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1. lt 31 THEN 19050 REM SPECIAL CHARS 19040 PRINT CHRS PEEK I 19050 NEXT 19060 IF Z THEN PRINT 19070 START START SL 2 19080 RETURN 20000 REM Error Handler 20010 SPEED 255 TEXT END SYKORA UPDATE Lt Dale Sykora reports he and his brother are spending all their free time these days on their Apple graphics card for the and GS It appears a major timing problem has been solved and things are moving forward at a quickened pace We ll keep you informed FINALLY need some feedback from you Virginia SIG members know how difficult it is to get into Bethesda to attend meetings What would you think of having a SIG meeting on your end of the world every other month like some of the other SIG s do If this is an idea whose time has come please let me or Tom Bartkiewicz know We would obviously need a meeting place and access to someone s so let s hear from you folks The Best of Ottalini 4 ER ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE III By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman September 1988 We start our column this month SIGers with the news that On Three has moved It may not seem that big a deal except for the fact that it s another indication that the market continues to contract and those still trying to support our wonderful machine are having trouble doing that which is of course an indic
2. ANY Apple program Those folks who bought the Trackball directly from Sykora can get the upgrade from him as well for an additional 8 00 Check with On Three about the availability of the newly revised drivers if you want to buy it from them I ve also been putting a beta version of the SOS Driver Optimizer through its paces It still has a few bugs but think it will be an excellent addition to your library NEW PD DISKS Our SIG PD offerings continue to grow While continuing our work to bring the Pohlman disks together we ve moved ahead to get some of the D A Datasystem disks into our library This month we add disks 1022 1023 and 1024 All are double sided and 1022 and 1023 are self booting 1022 contains Basic Extensions and Basic Utilities Basic XT provides a series of Invokable Modules that allow you to use Call Peek Poke and other language add ons from within Business Basic Basic Utils provides a version of System Utilities from within Basic Daryl Anderson wrote the Utility program so that it is self contained But you can use the various parts in your own Basic programs if you need to for example you could format a disk from within Basic if your program needed that ability Complete User Manuals are provided for both Basic XT and Basic Utils Disk 1023 contains The Retriever a program that will let you undelete deleted files The User Manual is extensive and easy to use Finally disk 1024 has the parallel and se
3. SIG member John Chapman Jr for providing this program It s on a double sided disk Side one is self booting and has our Menu Maker program and the user manual Side two is also self booting in this case Pascal and will run the actual program Look for an article next month describing how to use Footnote We re also introducing PD disk 1026A B which is another in the Daryl Anderson Tools Times Three series This program is called Disk Window and will allow you to look at and even change the internal code of just about any program you might like this can be very dangerous so use carefully It has powerful editing features as well As with other D A Datasystem disks this one has complete documentation on Side one Side two contains the actual program and will return you to Menu Maker when you are finished And at at least one member s suggestion will soon be putting together a disk with back Trail columns on it Watch for its availability in this column NEW HELPER New SIG member John Ruffatto has volunteered to help with copying duties for our PD library and is currently cataloging and researching all our disks That way we can provide SIG members with hard copy listings at the office and on disk it will become number 1000 that includes information on each PD disk It will be constantly updated as we add new disks This should also help ensure that all SIG PD disks are of uniform quality are copied correctly and w
4. and write it back out 5 The program automatically updates each Boot Disk to the 512K version of SOS 1 3 i e SOS Thus your disks will work with either a 256K or 512K machine equally well 6 The program allows the installation of the DESKTOPMANAGER Trademark of On Three and its removal updating the Boot Disk for the special Boot Tracks required for use with Consorti s utilities 7 You can generate compact archival versions of Drivers Fonts and Keyboards that take up much less disk space 8 When you remove a Driver from your Desktop the memory is freed up for use by other Drivers eliminating one of the primary frustrations with SCP 9 Acontext based Help system that occupies 3 full disk sides is constantly available No program not even for the Mac II or Big Bad Blues has such a comprehensive and easy to use on line Help system 10 DCB editing may be done in either Binary Decimal Hexadecimal or Character Modes 11 A Program Environment feature saves the settings you use with the program FileName prefixes suffixes and defaults for example A comprehensive Printer setup feature allows you to control printer output with unprecedented precision Most printers can be selected quite simply from a Menu 12 For those Drivers that require it you may edit the Device Subtype 13 You may Anchor those positionally sensitive Drivers such as PowerKeys trademark of Pair Software so that they will not be moved by th
5. for a total of 78 Since most folks typing articles manuals etc DON T care to hit the RETURN key after typing in each line or keep track of how many columns are used it becomes a real pain to edit these pieces for use on the SIG s PD disks The answer Trusty old Word Processing Language WPL and AppleWriter WPL gives me as the editor a quick and easy ability to load and format an ASCII text file automatically so that it can be displayed properly by Menu Maker am not a hacker or heavy programmer type but was able to write this program called PD CON in only a few hours off and on over a week s time or so It is fairly straightforward and will automatically load a file format it properly print it to disk then save it back to the original file before resetting the system The program makes use of a RAM disk for speed but could easily be used with any Apple drive It also has a rather dangerous feature allowing the user to strip all control characters first before formatting This is useful in some cases for me but you may want to delete it The end result can be rather surprising if you are not careful would also suggest you try this out on a copy of your file at least at first to see how things turn out again sometimes there are surprises if the Print Program file isn t set up quite right at first It s also a good way to compare the Before and After results PD CON produces The program itself looks like
6. format disks set the time and other functions It also contains the System Configuration Program needed to set up your SOS Driver file for your system Includes additional drivers character sets and other items 1005 New Member Disk 1008 The Best of MAUG This disk contains a wealth of information from the section of CompuServe Good basic information 1009 The Best of The Source More basic information from the old SIG on the Source 1010 The Best of TAU Articles and other material from early editions of the Third Apple User s newsletter TAU Tales 1015 The Best of s Company How tos for hardware and software and other information from the s Company BBS 1013 A3 Diagnostics If your has a headache this disk may help you find out the source 1014 Basic Boot Disk Developed by member Jim Salerno It contains a number of fine utility programs For those interested in word processing we have a couple of offerings 1006 Word Processing and WPL This disk contains the 4 1 version of Apple Writer which was never issued by Apple It includes a set of SIG developed help files and other information 1029 1030 Ink Well Ink Well was recently placed into the PD by Foxware and is an excellent Basic based word processing program 1029 is the manual and 1030 is the actual program That should get you started The library also contains games utilities and much much more This month am happy to report
7. 1000000000 14 ppd ppy 365 pph ppd 24 ppm pph 60 pps ppm 60 REM time of day hh LEFTS Tttt 2 hh VAL hh mm MID Tttt 4 2 mm VAL mm SsS RIGHTS Tttt 2 SS VAL ss REM current population pd amp CONV amp jd ppd ph amp CONV amp pph hh pm amp CONV amp ppm mm ps amp CONVE pps ss dhm amp pm amp ph amp t pd amp py amp CONV amp ppy yr 86 0 CONVE 5 0 ppep s dhm t py amp HPOS 30 REM PRINT ppp amp ps amp The Best of Ottalini 4 D 9 27 700 ERFORM moveto 100 170 D 710 PRINT 1 USING 13 amp ppp amp t ps amp 720 IF VPOS gt 20 THEN VPOS 4 730 GOTO 310 740 REM RUN hello here if you wish 750 END 760 DATA 31 28 31 30 31 30 31 31 30 31 30 31 770 DATA January february MARCH APRIL 780 DATA D ek MAY e IY OK June ecWoc JULY cex Tto AUGUST e 790 DATA SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER Note that once you ve run this program you ll be stuck with the BYTE character set while in Basic or you could use the Newdownload font utility on disk 1002 to change the font Booting a new program by the way will usually load the Standard Character set Tim also had a few wishes for SIG disks including a version of the Menu Maker which will run Pascal programs Co Chairman Tom Bartkiewicz has a Pascal pro
8. 95 and it should be available by the time you read this The Best of Ottalini 4 12 ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE III By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman March 1988 The BIG NEWS this month SIGers is that Daryl Anderson of D A Datasystems has decided to place ALL of his excellent set of programs into the public domain The primary reason well let s let him give us the reason as described on CompuServe recently Since my one commercial distributor has gone the way of all flesh or at least all California publisher flesh figure all the unpaid royalties constitute at the very least a violation of the terms of our exclusivity agreement and I presume full control over distribution of my stuff So I have decided to release all of the D A DataSystems commercial software to the Public Domain and to upload as much of it as possible to CompuServe over the next few months This will include the 10 Tools Time Three packages plus Power Keys and the complete set of 17 modules and roughly a dozen other packages that were limited or custom releases or not quite releases such as PC COPY RAM 3 TWO N FRO LEGEND will be uploading full user manuals and eventually where possible complete source code would be delighted to have you modify and improve and pass along to another er any of these programs Many of you have been friendly correspondents and supporters over the 5 years since I got into the biz
