fly After the flight training you can enjoy the harder parts of the more difficult adventures You re straight and level at 5000 fcet when your engine quits You must make a dead stick landing on San Clemente Island Keep your nose pointed straight at the Statue of Liberty You re going to land this airplane on the island right at the foot of the statue In one adventure he shows you how to use the slew 24 July 1986 controls I call it the flying saucer mode because you can move around and freeze in midair anywhere you want Slewing and using the distance measuring equipment you can locate a favorite location of your own that might not be clearly marked in the simulator world like your own house for instance or the field behind your nephew s house in DeKalb You can save that position and make it your own private tie down location from which any time you can take off and fly your nephew over Chicago Some of the adventures ar
122. diagram for such an adapter A Converter to Permit Standard RS 232 Cables DB 25 male to be Connected to a MAC MACADAPTER DB 9 Male Plugs into MAC DB 25 Female Accepts DB 25 Male Plugs usually found on RS 232 Cables With this adapter you can now plug in any standard RS 232 male connectorized cable including modems and including the standard symmetrical Quick and Dirty cable I ve been promoting here I m surprised that such an adapter is not to my knowledge being sold commercially If there is any interest in WAP we could look into having a number of them made up e ProDOS Comm Term contd from pg 34 90R3 C994 CMP 94 A CTRL T keyed 2777 9085 FOOB BEQ 90C2 90B7 AD A9 CO LDA COA9 90BA 29 08 AND 08 gt Loop until a character is received 90BC FOEF BEO 90AD 90BE AD A8 CO LDA COAB 90C1 60 RTS 90C2 A9 1A LDA 4 1A Insert CTRL Z to mark end of file 90C4 60 RTS 90C5 C9 8D CMP 4 8D A carriage return OK to put on screen 90C7 F009 BEQ 90D2 90C9 C987 CMP 87 90CB FO 05 BEQ 9002 X Do NOT send control character 90CD C99F CMP S9F wo screen 90CF BO 01 BCS 9002 90D1 60 RIS 90D2 20ED FD JSR SFDED Display data on screen 90D5 60 RTS 6 July 1986 35 THE FAMILY HOME MONEY MANAGER Part 3 Working One s Way Through an Applesoft Program by Brian G Mason Last month we wound our way through thc program we call BUDGET 1 85 which we use to set up
123. ditor Cipher Utility Codes your text for secret use REM Remover Removes REM statement to speed up your programs Loan Calculator Calculate various data about any loan Hex Ascii Dump Taylor Pohlman file dump lists both Calculate Area Calculate the size of an arca Basic Renumber Renumber your Business Basic programs The above catalogs are just the beginning Already we have enough material for over 20 disks and more is coming in all the time We plan of mice and men to have regular articles that will deal with each disk providing more complete descriptions of their content as well as any instructions and suggestions that we feel would be helpful The WAP Journal will be the only place to get this information so rather that just buy one copy of the journal at a time if you are not a WAP member sce if you can figure out a way to get the Journal regularly hint JOIN DD Washington Apple Pi Operant HARDWARE DOT HATRIX PRINTERS Epson FX 85 160 cps 32 cps NLA mode 395 FX 286 200 cps wide carriage upgrade of FX 185 569 LX 80 100 cps 16 cps NLQ aode 249 LQ 800 LQ 1000 quality of LQ 1500 for less call Okidata 192 160 cps replacesent for Oki 92 359 193 132 coluan version of above 519 292 273 200 cps draft 100 cps NLQ 18 pin call Toshiba 821 216 cps draft BEST print for the buck 519 288 cps wide carria
124. download function of Comm Term designate the file name say WAPMSG254 and in response to the COMMAND SEQUENCE etc question just type 254 and RETURN Comm Term takes your input of 254 and sends it to the bullctin board System with a carriage retum The System then starts sending you message 254 which is captured in the Apple Comm Term buffer When the end of the message has been reached you should type Ctrl T so that Comm Term can proceed to save the captured text to the file In the case of an interconnected laptop no triggering Character string from the Apple is needed to initiate the transmission so just depress RETURN alone in response to the COMMAND SEQUENCE question then go to the laptop keyboard and initiate the transfer using cither TELCOM s UPLOAD function or directly from TEXT mode by a SAVE to COM 58NID etc 3 DISCUSSION OF COMM TERM BASIC PROGRAM The following is not a complete description of Comm Term Refer to the referenced previous article and to the BYTE article mentioned therein for a basic understanding The comments that follow emphasize the changes made in the new version Line 30 Invoke 80 columns if available if not ONERR from line 26 continues in 40 column mode contd Washington Apple Pi Line 174 An additional command choice to do a disk cata log has been added so you can confirm a file name before up or downloading Line 711 This is where the downloading bails out if
125. duct You re collecting pieces of information such as names addresses zip codes dates amounts of money and perhaps there s a place on each shect for comments or remarks In a data base these pieces of information are referred to as fields Figure la Folders Childrens Names Comments Wonderful kids Figure 2 Individual Records Finally the arrangement of information that is the placement of the names addressess etc on each sheet of 50 July 1986 paper is called the form in computerese Its worth becoming comfortable with these bits of computer jargon because the instructions for your data base program will be difficult to follow unless you understand the distinctions Now let s create a hypothetical data base file In my previous column I suggested you give some thought to how you d like to yse your data base after you ve built it Here s where that thought becomes important and you ll see why in a moment To build a data base file you must first create the form on which your records will be stored Follow the instruc tions for your data base program to create a new form In some programs there s a limit to the number of individual characters you may place in a single ficld There may also be limits to the number of fields permitted in a single record The best data base programs have no limits or at least very high ceilings Here s a sample FietName Street Address y 1 Childre
126. e Copy protection won t stop a pirate determined to break a protected program it just ain t pos sible Witness the fact that the people who write protection breaking programs are able to crack every new scheme within a few weeks Finally copy protection raises the price of software which none of us need My personal recommen dation if you buy software which is protected and most everyone has to at some time or other especially with the Apple machines buy a program that will allow you to make backup copies of your master disk Copy II Mac and Locksmith are two that spring to mind Don t give copies of the software away but do protect your investment You might write a letter to the offending company too every little bit helps More on copy protection While I m on the subject I want to complain about the form of copy protection that I hate most not the worst form necessarily but the one that I ve encountered that bugs me the most keyed disk protection That s where you can make all the backups you want but you need to insert the original master disk in order to run the protected program Microsoft uses this form of protection extensively I understand they certainly use it on Flight Simulator Not only is this kind of protection annoying if you re like me and have about a hundred disks in four boxes you spend a couple of minutes searching your desk for the offending master disk but if you lose or damage the maste
127. e Universal modem that only requires modem compatible serial card or port amp cable to plug into Apple Ile Apple II or IBM Auto Answer Auto Dial Auto Redial Auto Disconnect Full Bell 212A compatibility Automatically switches between 300 baud amp 1200 baud in coming speeds Complete diagnostics amp full complement of LEDS TR SD RD HS MC TM RI DATA VOICE Button switches from talk to data transmission amp back again FREE Compuserve offer amp tree access time One year warranty CERMETEK APPLE MATE 1200 INTERNAL MODEM Internal 1200 baud modem for Apple lie or Apple Ii e Only one card amp takes only one slot w no external interface or power supply Hayes compatible Built in Super Serial Card equivalent 1200 300 1 10 baud operation and Bell 212A compatibility Built in Speaker amp Diagnostics Auto Dial Auto Answer amp Auto Select Two year warranty 2400 BAUD MODEMS Call CABLES REQUIRED WITH AVATEX MODEMS Apple llc Avatex Cable Apple Ile ll Avatex Cable Macintosh Avatex Cable IBM Avatex Cable OTHER APPLE PERIPHERALS lle ll Serial Modem Card RGB Monitor for Apple Ile 24 cable Ascii Express ProDOS MultiRam RGB cards facing page With prices this low how can you afford to be without a 1200 baud modem Just the savings in connect time will pay for the difference between a 300 amp 1200 baud modem You can get everything you need from Coit Valley Computers
128. e REMOVABLE gummed labels cither in full page form or in 3 x 3 diecut labels such as those sold by Avery which also have to be hand trimmed The actual disk label size needed is 23 4 x 2 3 4 These programs will be discussed in reverse order as displayed above Catalog Keeper is the best pure catalog program 1 have found It works rapidly permits sorting across seven categories permits one to exclude repetitious items such as System Folders etc which may have limited use It s simply a delight to use and its saved disk catalogs can be opened with WORD or MacWritc to further embellish report format ting Among its deficits are spacc intensive disk catalog files and the fact that the company through which this superb disk is bought doesn t have an 800 phone number and doesn t accept credit cards Buy it at WAP or through a mail order house for about 28 The disk has many other powerful utility programs of which Catalog Keeper is the one I usc the most It is not copy protected MacLabeler HFS is version 2 2 of an old standby written by Jim Lanford a WAP member It uses diccut labels which are always more expensive 201 QuickLabels for 19 and the Iowa firm which markets it adds S amp H charges MacLabeler lets you select among border patterns and exclude directory contents which you may not want It is annoyingly copy protected and a backup copy costs S15 S amp H It s solid but does only one thing well produce la
129. e including DARKHORN a long awaited fantasy role playing game All in all it was quite a trip Washington Apple Pi The Generic PC Fast Relief for IBM Sticker Shock by Bud Stolker Here s good news if you re shopping for an IBM PC compatible compu ter you can now buy more machine than you expected to get for less money than you expected to pay You can in fact have your PC custom tailored to your requirements from software right down to the circuit board and chip level at a price less than that of an off the shelf PC And your machine will be not only cheaper it will be better I can design for you an IBM PC XT compatible that adheres fully toIBM hardware and software standards yet enhances those standards in ways that do not interfere with conventional operation or future expan 8ion Your generic version of the IBM PC XT will come with each component individually selected for cost effectiveness and tested for performance and quality My PC s are better systems dollar for dollar than anyother IBM clone you ll find A Gove And now you can get as much as 1f e megabytes of free programs with the computer Included is software for word processing project data base and spreadsheet management investment analysis telecom munications graphics for design charting and advertising a Sidekick like notepad and alarm clock and even an array of video games Hard disk systems have all software properly installed and
130. e 2 Macintosh 6 00 sce above 1 MS BASIC Pgms 2 Atkinson s Goodies 3 Fonts 4 MS BASIC Pgms 5 Desk Accessories 6 Mac Paintings 7 Desk Calendar amp MS Basic 8 MacFORTH Programs 9 Not One Byte 10 Mostly BASIC 11 MacFonts Recommended 12 MacFonts as a pair 13 RAM Disk amp aAltrd Finder 14 Filevision Templates 15 Progammer s Playground 16 New Members Disk 1985 oe Red Ryder 9 2 kukuhi 18 MusicWorks Collectn I 19 Mock Accessories 20 MacPaintings II 21 Utilities I ResEd 22 Desk Tools Fonts III 24 Telecom I 25 Util II Switcher 4 4 26 Am ain Lang Font 27 Cyclan Develop Sys 28 World Mapping Prog 29 Fun and Games 30 Education I 31 Dungeon of Doom Eliza Talks 32 Fun and Games H 33 Desk Accessories II 34 Excel Tax Temp 85 35 Fun and Games LI 36 Utilities III keys 38 Graphic Tools 39 XLisp and Mini ADA 40 Mac Videos 41 apa Magneto Modula 2 68K Mac Set of 3 disks 15 no discount 42 Studio Session 512K 43 CE Software Sampler 44 Doston II Fonts 45 Games 46 Games 47 Fonts 48 Fonts 49 Utilities Vol 181 required with these disks Vols 121 135 136 must be purchased together DATE Use of this disk requires sending money directly to the author Note Allow 2 to 3 weeks for mailing Total Order Disks Postage S Total Amount Enclosed S NAME Make check payable and send to U S funds payable on a U S bank ADDRESS Washington Apple Pi Ltd
131. e 6850 case Obviously any given computer will only have one or the other card type in slot 2 The BASIC program decides which one is necded and loads it In this article I have listed only the SSC OBJ version Only a handful of bytes arc different in SSM OBJ from SSC OBJ In retrospect it would have made more sense to have only one module and POKE in thc changes necessary to adapt to the other if necessary If you have a 6850 card I suggest that you nevertheless enter the SSC OBJ code BSAVE it then use the modification information in the Appendix to modify what s already in memory to SSM OBJ and BSAVE that Another reflection of how this grew like Topsy rather than being written anew is that I have no source code in the normal sense What I list below is the machine language code as disassembled by the Apple Monitor and with some comments added manually after the fact Actually the routine isn t so dreadfully long that entering it directly in hex with the Apple in Monitor is all that difficult but if you re not that ambitious wait for the Disketeria A highly desirable im provement of course would be to despaghetti ize the code by a complete rewrite in Assembly source Real soon maybe In addition to the commented code the following may help 1 Cursor management the old version used a flashing Washington Apple Pi Space for a cursor This doesn t work with 80 columns espe cially the enhanced MouscText character set
132. e Manager of Multilingual Translation Services If the message is gibberish the beloved SYNTAX ERROR will be dispatched to the screen and if not the message will be translated and sent on to whatever offices are needed to comply with the command the Apple Corporation exists only to serve All external operations are handled pretty much in this way For example if you select the Printer as your output device the same operations are performed but output is routed to the C one page instead of pages Four through Seven The memory locations of these peripheral device switches signals and ports correspond to the slot number where you plug your peripheral device interface card in The printer referred to above is normally plugged into slot one and the memory locations assigned to it are on page C one Similarly modems usually park in slot two page C two in memory 80 column boards in slot three C three disks in slot six C Six etc It s still a maze but it begins to make a little more sense SOFTWARE There are two ways to get software buy it or write it However it comes it consists of a file of instructions to the computer conceming what to do and what to do it with Software comes in a host of languages from Applesoft BASIC to FORTH to Assembly Language back ground sound of heavy breathing Since each language is treated a little differently on the Apple it s not possible to generalize an explanation of how all softw
133. e files on the same disk were loaded into RAM With the normal Copy II Mac copy option you cannot maintain the 800K on the receiving disk because the original Excel is on a 400K disk Even if you have initialized the receiving disk as 800K it will be a 400K disk when you are finished if you use the normal Copy II Mac copy option lus Cabl If you are unsuccessful at finding cable adapters for the MacPlus modem and printer ports at local computer stores you might consider the ad in MacWorld Magazine May 1986 p 183 N2 Products Inc of San Jose CA 408 435 0227 sells MacPlus adapters which permit the MacPlus printer and modem ports to interface with the standard Macin tosh DB 9 connector The price is 19 95 plus 2 40 shipping for two adapters Again Jay Heller Adaptation Electronics makes similar cables and can be reached at 301 948 7440 GEnie Being an avid user of Red Ryder Macintosh telecom munication shareware YES I sent Scott Watson my 40 I recently took advantage of an offer to join General Electrics Network for Information Exchange GEnie to which Scott Watson recently switched his support line for the Red Ryder program Membership normally 18 was free for registered users of Red Ryder This was somewhat misleading since a users manual normally part of the 18 fee cost 9 95 Thus the real savings was 8 00 Scott is now putting his Red Ryder upgrades documentation accessory programs and utilities
134. e immediately dispatched to tell the boss that a message onc keystroke has come in The message is picked up at the loading dock also on page C oh and the light is turned off A copy of the message is then dropped off in the keyboard buffer located on page Two The Director of Foreign Operations has donc his job In the meantime the original message is taken to the Vice President of Interoffice Communications The V P directs the Liaison Office to take the message to the Director of Domestic Operations since it has now become an internal matter who routes it on to his Manager of Communica tions Services Using a procedure manual located in ROM the Manager of Communications determines that the message should be displayed and routes it to the Work Arca s Text pages located on pages Four through Seven Bingo The July 1986 27 message appears on the screen The whole process takes a few microseconds and succeed ing typed in characters are handled the same way There are a few more tasks which are done such as determining exactly where on pages Four through Seven the character should be placed but the Manager of Office Services supplies this type of information There is also the question of whether or not the message being typed in represents gibbcrish or a valid command Therefore all commands are set off by a carriage retum character and when this character is detected the contents of the keyboard buffer are examined by th
135. e simply touristing Like Charles Kuralt Charles Gulick chattily describes the passing scenery as if you were really looking out the window Telling history local color and scandal he breathes life into that graphic landscape You re at Somerset airport on Nantucket Island which is off the southern coast of Massachusetts So many ships were wrecked from this storied whaling port that they built a windmill from the timbers that washed ashore To add to the realism buy some aeronautical sectional charts try the Map Store The radio frequencies in the FS2 are real and the same as on the charts You really see where you re going and can chart interesting courses Unfortunately the adventure books were written before the release of the Microsoft Flight Simulator for the Macintosh The Mac version does not have the extensive editor that the FS2 has You cannot preset all the flight parameters so that you come out of the editor flying straight for the Manhattan Bridge You can only preset your position and the weather conditions An editor at Compute Publications told me that he did not think the books were suitable for the Mac and had no current plans for new books From my own experimenting I found that is was possible to fly several of the adventures at least the ones that start on the ground somewhere The position coordinates are the same I had to first taxi or slew to the right heading since I couldn t figure out how to preset it then I
136. e use of computers in education is not adequate although the potential is there The problems center around the mish mash of applications We need to open up communication and express our concern about the difficulty of use of computers Herb Graham suggested that a list of good programs might be compiled that would include a paragraph describing each one Amy Billingsley called attention to the Apple Teas already scheduled and asked for volunteers to have teas There will be an AppleWorks Tea on June 25 and another on July 17 Check the Journal for details Members complained about the lack of current books in the public libraries that explain computer usage The WAP Library was recommended as an excellent source of such books and a wealth of magazines Richard Gorman gave us some good ideas when he talked about configuring a custom printer There was agreement that manuals just aren t oriented toward first time users Paul Schlosser stated that one needs AppleWorks version 1 3 if running a 3 5 UNIDISK Other Washington Apple Pi members stated that 1 2 will suffice For the 20 00 upgrade fee from 1 2 to 1 3 Gene Brown recommended buying the upgrade since it comes with both size disks and a well written manual Slalom from the Big Red Apple Club prints a sideways AppleWorks spreadsheet or Date Base and prints on most popular printers to include the Imagewriter and MX 80 s this information appeared in last month s WAP Journal Cost 5 0