9. And finally at the very end of the program you have the subroutines themselves First to load the FONT file 2000 INVOKE D1 download inv 2010 CS MIDS B I 16 B 2020 array S C 2030 nameS CHRS 34 CS CHRS 34 2040 PERFORM getfont nameS array 2050 PERFORM loadfont Garray 2060 GOTO 120 The Best of Ottalini 4 29 And secondly to load and display a FOTO file 2070 OPEN 5 GRAFIX 2080 INVOKE D1 BGRAF INV 2090 DS MIDS BS I 16 B 2100 nameS CHRS 34 DS CHRS 34 2110 PERFORM GLOAD D 2120 PRINT CHRS 16 CHRS 1 2130 PERFORM GRAFIXON 2140 FOR X 1 TO 2000 NEXT X TEXT 2150 HOME PERFORM RELEASE CLOSE 5 2160 GOTO 120 Note that once you ve loaded a different FONT file you re stuck with it until you load another one the default FONT is called Standard The Graphics subroutine displays the FOTO file for a short time and then returns you to the menu The two invokables needed Download Inv and Bgraf Inv are on disk 1002 and other disks You ll also need to add the Graphics Driver to you SOS Driver file using the System Configuration Program on your Utilities Disk That driver is on side B of disk 1004 MENU MAKER TAKE TWO We continue to fine tune this useful program and have recently been working to learn more about fonts as a way to jazz up the program You ll be seeing the results in our new disks to be announced this fall Current
10. Column R12 Ranntings Rann Rann 12 Dec 17 19 Column S01 Apple Sauce Sheppard May T 4 Column S02 Apple Sauce Sheppard Column S03 Apple Sauce Sheppard Column S04 Apple Sauce Sheppard T Column S04 Apple Sauce Sheppard Column S05 Apple Sauce Sheppard c 4 wln e el luo nie T 20 N a A Column S06 Apple Sauce Sheppard Nov F Column S07 Apple Sauce Sheppard Copyright Copyright Protection Cortopassi May 11 13 Data Bases 01 Data Base Fritz S 25 Desktop Manager The Updated Desktop Brelje Desktop Toolkit Toolkit Brelje 11 15 Drivers Driver Versions Ottalini 21 22 DTM Module Warning Brelje 7 10 DTM Module PKASO U Command Module Brelje 18 21 DTM Module Reload and Exit Turner 5 6 Dvorak Dvorak Keyboard E Ma ay 16 EZP Tutorial 01 Three E Z Pieces Graham 5 EZP Tutorial 02 Three E Z Pieces Graham Nov 5 7 EZP Tutorial 03 Three E Z Pieces Graham 5 8 Formulas Spreadsheets Formulas Lomartire sp 21 24 Game Program Cross Smith 7 Glossary 02 Glossary of Terms Thompson Au s n 15 The Best of Ottalini 4 63 N Letters 02 One Two Forum Denicola Feb 25 30 Letters 08 One Two Forum Sheppard Aug 27 30 Letters 09 One Two Forum Sheppard Sep 27 31 Letters 10 One Two Forum Sheppard 10 Oct 27 31 Letters 11 One Two Forum Sheppard 11 Nov 27 29 Letters 12 One Two Forum Sheppard 12 Dec 29 31 News S01 Apple Slices Sheppard Jul 5 COIN DD Mm IO LO 7 News S03 Apple Slices Shep
11. Halloween SlGer s On the Apple news front this October our first stop once again is On Three Last month detailed On Three s move to essentially two locations While gave their order line neglected to give you their new address for placing orders if you do not order by phone 11235 80th Ave N E Kirkland WA 98034 Their order line again is 1 800 443 8877 f you only want information about products or help with products already purchased the number is 1 206 823 0516 Despite the move On Three continues to work on new projects for our lovely orphan One is a native mode sideways print program for large spreadsheets Side Print as it s called will work with all Epson printers or those that can emulate Epson codes Okidata Apple DMP and ImageWriter printers Others may be included if there s enough interest The program is Pascal based and the source code will be included It s available now for 829 95 In its September issue On Three also announced a device driver to be used with a Seikosha parallel interface card and color printer Graphics Manager also had to be adjusted so it could work with the Seikosha printer This is an exciting product since it brings low cost color printing within reach of many Apple users Total cost for the driver interface card printer and special version of the Color Graphics Manager is 259 00 Up in Groton Connecticut Lt Dale Sykora headed out for a month of sea trials on a new Tri
12. Next month in time for Christmas we ll be offering the long promised CustomFONT program with its associated manual disk AND a double sided disk full of fonts DR BLOOM STRIKES AGAIN SIG member Dr Al Bloom has decided to place more of his great programs into the public domain Namely they are his excellent set of utilities of use with Mail List Manager Any of you who have this program know its limitations But with these utilities you ll be able to push MLM to their limit We will be adding these to our PD library in the next few months so stay tuned In the meantime here s a list of the 7 programs and a short description of what each does 1 MLMINFO consolidates all the important information about an MLM file on a single page your file s content structure sort fields and print control specifications 2 MLMSORT adds the power of a general purpose sort to your MLM system It re sequences a file in any order you desire using any of the up to 14 data fields in an MLM record 3 MLMLIST is a flexible and sophisticated list facility for attractive and meaningful display of MLM data This utility allows you to list any MLM file data items in an informative layout of your own choosing 4 MLMCNVT allows you to respond to changing needs by converting an MLM file into another layout You may rename and reorganize the data in an MLM record delete obsolete fields combine and split fields and create new fields 5 MLMERGE merges
13. TRAIL OF THE APPLE III By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman August 1988 MENU MAKER CONTINUED Since some of the column got eaten by the printing goblin last month thought we might continue our discussion of Menu Maker this month As was discussing member Tim Boquet asked about using the program to show FOTO files or change fonts automatically That got me thinking and after a little research found that it really wouldn t be all that difficult to do There are some basic things you have to do within the program to A let it recognize that a FOTO or FONT file exists B Set up an Array to hold the fontfile C Have the appropriate Invokable s available and D Have the appropriate subroutine available One way to establish the Array is to do it while the program is setting up the Arrays for Menu Maker itself Note the program numbers may not match your version of Menu Maker but if you list it it will be obvious where these lines should go and what the new line numbers should be 190 DIM A 1000 B 1000 C 511 CS 20 name 20 VPOS 10 HPOS 0 C CS and name all set aside the proper amount of memory for the FONT file so it may be loaded and executed by the program To get Menu Maker to recognize FONT and FOTO files you add these instructions at the appropriate places 420 AS FONT 0 GOSUB 130 430 AS FOTO 0 GOSUB 130 790 IF INSTR BS I FONT 0 THEN 2000 800 IF INSTR BS I FOTO 0 THEN 2070
14. a session at the Phase Conference October 1987 in Chicago GS BASICS We tried our best to be backwards compatible with Apple Business Basic In that regard we support all the key features of that language including the data file structures as well as the INVOKE and PERFORM interface We support CONSOLE PRINTER and all sorts of character oriented IO devices so you can do the redirection you know and love That way you are able to go to printer or go to disk within the limits of ProDos at least We built an interface up so it looks a lot more like SOS in ProDos from the standpoint of usage We added a lot of new features in the command language for example a COPY command a built in RENUMBER a number of other utilities that make the command line interpreter in GS BASIC a very friendly way to work the operating system Much nicer than standard ProDos usage The language is also fully compatible with the FINDER so we can launch BASIC applications By clicking on the program file it will automatically launch the interpreter for you and boot the application In fact at this time we don t even have the standard HELLO type program interface But we revamped the Business Basic EXEC capabilities and a lot of these features You can now also have an EXEC startup as well as an HELLO startup It s possible to start up an EXEC file at boot time which is pretty handy if you re doing serious business applications There are a lot of command
15. about today What is this new language and what kind of impact will it have on people who want to develop things for the GS either quickly or spend a little bit of time doing something really fancy And also those of you that program in assembly language want to talk a little bit about how GS BASIC for me presents one of the finest platforms in assembly language development that s around Those of you who did assembly on the Apple let s say using the invokable module will find an incredibly similar but far more powerful annotation of assembly language in GS BASIC and therefore we think it s the right place to turn this stuff loose in that system If you want to do the easy part in BASIC the hard part in assembly it s an ideal environment Besides the invokable module interface if you remember from the presented product opportunities for assembly language programmers to fill routines that were useful to a large body of programmers The way we ve done the interface to assembly in this product will also give you more of an opportunity to do high quality invokables for the GS with this product This product is even better Next month GS Basic Internals The Best of Ottalini 4 54 APPLE S TAYLOR POHLMAN ON GS BASIC Part 2 Transcribed by John Lomartire Edited by Dave Ottalini This is the second of two articles detailing GS Basic by one of its developers at Apple Computer Taylor Pohlman His comments were made during
16. and control changes And there s a second program that composes chord progressions riffs based on a given key If there s enough interest we can download these files and place them on a SIG PD music disk including any other information or music type files anyone might care to contribute Any takers SPEAKING OF PD DISKS We introduce FOUR new disks this month including the long awaited Power Keys disk from D A Datasystems A full description is provided for you in a separate article but let me give you the rundown of what is now available to you in our PD library Disk 1031 Basic Extension contains a number of useful Business Basic utilities placed into the public domain by Foxware Inc of Salt Lake City Utah Disk 1032 1033 TerminALL is a telecommunications program for the also from Foxware 1032 is the manual 1033 is the program Disk 1034 PowerKeys DM is a background utility much like Sidekick on the PC Includes all modules and manuals on disk The Best of Ottalini 4 38 In addition we have updated our PD disk 1000 to reflect these new programs as well as upcoming offerings to disk 1040 We are really proud of this PD library Sales of disks have been good of late and we thank you for your continued support oh oh am starting to sound like that wine cooler commercial We ve received that great Apple game I ve been talking about called CAP N MAGNETO and am working on it now Dr Al Bloom h
17. are 15 00 year Out in La La Land the Apple Three Users of Northern California remain a strong Apple group Their library is tied in with AUGI s although they do offer some disks of their own Their latest newsletter published a listing that includes a reprint service for many Apple manuals and technical information I reported earlier it appeared that had been dropped ATUNC s address is PO Box 1528 Mill Valley CA 94942 Dues are 20 00 annually And over in San Jose there is a new Apple group called The Apple ers Unanimous President and Founder John Cowman says there are 25 dues paying members They publish their own newsletter that is technically oriented and are working on their own PD library to include 3 EZ Pieces templates and a Pascal based lottery random number generator Dues are 10 00 per year or 1 00 per month starting in March For more information you can contact Cowman at 732 Timor Court San Jose CA 95127 His phone number is 1 408 259 9036 The Best of Ottalini 4 40 FINALLY Claris s purchase of StyleWare the producers of GS Works took a lot of folks by surprise since many expected Claris to upgrade AppleWorks specifically for the GS And while it seems that the action indicates a willingness by Claris to be more open to the community rumor has it that the purchase had less noble reasons That is to provide Claris with an opening into the Mac integrated market And now that GS Works t
18. below include Power Keys and the Tools Times Three productivity tools He even came up with a way to improve the Titan and e Ram drives and was working on a way to let you enter the e Em mode from Selector or Catalyst As family and other pressures mounted including a decision to return to school Daryl decided to sell many of his software products though Pair Software Frank Moore as well as through TAU the Third Apple Users Group But when Pair went bankrupt in early 1987 the last issue of The Three Magazine came out in February 1987 Anderson was left without any major royalties Pair continues selling its products even now despite numerous business problems but has NOT paid royalties to its developers in more than a year including this one That led to Daryl s decision last month to place all his software programs into the public domain What are some of the products that will soon be going into the public domain Here s a list with edited descriptions by the developer himself POWER KEYS Power Keys DM is a program which runs in conjunction with ANY other Apple program and allows you to substitute single keystroke shorthand or macro commands for more lengthy sequences of frequently typed characters such as product names programming keywords or anything you waste half your day typing over and over and over and The Best of Ottalini 4 50 In addition Power Keys DM itself can manage a growing collection of
19. desktop utility modules which put additional and useful functions at your fingertips while running any other program These modules currently include NotePad QuikDial QuikCat ShowTime PrintMgr AsciTbl QuikScrn and DiskMgr See the individual files in the subdirectory named PWRKEYS MODULES for details POWERKEYS MODULES All are available as background desktop utilities at the touch of a key while running any Apple Program and they include this is a partial list Module Description NotePad edit load save alter and view small scratchpad files at any time QuikDial allows modem owners to dial a telephone directly from the keyboard or from a number displayed on the screen by their program TOOLS TIMES THREE All these programs run under Business Basic Program Description The Best of Ottalini 4 5 1 Anderson also plans to put many other programs into the Public Domain including Program Description PC COPY IBM Apple file xfer req hardware RAM 3 Enhanced Titan II RAMdisks PCPI Allows running PCPI CP M from Catalyst TWO N FRO Run 1l emulation from Selector Catalyst Kache 3 Disk caching speedup via RAMdisk Remote Control via remote dialup LEGEND Autoboot 1 Meg RAMdisk for Legend card As mentioned in the Trail article these programs will be uploaded to MAUG on CompuServe using the XMODEM Binary 2 protocol and will also be available in the future from TAU SUN Systems Ap
20. or 5 25 inch drive The original controller card was way too big to fit in our s but a redesign made it small enough to work Cost for the driver is 50 00 You can get the controller card from Central Point or On Three If you haven t subscribed to On Three magazine by the way now is the time to do it Their subscriptions are way down from previous years and they need the support of the community to continue This is the only specific commercial magazine left and we need it Cost is 40 00 per year Finally as mentioned in a previous Trail column On Three is now carrying Dale Sykora s Trackball a mouse substitute and driver 89 95 and plans to offer his SOS Driver Optimizer as well Hopefully it will be available by the time you read this As for Sykora he continues to work on that new graphics card for the and GS and appears to have found a party not On Three however willing to help with its manufacture Sykora says there may also be opportunities for other projects as well MOVING RIGHT ALONG Bob Cook at Sun Systems had a chance to meet our esteemed Journal Editor Bernie Urban at the recent MacWorld in San Francisco and has apparently agreed to help with upgrades for the Lisas donated to the club Sun has been very active in the Lisa Mac XL remarketing effort and says it now accounts for more business than the line does but support remains as strong as ever Along with HFS for the Lisa currently avail
21. projects include the final three Taylor Pohlman disks Foxware s Basic Extension and TerminALL disks a wonderful font program a compendium of this author s columns Daryl Anderson s PowerKeys background Utility and many more Additionally to honor the one year anniversary of the Phase Conference a transcription of some of the sessions is being worked on We also hope to add a disk with Apple Emulation programs Any other suggestions are welcome By the way a suggestion was recently made to change Menu Maker s name So to have a little fun we ll try our first ever SIG contest Send me a new name for this program The winner will receive the latest copy of my ThreeWorks disks Version 6 1 88 Send your entry a postcard would be fine to me in care of the WAP Office no later than September 19th Be sure to write Menu Maker Contest on the front The winner will be announced in the November Journal NEW PD DISK While we re on the subject we do have a new PD disk to announce this month Thanks to the efforts of John Ruffatto and a little editing by yours truly here and there we now have PD disk 1000 in stock It contains a complete catalog of all our disks There s been a number of requests for this disk and I m pleased it is finally becoming available A hard copy version is also available at the WAP office for you to look at The Best of Ottalini 4 30 PD TAKE TWO With little fanfare the cost of 5 1 4 inch PD disks
22. someone in the Community to help We need to do a better job of getting the word out and of helping New Products 1 Perhaps one of the most eagerly awaited products ever to come out for the Apple is reportedly going to make its appearance this month It s called the SOS Driver Optimizer a program designed to replace the System Configuration Program So far early reports of Beta testers indicate it will be a must have product Originally scheduled for release by Pair Software the program will now be marketed by On Three It was written by Lt Charles Sykora whom you will remember wrote the Trackball driver mentioned in last month s column He recently wrote me and described exactly what the SOS Driver Optimizer will do 1 Itallows Driver files up to 60K rather than the 51K limit of SCP 2 You may directly control the order of your Drivers if desired with a Move a Driver command 3 The program will Optimize or sort your Driver Configuration for each of the different Boot Disks you use it is smart enough to know that re sorting isn t required if several Boot Disks use the same Interpreter This minimizes and in most cases completely eliminates the hole in memory that most programs cannot employ usefully The Best of Ottalini 4 4 4 An Auto Optimize option is available that will allow you to insert each of your Boot Disks one after another The program will read in the SOS DRIVER file on each disk optimize it
23. that the final three disks in the Taylor Pohlman series are finished and now The Best of Ottalini 4 35 available in our library This brings the PD offerings up to a full 30 disks Coming next month will be two more Foxware programs and Daryl Anderson s PowerKeys DM We continue our efforts to get other former commercial programs placed into the PD and can report some luck in the past month or so Watch The Trail for future announcements WAP TCS I m happy to announce that we have a new Sysop for our SIG board on the WAP TCS SIG member Jim Suthard has agreed to take over the board s helm and work to get it back up to speed The TCS is a fantastic resource for members containing three separate systems of 32 boards each Our SIG board is on System 1 If you haven t joined up it s only an additional 6 00 per year and a good way to learn the fun of telecomputing Remember you can get a good cheap 1200 baud modem through the WAP Group Purchase program The best communications program for the is called Com Manager from On Three Or you can try TerminALL soon to be in the PD library FINALLY A belated thanks to all of you who voted for me during this last WAP Board election came much closer this time than the first go around Who knows maybe by 1992 The Best of Ottalini 4 3 6 ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE III By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman October 1988 NEWS AND NOTHING BUT Happy
24. this PD LOAD P PD CON by Dave Ottalini WAP SIG P UPDATED 5 22 88 PND P Load the Print Program file QCPD STARTI PPR NY PPR PPR PD Format Conversion Program PPR PPR P Create an empty file in RAM to receive the formatted file S RAM FILE PIN Load which file a NY The Best of Ottalini 4 65 L Sa PPR P You may wish to delete the following 5 lines and STRIP at the end PIN Do you wish to strip control characters first Sb PCS b Y PGO STRIP PCS Sb y PGO STRIP START2 PPR PPR Hold on now I m working as fast as I can P This is the body of the program It loads the file then prints it P with the proper settings as contained in the Print Program file B PNP NY RAM FILE Now load the converted file back into memory clean it up and save it back to the proper location Dm nm E F A S Sa Y P Delete the FILE in RAM OE RAM FILE P PPR PIN Another File C P If you want to convert another file hit Y or y P Otherwise reload the system startup values and quit PCS C PGO NEW PCS S C Y PGO START PCS C y PGO START1 PPR NY QCSYS PDO D1 STARTUP PPR P P P B F z Ke QUIT OT STRIP PR STRIP those control characters NOW SETA PGO START2 The key to PD CON is that it prints the file to disk thus placing the proper control character at the end of each line A special Print Program fi
25. 1987 was as you can imagine a terrible year professionally but a very positive one personally and thank you all for the friendly support and for allowing me to be a contributing part of the community over the years For you and the whole new batch of I got mine for 200 ers this is my legacy enjoy da While it saddens me that this had to happen these programs are a tremendous addition to the Apple public domain As a user of many of Daryl s programs can say that users have a real treat awaiting them TAU the Third Apple Users group which has sold some of D A Datasystem s programs for some time will add the rest as PD offerings Sun Systems has also indicated they will offer them Look for others to follow Given the great body of programs the WAP SIG PD library will at this point offer only some of the programs probably including Power Keys the Ram 3 for the Titan cards Disk Window a disk editor and a few others For more on Daryl Anderson and D A Datasystems see my accompanying article in the Journal POHLMAN DISK ONE am pleased to announce that the first Taylor Pohlman disk 1017 A B is now ready and has been placed into the SIG PD library It s a double sided disk and contains the first five articles and associated programs from the Business Basic series in the old Softalk magazine Again this first disk will be self booting with our Menu Maker program Future Pohlman disks there will be a tot