137. ect to be hiring more technicians very soon said Steve The recent closing of several area computer stores has increased our workload dramatically Apple Business Forum Clinton Computer will be at the Apple Business Forum at the Westin Hotel in Washington on July 31 and August 1 1986 This two day event will feature product demonstrations seminars and hands on workshops for Desktop Publishing Businesss Productivity Business Management Desktop Communications and Desktop Engineering Clinton Computer Welcomes Comm Center Clinton Computer is proud to announce that it has acquired the assets of The Comm Center in Laurel MD Clinton opened this location as its third large computer retail service and training center in March The Laurel store is situated in the middle of the Baltimore Washington Market the fourth largest U S consumer market the best educated populace and the largest number of scientists and engineers in the nation Located in the Laurel Plaza Shopping Center at the intersection of Routes 197 and 198 the store has easy access from Interstate Route 95 Route 1 and the BW Parkway The Comm Center s microcomputer experience can be traced all the way back to early 1977 when it began selling the Exidy Sorcerer one of the earliest micros on the market In the fall of 1978 The Comm Center became the second authorized Apple Computer Inc dealer in Maryland and one of the first Apple dealers in the entire a
138. eets on the last Wed nesday of the month at 7 30 PM at the office The next meeting will be on July 30 ForthSIG meets on the third Sat urday of the month at the office 12 Noon GameSIG meets on the first Thursday of each month at the office 7 30 PM The next meeting will be on July 3 MusicSIG meets on the 2nd Saturday of each month at 1 30 PM Call Ray Hobbs at 490 7484 for place PIG the Pascal Interest Group meets on the third Thursday of cach month at the office 8 00 PM The next meeting will be on July 17 PI SIG mects on the Ist Monday of the month at the office 7 30 PM The next meeting will be on July 7 SigMac Programmers mect on the Ist Thursday of cach month at Our Lady of Lourdes School 7500 Pearl St Bethesda MD However the July meet ing is on the 10th instead of the 3rd StockSIG mectings arc on the second Thursday of each month at the office 8 00 PM Telecom SIG meets on the 2nd Monday of the month at the office 7 30 PM The next meeting will be on July 14 e 13 20 WAP SUNDAY 3 14 Telecom SIG 7 30 PM Office 21 Mac Begin Tutorial 1 7 10 PM Office Mac Begin Tutorial 2 7 10 PM Of fice MONDAY 4 PI SIG 7 30 PM Office 10 17 ll Telecom SIG 7 30 PM Office 99999 eo v9 18 Mac Begin Tutorial 1 7 10 PM Office 24 25 Mac Begin Tutorial 2 7 10 PM Of
139. ell check programs for instance MacSpell work this way ClickArt s Special Effects DA is pasted into MacPaint this way as well Since I only use Art Grabber and Cheap Paint from within Word where I am doctoring graphics prior to pasting them into text I installed them in Word rather than in the System file Second there are utilities including one Fkey written by Loftus Becker that let you try out a DA without having to install it in the System The Fkey approach lets you call up the DA from within a program This article is about another approach which permits you to store five DA s in the System file which in addition to those which you can add with the Fon DA mover brings the total number up to 20 With a few more stored in individual programs we re talking two dozen DA s here Let s start with credit where credit is due The method for doing this was described in a bulletin board note written by Ron Duritsch Thanks Ron This article was written because it took me several hours to figure out just how to do what was needed and I thought I could save you the Icarning time The whole thing stems from the fact that DA s have ID numbers what doesn t in this day and age The numbers must be between 12 and 31 For some reason unknown to me the Fon DA mover supplied by Apple will not add more than about 15 DA s to a file such as the System What is more as the DA is moved into the the receiving file it is re numbered Regardless of
140. elow does make true scatter charts the example given here was chosen because it s a better vehicle for explanation The only change necessary to make the chart a true one is when you get to the text for Figure 4 select Block 1 rather than Block 2 See below PROCEDURE Figure 2 is the spreadsheet from which the data were graphed For Metal A the TIME values to be plotted along the horizontal axis Categories are in the first column and the data to be plotted along thc vertical axis first Series are in the second column These two columns are Washington Apple Pi Selected because they must be copied before being graphed so select this set of data as shown and then choose Copy from the Edit menu This article assumes little experience by the user in using Excel to draw graphs older hands may want to skip down to the paragraph labeled CODA Figure 2 Spreadsheet Showing Data Go to the File Menu and choose New and in the Dialog Box double click the Chart option When the Chart Box opens go to the Edit menu and choose Paste Special You will get the Dialog Box shown in Figure 3 click both in the circle labeled Columns and in the square labeled Categories in First Column as shown in Figure 3 Then click OK Paste Special Values in O Rows Columns Series Names in First Row Categories in First Column Fig 3 Dialog Box for Making Scatter C
141. ently was treated to less than half the newsstand price and more than 7 00 off the basic subscription price The magazine now costs 3 95 a copy He had until May 31 to make up his mind Now I hate economics and therefore havent gone within a couple of hundred yards of the Economics Department at Duke but it doesn t seem terribly surprising to me that the price of a single copy of MacUser has gone up 45 cents since February after all half of the money they spend on mailings must be sitting on my bedroom floor The good news Last month I mentioned that Microsoft was shipping SubLOGIC s Flight Simulator one of the greatest programs of all time for any computer for the Mac Well two days after I got to Washington I got my hands on one and it is truly supercalifragilisticexpial idocious I ve been flying non stop no pun intended since I bought it I ll let His Magnificence our GameSIG chairman review it assuming he finds time in his busy Pascal program 44 July 1986 ming schedule but I do want to make some general comments and offer my reactions to the program Flight Simulator As I said before I grew up with Flight Simulator from back when it ran only on 48K Apple J s with 13 sector disks I still remember my best friend and I changing chips inside his Apple J so that we could fly It was my favorite game but I left it behind when I bought an Atari 800 When I got to Duke I managed to borrow a friend
142. ents in our subsequent issue of the Journal We re adding this sentence to even out the lines to his is atime for taking stock here at Washington Apple Pi On July 1a new group of officers and direc tors begin serving you Although you will read this after the results of the annual election have been announced and I write these words not knowing who will win we already know that wc are losing a number of our most valu ed volunteers They deserve our collective thanks First Adrien Youell our current Vice President for Programs will be leaving us and the U S in a few weeks to retum to the United Kingdom Adrien a doctor with Her Majesty s armed forces has been stationed here for two years and in that time has comc to the aid of WAP in many ways Adrien served first as our Program Coordinator and then stepped into the job of Vicc President for Programs Adrien s splendid organizational skills have been tested many times during the past year If I may say I think our programs for the past year have been consistently among the best WAP has cver put on even though we have faced some adverse circumstances such as the months last fall when we were a gypsy caravan wandering from mecting site to mecting site in the wilds of Montgomery County Credit for this achieve ment goes to many people but Adrien has put in more volunteer time than perhaps anyone at ensuring that things ran smoothly I also have to mention a
143. eoeererrrooroe 30 GaN Washington Apple Pi EVENT QUEUE General Information NA Washington Apple Pi meets on the 4th Saturday usually of each month both Apple and Mac at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences USUHS on the campus of the Bethesda Naval Medical Center 4301 Jones Bridge Road Bethesda MD Disketeria transactions Journal pickup memberships etc are from 8 45 9 30 AM and during the Q amp A sessions times for these vary according to the main 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 necd 5 business days notice Call the office Following are dates and topics for upcoming months July 26 Apple II Catalyst and Desk Accesorics Mac MacAuthor Living Videotext s More and spelling checkers Aug 23 GamcSIG for both Apple amp Mac Sept 27 Apple II Mouse amp programs Mac Power data bases The Executive Board of Washington Apple Pi meets on the second Wednesday of each month at 7 30 PM at the office All members are welcome to attend Sometimes an alternate date is selected Call the office for any late changes 6 Apple user groups may reprint without prior permission any portion of the contents herein provided proper author title and publication credits are given Membership dues for Washington Apple Pi are 32 00 for the first year and 25 00 per year the
144. es 39 897 101 784 61 887 52 603 CS Disketeria 26 114 26 078 36 11 555 CS Other 3 158 2 760 398 2 360 TOTAL COST OF SALES 174 520 235 226 60 706 196 276 GROSS MARGIN 83 348 112 174 28 826 109 387 EXPENSES Office Expenses Office Salaries Managerial 32 799 36 182 3 383 37 440 Office Salaries Staff 14 981 17 606 2 625 15 145 Salary related tax amp Expense 3 949 4 157 808 5 784 Sub total Salary 51 729 58 545 6 816 58 369 Rent 14 018 14 400 382 16 600 Telephone Office 3 709 3 060 649 2 720 Postage Office 5 338 9 842 4 504 8 450 Office Supplies 2 722 3 830 1 108 3 830 Equipment Rental Office 3 073 2 643 429 2 614 Sub total Other Office Expense 28 860 33 775 4 916 34 214 Sub total Office Expense 80 589 92 320 11 732 92 583 Mecting Expense Guards General Meeting 1 244 2 145 901 2 100 Signer General Meeting 74 300 226 100 Space Rental General Meeting 1 378 2 500 1 122 0 Other Mecting Expense 3 097 100 2 997 500 Sub total Mecting Expense 5 793 5 045 748 2 700 SIG Expense SIG Mac 4 911 3 950 961 NA Other Sig Expense 827 909 82 500 Sub total SIG Expense 5 738 4 859 879 500 Other Expenses Accounting amp Legal 5 585 9 300 3 715 6 300 Repairs amp Maintenance Computer 638 500 138 750 Repairs amp Maintenance Other 0 350 350 350 Insurance 1 054 2 500 1 446 1 000 Taxes amp Liscences ex payroll 622 1 602 980 760 Show Expense 968 750 218 1 000 Sales and Other Promotion 537 1 000 463 1 000 Miscellancous Expense 994 300
145. ese two steps if any of the five DA s you want are in the System file you are going to use for this exercise Lastly put ResEdit onto this disk as well Start ResEdit You will see a window listing the files on the disk Presumably these will be System Finder ResEdit and the five DA files If you are having second thoughts about running something as magical as ResEdit you might try this with Puzzle AlarmClock and Chooser first and sec that you get what I did before launching off on your own I have chosen these three as they increase somewhat in complexity since cach contains a few morc pieces to be moved and renumbered Click on Puzzle A window labelled Puzzle opens which says DRVR Select and then double click on DRVR A window labelled DRVRs from Puzzle opens which says Desk Acc Puzzle ID 12 Select this line and From the File menu select Get Info Another window opens indicating that this is a Desk Acc that it has a size of 932 bytes that its name is Puzzle and that its ID is 12 The only thing you will have to do is change thc ID from 12 to something between 27 and 31 Select the ID of 12 and change it to 31 There that was easy wasn t it Close the Info window Select the line Desk Acc Puzzle ID 12 and do a Copy You have now put a copy of the Puzzle DA renumbered as 31 into the clipboard Close both the DRVR and the Puzzle windows When asked if you want to save the changes say yes This costs a little time but
146. esident Bob Cook in the most recent edition of Sun Times said thc change was made to better reflect his companies status as the nation s leading distributor of hardware and software for the Apple The newsletter has also started to offer a number of basic articles on using the Apple so much so that I have begun adding them to The Bibliography In their hardware and Software offerings now you will find a number of new items including a Master Driver diskcttc containg 14 of the most asked for drivers Cost is 15 00 They have a number of technical manuals along with their regular offerings that range from reconditioned Apple s to EZ Pieces and even a number of printers If you d like a catalog write to Sun Systems Remarketing P O Box 4059 Logan UT 84321 800 821 3221 They also offer an excellent Apple Medic Servicc for sick s and accessory equipment AND OVER AT AIM And at the Association of Independent Microdealers these days some major changes as well Their offerings of hardware and software has gone over so well that products are being added with IBM and others not far behind The catalog now bills itsclf as thc AIM Outlet as a central clearing house for computer related products The same excellent descriptions of all offerings are provided only now you get descriptions as well Their catalog is 25 per year comes out fairly regularly Order from AIM 3010 N Sterling
147. ffice 301 654 8060 Copyright 1986 Washington Apple Pi Ltd EDITORIAL Now hear this it happened again Our Mac intemal drive went bad after about 10 hours of hard use on this issue This is the third time since attaching the DataFrame 20 We ve been carrying the hard disk to the office and back each work day and it has not affected the office Mac in any way Our second repair by HLA was a complete replacement of the internal drive Our workaround for the Journal crunch weck end was to use the external drive and the Mac with the Data Frame 20 Everything worked like a charm as long as we avoided the internal drive Any ideas We kept this issue to 72 pages for a variety of reasons but the chief ones being the absence of the Best of the Apple and Mac BBS columns We need a new volunteer to capture Washington Apple Pi July 1986 the Mac messages bases and to extract the meaningful and entertaining portions Regina Litman is no longer able to do the Mac column Both she and Alexander Barnes are to be commended for their lengthy and professional coverage of these tasks Thank you both from all of us A special request we will be preparing the next Journal approximately one weck carlier than usual This gives your editor a chance to represent WAP at the NICS Applefest in Chicago this coming July 19 This was at the special request of Temy Tufts editor of the Harvest Newsletter and co producer of the show We ll report on ev
148. fice Since the WAP office has a VHS player we had thought it would be easy enough for a SIG member to look at the tape in the office as they desired Apparently someone desired to do more than that and removed the tape without putting down thc required deposit The most troubling aspect of this whole cvent if it is indeed true is that all SIGs within WAP only receive 100 per year to spend as members desire Ours spent 70 of that for this vidco tape as a way to provide support and help for new users To my knowledge it was the first time the SIG has EVER spent ANY of its allotted money since it became a SIG in 1981 I would ask that if the tape were inadvertently removed for an extended viewing at home that it be returned ASAP I am also concerned that some other publications may also be disappearing from the office The WAP office staff is small and called on to do so many things that watching who docs what in the library is impossible The library exists for everyone to use not for a few select individuals to pick and choose things to take home as they desire The library can only function as the excellent resource it is if all WAP members respect it and ultimately contribute to it The bottom line here if you have taken anything from the library Apple related or not please return it so that all WAP members may enjoy NEW PD DISKS FOR THE A big thanks to Al Lambert and everyone else who helped get our new
149. for 16 plus shipping I m sure that Jay Heller Adaptation Electronics can make you a cable for a resonable price A phone line has been set up to provide technical support for the DAK modem 52 July 1986 at 818 888 8220 while the company handling warranty repair can be reached at 818 787 6151 The technical support line is provided in house by DAK while the repair service is provided by the Mark Markman Co in Van Nuys CA For 175 complete including shipping and a 30 day war ranty how can you go wrong If you do not have a DAK cata log see the December 1985 issuc of the WAP Journal page 67 for ordering details Everyone I have talked to who ordered items from DAK in the past is happy with the company Apple Cable Pin Outs There was an excellent article in the June 1986 issuc of A magazine on Apple pin outs for all Apple products It was called The Right Connections and started on page 53 Apple cable connections were listed for Apple Jl J e c Mac Mac Plus Mac XL and special cables The listing included pin outs for connection of each of these Apple computers to the Imagewriter Apple and Hayes modems and color plotters Also included were Apple catalog numbers for most of the cables In addition pin assignments were listed for the Macintosh modem SCSI ports LaserWriter personal modem modem 300 1200 Imagewriter I and II Apple Daisy Wheel printer Apple Scribe printer the Apple J e and
150. fun doing this so much the better We share our knowledge in many ways The most important of these is the WAP Journal Over the past year the Journal has stabilized at 80 pages making it one of the consistently largest user group publi cations in the world Articles are written for the most part by members whose diverse interests are reflected in the Journal s broad coverage The quality of the Journal s articles over the past year has remained consistently high On the graphics side the Journal has continued to improve thanks to techno logical innovation PageMaker deserves the praise lavished on it by revicwers and more importantly to the work of our Editors Bernie and Gena Urban Second most important in terms of fulfilling our educa tional mandate is our monthly meetings Although your votes on the ballot will have the final say I think the new meeting format started in January has after a short burn in period worked out very well Everyone can pick up their Journal buy disks take in a program on either the Apple H or Macintosh and sit in on question and answer sessions Best of all having everything on one day saves considerable wear and tcar on our active volunteers the scarcest commodity in a volunteer organization likc WAP Perhaps third in importance is what used to be called the Bulletin Board System and is now called the Telecommuni cations System The TS has had a particularly rocky year contd Was
151. g Computer Sales Software Sales IBM Maintenance July 1986 29 by George Kinal 1 INTRODUCTION I have been encouraged by a steady trickle of letters and telephone calls about my Comm Term communications pro gram Originally published in WAP s Journal of January 1984 and in the Disketeria on disk 44 Readers who have been following my lap computer articles might have noted that nothing very sophisticated in the way of communications software is necessary to exchange data between two interc onnected machines In fact Comm Term has roughly the same elementary functions as the laptops TELCOM But a lot of bits have gone through the cable since January 1984 Most new Apple e and c owners are using ProDOS software notably Appleworks In order to transfer text from a laptop to AppleWorks a program that saves the received text in ProDOS format is necessary Also most newer Apple owners and many owners as well have 80 column capa bility So the new Comm Term has 80 column support but will work with 40 as well It supports automatically two large familics of serial interface cards when used in slot 2 the 6551 type card such as the Apple Super Serial Card or the Apple c interface and the 6850 type card including the CCS 7710 the SSM cards the old Apple Comm card and others Comm Term is still a program for transferring text files only Besides it doesn t have any of the automation or fle
152. g straight to fly through another object that your barnstorming co pilot Gulick has discovered is fun The people in the streets have stopped to watch the phones are ringing off thc hook in every police precinct in the area Because yes you re going to fly or try to fly with only a few feet to spare right through the If you like surprises don t read the blurbs on the back of the books and don t read ahead unless he tells you to More than half the fun is the sheer pleasure of exploration and not knowing what will happen next You don t know what that friendly but mischicvous co pilot is up to or where you might end up July 1986 23 40 GREAT FLIGHT SIMULATOR ADVENTURES and 40 More Review by Thomas Johnston By Charles Gulick published by COMPUTE Publications Inc for Flight Simulator II on the Apple II I ve rediscovered my Flight Simulator Charles Gulick takes the co pilot seat and like a Charles Kuralt of the sky takes you places you ve never been and shows you wonders you never noticed accompanied by knowledge insight and humor Unlike Mr Kuralt he also takes you on hair raising Ohmigosh are we gonna crash type adventures Picture yourself headed straight for the twin towers of the World Trade Center Is there enough space to fly right between them Aiycece Each adventure begins with a list of flight parameters that you enter into the FS2 editor he tells you how to do that Then you read a
153. ge version of above 1149 NEC P5 P6 P7 Pinuriter 24 wire high quality satrix call Citizen MSP 20 200 cps matrix Epson cospatiblel 349 Panasonic 1091 120 eps Epson cospatible Best Bug 259 1080 100 cps as above 05 219 DAISYWHEEL amp LASER PRINTERS Epson DX 35 35 cps daisywheel Diablo compatible 675 Citizen Preaier 35 35 cps fastest for the aoneyl 549 Canon Laser Printer 8 pages ain Diablo coapatible 2095 Silver Reed 800 40 cps Diablo coapatible BV Ever ECTS 695 550 18 cps daisywheel wide carriagel 349 NEC E14 16 cps par amp ser interface NEC Diablo eaul 419 8830 55 cps daisywheel built lite a tank 1195 Diablo 635 55 cps daisywheel replaces 630 nodel 1099 Quae LetterPra 20 20 cps daisywheel AES 429 MOOEMS Hayes Microaodem Jle 300 haud card for JCt JLe wisft 145 Saartaodea 2400 2400 1200 300 baud R5 2321 599 S5aartaoden 1200 1200 baud RS 232 auto dial 989 Saartaodem 300 300 baud as above ETE 145 Novation Apple Cat IL w Coaware 1200 baud Soara Prosetheus Prowodea 1200 1200 300 baud RS 232 289 Proaoden 1200A 1200 300 card wi software 269 US Robotics Password 1200 300 baud auto dial ansuerl Courier 2400 2400 1200 300 autodial ans Anchor Autoaation Express 1200 300 loaded w features 249 Volksaodea 12 1200 300 baud R5 232 199 Lightning 24 2400 1200 300 RS 232 389 Ure Tao Jte 300 baud H
154. ghtning purports to offer grammar checking This is a misnomer since it amounts to little more than locating words which follow periods and which arc not capitalized Helpful but not what is advertised 70 July 1986 Lightning is fast It seems to check about 30 to 40 words per second running from a hard disk It took about 30 seconds to produce the list of unrecognized words from this review On the other hand its dictionary comes with only 31 000 words a modest number It found in this review two dozen correctly spelled words which it did not recognize Admit tedly it is a simple matter to expand the dictionary If you select Lightning plan to spend a little time doing just this Misspelled Softviews6 9 86 if Ex e organstein macspell nol sis ERE MacLightning hayden s speller hayden s keystrokes macspell m soft spellers Words Checked Misspelled nug Word Len 4 Longest Word 12 In my book MacSpell is the clear winner for ease of use and convenience ci Washington Apple Pi WASHINGTON APPLE PI DISKETERIA MAIL ORDER FORM Software for Creative Living This form is only for ordering disks that you want mailed to you 5 1 4 DISKETTES Members 5 00 each Non members 8 00 cach Plus 1 00 each postage up to a maximum of 5 00 3 1 2 DISKETTES Members 6 00 each Non members 9 00 each Plus 1 00 each postage up to a maximum of 5 00 A 1 00 per disk discount on t
155. gton Apple Pi set Y equal to the value contained at memory location 222 where the error codes are stored We have added a few more error handlers to this program compared to the other program modules Let s go over them briefly here Hopefully we won t have to come back If Y is equal to 5 that is if the problem is simply that we have no data in the file we arc attempting to use we don t want to reset the top of the window However for all the other errors we do If Y is equal to 254 that means we have a bad response to an INPUT statement Therefore we want to be able to give the user a second chance rather than having the program crash So we ask for rentry of the data The com mand to RESUME takes the program back to the statement in which the error occurred This is in contrast to the CONT command which takes the program back to the instruction following the statement in which the program was stopped As we have seen in our previous articles Y equals 5 when there is no data in a file that we are trying to read We will get this error if the file exists but contains no data That is the case here if we choose to use DATA FILE as the name of our data file We will then be taken to line 150 of the program If we choose to use another name for our data file then it doesn t exist yet and we will get Y equal to 6 FILE NOT FOUND To make sure that we didn t merely spell it wrong we are asked if we wish to create a file with this
156. h 2 meg RAM 10 5 meg Profiles Parallel Card Lisa 7 7 MacWorks Gencral Ledger 3400 Mac 512 plus external drive 1400 HP110 Portable with built in modem Lotus 1 2 3 in ROM IBM interface 1200 Call Bruce at 656 6810 leave a message FOR SALE External 400K disk drive for the Macin tosh Works with 128K and 512K machines Upgradcable to 800K double sided disk drive 125 Call Pete Holt at 683 2716 FOR SALE Mountain CPS Multifunction Card par ser amp clock for Apple J 75 Echo I Speech Synthesizer amp music 55 generic CP M Card for 40 Saturn compatible 128K Ramcard 75 Apple e extended 80 col card with 128K 50 Call John Willis 301 694 9410 FOR SALE Macintosh 128K and Imagewriter Excellent condition only 18 months old Includes manuals MacWrite and MacPaint Only 1325 Call Tom at 202 546 5994 FOR SALE 512K MacXL Lisa RAM Expansion Board 350 Call Ted 703 920 3083 FOR SALE Apple computer 256K single drive hardly used great backup unit for user 750 Add printer monitor and Advanced VisiCalc 850 Call Stuart Cohen 301 774 9182 evenings FOR SALE Apple e 128K 2 drives 80 col Apple monitor and Super Serial Card 1200 UltraTerm S175 Panasonic 1090 printer with buffered interface card 325 System Saver 40 Serial Card 75 Alf Music Card 75 192K expanded 80 col card 200 6 MHz ALS CP M card with software 200 Call Bob Cham Burlington VT 8
157. harts Ignore the first chart drawn on the screen it s garbage Go to the Gallery Menu and choose Scatter This draws Figure 4 on the screen click the box shown as being selected in Figure 4 Then click OK The hardest part is now over and you get your first graph Scatter Sana Fig 4 Selection of the Scatter Chart Format contd July 1986 61 The next paragraph is labeled CODA because you will come back to it cach time you plot a new series Old hands can start reading now CODA Put the cursor anywhere on the spreadsheet window and click if you don t sce the Spreadsheet anywhere just move the Chart down by clicking and dragging on its title bar until you see the Spreadsheet This moves the spreadsheet to the front Because Excel can only plot numbers that lie in adjacent columns or rows the numbers in the Categorics column range SAS6 to SASI must be copied and pasted immediately to the left of the corrosion data for the next metal Here you must select the entire Column C and then use the Insert command from the Edit menu Select Column C by clicking in the cell at the extreme top of the Column Don t confuse this cell with the cell labeled Metal C When the blank column is inserted copy and paste the TIME data in it Figure 5 shows the result Note that the Categories TIME column and the Series METAL B column are shown as being sclected this prepare
158. he above prices is offered for orders of 5 or more disks Postage remains as above DOS 3 3 Volumes 4 IAC 25 Mach g Util 42 One Key DOS 43 IAC 29 Utilities H 44 Utilities I 45 Diversi Copy 46 French Vocab Tutorial 47 Tic Tac Toe in French 48 Boot for l Hote 49 l Hote Story 50 l Hote Quiz 51 French pen Tutorial 52 Apollinaire Biography 53 Albert Carnus Interview 54 Tic Tac Toe in Spanish 55 Rafel boot 56 Rafel 57 Rafel Quiz 58 Matute 59 Lo Fatal Audio Tape 1 French Voc Audio Tape 2 Spanish Voc 70 Business Math Statstic 71 Music 72 Keyboard Games 73 Text Adventure Games 74 Paddle Games 75 Color Graphics for Fun 76 Education 77 Utilities 90 Spreadsheet C Gen Bus 1 Spreadsheet D Investmt 92 sprcadsheet E Bus Rec 93 VisiPlot amp VisiTrend 94 CALCULINK 100 Utilities A 101 Utilities B 102 Games A 104 Business A 106 Science Engineering 107 Games 108 IAC 10 Graphics 109 IAC 11 Appleso t Tutr 110 Person ny ucation 111 Games C 112 Utilities C 113 Business B 115 IAC 12 13 Misc 116 IAC 14 Micromodemll 117 Picture Packer 118 Utilities D 119 IAC 15 Misc 120 IAC 16 Misc 121 WAPABBS 1 1 Doc 122 IAC 17 Misc 123 French Vocabulary 124 Utilities E 125 IAC 18 Mise 126 Sights and Sounds 127 Math Science 128 Games D 129 GLAQ 130 Diversi DOS 131 Personal Educ 2 132 IAC 19 Utilities F 133 IAC 20 Pascal amp DOS 3 3 134 New Members Disk DOS 3 3 contd 135 WAPA
159. hem One optional piece of equipment you might want to invest in is a digitizer which allows you take a line drawing or a photograph and scan it into the computer Digitizers range in price from a 2400 modcl manufactured by Abatron to Thunderscan which you can purchase from a mail order house for 175 The less expensive Thunderscan does a perfectly adequate job on high contrast art work or photos Once you have the family interested in the project how do you go about executing it First gather together all the different elements of the newsletter the stories drawings nameplate ctc and make some rough pencil sketches of the Washington Apple Pi intended layout To get layout ideas look at other people s newsletters those from real estate agents schools insurance brokers and so on You don t have to have a graphics arts degree though I m sure it would help to decide what you like and what you don t like Then start to lay out your first page There will always be some surprises Text won t fit and graphics will need to be cropped or expanded You might not like the font you re using or you may need to change the font size and style of your headings The beauty of working with thc Macintosh is that it s so easy to change things Everything should be under your control and you can keep playing with it until you re satisficd Run off copies occasionally as an audit trail of your progress It s fun to look back at your mistakes a
160. hington Apple Pi thanks to hardware problems with a Sunol hard disk Sunol has now filed for protection from its cteditors including us Thanks however to Corvus the hard disk manufacturer we now have a hard disk capable of supporting the multi user system the members approved many months ago The multi user system one of the first such ever run by a user group on Apples is finally with us The Pi owes a great debt of gratitude to Lee Raesly Mike Ungerman Eric Rall Joe Chelena and a cast of dozens if not thousands of other volunteers The Disketeria has had a successful year Macintosh titles have been added at a fast clip for which we have had Tony Anderson to thank for all his efforts Tony has now retired and Larry Halff has arrived with a flourish I understand seven disks are being issued at the June meeting The number of new Apple II titles has picked up also Special mention should also be made of our many volunteer disk copiers led by Jim Little and Dave Weikert Their many hours shoving disks into disk drives makes us all better off both for having the disks themselves and for generating revenues to the club that enable us to support our other educational activities And speaking of revenues financially WAP is now doing better Financial statements for the fiscal year that ended May 31 are now being prepared and will appear in a future Journal It appears as though thc past fiscal year will show a deficit The cost
161. hrow away cotton swabs It works better and faster that try to coax dirt from your mouse than any product I ve seen Macazine The MOUSE CLEANER 360 doesn t wear out and cleans all 3 rollers of your mouse SO MPATISEEN NIE i simultaneously by safely quickly and APPLES ILE C AND MAC efficiently whisking dirt away 4 ATARI 520 1040 ped COMMODORE AMIGA Your mouse will be cleaner than it s ever been VES Lus MOUSE CLEANER 360 FOR ONLY 13 Limp cotton swabs can t match the effectiveness of the MC 360 covered with Uelcro dia monds replaces your mouse tracking ball The MC 360 scrubbing ball By rolling the scrubbing Send me c MC 360 s ball across the velcro clean Add 1 00 Per Unit Ty ing pad these diamonds are Shipping forced to rub against mouse roller In MD Add 596 surfaces thus effectively agitating dirt particles The final step wiping the rollers dry with a lint free chamois cloth removes even the toughest debris es Tax AMOUNT ENCLOSED Name 30 Seconds is Mounts on the side l Qar it takes of your computer Address 205 namane for instant access The average amount of time WD 3 X to clean a mouse using the The Mouse Cleaner 360 uL MC 360 is 30 seconds all of the mounts on the side or MNA in oko rollers of the mouse are rear of your Macintosh Ion cleaned simultaneously or Apple II E or C regn pue ERU RM DEALER IN
162. ial we are offering Thanks Information on Store Names Sales Events Restaurants Theatres Gifts Metrobus Schedules and Much More Computer Access Number 703 893 0874 PI SIG NEWS by Robert Golden The PI SIG met Tuesday June 10 in the WAP classroom Robert Golden was clected Chairman and Walter Urban Vice Chairman and program coordinator Members attending suggested a varicty of subjects for future programs Future mectings will be in the WAP classroom on the first Monday of the month at 7 30 PM Mectings will consist of presentations on a subject of mutual interest and a Q amp A discussion on any subject of individual interest On July 7 Ray Hobbs will discuss analog to digital converters and the capture and use of data used with this equipment WAP BBS Phone Numbers System 1 986 8085 System 2 986 8086 System 3 986 4715 System 4 978 6098 Change System 6 703 450 6822 Coit Valley Computers has two modems for your every need Both are top quality stale of the art 1200 300 110 baud Hayes compatible modems which means your computer can send amp receive data at lightning fast speeds And automatically switch between 1200and 300 baud to communicate with slower Apples Since neither comes with software we carry Ascil Express ProDOS at alow price of 89 AVATEX 1200 EXTERNAL STAND ALONE MODEM 100 plug in Modem for Apple lic or Macintosh with proper cable see below Hayes compatibl
163. icrosodes coapat w software 125 Applied Engineering half hi floppy for JC seriesl 119 Controller for 2 drives 55 Corvus Winchester drives cece cece cece cece call CP M b 6502C SYSTEMS Applicard 4 Mhz 2 80 64K to 192K RAM 70 col videol 125 Microsoft Softcard Jte Z 80 80 col amp GAK on ane card 265 Saftcard II includes CP M 2 2 and MBASIC 239 Titan Accelerator JCE 3 6 Mhz 6502C coprocessor 229 Speed Deacon 4502C high speed coprocessor 195 Applied Engineering Z Raa 256K CP M Raadisk for JCc 265 TransWarp 3 6 Khz 6502C 256K RAM 225 MONTTORS Andak 3006 3004 12 green aaber anti glare 18Mhz epo Color 300 13 composite color MEC JB 1201 1205 green amber anti glare screen 20Mhz s 48 1860 12 green 15Mhz best value for aoney INTERFACES amp BUFFERS amp CLOCKS Pkaso U printer interface superior graphics call Quadraa Hicrofazer 8K ta 128K parallel buffer 139 Grapplert printer interface parallel w graphics 85 Buffered Grapplert 16K to 64K buffer plus graphics 149 Practical Peripherals Seriall serial for nodeas print 109 Graphicard parallel w graphics 79 Printerface std par w o graphics 59 ProClock PRODOS coapatiblel 109 VIDEO BOARDS Videx Ultraters up to 160 coluen 48 line display 209 Microtek 80 cal card w 64K RAM AppleWorks coapatible 99 Applied Engineering Ra
164. ilable in the system file 4 a second active window so that formulas can be displayed in one window and values in the other Each window can be split into four panes and scrolled independ ently 5 use of ASCII text files 6 simplified workshect linking by building a formula that refers to another workshect 7 a Go To command 8 new command keys for com monly used commands and 9 context sensitive help messages All of these features and many more are found in Excel Macintosh Mail Order Software Two of the major mail order houses for Macintosh software and peripherals are MacConnection 14 Mill Street Marlow NH 800 622 5472 and Northeastern Software 88 Ryders Lane Stratford CN 800 874 1108 They apparently arc as different as night and day when it comes to providing prompt accurate and dependable service From the WAP mectings and from my phone conversations with other members comes the general opinion that Northeastern Software does not fit the bill They apparently do not provide an invoice and you have no idea of the exact cost until your credit card bill comes There are often long delays in recciving software and the company cashes checks or charges credit cards immediately even though the ordered item may be out of stock The only time I ordered from Northeastern I was shipped an Apple e version of the program instead of a Macintosh version Ncedless to say I have not ordered from them again I have no
165. ional Optional 13 Color Monitors Vermont Microsystems Inc Indispensible For serious CAD Work High Resolution 640 X 480 No Special Modification Req d Works With 512 and Mac Connects to the Modem Port Sorry it only works with EZ Draft 13 1895 00 19 3595 00 Or 19 Cartesian Coordinates Polar Coordinates User Defined Grids Other Features MactTography Laser Printing Service For The Macintosh What are the advantages CADD Program For The Macintosh Color Monitor From VMI EZ Draft 1995 00 Training User Support Plotting Coordinate Systems Incremental Coordinates something more fancy You must install these numerical functions into your data base form when you create the form You designate a field as a numerical field according to the instructions in your data base program You tell the program before you enter your data what mathematical function you would like it to perform with the data in that particular field On the Mac these choices are made easy with the presentation of a dialog box asking you to choose which functions you d like such as total average or count You won t sce the results of these calculations as you enter your data But you will see the results when you tell your program to report the data summary later on And that s really the next step to using your data base reporting the results This is when the computer does its magic It
166. ir new computer painting program THE GRAPHICS MAGICIAN JUNIOR will be priced at 19 95 None of the firm s applications software is copy protected OO TOPOS will be coming out in a few weeks for the Macintosh Dave Lebling Activision Infocom co author of the ZORKS and other games knew the club from the fact that his dad lives in the area and has a real estate office I also met Brian Moriarty WISHBRINGER Marten Davics President of Firebird introduced me to Nita last name unknown the talented programmer of a stunning new graphic adventure THE PAWN which will be coming out for all Apple computers He also mentioned an around 200 super word processing desktop publishing program to be available in the early fall called THE WRITE STUFF I met Dan Horn formerly of Adventure International and Infocom Bill Leslie and Tom Carbone Omnitrend co authors of UNIVERSE and UNIVERSE II showed me a new strategy game under development called BREACH based on the combat system first introduced in UNIVERSE Paul Kelly MicroLeague Sports Association co author of MICRO LEAGUE BASEBALL talked about the firm s new stat disk 1o accompany the popular bascball simulation Rob and Norman Sirotek Sir Tech told me that the company was originally named after the family but the name was changed because of all the 3 in the morning phone calls for help with WIZARDRY While meeting them was a pleasure their bringing along Lynn Bresett who stood th
167. is not a ROM problem Applications such as Mac Write that were written in the days before the new ROMs can t be expected to work with the scrolling menus They may make the now incorrect assumption that menus have up to twenty items For example the programmer may have declared an array with only twenty clements My LaserWriter is taking 3 5 minutes to print each page yet I only use the built in laser fonts The printing looks coarse too If you used the old pre 3 1 Font DA Mover to load fonts into your System file with the new LaserWriter driver even the LaserWriter fonts will be printed using the dot matrix screen fonts This will cause both of your symptoms The solution is to remove thc LaserWriter fonts from your System file and then to reload them from the fonts disk that came with the LaserWriter Plus Make sure you usc the new Fon DA Mover Those versions of the LaserWriter fonts have the new FONT Washington Apple Pi resources with them required by the new System software Quickies The rebates on the Mac upgrades for people who purchased Macs last fall have been extended until July 15 Mac Q amp A will be taking a vacation next month see you in September e MEA CULPA by Jonathan E Hardis For last month s Journal I wrote an article telling you how to patch a Mac program to get more fonts in the font menu Well I goofed The copy of the program I used in composing the table of patches wasn t virgin If
168. is was my reservation Oh they loved the picture too and the way it grew No No problems The words built in like hippopotamus were a little too much for the first graders so they put in their own words And you know what They discovered how to beat the game They were working on an words like can ran you know Well thc kids quickly figured out that thcy didn t have to waste their gucsses on all the letters They immediately put in an and that gave them ten guesses for pairs of data points are superposed for the first week 6 the rest of the word Oh it s been a delight PART IV CONCLUSION So from several disabled children and the rest of the first grade THANKS BILL ETUE G 62 July 1986 Washington Apple Pi ooftvieuJs David Morganstein Keeper A quick note about a public domain utility for Mac users Run Keeper and you will cut the time to exit applications down to a few seconds I don t know how it works I do know that it grabs about 150K of memory but nothing succeeds like success As of yet I have not identi fied any problems using it I have it on a hard disk as the start up program MacSpell vs MacLightning There are several spell check programs on the market Besides Spell and Lightning I ve worked briefly with onc of the first to be released Mac Spell Right and with Hayden s Speller Insofar as Hayden s product is a separate program it could be uscd efficiently only with Switcher when y
169. itorial powers to write about anyone or anything that takes their fancy What do you need to get started Apart from your Macin tosh you ll need some software and a printer I m sure you already have some word processing software cither MacWrite or Word I would also recommend some layout software such as MacDraw or one of the desktop publishing programs such as MacPublisher II or PageMaker Why do you need a layout program You ll find it a tedious and time consuming to get things to come out just right if you usc a word processor especially if your newsletter has columns Columnist Adam Green said that word proces sors deal with the content of a document desktop publishing deals with its image Layout programs allow you to control the precise positioning of text and graphics the thickness shading and direction of lines even the spacing between individual characters and lines of text For just onc annual newsletter I would recommend getting MacDraw as a general purpose program that can be used for other drawing tasks as well as simple page layout If you intend to do a lot of newsletters however you should get one of the Desktop Publishing programs I have found Page Maker 1 2 to be excellent As far as printing gocs your Imagewriter will do a good job printing everything you see on the screen If you want the newsletter to look more professional try renting a LaserWriter for the final copy Some quick print outfits are installing t