26. E can go to shutdown Couple of things you might be interested in in that light One is ON BREAK is the CONTROL C disabler You can build exceptions on BREAK and you can do BREAK ON and BREAK OFF CONTROL C now interrupts an input statement without your having to press the carriage return and all that other nonsense you never can remember to do Notice it goes to shutdown We implemented LABELS that can be used anywhere a line number can be used in any jump statement In fact you can write your program in such a way that no line number references are used at all In fact Tom Leonard of TML Systems of whom you may have heard has actually demonstrated a prototype compiler already Now that this syntax is set we can think seriously about doing a compiler for this language And think that s pretty neat too The point is we built in effect LIST options that allow you to list out without line numbers then you can pass it by the compilers We also eliminated a number of features from the The Best of Ottalini 4 58 language so the compiler could be portable For example there s more Delete Lines on the fly It takes an immediate mode command argued with them back in 1979 That should have been taken out then It s a pretty terrible idea There s a number of other minor things like that that we ve eliminated that would fit the immediate mode command but you could also do them in deferred mode that will enable the compiler to make sense of w
27. EMBER History of the WAP SIG SIG Christmas List OTHER ARTICLES The Legacy of Daryl Anderson Taylor Pohlman on GS Basic Parts 1 amp 2 Bibliography of On Three for 1987 TAU PD CON WPL program used for PD development The Best of Ottalini 4 ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE III By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman January 1988 HAPPY 1988 We re off to a new year SIGer s and I think it s going to be an exciting one for us It s been nearly four years now since our s stopped rolling off Apple s assembly lines Yet the continues to do an excellent job for the purpose for which it was intended a good basic business machine that can help us write our correspondence balance our books and even provide a little fun now and then The fact that prices for a used have basically hit rock bottom now means 1 that if you already own a you can now afford to buy a second machine for back up purposes and 2 if you don t own a you can now buy a good starter computer with a large software library and the support to get you started Given the fact that you can get e emulation for about 200 00 can upgrade to 512K can use an 800K Unidisk and many hard disks not to mention use programs like EZ Pieces that have AppleWorks compatibility still makes our wonderful machine a useful tool THAT MANY OVERLOOK I think that in too many cases people give up on the machine before making a real effort to find
28. Legacy of Daryl Anderson and D A Datasystems By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman Apple users owe a lot to Daryl Anderson a young man whose interest in our computer never wavered even though Apple discontinued making our wonderful machine His was one of only a small handful of companies that bothered to continue supporting the and in fact bothered to ADD to the products being offered so that we could keep up with the newer machines He describes his companies early days this way 1985 was a critical year for the and one when at least early on there seemed to be few contact points for products and support We tended to step into that gap and arrange with wavering developers and manufacturers to configure and offer their products to the market Working with a few other small companies and supported by a word of mouth network user groups and the very timely Newsletter which grew up to become the Magazine we all made it thru 85 and expanded the locus of action enough to convince a handful of other better capitalized companies into or back into the market Some of the products included a unique way of hooking up an IBM co processor to the using CP M as the bridge He became a distributor for the Omnis Data Base program and improved its technical help greatly and he fixed the Legend S 1 MB card so that it would work in the Apple Daryl is also a master programmer whose software programs see
29. P for programming ideas 100 REM 110 HOME 115 REM Be sure to set your prefix location of disk with this 116 REM program on it before running For example 117 PrefixS d1 120 INVOKE download inv 130 DIM a 511 a 20 name 20 The Best of Ottalini 4 26 140 150 160 170 180 190 200 210 220 230 240 250 260 270 280 290 300 310 320 330 340 350 360 370 380 390 400 410 420 430 440 450 460 470 480 490 500 510 520 530 540 550 560 570 580 590 600 610 620 630 640 650 660 670 680 690 aS byte array A S name CHRS 34 a CHRS 34 ERFORM getfont name arrayS RFORM loadfont array EAR PRINT M A 12 R 12 PEN 1 grafix VOKE bgraf inv RFORM fillport VPOS 1 HPOS 28 RFORM moveto 90 188 INT 1 WORLD POPULATION RFORM grafixon R I 1 TO 12 READ A I NEXT I R I 1 TO 12 READ RS I NEXT I KBD GOTO 740 POS 4 HPOS 1 yrS LEFTS DATES 2 yr VAL yr mmS MIDS DATES 4 2 mm VAL mm dd RIGHTS DATES 2 dd VAL dd d2S dd r mm 19 yrs bi Di IO ki OD Om mg Gm H Ce GG OO OU ti si O Hj mm rm Se HPOS 2 tttt TIMES REM PRINT d2S Tttt PERFORM moveto 90 140 PRINT 1 d2 PERFORM moveto 120 120 PRINT 1 tttts REM DATE of the year JULIAN jd 0 FOR i 1 TO mm jd jd a i NEXT i jd jdt dd REM pop per year day hour min sec ppy
30. The Best of Ottalini 3 ORIGINAL DISK NAME BEST OF OTTALINI DISK 3 1988 WM BL TTT MI M ME T ME MB M ME MM HM M FB III SIG Washington Apple Pi 12022 Parklawn Drive Rockville MD 20852 301 984 0300 WELCOME WAP SIG Public Domain Library Disk Category Number WAP Articles 3INF 14 The third in a series of disks containing the articles of the WAP SIG Co Chairman Dave Ottalini and other selected authors Articles on this disk are from 1988 WAP SIG PUBLIC DOMAIN LIBRARY PDS NAME BEST OF OTTALINI DISK 3 1988 DISK ID 3INF 14 The Best of Ottalini 4 1 CONTENTS TRAIL COLUMNS 1988 WAP 01JANUARY New products discussed SOS Driver Optimizer amp Graphics card WAP 02FEBRUARY New PD disks discussed Future disks WPL program PD CON WAP 03MARCH D A Datasystems puts programs into the public domain WAP O4APRIL Has Frank Moore Returned More news from Lt Sykora WAP 05MAY More Public Domain Disks SIG s New Helper WAP 06JUNE ThreeWorks update Apple News WAP 07JULY Sykora Software Update On Three News Sun Remarketing WAP 08AUGUST Menu Maker Continued Menu Maker Take Two New PD Disk The Best of Ottalini 4 2 CONTENTS WAP O9SEPTEMBER More On Three News Sykora Software July SIG Meeting WAP 100CTOBER Apple News Another Graphics Board Music MIDI Driver WAP 11NOVEMBER Where Do Find Parts For My Apple WAP 12DEC
31. able Cook says a new version of MacWorks will turn the computer into a MAC Plus enabling it to run HyperCard and other advanced programs with the appropriate memory The Best of Ottalini 4 14 The latest edition of Sun s Sun Times publication should also be in your hands by the time you read this call them for a free subscription at 801 752 7631 This will however be the last time they can send out a publication under that name Seems the Chicago Sun Times didn t take too kindly to it and the paper s lawyers wrote a letter requesting a change Soooooo next time round it ll be something like Sun Systems Recycling News or maybe the ST Gazette Intelligencer Another source for Lisa Mac XL owners by the way is The Lisa Shop 2438 13th Ave South Minneapolis MN 55404 Phone number is 612 874 8596 and the owner is Frank Freeman Among other things he works on Profiles and can do hard formats as opposed to a System Utilities soft format on them He s also the one reportedly interested in a project to exchange an 800K drive for D1 in our s Sun continues to have the Titan e cards for sale by the way Cook says Titan makes them in lots of 25 for him as needed Price has gone back up to 299 00 AND AT AIM The Association of Independent Microdealers has been operating a clearing house for software and hardware for more than a year now Starting with the the trade group added programs for the MAC IBM PC an
32. ackBall to the point that it works with just about every application the It cannot and have no plans to make it do any of this generate the CONTROL keypad functions nor any of the Macro keys closed apple combinations It still will not generate any interrupts but know of no software which takes advantage of this mode of the Mouse As mentioned previously the Trackball by Wico is a great substitute mouse much cheaper than a e mouse It got a rave review in the May issue of On Three and is available from them for only 89 95 includes the Trackball interface card and new driver The Apple e Mouse and Driver is 160 00 Sykora also reports that my earlier column about possibly using Port A as an RS232 Serial port was only partially correct He IS working to make Port A available for use by the Trackball so that it does not have to use a slot But apparently Port A cannot as such be used as an RS232 serial port In any case if we could use the trackball as a mouse operating out of Port A ers would not only get the convenience of the mouse but save a slot for other things Sykora says the connection to Port A would be through a black box that would be made available in kit form to keep the cost as low as possible The Trackball would hook into the black box No indication if or when such a product might become available Sykora s working with the Apple Three Users of Northern California on this one On other fron
33. al of five will The Best of Ottalini 4 1 3 NOT be self booting for space reasons All will have Menu Maker however So all you have to do is boot 1017 or any other SIG PD Basic disk and at the prompt place the desired disk into D1 hit Return and you re set ON THREE NEWS The New Year brought with it a new editor for On Three magazine He s Olaf G Wolff who has edited a number of other magazines and books including many auto repair manuals He replaces Paula Sheppard who quit to return to Wyoming with her husband Also lost On Three s programmer Tim Harrington who followed his predecessor Rob Turner to Apple There are no current plans for a replacement As for the long promised spelling checker On Three has announced StemSpeller written by the same Australian programmer who wrote the StemWriter word processor The best part about StemSpeller is that it can check any ASCII Pascal Text StemWriter OR Three EZ Pieces file And it can save the checked file as any other text file type you desire The Apple version of this program has been around since 1983 and Consorti says it took the programmer only about a month to convert it over where was this Australian programmer three years ago Price is 69 95 On another front On Three has written a driver for the new Central Point Software disk controller card that allows you to use any two 400 or 800k 3 25 inch Apple compatible disk drives Mac Unidrive you name it
34. alive and well and members felt the was still a great computer Over the course of the year the club continued to meet held a few tutorials and even surveyed members by mail June 1985 marked the debut of this author in the WAP Journal Since that time he has not missed publishing at least one article each month By 1986 the author had also taken over for Bill Rosenmund as co chair and Jerry Chandler quit Tom Bartkiewitz ultimately agreed to co chair In July 1986 SIG Librarian Al Lambert announced our first four public domain disks We now have a total of 40 We ve also gotten three Apple s donated to the club for use by the SIG along with additional hardware and software The Apple may be an orphaned old lady but she continues to work just fine thank you We continue to gain new members as companies sell their s to home users Providing support is our best opportunity for service and we look forward to working with all SIG members in the future as we have in the past S G CHRISTMAS LIST Since my good friend and fellow CNN co worker Ralph Begleiter offered his holiday gift guide for the MAC folks last month thought it only right to do the same for our members this month The universe of Apple products is still large and the prices are excellent compared to what new equipment and software costs today Here are some of my hardware choices e 512K Memory Upgrade ON THREE Sold now with options of OK of me
35. allows the colors to be selected from a 4096 color maximum or optional for about 20 30 extra 16 million different colors Without the analog RGB interface option only 4 bit pixels can be used with the resolution depending on the monitor TTL RGBY monitors only With the second board analog RGB monitors can realize the full 640X480 resolution with 8 bit pixels By using a multiple synchronizing analog monitor such as the NEC MultiSync or Princeton Graphics UltraSync the resolution can be extended up to approximately 700X500 with no hardware changes Memory Since the C3RGB board offers 512K 1Meg with the second board almost two entire screens three if only 4 bits pixel are used with the 512K memory The extra space could be used to extend the logical screen past the limits of the physical screen allowing extremely rapid scrolling by using graphics processor commands Also the extra memory could be used for non graphics data and we are considering providing a RAM Driver will as part of the new GRAFIX Driver Module that will support this board For programs which cannot take direct advantage of the board s graphics capability which is The Best of Ottalini 4 6 sadly enough all known programs the memory could be a devoted RamDisk if nothing else Capabilities The graphics coprocessor which runs at 6MHz has built in commands to handle 98 of typical graphics requirements including CAD CAM The main limitation will be
36. ame from Ronald Askew He reported the third meeting of the SIG occurred April 15th at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center adding that 11 of the 20 ers in WAP had attended Askew also reported that SIG librarian Michael Konvalinka had collected virtually every important article ad and publication referencing the Apple and relevant hardware and software In March 1983 came the first and only complete review of the done in the WAP Journal A Report Card On The Apple Does It Merit A Passing Grade was written by William C Jacobson The The Best of Ottalini 4 46 bottom line for him was that the now two year old Apple got a qualified passing grade He was particularly upset that the had such a poor implementation of CP M and called for an upgraded emulation disk to handle 64K and upper and lower case By May of the following year Bill Hershey had been elevated to SIG Chairman the first official leader of the SIG In July Hershey reported that the SIG now had 73 members He also reported that an Apple Rep assured the members of Apple s continuing commitment to the Midway through 1984 the SIG had gained a Co Chairman in Jerry Chandler And in January 1985 Bill Hershey officially made way for Bill Rosenmund as co chair Throughout 1985 SIG Secretary Charlene Ryan kept the s flame burning in the Journal She reported in January that despite the bad news about the being discontinued the SIG was
37. as also sent along another couple of disks full of his programs so stay tuned WORDS OF WISDOM er Barry Downes of New York City recently wrote me to say what a good job your SIG is doing We appreciate that Mr Downes who has six Apple s added these words of encouragement for the community that want to pass along Much of my love continues to be lavished on that brilliantly well designed computer the Apple 1 will try when I can squeeze in the time to write some more articles concerning the capacities and possibilities of that machine as well as to cheer up some of those owners who keep worrying they have an obsolete computer that most others today have never even heard of Obsolete Hell talk to the LISA owner talk to anybody that owns a MAC today s new kind of the block is always tomorrow s hasbeen The only important question is is the machine you currently own doing the job you bought it for If the answer is yes and you can still get it repaired if a problem should arise then realize how luck you are and enjoy it for all it can do It may serve you well for many years to come All those bells and whistles you hear about are often just that Add ons that often do not materially change or improve the kind of word processing database and spreadsheet work available on a machine such as the Apple ON THREE CONTEST At least one SIG member our own SIG Co Chairman Tom Bartkiewicz has indicate
38. as interesting and useful it really wasn t what the machine wanted I m a firm believer that languages are only good if they let you at the machine So we sat down and really started thinking At that point we started working very heavily with Apple Product Management That s how David Ives became the sort of quasi product manager working for Cochrane on the project We all sat down and said Now what kind of BASIC do we really want for the GS given the fact that we want to be sure that we ve got backwards compatibility We want Business Basic programs by and large to run unchanged and to tap all of that market and tap all of those people who have that kind of expertise but on the other hand we want to let them at the machine so they can do applications We cooked up a language specification and we came up with we think an outstanding version of the language I m happy to say today that the beta 4 version of that is now in APDA s hands they are shipping it brought some data sheets along with me today and for 50 dollars you can actually have one of your very own What Apple will exactly do in shipping this product if it is ever actually shipped officially from Apple don t know We are committed at least to do one more beta version through Apple which is going to make some internal changes as soon as it comes up But the language as it stands right now is set We know what it does and that s really what want to spend some time with you
39. ast to a point In the mail this past month many ers received a two page flyer from an assistant to Moore the President of Pair Software The assistant Byron Schrum says that the initial reason The Three Magazine ceased publication one year ago was by over commitments on Moore s part followed by an unfortunate deterioration of his health Schrum says Moore is now back to work on a part time basis with hopes he ll be back to 10096 in March The flyer also confirms that Pair went bankrupt making a continuation of The Three Magazine an impossibility The flyer says the company is currently under a re organization plan and as you are aware in a bankruptcy the normal payout to creditors in the proceeding is usually small if anything Fortunately for subscribers Pair Software has decided to provide a credit to the company s software library Schrum says this plan would almost certainly be authorized by the court 2nd class subscribers will receive 40 00 credit 1st Class 50 00 credit and overseas subscribers will get a 60 00 credit The cutback means Pair will no longer be selling hardware items and has had to discontinue other lines such as ThreeWorks GoForth and all the D A Datasystems programs at least as commercial products To make use of the credit contact Pair directly by phone 916 485 6525 or by mail 3201 Murchison Way Carmichael CA 95608 Pair has also added a new BBS at 916 929 4845 The flyer also claims t
40. at you re going to be doing in other environments The Best of Ottalini 4 61 A 1987 Bibliography of ON THREE By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman 1987 was in many ways a benchmark year for On Three It became the only monthly commercial magazine in fact the only commercial magazine period devoted exclusively to the Apple computer and the only company that still continued to sponsor major programming efforts on behalf of the On Three also ported over its most successful product the Desktop Manger to the GS a move that will accelerate with other products in the future Despite suffering through reduced renewals and a change in editors Lynn Denicola left and was replaced by Paula Sheppard and as we entered 1988 Sheppard left to be replaced by Olaf G Wolff On Three continued to offer its readers a wide range of articles by a number of authors And for the most part the articles published in the magazine were excellent The continuing series of columns by Richard and Lavona Rann remain my favorites And their series for new Business Basic programmers was excellent as well Al Bloom Ed Gooding Earl Brelje and many others listed below all made important contributions especially enjoyed those articles by some guy in Maryland named Ottalini 1987 s listing like previous listings is sorted based on subject This bibliography will be part of an update to my ThreeWorks disks expected later this year Subje
41. ation we the users are NOT supporting the vendors On Three s President Bob Consorti says in the June issue of On Three Magazine that while this is a transition it does not indicate On Three is going away But he adds that Our GS products which we hoped would start carrying the burden have not been selling as well as we had hoped You see in the Apple world we create a product advertise it and we get immediate sales even if they aren t tremendous In the Apple market we create the product and then advertise it in someone else s magazine We don t have the ability to directly mail to all the Apple users as we do in the market Because of this and the fact that it s next to impossible to get an honest review within a year of release of a product our products have been sporadic at best What Consorti is talking about here is the fact that the GS version of Desktop Manager has not been doing all that well The AppleWorks folks have basically embraced other background utility products such as the TimeOut series despite the fact that they are USELESS outside AppleWorks The beauty of DTM is that it will work with ANY GS application just as DTM for the will work within any application Frankly On Three does not have the finances to buy massive advertising like Beagle Brothers and the others can That s a fact of life and if you can t advertise you re not going to sell Reviews whether good or bad are too few a
42. ced The other thing that we ve done to the language that will help people use it in more friendly ways is to really rebuild the syntax checking completely know those of you who have typed in a line noticed that GS BASIC really doesn t care where you put tokens Tokens are the so called reserved words in BASIC like PRINT LOAD LIST etc J L You can just throw them anywhere If you use the right word it The Best of Ottalini 4 57 doesn t matter what the order is We ve completely redone the interface Now we have a concept of nouns verbs and adverbs in terms of the way the syntax of the language is used And if you screw up the language it will tell you how Going to the GS Now I think this will work OK good old familiar prompt For those of you who have been around we didn t change that We thought you d feel happy besides we couldn t come up with anything we liked any better Worst decision of a Product Manager or other to bring up is What shall we use for a command prompt I don t know What do you think OK something you ll like We ve got an edit line now that is actually three lines long can edit three full BASIC lines and guess what all the insert stuff works and when decide what want to do with this just hit RETURN and it accepts that line as entered So you have complete add line capability built into this You can even do multiple edits you can do auto renumber and you can enter lines like that You