170. l Spectrum Holobyte and ask to be put on their notification list An upgrade is in the works While they would like to notify all registered owners there is some doubt about the completeness of their files Do any print spoolers work on a Mac with a SCSI hard disk A I hear that MaxPrint does and others might too Q Help I recently had a ROM Disk Drive up grade and now I have chronic problems trying to boot the Mac The disks work fine on other machines It could be a faulty disk drive or more likely a bad connection to the disk drive 48 E e July 1986 Help My Programmer Switch on the Mac keeps getting stuck In May Q amp A I suggested whittling it down I m told a simpler solution is just to install it upside down What is the latest Finder amp System Good news Finder 5 3 and System 3 2 are out They can be found on licensed information services such as CompuServe Delphi and BIX Be wamed Apple now plans to crack down on private BBS operators that post these files You should also be able to get them from your dealer soon too How can I upgrade my XLisa to this new software This software will work fine on an XLisa and you don t do anything different than any other Mac owner MacWorks which corresponds to the old Mac ROM will not be updated however Micro Design maker of the Keeper file serv er is out of business What can an owner do for support Keeper was picked up by
171. lag is used to indicate whether or not we are printing to the printer or not If this subroutine is called by a routine which is printing a number on a printer and the number is negative as indicated by the variable SG then we need to backspace one space to make room for the negative sign that will have to be printed on the paper since we can not print in inverse mode as we can on the screen to indicate negatives The backspace is accomplished with a CALL 1008 Now we examine C If C is equal to or larger than 10 we backspace one space If C is equal to or larger than 100 we backspace another space And so on up to 10 to the 4th power We do not use numbers as large as 100 000 in this program Now if the number is negative we will print it in inverse If we are using a printer we will print a negative sign Then we will print the number without issuing a line feed note the semi colon after the C in line 53 and RETURN to line 1911 which immediately takes us to linc 1916 1916 HTAB 8 T ES PRINT 2 1917 IF M1 gt 0 THEN HTAB 1 VTAB 24 PRINT HIT lt RETURN gt FOR MIS DEFAULT CALL 868 HTAB 9 VTAB L GOSUB 25 1919 GET ES IF E CHR 13 THEN 1924 1920 T T ES PRINT ES IF ES CHR 8 AND LEN TS 1 THEN B B 1 GOTO 1904 1921 GOSUB 5 1922 GOTO 1919 1924 C VAL T IF LEN T 0 THEN C MI GOTO 1930 Washington Apple Pi 1925 IFC 0 THEN 1500 1926 IF C 0 OR C 1
172. le us as parents that our parents didn t even dream of Some List price 125 Your cost 87 times I despair of being equal to the task I worry that I m not a good enough parent don t know the right things to do say think pass on to my children But I know and fecl strongly El E E 5 7 Mousewrite Roger Wag about responsibility and if we don t accept reponsibility for ner Publishing An Apple Ilic and Ile word processor that mimics Macwrite Mousewrite offers pull down menus filled with easy to use features We strongly recommend purchasing a mouse in order to ourselves our words and deeds and our lives how will we teach our children to be their own people and not be swayed by every tacky albeit perhaps attractive temptation that comes along take advantage of this product Mousewrite The person who publicly announces I m not saying that is worth a test drive for home and small is dishonest is like a drug dealer to me standing on the business users Category Performance sidelines offering grevious injury to others while ignoring Software 11 18 85 responsibility for his OWN behavior My son when pre sented with the Apple Pi issue as a sample situation names Copyright 1986 by Popular Computing Inc a subsidiary withheld again with all the articulation of a 12 year old of CW Communications Inc Reprinted from InfoWorld called this behaviour scummy I concur and it frightens Menlo Park CA
173. ll be used if a DA requires an STR or a DITL resource The first STR it requires will be numbered just like the PICT as 32 DRVR ID 16384 The second will be one greater and so forth To make the DA work in its renumbered form we must renumber and move all of the resources listed in its window While using ResEdit is tedious isnt Font DA mover wonderful by comparison we can do it One last example Chooser has several diffcrent resource types and several resources of each type Fortunately ResEdit can help you do the Copying and Pasting within a given type eliminating the need to move cach DITL or whatever In the screen you see two DITL s numbered as 15999 and 16000 After renumbcering them in their GetInfo box now we are using ID 29 click on one and then shift click on the other Just as with Icons shift clicking lets you select more than one at a time Use the Copy and Paste options to move thc renumbered versions into the System file DITLs from Chooser ID 15999 DITL ID 16000 If you repeated all these steps two more times you will have assembled a System file with six DA s in it The onc that had to be there to begin with and the five you moved in with ResEdit Now you can use Fon DA mover or com mercal installer programs to add another 14 or so DAs Happy Mac ing 6 July 1986 65 OF LABELERS AND CATALOGERS by Martin Milrod Hopefully new Mac ers will have gotten a disk bank of some type be
174. lled Hardcore which was recently upgraded to regular magazine size from TV Guide size Looking through recent editions at the WAP office I discovered members there are making a concerted effort to become more active To help spur things along I have written a letter to them and included some information about what is available over here for the If you d like to add your thoughts to the pile you can contact the users in BASUG by writing to Shicla Hirs BASUG P O Box 177 St Albans Herts United Kingdom ALZ 2EG Another group that seems to have a very active representation is the BAUD Applcing Computer Club based in Germany made up of U S Military folks They ve even spent the time and money to get on CompuServe and recent correspondence indicates an interest to work more closely with Apple users in the United States Send any letters care of Thomas Linders at this address P O Box 991 APO New York NY 09098 FINALLY Thanks to Tom Bartkiewicz for his excellent demon stration of the new 800K Unidisk for the at our last meeting as well as his demonstration of MacStuff Tom spent a goodly amount of time working on a program designed to utilize the MacStuff PASCAL intrinsic unit and it was appreciated by all Thanks also to all of you who voted for me to serve on the WAP Board At the time of writing I don t know how things turned out but your support is very much appreciated COMMERCIAL CLASSIFIEDS
175. llowed by the printer and not printed but Apple Writer doesn t recognize this so the printed line ends up short of the right margin Page 33 of the Apple Writer II manual describes one way the only good way underlining can be done The reverse slash is reserved to act as an underline symbol All underlined text should be enclosed between two backslash charactersNike this The backslash can be entered by typing ESC CTRL SHIFT P Unfortunately this method docs not work with all printers especially Okidatas Apple Writer first prints a character a back space then an underline and so on for cach character Some printers are not capable of handling the backspace character There are some other idiosyncrasics so take a look at the manual If the backslash character doesn t work then you can send the code your printer requires to start and stop underlining But as you have discovered everything gets underlined including the left margin You can improve this situation if your printer has a left margin command Set the left printer margin to exactly what you want and set the Apple Writer left margin to zero lm0 Q I own an Apple with many cards and I wonder if the computer might blow a fuse Sometimes thc disk in the disk drive get ruined by the printer when you turn it on Why does this happen A The Apple power supply is pretty rugged when it comes to blowing fuses If the output is shorted or overloaded it stops working for a
176. lock West of 1 355 The Macintosh Only Store Clinton Computer Your 1 Apple Dealer 277 S Washington St Alexandria VA 703 838 9700 9636 Ft Meade Rd Laurel MD 301 953 1110 6443 Old Alex Ferry Rd Clinton MD 301 856 2500 Clinton Computer p s What is Clinton Computer p s Clinton Computer p s is the largest and most professional microcomputer product service center in the Metro area The p s symbolizes that you get something extra Professional Service Personal Service Prompt Service Post Sale Service Parts and Supplies the type of support that has won us rave reviews from local consumer rating services Located at 6457 Old Alex Ferry Road in Clinton with satellite shops at our Alexandria and Laurel stores p s s primary purpose is to provide factory authorized service for the main lines of products we sell We stock the parts to service your equipment quickly generally while you wait If you need service at your site we can send out the Mobile Service Van to your place of business The only vehicle of its type in the Metro area our van has its own fully equipped workbench and power supply Meet Steve Okeefe Service Manager Steve Okeefe has been with the company for three years Prior to his promotion to Service Manager Steve organized and directed the Wield Service Department When came to Clinton Computer there were only six service employees Now we have twenty two and exp
177. long as you fly making frequent use of the pause key P The narrative makes you feel like the author is sitting right next to you in the right hand seat chatting away about what s going on around you Remember the scene in one of the James Bond movies where he flies through a hangar Yes that s right you are going to fly right through and out the other side You hope Yes you re close to the floor but there s also very little clearance between you and the roof In the midst of these adventures in the second book Charles Gulick teaches you to fly and fly right Most of the Flight Simulator s own manual is very thorough and rather intimidating My computer came with Flight Simulator II as part of the package I learned how to get off the ground I learned how to stay in the air and turn without crashing Remember when you first learned how to stecr the Piper you headed straight for the John Hancock building to see what would happen I could even take off from LaGuardia tum south and fly down the length of Manhattan But I never got the hang of landing and I certainly couldn t land at the airport straight down the runway Maybe I could land off to onc side in the grass I know that I m not alone in this Charles Gulick becomes your own friendly flight instruc tor explaining simply the use of this navigational radio or the importance of that RPM setting He tells you specifically the proper method for taking off flying straight an
178. me contained in the variable FD is used Otherwise whatever name is typed is stored in T which is then moved into FD in line 1402 Next the screen is again cleared and the message printed that the Apple will be reading the data in from the file on the disk with the name selected Do you sense something is wrong here In line 1410 we tell the Apple that if it encounters a problem which it sees as an error to GOTO line 19999 Then we ask it to VERIFY that there is a file with the name contained in FDS and that the data contained in the file is good If we chose the default file DATA FILE then the file exists because we created it in the first program module BUDGET Therefore it will verify and the program will continue to linc 1415 However if we chosc to use a different name for the data file it will not exist therefore an error 6 FILE NOT FOUND will be generated and the program will GOTO line 19999 If the program gets to line 1415 it will open the file and 36 July 1986 then attempt to read data from the file However there is no data there so an error 5 will be generated and again the program will GOTO line 19999 Let us assume for a moment that there was data on the disk so we can see how this will be handled Otherwise we may never get back to this part of the program 1420 PRINT RD FDS 1425 INPUT NS 1430 FORR 0 TONS 1435 INPUT CN R MO R DT R VENS R AMT R CT R R R 1440 NEXT 1445 PRINT CLS FDS
179. ment chess player and am rated by the U S Chess Federation about a class and a half stronger than Colossus IV s estimated 1850 Class A rating My results against the program have been very positive but the program plays very sound and solid chess and I usually beat it through endgame finesses or by superior chess opening knowledge I think that this program will be more than a match for most of the chess players who are WAP members I think that Colossus Chess IV is a clear advance over its nearest competition Sargon III Sargon has a much stronger opening repertoire than Colossus but Colossus plays the middlegame and endgame much more solidly and skillfully than Sargon in my opinion Sargon can especially in its MacIntosh version give me a very hard time if I m not especially careful but that s because the program seems to be designed to play very aggressively again in my opinion This aggression can cause Sargon to play an occasional audacious move which gives me fits but it also often plays moves of elementary stupidity It seems to me that Colossus most often takes a wait and see approach waiting for its opponent to make a mistake I m quite used to this style of play since it s how the local chess Masters usually beat me but you may have more trouble with Colossus s style There can be no doubt that this program is a significant advance over programs such as Sargon III in its user options The tournament play and the equality
180. mode options are much better than anything I ve seen in the other programs and even the all the moves mode used to play speed chess is very entertaining The whole concept of using a simulated chess clock opens up a fascinating new dimension in chess pro grams To give Colossus s analysis and problem solving options a workout I entered a number of positions from two chess Washington Apple Pi quiz columns in the July 1986 issue of Chess Life the official magazine of the U S Chess Federation The first quiz was based on positions of increasing difficulty selected from the recent U S Championship tournament I put Colossus in the infinite analysis mode and stopped it after about seven minutes It solved the first three problems without much trouble and got the right move in four of the last six positions though its reasoning was not always correct Not a bad performance at all Wherc the program really shone was in problem solving Mates in two it solved in an average of one second while mates in three took all of one minute I even gave it a mate in five problem which I usually avoid life is too short and it solved it in sixteen minutes It also blitzed its way through the sclf mate problems Each month the magazine has run a contest seeing how many ways there are to attain checkmate in a given position with both sides helping cach other For the first of these problems a help mate in two Colossus found no fewer than
181. mp at the chance to go G Mana Sag MOND ee NANNAN Music Sig mects at 1 30 P M on the second Saturday of each month Mectings arc held on both sides of the river so interested parties should call me 490 7484 or Gary Larson 337 4267 to get the specific location and directions We have recently welcomed new members using IBM PCs and Commodore computers to drive their synthesizers and some without any music system at all We think that is a good idcea whcre better to leam what is available for computer music and how to use it than at Music Sig meetings Our June meeting was held in College Park and what was originally planned as a keyboard sampling demonstration turned out to be a MIDI workshop where members got to try out a Macintosh driven MIDI sequencer with various synthesizers It was announced that we have been invited to tour a synthesizer manufacturing and R amp D facility in nearby Pennsylvania SIG officers are actively pursuing this and will announce plans for the tour at a future meeting Other business items included arranging for music demos at main WAP mcctings and arranging for group purchases and group reviews of equipment Our next mccting will be in Laurel Maryland on Saturday July 12 at 1 30 P M and will fcature the promised demonstration of the Ensoniq Mirage digital sampling keyboard Digital sampling keyboards represent a significant development in music synthesis and the meeting should be both inf
182. mpers but in both cases has not had great success reflecting girls generally lesser participation in computer activities Karen mentioned going on DIALOG in one major effort to attract female counselors and contacted several local colleges with computer concentrations The ratio of boys to girls has always been bad she lamented but this year it is worse than ever Interestingly sessions carlicr in the sum mer usually have more boys than the later sessions as well as more older campers than younger ones Campers range in age from very young ones up to 16 with junior high level the median Staff members have noticed differences among sex and age groups in computer interests and activities In the color wars girls tend to want to do just one thing whercas boys want to do about 5 things And younger children love repetitive tasks Campers at present are drawn from the more affluent families as Karen is acutely aware She would like to attract more children from families less apt to provide computer activities Although there are presently no scholarships available she approached at least onc bank to sec if it would provide some That bank was not interested although perhaps other sources of funding might bc TIC also works with groups such as Big Brothers and Advocates for Children the latter serve runaways and wards of the courts allowing discounts for campers who come in under their auspices Emotional Discipline Problems
183. mputer and builds a fence around it to protect it from being erased This operating system enables disk operation commands Next time I will write an article on operating systems and try to explain a little about how these programs control our disks and help shape the way we can interface with that miniature corporation hidden in the Apple NOTE Please direct comments on this article to the Editor of the WAP Journal and direct questions to me number listed under HOTLINE Ga THANK YOU BILL ETUE by Boris Levine This article is in four parts PART I PROLOGUE Back in the days when DOS meant DOS 3 3 Bill Etue wrote a program called HANGMAN and donated it to to Apple Pi It is on Disk 102 PART II FIRST PERSON REPORT For some time I ve been writing programs for young dis abled children Recently I assembled several of the programs on a single disk and at that time it occurred to me that some contd on pg 62 Washington Apple Pi by Peg Matzen Well over 45 members attended the 12 o clock May 24th mecting of AppleWorks SIG The first meeting of the 8 o clock session was reported a success with 10 early rising members attending the Charter session chaired by George Sall The Noon meeting began with a lively and lengthy Q amp A session the topic of the day was the WAP Bulletin Board Systems Because so many of the SIG memebers have Apple He s Ken De Vito thought it appropriate to demonstrate how inexpensively
184. mutual cooperation with the school system which would share its buildings as well as computers during the summer Despite originally encouraging signs that plan was not approved Among ils cost reducing practices TIC sometimes buys used Apples from Pi members and leases computers to its counsclors allowing a tax depreciation PCjr s arc a bar Washington Apple Pi gain also no longer in production they are sold at a lower price but offer campers the chance to work in the IBM environment Those of us with children and home computers may won der about the survival rate of disks and computers As for the disks some make it and some mect with an early death TIC has found If campers ruin a disk on which they have written a program they are given a gratuitous replacement but are told the next one will not be free As for computer maintenance problems there have been surprisingly few Counselors Counselors are for the most part college students Refer ring to the decision to choose counsclors from that age group Karen explained It s that magic that happens at camp They arc heroes for the little kids Counselors receive 4 days of training prior to camp They can receive college course grades in education or computer science for their work at TIC This year Karen will act as formal teaching advisor for one of the counselors Sex Age amp Socioeconomic Variables TIC has tried to attract female counselors as well as ca
185. n part to desktop publishing But it will be the languages we develop that take us to higher realms of understanding and that above literacy and publishing should be the morc valuable goal Letters to Editor contd from pg 43 all in the manual if they have no bearing on the operation of the card I feel that this would definitely confuse someone especially if the user has a 1200 or 2400 baud modem the switch settings infer that the user has a 300 baud modem In regard to the loss of characters when the buffer is full I stand corrected on that aspect From Mr Raskin s comment I can also assume that transmission from another SwyftCard will be stopped automatically if the buffer is full In regard to the comment about the characters not going out over the modem until the return key is pressed I agree that this would not be a problem if our organization used some other BBS software other than the UBBS program However I fecl a great percentage of our members who do have modems usc our BBS systems and would therefore be affected by this charac teristic of the SwyftCard The comment about hanging up the modem is well taken I guess I m just spoiled by the ASCII Express Professional communications program where just hitting the H key hangs up the modem No sending of or ATH is required I didn t realize that there were programs that required the physical sending of the hangup command Dave Harvey In Appreciation Dear Editor Thi