43. clock potentiometer against a time source of your choosing The Best of Ottalini 4 22 NEW PUBLIC DOMAIN DISKS New to our PD library this month we add disk 1018 A B the second disk of our Taylor Pohlman Business Basic series from the old Softalk Magazine This disk contains articles 6 9 and a host of associated programs This disk is NOT SELF BOOTING as mentioned previously It does contain Menu Maker and a utility that will allow you to get hard copies of the articles To use this disk boot any disk with Business Basic and with the new disk in D1 type Run d1 Menu Maker Hit return and you re in business Also being released this month Disk 1028A B ASCIDIF by Dr Al Bloom This is a program designed to convert an Apple text file to a standard DIF file used by Visicalc 3EZ Pieces AppleWorks and other spreadsheet programs We will publish an article on how to use this program in next month s WAP Journal You may notice we ve reserved disks 1026 and 1027 which will contain more D A Datasystem programs currently being worked on Look for an announcement on them in the near future EIGHT YEARS LATER This Apple Bit from InCider s June 1988 issue page 19 once again indicates how advanced our Apple s were are and how long it s taken the Apple family to catch up We hear Apple s next version of ProDos for the GS will be really different For one thing it will let you name memory devices such as hard disk drives an
44. cs ADDRESS 1355 Shoreway Road CITY STATE ZIP Belmont CA 94002 PHONE 415 592 8097 Jameco is an excellent source of chips for your like the 6502B microprocessor clock chip etc I ve ordered a number of things from them and have received excellent service Prices are good also The Best of Ottalini 4 42 COMPANY NAME Morris Horn and Associates ADDRESS Box 330876 CITY STATE ZIP Ft Worth TX 76163 PHONE 817 292 3432 CONTACT Morris Horn Last time I talked to them Morris Horn had lots of Apple parts including motherboards chips cases etc They had so much stuff in fact the guy asked if knew anyone who wanted to take it off his hands COMPANY NAME N D R C ADDRESS 8511 Manderville CITY STATE ZIP Dallas TX 75231 PHONE 214 750 9889 N D R C advertises in Computer Shopper and offers a number of parts products That includes motherboards memory cards power supplies etc Decent prices in line with what Shreve and others are asking Call for latest information COMPANY NAME On Three ADDRESS 8920 Yolanda Avenue CITY STATE ZIP Northridge CA 91324 PHONE 800 443 8877 CONTACT Bob Consorti On Three has been a long time vendor for the community By way of parts they offer 65C802 microprocessor chip upgrades cheaper from Jameco interlace kits clock kits and some other items Check their magazine for the latest offerings and prices COMPANY NAME Pre Owned Electronics ADDRESS P O Bo
45. ct Title Author Issue Month Pages Basic and Pascal From BASIC to Pascal Bloom 3 Mar 21 23 Basic Program Text File Manager Soling 4 Apr 11 13 Basic Program Recipe for a Menu Barton 7 Jul 23 26 Basic Word Processor Kidword Ottalini 11 Nov 9 10 BB Game Magic Smith 2 Feb 14 15 BB Programs 01 Two Shorts Fini Barland 1 Jan 11 BB Programs 03 Two Shorts Fini Gauger 8 Aug 31 BB Programs 04 Two Shorts Fini Ottalini 12 Dec 9 10 Beginner Basics 01 The Beginning Rann Rann Jan 13 14 KA Beginner Basics 02 The Beginning Rann Rann Feb 17 13 WIN Beginner Basics 03 The Beginning Rann Rann Mar 11 15 Beginner Basics 04 The Beginning Rann Rann Apr 5 8 Beginner Basics 05 The Beginning Rann Rann May 5 10 Beginner Basics 07 The Beginning Rann Rann Jul 7 11 Column CHO1 Ask Doc Christenson Christenson 12 Dec 27 28 co 1 o Uo1 P e O The Best of Ottalini 4 62 N Column C01 Block_Write Consorti Column D01 Apple Sauce Denicola m Column D02 Apple Sauce Denicola Column D03 Apple Sauce Denicola Column D04 Apple Sauce Denicola ior Column RO1 Ranntings Rann Rann Column RO2 Ranntings Rann Rann Column R03 Ranntings Rann Rann Column R04 Ranntings Rann Rann m 23 24 Column R05 Ranntings Rann Rann Ma ay 17 18 Column R06 Ranntings Rann Rann 17 18 Column R07 Ranntings Rann Rann 15 17 Column R08 Ranntings Rann Rann Au s 17 19 Column R09 Ranntings Rann Rann 17 19 Column R10 Ranntings Rann Rann 10 17 19
46. d Commodore But with one final mailing due about now AIM has decided to call it quits AIM is a great way to pick up software and some hardware at very reasonable prices especially because they have been more and more willing to dicker of late If you have a need call them at 1 800 342 5246 Since they are getting out of the outlet business prices will be set with one idea in mind to move merchandise So this is the time to get that program you always thought you might like but never really wanted to spend the money on it FINALLY The Apple THREE Group International a user group based in Norfolk has changed its name and focus a bit As of January the club became Apple Users Group International President Joe Dobrowolski says the name change was to help broaden the membership base to include other Apple users he s also had problems getting people to re subscribe He s already begun adding Apple disks to his public domain library AGUI still offers the largest single Apple PD library in the world with more than 160 disks Call for a free sample of the newsletter News and Views at 1 804 865 7520 Dobrowolski is the Editor and Publisher as well and always tries to cram a lot of information into five or six double sided sheets Membership dues are 15 00 The Best of Ottalini 4 1 5 ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE III By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman April 1988 Has Frank Moore returned It seems that way at le
47. d RAM disks instead of always referring to them by slot and drive or the ProDos pathname FINALLY Please join us at our SIG meetings the fourth Wednesday of each month in the WAP office We demonstrate programs help new users and discuss burning questions and news of the Apple world During the May meeting we ll be discussing the use of a Laptop computer with your I m writing this column on one right now And in June we ll be demonstrating the new update of ThreeWorks for the Apple Remember too that the WAP office has a number of Apple reference books and texts you can take out or read in house There is also a video tape describing how to use the along with a series of tutorial cassettes which you can take out and use at home The Best of Ottalini 4 2 3 ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE III By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman July 1988 SYKORA SOFTWARE UPDATE Lt Dale Sykora has now issued an updated Trackball driver v 1 31 that takes care of a few lingering bugs including a separate version for Catalyst users Here s how Dale describes the update First the TrackBall now works in the cut and paste mode of DeskTop Manager second it works in the ESCAPE cursor mode of BASIC and finally improved button debouncing is employed for both buttons rather than just the bottom button as before believe it also works in the Catalyst Menu but I have not checked this This brings the Tr
48. d one after the other as disks 1017 1021 It has also been decided that to conserve space only 1017 the first disk will be self booting The rest will have the Menu Maker program resident so all you have to do is boot the first disk or any SIG self booting Business BASIC disk and at the prompt place the proper disk into D1 Also in the future a disk with fonts and one with WPL programs Former SIG member Bart Cable donated a number of programs to the SIG Bart by the way has gone over to the MS DOS world we won t hold that against him and was the hit of the recent Garage Sale SIGer Trish Babylon was seen gleefully running away from Bart s table with programs bulging out her arms Bart who had just made a big sale was also seen smiling a bit At our SIG meeting in December by the way we discussed ways members could contribute to the SIG One way is to contribute a program or two that you may have written or adapted in some way to the PD library We will collect these and put them onto appropriate future offerings We are also very much interested in short articles on how you use your machine how you developed a program etc They don t have to be long but are of interest to all Anyone interested in giving a program during a SIG meeting would also be welcome WPL ON THE MOVE One of the most powerful features of AppleWriter is WPL Word Processing Language The programming language allows you to automate many of the te
49. d plans to enter On Three s Business Basic contest If you haven t heard the contest will award prizes to the top three entrants who can develop a Mac like interface for Business Basic Apple s Taylor Pohlman of Softalk Magazine fame says it can indeed be done And On Three s Bob Consorti even uploaded a program in the Apple Data Library on CompuServe to provide some additional help The contest s description and rules were all detailed in an article by yours truly in the July issue of On Three Prizes include 100 00 in On Three products for first place 50 00 in products for second and 25 00 in products for third In addition the programs will be published and included on a future Disk of the Month Deadline is December 1st so you still have time to enter APPLE TECH NOTES One of my long standing projects has been to try and get our SIG a complete set of the Apple Tech The Best of Ottalini 4 39 Notes The Tech Notes included information on a wide range of Apple hardware and software subjects included fixes to specific problems using various pieces of software etc An Apple club in Colorado printed some of them a few years ago but there s never been a complete set available understand however that there are a total of 42 documents listed by Apple on AppleLink s Technical Information Library I m not sure if that s accessible from their new public version of AppleLink but will explore ways to get at t
50. dent submarine He took a new GS with him to continue work on his hi res color graphics board Dale says it will have a 65816 co processor chip on board and will be able to process both SOS calls and ProDos 16 calls it s being developed to work in both the and the GS As for the Trackball Dale is now converting it for use on the GS under ProDos 16 As such it would work in addition to the mouse He plans to work on that project during his stint at sea as well Another Graphics Board user Erik Olbrys says he has developed a driver for an Apple hires graphics card and might be willing to put a package together for it with enough interest Olbrys says he began the project for the a few years ago but problems with his SARA caused a lengthy delay The hardware is a commercial Apple product and comes in kit form It also requires some connection modifications To get the card to work with the Olbrys says he had to disassemble the GRAFIX driver and insert the appropriate Apple code It has 128K of on board memory and uses an NEC PD 7220 Graphics chip The Best of Ottalini 4 37 On the technical end the driver HIRES v1 2a as it now stands can do everything GRAFIX can do while also allowing for definable line patterns and create what he called a dithered half tone for fillcolors O through 15 that approximates a gray scale User definable fill patterns are also possible With the 128K on board memory it can pr
51. dious word processing chores like mail merge etc you do on a daily basis For me I discovered it could also help with the formatting chores involved with the Taylor Pohlman disks mentioned above So wrote a program called PD CON that I think you ll be able to find very useful The first thing you have to do is decide how you want to format the text For example to use a text file within the Menu Maker program it must be 78 columns long 79 is too long it will wrap to the next The Best of Ottalini 4 10 line For readability it should also be continuous text with no big spaces between pages The way to do this is set up a Print Program menu that can be loaded into memory and which will format the text file properly Here s how mine looks for the PD CON WPL Program Print Program Commands Left Margin LM 0 Paragraph Margin PM 0 Right Margin RM 78 Top Margin TM 0 Bottom Margin BM 0 Page Number PN 1 Printed Lines PL 66 Page Interval PI 66 Line Interval LI 0 Single Page SP 0 Print Destination PD RAM FILE Carriage Return CR 1 Underline Token UT Print Mode LJ FJ CJ RJ FJ Top Line TL Bottom Line BL Note that the printed lines and page interval lines are the same that the right margin is set to 78 and the print mode is full justify For speed have set the print destination for a RAM disk with a file name of FILE You can change the print destinati
52. e BUSINESS BASIC AND GS BASIC spoke with GS SIG Chairman Ted Meyer recently to let him know about the similarities of the two Basic languages also mentioned to him that there is a Public Domain program called Apple Con that will convert up to a point Applesoft programs into Business Basic Since the program was written in Pascal it should be fairly easy to convert and use on the GS It also needs to be updated a bit since it will only recognize programs on DOS 3 3 formatted disks It s not that difficult to move programs from DOS to ProDos or SOS formatted disks but an option within Apple Con would make the program easier and quicker to use see the GS column this month for more info on this am also interested in a similar project to take the current version of Apple Con for the and upgrade it to read ProDos SOS as well as DOS 3 3 Applesoft files Any SIG member willing to take this on please The Best of Ottalini 4 7 give me a call am also looking for contributions of programs converted from Applesoft to Business Basic Specifically would want both the Applesoft and the Business Basic programs so that the two can be compared Any tips for converting from Applesoft to Business Basic would also be appreciated These would go into a new PD disk offering with the upgraded Apple Con on one side and the programs on the other Concurrent with this am also working on a project to convert the Preschool Gameroom PD o
53. e Optimize function 14 The Optimizer displays much more data than SCP according to your own defined User Level System information such as memory size version of SOS size of Driver Desktop in both the disk and booted formats and type of Boot Disk is displayed in a Window Information on Drivers such as memory Address size and many other items is readily available All of these Displays may be printed 15 You may read many Drivers onto your Desktop and select those Drivers that you don t wish to include in a particular output file by marking one or more Drivers as Destroyed Then when you need them for another Driver arrangement you may restore them using a simple Menu option 16 The program is written in Pascal and Assembly language and comes on 5 disk sides It will install easily on Selector and Catalyst It is not copy protected It is infinitely easier to use than SCP and at the same time is the most powerful program ever written for the Future programs The Best of Ottalini 4 5 for the that develop will use the same Windows oriented user interface concept as the Optimizer There s no word on price yet but hope to have more details by the January SIG meeting Stay tuned NEW PRODUCTS TAKE 2 Lt Sykora and his brother by the way are also working on a new graphics card for the and GS yes the AND the GS Here s how he describes that project The design features have been finalized and a
54. ed in February 1981 when Burton S Chambers III wrote an article entitled Flavors Little Tidbits Orange was the color of his comments He said that he wanted to wait before making a final decision on the machine until there was more software and the bugs were worked out I m sure it will be a useful machine someday user Mark Cheren wrote the following month Here So Slowly Comes The Apple that he had gone through three Apple s due to early production problems but still felt the machine had excellent potential He wrote So have made a mistake Frankly don t know yet The first call for a SIG within Washington Apple Pi was made by Charles N Dow in the April 1981 Journal The Not Too Slow Apple Is Great Dow untainted by the Apple was a bit more exuberant over the and its possibilities writing that the Apple have confidence will be a great business asset developed from the experiences gained from the Apple I Il and all other sources It took ten months more but in February 1982 Dow the first Pro Temp Chairman gave the official announcement that a SIG within WAP had been formed Update On the Big Apple So herewith we unilaterally establish a group and invite all of the members who are interested in learning more about the newest APPLE and the smallest Users Group there are six members that have been in touch with personally The June 1982 Apple article c
55. edit back and the line is returned Notice the little caret We drop the err message down one line and we put a caret where the syntax scanner finds the problem For those of you who are jocks that helps a little bit but for people who use the language like students and so forth they re going to find that a lot more friendly And because we do adverb noun and verb kind of checking we know where things are out of sequence You will catch a lot more syntax errors than were ever caught before Notice the Library command That s our way of loading into memory the ToolBox Definition File Libraries allow you generalized access to interface definitions for external tools Once a library is loaded in the TDF file by the way of APPEND continues to build a giant library of all these entry points Once those entry points to tools are defined notice the Dispose All Desks Start Up Window Start Up and Refresh Desktop you use those names The names are present in the TDF files and how to CALL that tool all that information is in TDF So once we do that you can begin to use those ToolBox CALLs as if they were just new parts of the BASIC syntax The GS Tool Members Guide is an indispensable tool honestly in writing this kind of stuff because we don t document it in the BASIC manual We just tell you that this stuff exists and go there to find out the definitions All these things are available In fact notice another thing too ON BREAK NO TRAC
56. ey are through utilizing the full facilities of the system There are no real limitations to the ToolKit and the tools that you can get to in the GS Everything from SoundManager to you name it and new tools as they appear are ready to interface Let me give you a little background about GS BASIC First left Apple for a while back in the Fall of 1982 started a couple of companies and had a lot of fun Then Apple s Dan Cochrane came to me and said Apple needed a manager of languages and utilities parts management He told me about the new Apple GS Cocrane said there were a couple of guys who still remembered assembly language but everybody was really hot on C There s not going to be a Pascal apparently for the machine Nobody is going to do BASIC except Applesoft would be put in ROM so that the old programs could go on said You re kidding Pardon me for offending anybody but in 1979 when first joined Apple and looked at Applesoft after having programmed on an HP and other kinds of mainframes refused to write code in that language until they fixed it When Business Basic came out had a language could write programs in and that s what I did said to Dan No way does that make any sense So Dan said he d work something out What he worked out was he gave me the source code to Business Basic to convert over and said once I got it going he d help figure out how to get the thing out the door thought that sounded l
57. ffering into Business Basic Anyone interested in helping should give me a call am also starting to gather Business Basic Foto Files and Fonts for PD disks Any contributions welcome A Thank You want to once again say thank you to the WAP Board and specifically to Bernie and Gena Urban for their support of our SIG this past year Despite the orphan nature of our computer have been thrilled at the amount of support and encouragement we have received have not always made things easy for the Urbans but they continue to care and it is very much appreciated Finally If you recently purchased a PD disk and discovered Side Two was blank all our disks save 1002 and 1003 are double sided be sure to bring it back to the WAP office for an exchange If you have a friend who has a tell them about WAP and our SIG We currently have the largest group on the East Coast and the more members the merrier The Best of Ottalini 4 8 ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE III By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman February 1988 NEW PD DISKS SIGers am happy to announce that we have added FOUR new disks to our growing Public Domain offerings Here s what they include THREE SIG 1013 A3 Diagnostics This is a double sided disk that includes the latest version of the Apple diagnostics program Side One has the instructions and is bootable since it contains our Menu Maker program As with other disks we ve i
58. gram in Beta form now to do that but you can t run Pascal programs from Basic or Basic from Pascal Tim would also like to see Menu Maker be able to display foto files and change fonts when font files are highlighted Both are possible but add to the overhead for the program since it takes more invokables and disk space which for SIG disks means less program space The neat thing about Menu Maker however is its adaptability It would not be that difficult to let it recognize a foto file and display it on the screen our Run Side Two program on disk 1012 does that And you could adapt the Newdownload program to run from within Menu Maker to change fonts depending on which one was displayed in fact you could adapt the font download routine in the above program By the way remember we are now up to the 3 0 version of Menu Maker which is available on the latest PD disks We are working to upgrade older disks as well FINALLY Due to recent demand for our How to Use the Apple video tape we have added a second copy in the WAP office Remember there is a 20 00 deposit required before you can take out the tape The summer is once again upon us and that prompts a reminder that there will be NO August SIG meeting there will be a Trail article though Attendance has been poor of late and hopefully a little breather will be good for the soul Until September then have a safe and fun summer The Best of Ottalini 4 28 ON THE