186. nasonic 109 oW 3o dw o ow e ese Pe Ao OUI Epson FX SSF T 260 OO FX 2856F T anane 560 OO EK HB ig i 245 325 59 5 489 00 LQ 800 eseeaeeaeanacasnen 550 00 FrinterMate Stand eee 16 00 Ribbons call tor discount prices Paper 204 2500 sheets 22 00 2048 microperft 24 00 Rainbow Facks Call Grappler 552 55 5 5 BO OQ Buffered Grapplecrt 156 75 Serial Grappler Imaqgewriter 83 50 Grappler C a du aire esas are ee 83 50 Hotldipk 252 4 eee Ba eae cl Frint it Interface 2222524 140 00 JVC FORTIS 12 amber monitor 80 00 XTRON Comcolor 14 Composite monitor color switchable to green 140 00 TAXAN COLOR MONITOR 10 245 00 ShuffleRutfer 54k 12 250 00 Frinter Stand short 25 lona 20 Disk holder for 3 1 2 10 00 Disk holder for S 1 4 10 00 Alphabits Card e 750 00 SuperSprite Graphics Fig 1 275 00 Koala Fad Touch fablet 80 00 Koala Fad Adapter for II 6 20 Micro Sci Dist Drive AP 165 00 Mac Enhancer Microsoft 186 75 MACBCOOL Cool your MAC 125 00 Surge Surpressor amp Fan Verbatim Maxell disks 1 4 SS 13 00 10 120 00 100 DS 17 00 10 160 00 100 3 1 2 SS 15 900 5 29 00 10 DS 31 00 10 Head Cleaning kite 5 5 1 20 FingerFrint FX Series assa S96 Record Master EOI tu Data Rase System 40 or 80 col 40
187. nd makes you feel prouder of the final copy If you arc going to run off the final copy on a LaserWriter be sure to use the Tall Adjusted mode on the Imagewriter This mode prints wider than the Tall mode and is closer to what you will get on the LaserWriter Also remem ber the LaserWriter docs not print right up to the edge of the page To be safe allow at least half an inch all around the page I started the Connelly Chronicle in January of this year My first edition did not make it out of the house but my second and subsequent editions have enjoyed a limited circulation to close friends and relatives House guests have contributed MacPaint drawings and of course my children aged 5 and 7 arc always a good source for art This summer I m hoping they will dictate some book and movie reviews As editor I have final say on how often it s published and I can always improve on the format With December just around the corner now is a good time to practice drafting a family newsletter Get your dog into the act by digitizing his paw print Then he too can leave his mark on the final product Gi a LaserCopies QA 50 each for WAP Digitizing Macintizer samour ThunderScan 2 25 scan The Connelly Kisronicit Plus Resource Time 10 hour Minimum 5 00 lt DeskTop Publishing Word processing Typesetting Quality Reprographics PC Resources Appointments amp Messages 8
188. not by next week I admit but soon There s so much happening with this new page description language that Adobe itself is slow to realize its full range In their publication Colophon the artists feature one special effect after another With a digitized image for example Postscript programmers can alter the output into line art screens or half tones This means at least one guy in the darkroom is out of work In another issue Adobe demonstrates the manipulation of text into obscure shapes and pattems bending typography into threc dimensional perspective and creating drop shadow that truly imitates objective reality If the pundits are so eagar to uncarth a revolution why live off a dict of Apple press rcleases and rumor Icaks Adobe is the one to watch out for 56 July 1986 They re the ones who take what Apple has created and deliver a product that will truly change the way we scc Because as revolutions go they re usually either self proclaimed or later pronounced by historians While I ve read that computer gaming will change the way we think I d predict that postscript and other languages yet to come will change the way we see It s one thing to expand our thought processes from linear to non linear association it s quite another to develop our visual perspective with non static imagery Combined we have the prospects of something truly revolutionary If we can create a world more litcrate more informed we ll owe it i
189. ns Names Notice the fields They are the individual pieces of information you want to store The arrangement of those fields is thc form And the record is made up of the form plus the data entered in the fields Arrange your fields to please your eye you ll be looking at them for a long time as you enter data and for ease of entering information For example it may make sense to place the first name first even if later on you ll want to see the names reversed It s easier to enter a name first name first And it makes sense to place the area code before the phone number for the same ICason Your information may lend itself to some special arrangement Any arrangement is OK But make it intuitive so you won t have to look at the screen to know which piece of information to enter next You re data entry will flow smoothly from record to record If you include a field for comments or remarks be sure you ve allowed enough space to accomodate the largest comment you re likely to make If your data base program allows you to change forms after you ve entered data then Washington Apple Pi don t worry about the length or size of fields You can always change them later to accomodate an especially large comment But some data base programs don t allow changes after data is entered so here s where it pays to have thought out carefully how you will use your data before starting to create the form Once you ve built the
190. nt it to do I d really like some feedback on this article if it helps anybody out a little I d like to know it And if it s of no value I d like to hear that too That way I can either write some more on the subject or let it fade away HARDWARE A computer is designed much like a miniature corporation It has its officers middle managers and its workers It also has departments and offices where par ticular types of work get done The corporation that I m going to use as an example is the Apple J which is not so different from the J or the e It s also the corporation that I use now and have used for the last six years so I feel pretty much at home with it This corporation has an organization chart and though the organizational structure may look a little funny we should keep in mind that this particular corporation has no loafers no back biting and no empirc building there I ve already carried this way into the realm of fiction The organization chart is as follows PRESIDENT Vice President of Interoffice Communications Liaison Office Manager of Printing The President of this conglomerate is of course the 6502 chip which controls processing on the Apple You ll hear the 6502 referred to by name a lot but sometimes you ll also hear the more gencric terms the chip or the CPU CPU stands for Central Processing Unit or even the micro processor The generic terms all refer to this presiden
191. ntative of the club in a press capacity thanks to the efficient and swift interven tion of the Manager of Public Affairs of the Consumer Elec tronics Group of the Electronic Industries Association the show s sponsor producer and manager Armed with a press badge I spent 2 days in the 20 football fields in size exhibition area peopled by 1500 exhibitors Actually other than shaking hands with a friendly robot wandering the halls a cross between Bernie Urban and Tom Warrick I spent most of my time in that arca of the show sct aside for computer software houses Between passing out copies of our impressive Journal evidence of our mult thousand membership and with references from some firms that already support the club this was necessary because some houses are fearful that users groups will simply copy and spread any donated software around I was able to Icave the show with my hands full as Strategic Simulations SSD Accolade MicroProse Software Country Electronic Arts distribution Polarware Penguin and Batteries Included donated software for review Many other companies promised to send Apple and Macintosh software for review in the future ranging from new sophisticated word processing programs to games In wandering around I got first hand information via press kits and interviews a look at what Apple owners can expect in the coming months and confirmation as to how well known the club actually is
192. nter for Apple products in located at 5726 Industry Lane Frederick MD 21701 301 694 8884 e July 1986 7 P H OTL N E For Use by WAP Members Only Have A probem The following club members have agreed to help other members PLEASE keep in mind that the VOLU EERS Respect all telephone restrictions where listed and no calls after 10 00 PM except where indicate pe le sers of the listed are Hotline are reminded that calls regarding commercial software packages should be limited to those you have purchased Please do not call about copicd software for which you have no documentation specified When requests are made to return calls long distance will be collect Telephone numbers are home phones unless otherwise Gencral John Day 01 621 7543 Games Apple Charles Hall Gon 330 4052 Dave Harvey 703 527 2704 Games Mac Ron Wartow 301 654 4439 Robert Martin 301 498 6074 Hard Disks 4 Accounting Packages Corvus amp Omninet Tom Vier BBS 301 986 8085 Accountant Dec Sup Mark Pankin 703 524 0937 Corvus Leon Raesly 301 439 1799 BPI Programs Jaxon Brown 301 350 3283 Sider Jaxon Brown 301 350 3283 Otis Greever 301 262 5607 Otis Greever 301 262 5607 Home Accountant Leon Raesly 301 439 1799 Languages A Applesoft Integer P Pascal Howardsoft Tax Leon Raesly 301 439 1799 MzMachin Otis Greever 301 262 5607 A uis Biggie 301 967 3977 APPLE SSC Bernie Benson 301 951 5294 A Peter Com 301 251 6369 Ap
193. o separate the month from the date put C into the current array variable MO R and make sure that M1 holds the value of C 1932 IF NOT Di THEN 1935 1933 HTAB 1 VTAB 24 PRINT HIT lt RETURN gt FOR D1 DEFAULT CALL 868 1935 T E HTAB 12 VTAB L PRINT GOSUB 25 1936 GET E IF E CHR 13 THEN 1941 1937 T T E PRINT E IF E CHR 8 AND LEN T 1 THEN 1916 1938 GOSUB 5 1939 GOTO 1936 1941 C VAL T IF LEN T 0 THEN C D1 1942 HTAB 12 GOSUB 25 IF C lt 1 OR C gt 31 THEN 1935 1943 T 13 GOSUB 50 DT R C D1 C The routine for entering the date is pretty much the same idea If this is our first time through we don t have a default value for the date so we can jump directly to the input routine at line 1935 You may have noticed we set D1 equal to 0 in line 1927 which we would only encounter if we were estab lishing a new month for our record 1945 T 14 GOSUB 26 GOSUB 30 1949 VTAB L HTAB T CALL 958 PRINT T IF LEFT T gt lt i THEN 1955 1950 IF S2 THEN S12 S1 1 30 T E PRINT 2 IF LEN V1 0 THEN HTAB 1 VTAB 24 PRINT HIT lt RETURN gt FOR VI DEFAULT CALL 868 HTAB 15 VTAB L GOSUB 25 31 GET ES IF ES CHRS 13 THEN 36 32 T TS ES PRINT ES IF ES CHRS 8 AND LEN TS 1 THEN GOTO 1932 33 GOSUB 5 35 GOTO 31 36 IF LEN T 0 THEN T V1 37 IF LEN T gt 12 THEN TS LEFTS T 12 38 VENS R
194. o we want to save its value in the variable X First we will just use the part of C to the left of the decimal point the INTeger of C We will right justify that part of the number by using the subroutine at line 50 Now let us look at line 75 Taking the substitution equation for T from the inside of the parentheses to the Washington Apple Pi outside we first take the value of X and add 1 0001 Let us take a value for X so you can see what is going on Let us say that X is 25 53 After the addition is done we have 26 5301 Next we multiply that value by 100 giving us 2653 01 Now we take the INTeger of that value or 2653 convert that to a string and take the RIGHT two characters of that string 53 So when we are done in this example TS would be 53 Why do we go through all of this Because the Apple is not that accurate an adding machine A clue that this problem exists appears on page 18 of the Applesoft II Basic Programming ReferenceManual copyright 1978 version Also I wanted to make sure that if by chance we erroncously typed a three or four decimal place number that the third and fourth decimal places would be truncated dropped not rounded into the figure We printed the part of the number to the left of the decimal point with the subroutine at line 50 Next in line 71 we print the rest of the number Line 78 puts everything back to normal and returns us to the main program at line 1960 1960 T 36 GOSUB 80
195. oads ALL even printer routines or PARTS of AppleWorks runs 30 x faster increased Desktop over 2048k auto segments large files onto multiple disks stores over 23 000 records amp 5000 lines FREE APPLEWORKS TIME DAY DATE ON SCREEN AUTO COPY TO RAM ULTRA FAST PRODOS DOS 3 3 RAM DISK amp RAM TEST optional CP M amp Pascal Ram disk Printer Buffer due anyime MultiRam MultiRam RGB lle Card Card 169 129 179 139 206 175 241 214 266 239 284 449 64k MULTIRAM 128k MULTIRAM 320k MULTIRAM 576k MULTIRAM 832k MULTIRAM 1024k MULTIRAM 1344k MULTIRAM 1600k MULTIRAM 1792k MULTIRAM 256k Memory Chips 1 yr warranty 8 Apple lle Enhancement Kit Accelerator lle 35096 speedup card Ile Il CP M amp Pascal Ram Disk lle llc ea Clockworks Card Thunder Time HO comp Pico Slimline Drive lic Ile N FD 100 Slimline Drive lle I Pinpoint Program or Spell Checker ea 65C816 EX Co Processor Card Terms Add 4 Ground or 6 Air shipping amp phone st toeach U S card order foreign orders FPO APO extra Add 3 for Master Card Visa include expir amp P O s 396 7 Net 30 For fast delivery send Cashier s Certified check Money Order C O D add 5 amp personal checks accepted allow 16 days Tex res add 6 s tax Ramworks Ramworks L Timomastor ll HO Z ram Pico Fipster respoctwe trademarks of MustiRam Checkmate Technology Apphe
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197. on his number is listed on thc masthead or the WAP office This month also sees the rcalization of some structural changes that will improve WAP services Foremost of these is the multi user telecommunications system about which more is said elsewhere Second is the renovation of thc tutorial room at the WAP office Our contractor has fin ished enlarging the room by removing storage closets and relocating the door and whiteboard to give the room greater scating capacity for tutorials and SIG mectings This is going to make a big improvement in how efficiently we can usc that space Half of the 2 000 cost of these improvements was paid by our landlord as part of our new three year lease We may soon be asking some of you with strong shoulders to help us move the large bookshelves that contain the WAP hardcopy library onc of our prides and joys into a place in the main office that will not interfere with holding mectings and tutorials in there as well State of the Pi This month also marks the end of my first term as President of Washington Apple Pi One of the duties of the WAP President according to the By laws is to report annually to the membership on the club s activitics over the past ycar and this scems the appropriate time to do so WAP is first and foremost an educational group that exists primarily to help us the membership Icam more about microcomputers how they work and how to get the most out of them If we have
198. on GEnic I have found GEnie not to be as user friendly as other local BBS s but that conclusion is based on limited exposure I did download successfully several Red Ryder files with no problem The non prime time hours for GEnie are 5 00 hour for either 300 or 1200 baud There are phone numbers for Rockville 300 300 1200 2400 baud Salisbury 300 1200 Baltimore 300 1200 2400 and Hagerstown 300 1200 The Hagerstown and all 2400 baud numbers have a 2 00 hr surcharge Non prime time is 6 00 Washington Apple Pi PM to 9 00 AM weekdays weekends and holidays I hope someone writes a morc lengthy review of their experiences with GEnie By the way at the timc this article was written Scott Watson was up to version 9 2 of Red Ryder He should join forces with Central Point Software Both arc running neck and neck to see who can bring new revisions of their software fastest The major difference is that Red Ryder revisions are free and Central Point charges 18 per revision Interesting Fact According to Scott Watson new FCC regulations specify that automatic redialing device may not be allowed to progress past 15 consecutive tries Multiplan Version 1 1 The following new fcatures have been added to Multiplan version 1 1 which was recently released 1 improved printing options such as ASCII printing 2 addition of seven financial functions i c IRR MIRR PV FV PMT NPER AND RATE 3 variable fonts and fonts sizes ava
199. ormative and entertaining We will try to take some live samples so bring along instruments cow bells old dishes or a tape of your cat Call Gary Larson or me for transportation or directions July 1986 17 Q amp A by Bruce F Field Q I am going nuts trying to figure out how to accomplish superscripting and subscripting in Apple Writer II using the NEC 8023A C dot matrix printer I obtained a free version of the NEC manual specially adapted for Apple users Also the good folks at Apple the big orchard in Cupertino sent me the manual for the Apple Dot Matrix Printer because supposedly the Apple and NEC 8023A are essentially the same A live person at NEC told me that to implement a superscript in Applew Writer II the pertinent commands are as follows 1 V control V setup for control character 2 ESC T16 set LF to 1 9 inch 3 ESCr reverse LF direction 4 V This is to produce scroll up so the footnote number can be super scripted 5 4 exemplary footnote number 6 V setup for scroll down control character 7 ESC f set LF direction to forward 8 ESCA reestablish original 1 6 inch linespace 9 V No luck the printer prints out T16r4fA when those commands are entered precisely as stated I thought about the foregoing instructions and it seemed to me that an LF command was necded in each window just before the terminal V command I tried that by adding a control J command between steps 3 and 4 and 8 and
200. other filing systems Learn WPL Learn how to program in WPL Apple Writer s Word Processing Language The Minute Manual for WPL is included and the entire filing system program which is written in WPL is listed and explained It s Fun Here is the first completely open and modifiable integrated soft ware system Here is your chance to alter a useful and powerful pro gram to your own liking Per sonalize your Filing System to your specifications Unlimited amount of data can be entered into a field V Data is stored in normal Apple Writer files wW Whenever you display a record you can Add data to the record Delete data from the record Insert data into the record Delete the entire record 5 Print the record ACC nm W Generates mailing labels MinuteWare Publishing P O Box 2392 Columbia Maryland 21045 You must have Apple Writer to use the Filing System for Apple Writer Apple is a registered trademark of Apple Computer Inc MINUTE MANUAL is a registered trademark of MINUTEWARE PUBLISHING July 1986 Washington Apple Pi OFFICERS amp STAFF Board of Directors President Tom Warrick Vice Pres Programs Adrien Youcll 656 4389 951 0838 Vice Pres SIGs Bruce Ficld 340 7038 Treasurer Edward M Eon 759 5479 Secretary Poer Com 251 6369 Directors T Tom DeMay Jr 719 4632 p mond Hobbs 490 7484 Bob Platt 806 353 9723 Leon Raesly 439 1799 J ay Thal 244 3649
201. ou can have both the spelling and editing features a few keystrokes from one another MacSpell and MacLightning are Desk Accessories and can be used from within your word processor At the time I used it only a MacWrite version was available for Mac Spell Right Anybody know if that is still true Since I use M soft Word now I needed spellers which work with it Both Spell and Lightning allow you to select a diction ary a handy feature In fact as they open you must identify which dictionary you wish to use Since they are desk accessories they can be installed directly in the word processor you use thereby saving a precious DA slot They both offer suggestions for words not found in the dictionary and they provide a count of words checked Beyond these points in common they operate very differently and offer alternative approaches to spell checking MacSpell This checker works equally well with Mac Write and with Word It appcars in cither as a desk accessory After selecting it you are greeted with the following window DO MacSpell e Must identify which dictonary you wish to use MacSpall WM By Allan Bonadio Word Selected Presenis Ana Michael Mazour Word Count 138 Guesses accept dictionary D When first initiated the Stop Checking box reads Spell v Check Document After clicking on this option the first unknown word will appear along with the sentence con taining it Y
202. ou now have the options of Accept Add to Washington Apple Pi Dictionary or Ignore Accept puts the unknown word in a temporary list which accumulates with further additions Should the unidentified word appear elsewhere in the docu ment Spell will not bother you with it If you re check the document later without having closed the Spell window it will continue to be accepted Adding to dictionary does what it says Using this option allows you to expand your dictionary to include special terms and names which occur frequently in your documents Ignore also does as advertised Should Spell encounter an unfamiliar word as seen in the carlicr screen shot it suggests the closest match or matches from its dictionary If the correct term is presented you need only click on it and Spell will replace it Alterna tively if the desired choice is not presented you can enter a corrected version or just edit the word appearing in the Word Sclected window I did confuse Spell on one occasion It seemed to get stuck on a hyphenated phrase which broke at the end of the linc I would urge it onward and the word count would increase but it remained stuck at the hyphenated word It seemed to interpret the hyphenation as an indication of where to break the word It checks about 10 words per second taking 3 minutes to check this review The dictionary seems quite adequate When checking this article if found only one word excluding names
203. ould be the first to argue whether bolding him or it was relevant and would probably have preferred it Flight Simulator is a full featured cockpit trainer with real sound flight controls and all round windows for the Mac It has a choice of thrce aircraft a Cessna a WWI biplane and a Lear Jet With an amplificr piped to the sound port you really believe you have a jet in your study Altitude and direction control is provided by the mouse acting as a joystick Dear Members Tony retires as SigMac disk librarian For Tony and the Team who have given so much do sit and think awhile They have served Thank them by volunteering your services the Pi needs you Leon Moore and Dave Wertz as USUHS member sponsors arc also retiring We thank you too and also request volunteers to fill the gaps For the British members we seem to have almost completed the invasion of Washington that failed two centuries ago MFS Macintosh File System were you baffled BYE This is my last Meeting Report Sec you in London i July 1986 9 Apple News by David Ottalini SIG Chairman THE WAP LIBRARY We start off our article this month fellow ers with some bad news After only two weeks in thc WAP office our new video tape How to Use Your Appple in Ten Easy Lessons has apparently been stolen The WAP office has a number of video tapes for members to look at but a deposit must be made in order to take the tapes out of the of
204. our Chore wil be codon i MUCH MORE AVAILABLE choose it will display how many Schools School Districts amp Universibes We welcome your Purchase Orders Krellens and Zaldrons you must Terms Prepayment 5 Else 2 107 Net 30 Days V A Call or Write are given Shon missions wn NEXO DISTRIBUTION Mn 1 take about ten minutes have the MICROPROCESSOR PERIPHERALS worst kill to time ratio while long 8824 GOLF DRIVE e SPRING VALLEY CA 92077 6 619 589 7928 missions which take over an hour Mon hru RIN TODO AM eee Apple I Apple I Apre Ih Anger tle Appleworhs are fraudemarss of Apple Computer fex Videoterm is c trademore o Vater fei Saturn amp Tran ore trademaras of Titan Technniog es Washington Apple Pi July 1986 25 A BUTTON DOWN GUIDE TO THE APPLE by Raymond Hobbs Many people figure that all my articles are going to be technically oriented Well to some extent they are right This article also is intended to be a bit technical but it s designed for our novice members It s an article on hardware computers firmware the cards that we are encouraged to insert into the computer to get all sorts of wonderful things to occur software the programs on disk that we buy and peripherals the other machines that we attach to our com puters such as printers and modems and the like It s also an article on RAM and ROM and chips and operating systems and the ins and outs of making the computer do what we wa
205. our budget cate gories and change add to delete or save them to disk This month we will step through a program we call ENTER DATA which contains the Main Menu of this program and the routines for entering listing and changing the data in our money management system 0 IF NS gt 2 0 THEN 1500 1 GOTO 1400 In the first lines of our first program called BUDGET see our article in the May Washington Apple Pi Journal we set NS equal to 1 This is the variable we will use to keep track of the number of items we have entered into our data base If it is greater than 1 there is data in the Apple s memory and the program will go to line 1500 where the Main Menu of the program resides Since there is no data in memory at this point the program moves to line 1400 DATA DATA DOES THE DISK HAVE THE DATA 1400 HOME PRINT HIT RETURN IF YOU WISH TO ENTER DATA FROM DATA FILE OTHERWISE ENTER FILENAME 1401 INPUT TS IF T THEN 1405 1402 FDS T 1405 HOME INVERSE HTAB 6 PRINT ENTERING DATA FROM DISK NORMAL PRINT PRINT READING IN FD 1410 ONERR GOTO 19999 1412 PRINT D VERIFY FD 1415 PRINT OP FD 1420 PRINT RD FD The first thing we do is clear the screen and ask the user if he wishes to enter data from a disk file with the default name of Data File or from a file with a different name This gives the user the option of kecping more than one set of data If RETURN is pressed the default na
206. out So where are the savings If I m smart I ll do the typing myself and send it to them over the modem I pay them to proofread and then I ll edit it once myself to be sure it s just right So they set the parameters of the page make up program hit the buttons and go But that s just step one I ve saved myself hundreds of dollars sure But printing costs are still ahead and of all the people who applaud this revolution who s taking the time to remind us that we still have to pay thousands of dollars for book PRINTING My point to all of this is in the short run D Pub sounds fantastic But for a book or journal all you re saving is composition time At current prices for the work station and with the nominal change in consultant dollars spent D Pub remains in the hands of the few unless some thing is donc to force prices down 1f there s any revolution going on at all it s not at corporate Apple It s across the street at Adobe where real revolutionaries are at work pushing page make up to the cutting edge with their PostScript programming language What Adobe is doing for publishing is similar to what Ampex and others did for broadcasting in terms of digital effects and computer enhancements Imagine doing away with the composition room compete with stat cameras big tipped markers and magnifying loups with PostScript a keyboardist may bypass the whole process of board artists darkrooms and cranky color separators Well
207. pany Security and Relia bility are the very hallmarks of success with a hard disk external or internal It was strongly reinforced that Main tenance contracts arc essential for hard disks whatever your opinion about reliability of the basic computer system box which is usually entirely reliable if no faults are discovered within the warranty period Not so for hard disks One is reliant on heads and the various mechanical parts and even more dependant on software to drive the system most efficiently hence dependent on software upgrades that take advantage of progress Down to business or more accurately here s a brief compilation of the hard disks that were discussed Frank Potter loves the DataFrame20 list price 1 100 very fast very happy with it and SCSI no print spooler and no back Washington Apple Pi up updated files Jim Burger on HardDisk 20 non SCSI HFS software coming soon RSN Real Soon Now incremental back up 1 499 list very reliable works faster with Mac Plus Peter Trinder in UK reminds me that the HD 20 has an auto sensing voltage regulator so business men can move their Disk without their Mac MacBottom brings the screen up to cye levcl now has a SCSI port Hyperdrive works 3 times as fast on a Mac Plus We re getting down to trivia Jay reported that MacCorner has the Micah 20mb internal drive MacCorner advertising inside Front Cover of June issue has an impressive range of alternate drives s
208. phic Macintosh adventure based on the same gaming system as DEJA VU Roger introduced me to Tod Zipnick of ICOM Simulations who developed both games for Mindscape Be sure to choose the About command of both games for a real treat I also met another developer for Mindscape Doug Sharp co creater of the favorably reccived CHIPWITS who showed me a little of his new Macintosh adventure game THE KING OF CHICAGO Finally my primary contacts at Mindscape Karen Novak Manager Communications and her assistant Rebecca Steck were as helpful as ever John Williams Director of Marketing Services for Sierra talked glowingly of KING S QUEST III and THE BLACK CAULDRON favorably reviewed last month and told me storics of his days as one of the first editors of SOFTLINE Joel Billings President of SSI demoed for me an expected summer release of an Apple fantasy role playing game called ROADWAR 2000 and advised that the classic game PHANTASIE will be coming out for the Macintosh also in the summer SHARD OF SPRING a new fantasy role playing game will be coming out in the fall as SSI continues to address this very popular market W M Trip Hawkins President of Electronic Arts tweaked me for complaining that EA was concentrating on other than Apple computers by reminding me that most of EA s bestsellers were programmed first for the Apple Ata reception he hosted I met Bill Bunten SEVEN CITIES OF GOLD among others Les
209. ple TechNotes Joe Chelena 703 978 1816 All Jeff Dillon 301 422 6458 AppleWorks Jay Jones Balt 301 969 1990 A Richard Langston 301 869 7466 Ken Black 03 369 3366 A Leon Raesly 301 439 1799 Ken DeVito 703 960 0787 ALM Richard Untied 609 596 8816 Communicatlons Packages and Modems Telecom ALM John Love 703 569 2294 Anchor Mark 12 eorge Kinal 7 10 202 546 7270 M Raymond Hobbs 301 490 7484 Jeremy Parker 01 229 2578 P Donn Hoffman 412 578 8905 Apple Modems John Day 301 621 7543 P Michael Hartman 301 445 1583 ASCI Express Dave Harvey 703 527 2104 Forth Bruce Field 301 340 7038 BIZCOMP Modem Jeremy Parker 301 229 2578 MS Basic Ray Hobbs 7 30 10 301 490 7484 General Tom Nebiker 216 867 7463 Math OR Ape Mark Pankin 703 524 0937 Hayes Smartmodem Bernie Benson 301 951 5294 Monitor RGB John Day 301 621 7543 Robotics Modem Joan B Dunham 301 585 0989 Operating Systems SeriAll Comm Card Joan B Dunham 301 585 0989 Apple DOS Richard Langston 301 869 7466 Smartcom I Harmon Pritchard 301 972 4667 John Love 703 569 2294 VisiTerm Steve Wildstrom 301 564 0039 Adam Robie 301 460 6537 XTALK CP M Comm Bernie Benson 301 951 5294 Richard Untied 609 596 8816 Computers Specific CP M Ray Hobbs 7 30 10 301 490 7484 Apple c John Day 01 621 7543 Leon Raesly 301 439 1799 Franklin amp Laser 128 Doug Trueman 417 679 3526 ProDOS Richard Langston 301 869 7466 LISA Mac XL ohn Day 301 621 7543 John Love 703 569 2294
210. quence is V ESC CTRL SHIFT N V go to Incremental 18 Q July 1986 Line modc to scroll up footnote number V ESC f ESC A JJ V to return to original linc V and J are control V and control J respectively and I ve put spaces on either side of the ESCs so you can sce them better but don t type any spaces To return to the Logic Seeking mode you need to send ESC escape right bracket From Apple Writer H with the shift key mod use V ESC SHIFT M V H you don t put the NEC in the Incremental Line mode when ever you send a line feed it also produces a carriage return So you get everything after the lincfced over at the left margin of the printer not the left margin of the document as set in Apple Writer The Apple Dot Matrix Printer the precursor to the Imazcwriter docs not have this Incremental Line mode and so cannot be used for super and subscripts The Imagewniter docs have the Incremental Line mode but it is accessed differently instead of ESC use ESC I 1 escape lower case L numeral 1 To return the Imagewriter to normal node use ESC 0 escape lower case L numeral 0 V ESC T16 ESC r JJ V 4 Your explanation for using ESC codes to drive an Epson through Apple Writer II won t work the same for all Apples You only have to hit ESC once if you have the shift key modification and the G which enables double strike must go before the last Ctrl V or it will not be interpreted as a message
211. r you re out of luck anyhow Also you can t put this type of program on a hard disk though I m not certain about that not having a hard disk yet Arrgh Yet another old topic surge protectors and their relative merits A while back I discussed Some people Washington Apple Pi disagree with my view that surge protectors are an ounce of protection an ounce being about 35 as opposed to a pound of cure my particular pound was 170 70 if I recall correctly but I got a litlle pamphlet in the mail from the Bal more Gas and Electric Company which supplies the power for beautiful Bowie Maryland It s a brief explanation of what surges are and why they occur and it includes a section on how to prevent sensitive electronic equipment such as home computers from damage number one on their list of suggestions Use Surge Protectors Also men tioned is Bernie Urban s suggestion to unplug such equipment when leaving it unused for a period of time or when a thunderstorm threatens I say again GET A SURGE PROTECTOR I will have an article in next month s Journal on this subject My modem My modem a Prometheus Promodem 1200 which died inexplicably last Christmas is back from Prometheus I mailed it to them on May 7 and it came back on the 22nd a fairly reasonable time for warranty repair It works perfectly actually it works a little better than it did before it now beeps when I turn it on which it didn t do before
212. rea Unfortunately The Comm Center suffered a major loss a year and a half ago when fire destroyed the shopping center Although completely rebuilt it could not continue to survive the financial burden when it received a smaller insurance settlement than was expected Clinton Computer is very pleased that it has retained much of the staff from The Comm Center including its founder Tom Softley Center founder and Manager of Clinton Computer Laurel CLINTON COMPUTER offers Washington Apple Pi members a 25 DISCOUNT OFF THE LIST PRICE on all Apple brand peripherals and software and on AppleCare no CPU s Discount is available to persons who have been Pi members for at least 3 months Discount applies to cash and certified check purchases and cannot be applied retroactively Add 1 for credit card and personal check purchases If the product is not in stock we can take your prepaid order Pi members need to present their cards up front No phone or mail orders please Discount cannot be used in combination with other promotions Members should primarily use the Pi network of experts for after sale support 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 McIntosh Laboratory Inc and is being used with express permission of its owner Washington Apple Pi July 1986 1 The Filing
213. reafter beginning in the month joined If you would like to join plcase call the club office or write to the office address A membership application will be mailed to you Subscriptions to thc 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 reccipt of change of address may be acquired via mail for 2 50 per issuc Current office hours arc Monday Friday 10 AM to 2 30 PM Thursday 7PMto9 00 PM Saturday 2 Noon to 3 00 PM Office will not be open on Tuesday cvenings during July and August Please Note Washington Apple Pi APPLE TEAS by Amy T Billingsley What s an Apple Tea An opportunity for Apple users to get together in a small group sctting to learn about a specific phase of Apple computing or just to share information and ask questions How can you have one in your arca Plan to host onc at your home or another suitable location Think of a topic of general interest settle on a date and call me at 622 2203 How could something so helpful be so simple Start working on yours today Announcing three Apple Teas in July Refreshments will be served Bring computer if convenient RSVP to host Apple Tea Laurel MD Wednesday July 2nd 7 30 9 30 PM Managing Your Money with the Apple Spreadsheets at the home of
214. ribed in the article in this issuc entiled Excel Macro Shortcuts to Align Text and Format Numbers Those of you with readers please let me know how this works One suggestion for the WAP Journal is to publish an annual index as a text file with the fields separated with tabs This would allow most data bases to import the file directly StnpWare Softstrip and Stripper are trademarks of Cauzin Systems Inc MacLightning update The MacLightning DA spell ing checker does not run with every program For example a WAP member called to inform me that it does not run with PageMaker It also does not run with MacDraw or ReadySet Go I have successfully used it with MacWrite Edit Just Text and MockWrite Mach 1 update When I first complained to the Palo Alto Shipping company that the version of Mach 1 they sold me at MacFest did not work on the MacPlus I was told to send my disk back with 5 00 for the update This annoyed me since the salesman at MacFest assured me that it would work on the MacPlus When someone else complained on CompuServe they were told that free upgrades were avail able When I called again Palo Alto Shipping explained that they had forgotten to take addresses at MacFest and that they would be happy to send me my upgrade at no charge When it arrived I successfully ran the examples on the MacPlus But when I tried some other things it locked up the Mac and the programmer reset switch did not recover Adobe Fonts
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216. ryone s part and what slander means and how it might be dealt with This whole issue brought to mind a recent happening within the Washington Apple Pi ranks and coalesced my thinking on this happening The issuc had to do with some one printing a statement on the bulletin board which read something like I m not saying that is dishonest The person was named I choose not to do so in this article as it seems irrelevant to say here as it seems irrelevant to say who wrote the statement also The issue is moral responsibility Education Charlie Brown s ABC s 29 Evelyn Wood Reader 56 Computer SAT HBJ 62 Power Math 62 Graphics Fontrix 1 5 66 ReadySctGo 2 0 132 pfs Graph 87 Silicon Press 512K 59 i Microleague B ball 29 Chess Master 2000 35 Summer Games LII ea 29 Wizardry 43 Programming Enh Terrapin LOGO 3 0 70 MacForth II Call MacroWorks 25 Turbo Turtle 43 Spreadsheet HabaCalc N Graph 38 Business Filevision 235 in my eyes To me it was all the more ugly that the person Supercalc 3A 121 Multiplan 150 phrased it as I m not saying because he was by the very Mord Processing fact that he chose to make the comment saying Even MouseWrite req Mouse 87 Microsoft Word 138 worse though was that this person was trying to deny the Word Perfect 1 0 98 ThinkTank512 121 saying and opt out of responsibility It is difficult to raise children today many problems face Buy MOUSE WRITE for your Apple llc or l
217. s for the next step Figure 5 Second Set of Data Ready for Copying Plotting Now Copy the area just selected Click on the Chart window Again if it s not visible click and drag on the Spreadsheet tide bar From the Edit Menu choose Paste Special When you get the Dialog Box click both the circle labeled Columns the square labeled Categories in First Column and the OK button as shown in Figure 3 To plot the data for the next metal go to the paragraph above labeled CODA After four iterations you have the chart shown in Figure 1 COMMENTS It is irksome to have to copy the Cate gory column to the left of cach Scrics column before plotting It would be faster and simpler if you could select one column to be the Category column and select a non contiguous column as the Series column Perhaps Microsoft will include this feature in an upgrade A second good feature would be an additional Chart selection using a lincar Series axis and a logarithmic Category axis i c a lincar log chart in addition to a log lincar chart A third desirable feature would be the capability to expand the printed chart to take advantage of a wide carriage Image writer When data points are close to cach other they overlap so that for points that plot closely to each other one cannot distinguish among several symbols In Figure 1 above two Excel Macro Shortcuts contd from pg 60 Numbor Format Macros
218. s letter is to bring to your attention the considerable assistance given to me by an Apple Pi member Mr John Love in resolving programming problems Mr Love showed both patience and perserverance in ferreting out technical solutions to problems which were in effect disabling some of our examination programs I am particularly gratified for this assistance and 1 am pleased to commend Mr Love and his work George A Garrigan PhD No VA Community College Washington Apple Pi MACINTOSH FAMILY NEWSLETTERS by Rosemary Connelly With less than 180 days until this ycar s Christmas card deadline it s time to be thinking about the annual family newsletter Thats the one that gets typed at the last minute and xeroxed for Aunt Dolly Cousin Fred and the Livingstons in Sioux Falls Most people groan at the mention of a family newsletter Some hate the thought of writing them while others dread having to read one But now you can change all that With an Apple Macintosh and a little imagination you too can bc part of the desktop publishing revolution producing a newsletter that is both fun to write and interesting to read Best of all this can be a project that involves the entire family even the dog As soon as a toddler can grab for the mouse he or she can create Macpaint drawings Older kids normally reluctant to write anything can be motivated by seeing their words in a neat column of print And moms and dads can usc their ed
219. s not publishing quality if you want those really big contracts So where do the pundits get off by pronouncing this revolution Publishing for the Rest of Us The rest of us can t afford that type of gcar The lower classes are already so disenfranchised from the electronic village they ve had to give up on it completely Ask a minimum wage laborer what they know of Compuserve or even the low cost alternative GEnic Come on now This is first and foremost a propo sition for business big and medium but hardly small I gasp at the notion of mom and pop shops forking over the capital for a desktop publishing station to revitalize their fledgeling restaurants and travel agencics I realize sales are brisk but there are a lot of people out there making hefty payments on equipment that s primarlily composed of plastic glass and a litle bit of metal With an economy as diverse as ours justification for buying a desktop combo can be found around every turn But for the most part publishers are a breed apart and account for very little of the total market Apple needs to concentrate on Finally they ve hit on a good one Engineers Why they didn t pump up the CAD CAM division carlicr I ll never know Why then tcll me why is everyone going nuts over Desktop Publishing To date I ve read so many predictions about the effect of D Pub that I m swimming in a pool of hysteria Some say we ll sce the downfall of the Evil Empire aka USSR and all
220. sWorks II 64K ta 3 aeg t 80 col 139 Viewsaster 80 col for IIt 119 MEMORY EXPANSION Microtek 16K RAM Card cece cece cece cece eee e ee eeees 19 Legend S card 256K to 1 meg runs Appleworks on JCt 209 Titan Technologies 126K RAM card VERAM e ER LR ee 179 Washington Apple Pi Systems SOFTWARE WORD PROCESSING Wordstar 3 3 includes 6 ahz Z B0 Applicardl 149 Word Perfect BEST IBM prog now avail for J e c 95 Bank Street Writer or Speller 000 45 pfs Write Jle oe cena epe e ed 19 ScreenWriter II 40 70 80 col display w speller 85 HoseMord HoseUord Speller 49135 Sensible Speller IV DOS ar PRODOS versions avail 7 The Word Plus super spelling checker for CP M 109 SPREADSHEETS Multiplan state of the art spreadsheet 70 SuperCale 3a spreadsheet b graphics for the JCe c 135 INFORMATION MANAGEMENT dBASE II the best Apple database requires CP M 299 pfs File Report or Graph 0 cece eee ee 19 The General Manager 2 0 sek eee 149 Thinktank electronic thought organizer 95 DB Master 4 latest version eases 185 BUSINESS amp ACCOUNTING Dollars amp Sense accounting w graphics 69 amp 79 Managing Your Money accounting investaent segati 115 Peachtree Back to Basics Accounting CL AR AP 115 B
221. since your macro is a Command macro and type in f as the Option Command key since OPTION COMMAND f will be your keyboard shortcut for Align Left and then click OK You will have to define each of the ten macros using this procedure Then you re done These macros will work with any Excel worksheet as long as you have this macro sheet you just created open when you work with Excel Notes Remember that small and capital letters are different when using Excel macros Therefore Command Option m is different than Command Option M The specific letters that define the names of these macros are fairly arbitrary you can use other ones if they are easier for you to remember Define Name SSS E Name Cancel lign Left pCmd f lign Left pCmd f OpCmd_f ence Delete Refers to Macro O Function 9 Command Option Key r Audri Lanford is CEO of Micro Dynamics Ltd a Washington D C based consulting firm specializing in Macintosh software development consulting and training contd on pg 62 Washington Apple Pi EXCEL AND SCATTER CHARTS OF SEVERAL DEPENDENT VARIABLES by Hampton M DeJarnette INTRODUCTION An earlier excellent WAP article David Morgansteins EXCEL ing With Your Mac March 86 p 52 showed how to draw scatter charts with Excel This article adds to the earlier one by showing an undocumented way to draw several scatter graphs on a single chart
222. sn t count as one of the main three Mine is a part of the sequencer Here s a glossary of real uptown synthesizer idioms Analog Synthesis A type of musical synthesis in which a waveform is initially loaded then modified by filter ing out all or part of selected harmonics FM Digital Synthesis Another type of musical syn thesis in which standard waveforms are augmented by the addition of sideband harmonics Sampling Synthesis A third type of musical syn thesis in which a sound is sampled and its waveform recorded and modified by application of onc of the techniques described above Sequence A file of musical events including such things as notes on off rests on off dynamics velocity and aftertouch sensing etc Sequencer A program cither in hardware or in soft ware which records and plays back sequence data Patch A file of instrument definition data including waveform and envelope Channel A buffer assigned to send and receive both sequence and patch data Program Data used in sequence subroutines The program usually contains patch data and represents a change of instrument assignment within a sequence Loop A sequence which is repeated one or morc times Parameter A switch dial or gadget which controls some aspect of instrument definition Mod Wheel Somcthing like a joystick on a computer it s a kind of sophisticated wah wah pedal MIDI Have you been reading any of this How much docs i
223. ssic text adventure was the subject of a group solve I reported on my recent trip to the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago see article elsewhere in this issue Every one was pleased to now have Strategic Simulations Inc SSD Polarware Penguin MicroProse Software Inc Acco lade and Electronic Arts in the fold The software listed below was demoed and assigned for review GameSIG has been notified that we will be sponsoring the main meeting in August Separate programs on Apple and Macintosh gaming will be presented to the membership Next month s GameSIG mecting will bc on July 3 at thc Office beginning at 7 30 p m NEW SOFTWARE RECEIVED OO TOPOS Polarware Penguin One of the firm s COMPREHEND Interactive Novels of an Apple classic all text adventure game which now contains over 100 impressive graphics for which the firm is famous 1000 word parser UNINVITED Developed by ICOM Simulations Inc for Mindscape Based on the same mouse predominant gaming system as DEJA VU this graphic adventure game in a Gothic setting features digitized sounds and animation 512K Macin tosh with single disk drive THE CHESSMASTER 2000 Software Country distrib uted by Electronic Arts New chess program with a raft of features including a teach mode and many different levels of play Joystick and mouse control Apple series with 64K PHANTASIE II SSI The recently released mega hour fantasy role playing game followup to
224. ster develop ment of healthy mind and body alike Naturally some children prefer computers to sports or vice versa but are 16 July 1986 allowed to take part at thcir own interest level For every 4 kids there are 2 computers and one counsclor The youngest share software packages taking turns as indi viduals I think it is better to be 2 to 1 on the computer because you can explain it to someone else and that helps you articulate it Any teacher will agrec In computer periods of 2 hours cach campers can go far in skill building and creative discovery alike At TIC there is no rest period for the campers I was worried about that at first Karen admitted but even the little kids seem to enjoy it and keep up Parents often ask me How do you sustain their interest all that timc But they arc just like the older ones I have to go around and peel kids off the computers a lot Then too the children do some times take breaks they can run around and scream outside To keep campers focused on computer work there is a color war a project that is timed and graded during the latter part of each session As for day to day focusing the staff has found it important to havc campers conceptualize and then plan programs proceeding from the overall picture downward This is hard for childlike minds so they arc guided to break everything down into parts Debugging and accepting the fact that errors and obstacles are all
225. t cost to gct into music synthesis The chart below may help approximate values Apple Il e Apple Jc Macintosh Non MIDI 150 n a 60 MIDI 600 700 700 For more information and demonstrations and such sce your local music store don t tell them I sent you or go to a MUSIC SIG meeting see Music SIG News in this issue Many thanks to Gary Larson and Yuban coffee without whosc help this article could not have been written e Washington Apple Pi THE PRICE IS RIGHT ONeccec Apple Software Macintosh Software LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Accounting AR AP PR BPI ea 235 Dollars amp Sense 104 Accepting Responsibility Managing Your Money 124 MacOneWrite 165 Dear Editor Communications Recently a 12 year old friend of my son s was accused ASCII Pro 81 HabaCom 49 wrongly of stealing After all was said and done and it was Compuserve Starter 26 MacMail Telecom 37 clear that this boy did not steal anything the store refused to Database apologize using as reasoning that we were only doing our pfs Workmates rp w 170 OverVue 20 200 job I heard this with my own ears I acknowledge that a The Data Factory H9 MaeEion Call store has to be on its toes to prevent shoplifting but I was angry that they were not big enough to apologize for their mistake In talking of this issue over dinner tonight my son was trying as all 12 year olds might to distinguish what would have been responsible behavior on eve
226. t heard thesc complaints about Mac Connection I personally have had nothing but good expcri ences with MacConnection and that scems to be the gencral consensus You may have trouble getting through on their 800 number but I have had good luck at 9 00 AM and around 5 00 PM They also accept orders from 9 00 AM to 5 30 PM Saturdays m nD fic Apple Computer Inc has announced plans to open a Washington D C office to handle its government marketing division The office is expected to open this summer and will cventually house 50 to 100 employees who will serve thc military civilian government agencies and prime government contractors from the Government Computer News by Jake Kirchner July 1986 53 T Or So They Say by Stephen C Warren This is an amazing time with revolutions going on all over There s a revolution of information because of com puters there s a revolution in compact disk digital technol ogy and there s even a revolution in South Africa but we hardly seem to bat a proverbial eye Now Apple Computer announces a revolution all their own and the pundits arc quickly laying claim to the misnomer Desktop Publishing Revolution although I have my doubts when it s sclf proclaimed Here s why When Gutenburg invented movable type or whatever it was he did there was such a vacuum for printed material that it naturally led to a first wave of the information society The only problem was nobod
227. t rid of old ones Otherwise you may be working along when all of a sudden the Apple will decide it has to take care of the old strings itself It will go away for awhile and interrupt your work whenever it wants to rather than when you want it to I have found that it may still do this when you are reconciling your bank statement despite our efforts here ENTERING DATA FROM THE KEYBOARD 1799 REM ENTER DATA 1800 HOME 1815 PRINT PRINT IF YOU WANT AUTOMATICALLY ASSIGNED CHECKNUMBERS ENTER THE STARTING 1816 INPUT IF YOU WANT TO ENTER THEM YOURSELF HIT RETURN 1 S1 VAL SIS 1817 S220 IF Si gt 0 THEN S2 1 1818 SS 0 D1 0 R NS 1 B 1 MIS MS M1 MO V1 1819 PRINT PRINT TO ENTER A DEPOSIT OR TO ENTER INCOME TYPE A SIGN FOR THE FIRST CHARACTER OF THE TO FIELD PRINT 1820 PRINT WHEN YOURE THROUGH ENTERING DATA ENTERA 1 FOR CHK OR MO TO RETURN TO THE MENU PRINT 1822 INPUT HIT RETURN WHEN READY C The first thing we are going to do is to provide for the case when a person wants to enter a whole series of checks which all fall in numerical order There should be no need for the user to enter the check numbers if the computer can do it for him If the person hits return in response to line 1816 each check number will have to be entered If the person enters a number the computer will start with that as the first check number The variable S2 is used as the flag to determine
228. t the same ume the assistance we ve received from Siew Youell Siew Adrien s wife volunteered many hours to work in the WAP office helping the Urbans out with the many mailings and other tasks that comprise the work of a computer user group We will miss you Siew Retiring this ycar from several years of service on the Board is Tom DeMay Tom has in addition to his Board service helped organize our Hardware Helpers program and has also helped organize volunteers His latest project for the club was to organize the balloting process for this ycar s election Tom has taken a new job that will require him to spend a great deal of time out of Washington but we hope to continue to count on his service when he has time available Also retiring after a year on the Board is John Voglewede John has been one of the most faithful attendees at Board meetings and his good counsel will be missed We hope he will still be able to contribute at Board mectings in the Journal and elsewhere Although Dave Wirtz is not a Board member he is also someone else we will miss at Washington Apple Pi Dave helped coordinate meetings at USUHS one of the most important volunteer tasks in the club We are currently 4 July 1986 by Tom Warrick PRESIDENT S CORNER looking for someone to replace Dave and to assist Leon Moore who is now our USUHS coordinator If you work at USUHS or on the NMC NCR campus we very much need your help Please call Le
229. tal Mountain 206 The Lost Adventure Eamon contd 207 The Manxome Foe 208 The Gauntlet 209 Caverns of Langst 210 Future Quest 211 House of Secrets 212 Sewers of Chicago 213 Slave Pits of Kzorland 214 Alternate Begin Cave 215 Lifequest 216 Swordquest 217 Priest of Xim 218 Heros Castle 220 Utility II 221 Utility III 223 Temple of the Undead 224 qur for Holy Grail 225 Caves of Mondamen 226 Orb of Polaris 227 Death s Gateway 228 Escape from Orc s Lair 229 City in the Clouds ProDOS Volumes f 802 Utilities A 803 Filecabinet 804 Shareware 805 85 Tax Templates AW 806 ZAP 807 Imageworks Forth Volumes 700 Assembler Disassemb 701 Full Screen Editor 702 GoForth Tutorial 703 Fig Forth 704 Floating Point Arith Pascal Volumes Sce also 133 300 PIGO ATTACH 1 1 BIOS 301 PIGI 302 PIG2 303 PIG3 PIGO PIG2 PIGA4 and 4 304 PIG4 305 PIGS PIGI 1 are 306 PIG6 re issues 307 PIG7 308 PIG8 309 PIG9 310 PIGIO 311 PIGI11 312 PIG12 313 PIG13 Guerilla Guide 314 PIG14 P M Volumes 401 Master Catalog Utilities 1 402 Communications 404 Utilities 2 405 Utilities 3 406 ZCPR2 Install 407 ZCPR2 Documentation 408 ZCPR2 Utilities 409 Modem 730 410 Essential Utilities 411 Text Editor 412 MICI 413 MDM740AB SSC amp Com 414 MDM740CD 7710 amp A Cat 415 Orig 350 Pt Adventure Apple ill Games Volume 1 Games Volume 2 Basic Utility Volume 1 Basic Utility Volum
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231. teve Hunt 301 262 9080 Sprdsht EUM vicCalc Leon Raesly 301 439 1799 f Walt Francis 202 966 5742 super al cr 50 Leon Raesly 301 430 1799 MusicWorks Skip Horvath 703 536 4091 Stat Packages David Morganstein 301 972 4263 OverVuc J T Tom DeMay Jr 301 779 4632 Stock Market Robert Wood 703 893 9591 Tom Parish 301 654 8784 Time Sharing Dave Harvey 703 527 2704 Spreadsheets David Morganstcin 301 972 4263 Word Processors Walt Francis 202 966 5742 Spreadsheets amp Graphes Bob Pu gino 202 797 0879 Apple Writer I Dianne Lorenz 301 530 7881 Sidekick Ray Hobbs 7 30 10 301 490 7484 Leon Raesly 301 439 1799 Tom Parrish 301 654 8784 Format II Henry Donahoe 202 298 9107 Word Marty Milrod 301 464 2154 Gutenberg Neil Muncy Can 416 298 3964 Data Bases amp Jr Harris Silverstone 301 435 3582 dBase l Paul Bublitz 301 261 4124 Letter amp Simply Perfect Leon Raesly 301 439 1799 John Pala 703 893 5985 Magic Window and II Joyce C Litle 301 321 2989 dBasc II amp III Ray Hobbs 7 30 10 301 490 7484 Peach Text Carl Eisen 703 354 4837 Jim Kellock day 301 986 9522 PIE Writer Apple PIE Jim Graham 703 643 1848 Leon Raesly 301 460 0754 Screen Writer ll Peter Combes 301 251 6369 DB Master Dave Einhorn 301 593 8420 E E Carter 202 363 2342 Data Perfect Leon Raesly 301 439 1799 Supertext II Peter Rosden 301 229 2288 Data Factory Bob Schmidt 301 736 4698 Word Handler Jon Vaupel 301 977 3054 General Manager Normand Bernache 301
232. th what baud rate parity etc If you want to get into this in a serious way you might also want to buy or make yourself a little RS 232c patch and test board called breakout boxes in the trade Like lots of other data communications equipment you can build yourself a home made equivalent for a fraction of the commercial cost I took two DB 25 connectors one male the other female mounted them on a piece of wood drove two rows of nine one inch plated brads into the board and wired pins 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 19 and 20 to the brads Now by using little test clip Washington Apple Pi leads to connect between the rows of brads or to jumper some of them together I can test different interconnection arrange ments for unusual RS 232 interfaces With a voltmeter I can also look at the handshake leads to see what s happening on the interface Incidentally the previous articles have given the wiring for a DB 25 to DB 25 Quick and Dirty cable appropriate for connecting a laptop to another computer with a standard DB 25 RS 232 connector on it One of the previous articles also implied how you could put a different connector on one end for connection to the Mac One disadvantage with such a cable is that it is specific to the Mac Another way to get laptop to Mac connection capability while also having a cable for use with other computers is to make yourself an adapter that converts the Mac port into a female DB 25 connection Here s the
233. the associated Iron Curtain countries Why Because they ll now be voracious readers of underground publications by way of desktop publishing Oh You mean people in Poland who can afford one washing machine per lifetime will suddenly be publishing with 10 000 systems That doesn t leave much left over for printing does it So Apple taunts us with the option of moving the design studio typesetter and printshop right on top of a three square foot area why the print shop Don t those Canon print engines sputter out after about three thousand copies That s hardly a print shop A Design Studio Sure if you don t mind the jaggies Oh You re using non bitmapped drawing software Still a little clumsy eh Ah The Typesetter yes I m sure they have me on that one While I can get real typesetting for 2 per thousand characters right over in Alexandria I still have to wait a day for processing after I send it to them via modem it s regulation type all right but a bit cumbersome when I need results in minutes So they got me on the typesetting features Then there s the argument that D Pub will upset the contd Washington Apple Pi MOUSE 7 Introducing cleanse A OO THE LAST MOUSE CLEANER YOU LL EVER NEED patent pending You ve noticed those tell tale symptoms jerky movements slowed response time Cleaning your Mouse is no longer a h 360 your mouse is crying out for a cleaning POESIE Mouse Cleaner Forget those t
234. the buffer becomes full Note there is no advance warning of this situation Lincs 726 740 In DOS I had to resort to a trick to save a text file using the much faster BSAVE operation ProDOS has the equivalent built in the T parameter designates the file as type TXT and a BSAVE is then used Subroutine 2000 2010 confirms 80 column card is installed 2030 a 6850 type card is in slot 2 2040 an SSC type card is in slot 2 2060 70 BLOAD the appropriate binary module 2323 for the SSC a 2400 baud choice has been added Note 2400 baud is apparently too fast for most 80 column cards and some character dropping occurs during line scrolls Command the sending system to insert some nulls after cach line if possible 2510 6850 type cards should be set to 1200 baud The old Apple Comm card should be modified If these cards are installed with some other baud rate the menu choiccs 1200 or 300 will not reflect the actual baud rate Rather choosing 1200 simply sets the card to whatever baud rate its switches or wiring say it is while 300 puts the card into a baud rate 1 4 of what the switches say Line 2620 and Subroutine 3000 If this is a 40 column Apple we need to find out whether the user has lower case display 4 THE MACHINE LANGUAGE PROGRAMS SSC OBJ AND SSM OBJ What I have done in the complete Comm Term package is to prepare two separate machine language modules SSC OBJ for the 6551 case and SSM OBJ for th
235. ther game disk including a reenactment of a Civil War battle 1863 Anirama Ashes Black Box Connect Four Maze2 and an amazing Mac interpretation of the TV game Wheel of Fortune MacDisk 47 Fonts Hebrew Fonts and Algebra fonts disk Left to Right Hebrew fonts and a broad range of algebra math fonts are included Install using DA Font Mover on Mac Disk 49 Mac Disk 48 Fonts Fonts disk which contains the latest FontDisplay 4 0 application which fully displays available fonts by font and point size a great Princeton Fonts 3 0L designed for very technical display on both the laserwriter and imagewriter if you have need for high quality technical fonts this is the best around and a series of speciality fonts including Japanese Mac Disk 49 Utilities Utilities disk including several highly uscful tools Included are the latest formal release of DA Font Mover 3 1 a reverse screen capability for the Mac a great Art Grabber like DA Artisto an excellent Disk Librarian 1 7 applica tion for cataloging programs across disks and the most useful single DA we ve worked with Disk Info 1 43 among other goodies Mac Disks 17 2a and Mac Disk 17 2b Red Ryder 9 2 These two disks contain Red Ryder 9 2 a favorite tele communications program of many The reason it takes two disks to provide all the documents is that the formal documen tation for 9 2 has not yet been written We have included the full docs for version 8 0 and the upgrade
236. tial slot in the company although for different computers the CPU may not be a 6502 chip For example the c came out with a slightly modified 6502 microprocessor dubbed 65C02 and the IBM PC uses the 8088 By the way you may have heard of a number of people outfitting their Apples with a Z 80 card it s a clever way to add an alternate CPU to the Apple the Z 80 cards contain not surprisingly a Z 80 micro Director of Foreign Operations Manager of Multilingual Translation very Maneger of Library Services Manager of Telecommu nications Communica tions Svcs 26 July 1986 processor In any event all the work done in our Apple corpora tion will be controlled by the 6502 chip The 6502 may delegate work to auxilliary devices but all work done on the Apple will t ler t oe f the 6502 Obviously he who controls the 6502 controls the Apple and the 6502 can be directly controlled Unfortunately the 6502 speaks a foreign to us language called 6502 Assembly Language This stuff is somewhat difficult to understand especially for novices so most of us use an easier language to speak to the 6502 To do this wc have to go through the Manager of Multilingual Translation Services see chart who will translate what we tell the 6502 into the language that the microprocessor can understand but more about this later For now just keep in mind that this service exists
237. tions except one are associated with a location or address in the Apple The high numbers are associated with the specialized functions while the low numbers are the work area Actually the upper 1 4 of the addresses are what we call ROM Read Only Memory and the lower 3 4 of the addresses are what we contd Washington Apple Pi call RAM Random Access Memory AS you have probably guessed the rooms that I have been talking about actually represent memory locations within the Apple both in ROM and RAM The difference between the two is simply that the information contained in ROM is there forever it cannot be written over while the information in RAM can be erased and rewritten countless times As a matter of fact every time you turn on your Apple or hit the RESET key the information in RAM is erased Have you noticed which of the functions we talked about earlier has no memory address It s the president the 6502 itself and its executive functions The 6502 chip actually does have several addresses but they are very special addresses and are referred to as registers We won t go into details about the registers this time but the Assembly Language program mers who may be reading this are probably breathing a little heavier now We are going to take a closer look at the organization of the Apple s memory still keeping up our analogy to a corporation but we ll be concentrating on the lower memory areas this time
238. tle name or one of your own choosing Its independently scrollable split screens are easy to use with the top section being used to produce labels by high lighting selected disks and printing and the bottom section permitting the usual selection deselection of files to avoid use less buildup of the files Its filtering function is not as flexible as I would like it to be as it is limited to thc follow ing items a BE g V x 2t HE Ei g Check the Items to Filter D Clipboard File O mageuwriter 3 DeskTop C Note Pad File O Finder J Scrapbook File DAN Invisible Files DM System In order to prevent you from shrieking with despair in the middle of the night waking your family and flinging disks against the nearest wall I recommend that you get one or more of these programs Organized labeled disks saves sani ty It also makes your Mac more enjoyable and productive In summary any of these programs can serve your necds well My prejudice is to use CatalogKeeper and myDiskLabcler because they offer the greatest degree of freedom of usc e July 1986 67 WAP BUDGET by Ed Myerson Pro forma budget results for the fiscal year ended May 31 1986 based on the eleven months ended April 30 are reported below together with the budget proposed by the Board for this ycar The budget will be considered at the general member ship meeting on June 28 The budgets for the t
239. to programming recasts the fundamental ways programmers go about writing successful programs by binding data and program code together in a new method that goes beyond the inadequacies of current procedural languages For more information call Kurt at PPI 301 721 7449 65 Got A Problem a Buying a MacPlus and nervous about getting it all together b Want to run a different configuration of equipment and not sure it will all speak the same language c Can t get your modem to talk to you or anyone else Tried of buying equipment from people who won t promise it will work e Spouse ran off with a computer technician If you answer is any but e we may be able to help you c is a little out of our line of business Custom Computer Equipment and Cables Adaptation Electronics Jay Heller Owner 20315 Grazing Way Gaithersburg MD 20879 301 948 7440 69 July 1986 DISKETERIA DISPATCH Mac Disk Notes by Martin Milrod The Mac portion of WAP is no longer a Special Interest Group SIG and as such beginning this month new disks are now known simply as Mac disks rather than SigMac disks Please let us know what you are particularly interested in secing in futurc Mac disks and we will try to respond to your wishes Mac Disk 45 Games Game disk including Animal Destroyer HexPuzzle IBS LAZlife 2 0c Gentic law game MacLuff infinite Tic Tac Toe and Snake arcade game Mac Disk 46 Games Ano
240. trated in the major citics in this country Until a better network for distribution is established and I d argue that the computer bulletin board is a much better medium of distribution for publishers to bc destop publishing will remain in it s current state that is a nice tool for designing newsletters and restaurant menus but a low end alternative for the average user Why Just look at the price tag For example let s say we hook up a Macintosh to a LaserWriter That s almost 9 000 if you pay full retail But that s not all you need Any good publication deserves a hard disk storage facility so tack on another thousand at least Since you can t gct by without pictures and graphics shell out another thousand for a decent digitizer and graphics tablet If you want to be safe from disk failure get a back up storage device another thous and If you want to hook up to the outside world a modem will cost you another two to four hundred So that you secure 54 July 1986 HERE S A REVOLUTION GOING ON your system from theft or malfunction add on some more for AppleCare insurance and some hefty deadbolts for the office Okay so I m taking it to an extreme but by how much I ve left out the grandpop of em all the Linotronic type processor starting at a mere 30 000 And if you re really into pub lishing that last item is A MUST Remember technology teaches us to raisc our standards not lower them and 300 dots per inch i
241. ud leere 99 Kensington Surge Protector replaces power cord 39 ENIIIRERCITIEMOOJTILITINE SS CS BUNE ECECECOUCIONR OE CALL FOR PRICES OF ITEMS NOT LISTEO Please Coapare Our Prices If you find a lower price give us a chance to beat it Feel free to call for answers to technical questions Call Jeff Dillon at 301 434 0405 or Write or visit OPERANT SYSTEMS 7476 New Haapshire Ave Suite 312 Langley Park Md 20783 Md sales add 5 tax UPS shipping is available All items carry full manufacturer s warranties Sore te SS ES SE BOC See i i l i i TO ORDER i July 1986 13 We will do our best to make it worth it Future disks will have many new topics In addition to more games and utilities there will soon be a Font disk to give you fonts and font utilities a graphics disk and some time in the future we will embark on several Pascal disks DID YOU KNOW THAT APPLE USERS CAN GET SOME HELP FROM US Well it s truc 3 Easy Pieces creates files that AppleWorks can read and vice versa without any alterations So as soon as we can we will have a disk with templates for 3EZP functions AppleWorks uscrs should take a look at this onc In closing I would like to thank those who have helped in this project specifically Bart Cable Robert Huse David Ottalini and Jim Salerno as well as the many others who have helped gamer the mater
242. unaided We hope to make usc of the wide and valuable expertise of our own SIG to develop instructions as well as suggestions on the many different applications of some of these programs The library disks are all 5 1 4 SS disks which are self booting Business Basic version 1 23 They contain a menu driven startup which will run any program or rcad any text file you select You can exit to Business Basic or change to any other Business Basic disk without rebooting While it has been argued that the self booting feature takes up large amounts of space on cach disk we feel that at least for the first several disks of each category this is the best format to serve the novice or new user Here is a BRIEF list and description of what is contained on the first four disks future articles will deal with cach disk individually Games Volume 1 Football Guru A program to help you win the office pool Cannibal Island A game to test your survival skills Piano Plinker Play the medley provided or create your own Dazzle A display of the graphics screen of the Friend A version of artificial intelligence Eliza Word Puzzle Create your own word puzzles Trucker Drive your own rig across country Games Volume 2 Biorhythm Charts your own biorhythm for any period Audio Demo Shows you ways to usc the audio driver Knitting Tool Helps to plan how much yarn you nced Golf Might help you win the Kemper Perpetual Calend
243. urnament mode where it and you will be required to complete a given number of moves to satisfy a primary and a secondary time control In both these last modes you can effectively handicap Colossus by giving it less time than you give yourself Finally there is an equality mode in which Colossus will attempt to match its total elapsed time to your own allowing you to force a faster pace by moving more quickly yourself In all modes a chess clock can be activated estimating clapsed time for each side on the fact that the program examines an average of 300 positions a second Colossus Chess IV also has an infinite analysis mode in which it will analyze a given position until forced to stop Last of all the program has a problem mode which will solve chess problems such as regular mates self mates and help mates Other options allow the user to set up positions for the program to analyze or play from to take back moves or make Colossus play a second best move to start a new game save a game to a data disk print a game score or an unimpressive non graphics description of the board or even try a blindfold game against the computer At any point it is possible to use the spacebar to toggle back and forth between the board and a screen which has a score of the moves the elapsed time for each side and a display showing what moves the program is thinking about as well as its evaluation of the position I am an experienced tourna
244. ware is on sale throughout the store More than 100 l items discounted from 25 up to 80 aiou SY T 1399 Definately our best Sale to date ica st 9 Without question the highest perfocnance Hard Disk for y r 00018 the Mac plus or 512 Benched at three times the speed of er o 75 H E LI X a Hyperdrive Its excellent design makes for quick Macros for the mac EO TE imi trouble free internal installation Software includes E des athe best price ever printer spooling backup partitioning amp security THE 800K Disk Drive Helix 2 0 5139 hard disk to beat for speed compactness amp sophistication cm NEW Double Helix 3 39 For the Mac plus amp Mac 512 we MultiWrite ais onary word proccessor with integrated Outline proccessing amp great new Intoducing the New 3 san All games features A great value for those in search of a MacBOTTOM SCSI The fabulous Macbottom reputation comes now to SCSI hard disks Including all the excellent MacButt 30 60 off package combinig Word amp ThinkTank features software amp the PCPC sophistication in HW design price EE 79 Meio 49 A sy MINICAD 2 0 Macplus owners with MacBottoms Attention SS gt There simply is no better drafting program Upgrade your serial mb 10 or 20 to SCSI for 175 for the money 14 layer 2D drafting 3D amp N Bit editing are all improved amp beautifully implemented in this new version of MiniCad gee vos ble by S Furn t Es SUPE
245. what this column will be about this month MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface is as I indicated last month an interface and protocol specification It s like a standard serial port hookup to a modem with thc XMODEM protocol thrown in for good measure And as with modems if the interface is up to specs any synthesizer can be hooked up to it Also as with modems any software can drive the synthesizer This assumes of course that all this gear follows the MIDI specification I have two complete music systems set up in my rec room for example and only one of the two follows the MIDI specification That means that if one of the two manufacturers takes a Chapter 11 unless somebody else takes over the product support I m living on borrowed time with that system Guess which system it is On the other hand a MIDI system has a broader base of support for the computer interface and for the driving software Still if the synthesizer itself breaks down and the manufacturer is down the road I m eventually looking for hardware All this notwithstanding wouldn t you rather be looking for support for a Hayes compatible modem by a bankrupt company than for a Gee Whiz compatiblc Getting into MIDI is easy for musicians There are a few pitfalls for computer types though There is a new vocabu lary to learn What s worse you already know what all these things are only by another name The manuals that you get with most of this stuff
246. which represents a unit never changing posi tions The graphics are presented on a one dimensional plane with a bird s cyc view After awhile onc gets tired of this game After all onc can only blast for so long I do not give this game an excellent rating since it is repetitious even at high levels of play It has a very simple game plan it has no inherent educa tional value and its only objective is to destroy I would enjoy this game morc if they would sacrifice the music tunes which sound terrible on the Apple and upgrade the graphics STAR FLEET I is a tactical game set in space The producer of this game is CYGNUS who has never before produced a game Unfortunately their first entry into the Wonderful World of Gaming is a mediocre one The documentation surpasses any other rulebook I ve scen in size This rulebook has just a little less than 200 pages There are three books the main rulebook the hint book and the Apple Translation book The Apple Translation book is included since the rulebook was written for the TRS 80 and the IBM It is very bothersome to switch manuals every two pages The hint booklet gives different tables such as x star panes priced ced E planets have y functions in the Krellen Empire which hasn t Quality of Text 9 Overall Rating 64 6 helped me at all Once you boot up the game you are confronted by two Ru NK M APPLE COMPATIBLE eir be BOARD SPECIALS 4 ALL ASSEMBLED amp TE
247. within the Apple And stay away from Assembly Language program mers for a while you can tell Assembly Language program mers by the funny way they dress and the faraway glazed look in their eyes Like most corporate presidents the 6502 doesn t look directly at all operations of the corporation Instead the chip gets information about the rest of the company from middle management employees In the Apple J Corporation s case these middle managers are ROM which is concerned with domestic operations those which take place within the Apple and DOS which is concerned with foreign operations those which connect the Apple with the outside world or its peripheral devices such as disk drives printers modems etc Since both of these middle managers are given office space let s now take a look at where everybody sits in our corporate offices MULTILINGUAL TRANSLATION COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE SERVICES SERVICES SERVICES wW 0 R K i 1 i APPLESOFT INTERPRETER mor LIBRARY TELECOMMUNICA SERVICES TIONS SERVICES PRINTING DISK MODEM PRINTER T Rooms CO00 CFFF Rooms 9600 BFFFF Don t worry about the room numbers ending in FF I have numbered the rooms in hexadecimal for consistency with existing documentation on the Apple and for our purposes we can just treat the letters simply as high numbers a letter is higher than a 9 and F is higher than E etc The important point is that all these func
248. wo ycars reflect cash income depreciation is not included and expense and do not include purchase of fixed assets such as computers books equipment ctc About cighty five percent of the disappointing short fall of 28 826 in gross margin the funds we have to pay our expenses is attributable to lower than expected membership group and disketeria net revenues The 28 826 is partially offset by a favorable variance in expenses of 16 009 The Board and the Officers believe that the higher member ship and group sales proposed for the new year will be achiev ed and have planned disketeria sales at a more modest level Expenses are budgeted to remain about equal to last year s Su bject to achievement of the planned membership group sales and other targets a small surplus for the ycar is indicated For the Board of Directors Edward J Myerson Treasurer WASHINGTON APPLE PI BUDGET EXECUTION YEAR END 5 31 86 and PROPOSED BUDGET YEAR END 5 31 87 Ye 5 31 87 YEAR ENDED 5 31 86 PROPOSED PRO FORMA BUDGET VARIANCE BUDGET REVENUES Membership Dues 114 016 123 900 9 884 148 663 Publications Sold 25 043 19 416 5 627 25 291 Group Sales 45 246 113 027 67 781 64 999 Disketeria Sales 58 862 72 000 13 138 53 000 Other 14 701 19 057 4 356 13 710 TOTAL REVENUES 257 868 347 400 89 532 305 663 COST OF SALES CS Membership 94 220 98 624 4 404 121 557 CS Publications Sold 11 131 5 980 5 151 8 201 CS Group Sal
249. xibil ity of AE Pro But casual users especially fellow laptop owners might find it of some use One important improve ment has been made When the capture buffer is full the program stops further reception This prevents the program from destroying itself in memory Buffer sizc is 24K again a good match to the largest document likely to be transferred from a 32K class laptop Further enhancements are desirable I ve thought of sev eral during the preparation of this article Still I wanted to release the program in its current state now so I can get some bug reports Although I m particularly proud of Comm Term s automatic configuration installation feature to my knowledge no commercial program does this I have no way of testing it on a wide variety of systems and would like to hear of cases where it worked and especially where it didn t 1 have tested it on my 4 with and without 80 columns and with an SSM AIO and a Super Serial card Brief tests on a e also seemed to indicate success Comm Term in ProDOS form will be submitted to the Disketeria once I get a few more reports from volunteer beta testers 2 PROGRAM USAGE I have used the prefix DATA for all data storage files downloaded material or files to be uploaded Thus you will have to format a disk with this prefix for your text files In a one drive system you could place Comm Term its binary rou 30 July 1986 ProDOS REVISION OF THE COMM COMMUNIC
250. y Not all fonts have all characters in them If the font in use doesn t have a character it usually substitutes a rectangle for it Can any harm come of using a 400K disk in an 800K disk drive No not to my knowledge Help I was using MacWrite and I kept get ting a dialog complaining about an I O error There may have bcen a bad spot on your floppy disk Try another disk and see if the problem gocs away How do I remove fonts from the System file and store them in suitcases rather than just deleting them After starting up Fon DA mover press Open and then New to create a new font file MacTerminal doesn t work on my Mac It will dial the phone and then hang up immed iately What do I do The problem is that the Mac can control the modem through the DTR wire and MacTerminal doesn t handle it gracefully You have four options Either 1 tell your modem usually through a DIP switch to ignore the DTR signal from the Mac 2 cut the DTR wire in the cable 3 dial manually type ATDTxxx xxxx instead of using the Dial menu command or 4 run your version of MacTerminal 2 0 through Mike Boich s public domain patch program that will fix it for you The patch program also fixes a bug involving file transfer of applications Are there bugs in the new ROMs While scrolling menus are a good idea in MacWrite for instance they don t work right Check marks for instance don t show up This
251. y could read The scholars who for centuries depended on the hand etched scrolls produced by monks suddenly found bound volumes of information to bc scarce and quite expensive despite the technology With time as printing presses became more abundant the power of the printed word took on greater force but producing that printed word still took a lot of moncy so growth was sluggish Books were status symbols of the wealthy which also signified a degree of worldly power With the impact of the great industrial society the wealth of information grew proportionally to the number of literate readers and today as more and more people learn to read by the age of six or seven our world has become one where written words are so abund ant we have a hard time keeping them confined to books The streets the subways the skies are all smattered with written words So why the current rage about Desktop Publishing D Pub What has Apple done that is so revolutionary Are wc still not dependent upon the publishing powerhouses concentrated in New England Despite the power of the independent publishers distribution still remains the largest obstacle to mass disemmination of news and information And those channels of distribution remain to be extended to the desktop publisher if the goal is to create a thoroughly well informed society Oh I ve seen the specialty book stores and I ve seen the avant garde newsstands but truthfully they re concen
252. you tried to find the patches where I told you they would be you wouldn t have found them The problem was compounded by a couple of other errors in the table having to do with me being unable to read my own handwriting So now I m exactly where I didn t want to be I didn t want to just give a table of patches without also giving the warnings and disclaimers that should go along with it Here s what I m going to do I hereby incorporate by reference last months article Pleasc read it before making any patches I won t even tell you this month what the program it is that we re patching You ll find that last month too Please note that the text on page 54 starting byte E9 should now read byte 101 in the 17th row the 3rd hex character of sector 07 Revised Patches Change to Occurences Sector Byte 0000 0C60 0000 OCBO 07 101 0014 6F027C14 0027 6F02 7C27 58 95 000B FACE 001E FACE 58 BD 58 C5 4 ED FAD6 4 ED F350 4E 0D 4F F7 58 123 5A 63 83 0B 83 175 97 143 98 95 BS 14F 00E9 00 0089 00 81 1A9 FFC6 206E 00 FF8A 206E 00 82 01 FFEA 7005 FF8A 700E 82 09 3290 2F2E 2290 2F2E 82 13 FFEA 4EBA FF FF8A 4EBA FF 82 43 41EC FDE8 41EC FDC2 ee 82 1F7 0C46 000B BC6D FACE 83 2D OB 6FB8 1E 6FB8 83 38 4E56 FDEA 4E56 FDC4 83 45 486E FDEA 486E FDC4 83 6D 0C47 000B 6FE2 BE6D FACE 6FE2 83 18B 0C47 0015 0C47 0028 B4 43 4E56 FFBE 4E56 FF96 B4 DB 70E1 7095 B4 3F B4 AD B5 A1 FFE 4E FF95 4E B4 1E1 B5 1D 00

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