59. hat information and then place it onto a PD disk or two for all to use NEW BOOKS Thanks to Dr Al Bloom our WAP library now sports some new Apple books They include the two texts by Eddie Adamis Basic Keywords for the Apple and Business Basic for the Apple Dr Bloom also donated Kenniston Lord s book Using Apple Business Computers All are now available for you to take out or read at the WAP office as you desire With these additions our library now holds EVERY book about the Apple that was not published by Apple OTHER CLUBS The Third Apple Users Group of Wheaton Illinois has changed the name of their newsletter Originally TAU Tales the publishers have chosen a very wise course and renamed it The TAU Journal The publication remains an excellent source of information about the as well as the rest of the Apple world The newsletter is professionally done and TAU has a super Apple PD library For more information write to them in care of Lavona Rann at xxxx Wheaton IL 60187 Dues are 30 00 year Down the road in Norfolk Joe Dobrowolski s Apple Users Group International also continues to publish Apple articles Joe may have more time for the club now that his wife and children have moved to Japan Rumor has it that Joe will spend a year in separation before moving to Japan himself AUGI has the largest Apple PD library available at reasonable cost Address is Box 913 Langley AFB VA 23665 Dues
60. hat is going on It s a little tough to tell a compiler to read a number of lines of code for itself and merge a few more in from a file and so forth A lot of thought has gone into this to make sure it would be reasonable to build a compiler We made a run time system as well So we would be able to create programs and ship pre labelled ones In fact a run time system will do two things The first thing it will do is pack the program and replace all of the references line number and LABEL references with absolute addresses Excuse me should have said relative addresses anyway offset So it makes it a little tough for people to figure out what s going on It also makes it EXECUTE significantly faster There s a token there for an absolute jump as opposed to a line number label reference We do a lot of pre scanning too on LABELS especially certain kinds of LABELS In addition to implementing the CALL mechanism through the library we still need to INVOKE and PERFORM as said before We have a couple of new mechanisms that make structured programming handy First there s a real PROCEDURE capability A PROC with multiple arguments a multi line procedure including multi variables and you can use global variables of course by not declaring them Local in the procedure All arrays are global throughout the entire program so it s very easy to do argument passing set values and so forth Multi line procedures are very handy Finally there s alway
61. ike a pretty neat idea How many people here have programmed in assembly language OK How many people didn t raise your hand because you really do know how but you re afraid someone might ask you to I m kind of in that second category sort of know how and have sort of done it but that s the last thing I d do for a living so I said I ve got to get someone who knows what they re doing Once upon a time a long time ago in 1979 a guy named John Arkleys used to work for me at Apple John was now doing some consulting working with FORTH company He had put out some wonderful programs pretty much on his own in a garage behind his house managed to find John John actually worked on a lot of the early Business Basic stuff dragged John out of the garage and I told him we ve got a chance from Cochrane to get the source to Business Basic and convert it He liked the idea so put him together with my partner at the time Dan Winslow who was Apple s old lawyer that did the patent trade mark stuff fought the Franklin and Comb wars and all that stuff The three of us got together and went off to do it It became pretty apparent when we got into it that we could do it In fact we did a port pretty quickly The Best of Ottalini 4 53 We started in July and by September we were actually demonstrating Business Basic programs running on the GS with a little bit of extension like larger memory and so forth But it was clear that although that w
62. ill work as advertised We also hope to send some version of the hard copy listing to new members My thanks also to SIG member Jim Salerno who helped upgrade our Menu Maker program He s also been working to prepare more PD disks for our library you ll see some more of his work next month The Best of Ottalini 4 19 AND MORE ON THE PD FRONT I m also happy to announce this month that we will soon be getting four new fantastic PD programs in the near future Three come from Foxware in Salt Lake City This company offered three excellent programs during the early days of our but discontinued support in 1986 after Apple decided to discontinue production Your SIG Co Chairman called them up recently and for a small consideration fee was able to get all three programs with source code and user manuals on disk placed into the public domain The three programs are Inkwell a What You See Is What You Get WYSISYG word processing program TerminAll a telecom program that can emulate a number of computer terminals and Basic Extensions a set of Business Basic Invokables that will allow the user greater flexibility when working with our Business Basic Watch The Trail for an update A fourth program Infonet is a Bulletin Board program originally sold by Sun Systems President Bob Cook placed the program into the public domain during the Phase Conference last year But it s been considerably upgraded since then and we ll be
63. is proving too complicated for you give Ink Well a try The price is certainly right also mentioned last month that we were working to get other commercial programs into the public domain can tell you this much so far We have gotten two more programs for the library One is a great game The second is a wonderful font generation program Watch for details in upcoming Trail articles Also to update you on another project SIG member John Ruffatto has finished initial work on our reference disk 1000 which will include information on all our disks Watch this column for its availability POPULATION GROWTH SIG member Tim Boquet submitted a great little program this month for all to enjoy It gives you a running count of the world s population To run it you will need the BYTE font which is in the Character Sets subdirectory on side two of SIG disk 1004 System Utilities and Data as well as the Download and Bgraf invokable modules they are on many of our PD disks We ll also make this available on a future SIG disk The program goes like this 10 REM world population program by TIM BOUQUET 20 REM based on facts from the Washington Post 30 REM A World population reached 5 billion in 1986 40 REM B World population will be 6 billion by 2000 50 REM 60 REM AUTHOR grants copy permission to Washington Apple Pi 70 REM Author Bouquet retains all other rights 5 22 88 80 REM 90 REM Author wishes to thank WA
64. it but once again warns readers not to expect too much some SIG members have already found out the hard way The Best of Ottalini 4 21 The Apple Three Users of Northern California has revamped its Public Domain library As previously mentioned they decided to bring their library in line with Joe Dobrowolski s Apple Users Group International and have now accomplished that adding new disks and numbering them according to the AUGI system Unfortunately in the process their excellent selection of printed Apple materials originally given to them by Apple disappeared In any case ATUNC s Newsletter remains a good source of Apple information under its new editor Li Kung Shaw Daryl Anderson whose D A Dataystems recently placed all of its programs into the public domain check the SIG PD offerings has agreed to send the SIG a complete set of his Power Keys background utility and its many modules We ll be placing those into our library in the next few months Daryl says he s working now for a software company in the Buffalo area and still lurks on CompuServe to see how his Apple friends are doing Anderson now owns an Amiga by the way and says he loves its color and multi tasking capabilities we won t hold that against him A few years ago a company called Swearingen Software came out with a fun Business Basic game called Pick That Tune The program plays the first few notes of a given tune and the player gets poin
65. ith block file access to the disk you can then have a COPY command You can write about a five line program which sucks an entire disk into memory and spits it out on another one You can structure arrays It s kind of cute This is pretty fast too The idea of the structured data type and a command called SET you have like the old GET and PUT in Microsoft BASIC basically allows you to store any kind of structure including strings or numeric type into structured arrays in various spots It gives you a general idea like bit maps for instance because you can declare a structured array to enter into the memory We have an extended PEEK which basically lets you instead of PEEKing one byte at a time you can PEEK a type or you can PEEK a structure Your ability in BASIC itself begets you other kinds of data and manipulates them a lot nicer PEEK and POKE are back in the language Actually you can assassinate me for that had PEEKs and POKEs ripped out of Business BASIC on the theory that the first invokables that anyone would write would be PEEK and POKE invokables Sure enough that is what you did The second thing was really wanted to encourage the Apple and the GS like it are very complex machines You kid yourself if you think you can PEEK something and expect that value to be worth anything except maybe at zero page for any length of time In particular in GS BASIC implements it s very comfortable within the memory management structure
66. le called PD is automatically loaded when the program begins to provide the formating and print information It looks like this Left Margin LM 0 Paragraph Margin PM 0 The Best of Ottalini 4 66 Right Margin RM 77 Top Margin TM 1 Bottom Margin BM 1 Page Number PN 1 Printed Lines PL 66 Page Interval PI 66 Line Interval LI 0 Single Page SP 0 Print Destination PD RAM FILE Carriage Return CR 1 Underline Token UT Print Mode LJ FJ CJ RJ FJ Top Line TL Bottom Line BL As you can see when the file is printed it is sent to RAM FILE and is full justified The printed line is set to 77 the control character takes up the 78th column The Printed Lines and Page Interval designations are set the same Top and bottom margins are set to 1 This can obviously be changed according to your own needs Also note that with only a few changes this WPL program will work just as easily with the Apple version of Apple Writer PD CON is one more good example of how important WPL remains for us Apple users work with EZ Pieces a great deal but find AppleWriter to still be my primary word processing program one which WPL makes particularly useful The Best of Ottalini 4 67
67. mory 256K and 512K 159 95 299 95 399 00 e Seikosha Color Printer with Interface Card and Color Graphics Manager ON THREE At 259 95 this is a great buy for ers interested in an inexpensive way to print in color e Titan e SUN REMARKETING The Titan cards are an excellent investment in the future allowing you the luxury of running most e software on your Apple RAM disk software in our PD library makes it even more useful 299 00 e Hard Disk Drives Your Apple was made to sing with a hard drive Many are still available including 5 and 10 MB ProFiles the Quark QC20 and the Sider 20MB SUN REMARKETING ON THREE Check the papers and the back of Computer Shopper for better deals The Best of Ottalini 4 47 e 800K Disk Drive If a hard disk is too expensive how about an 800K drive instead ON THREE sells both the Apple UniDisk drive with interface card and software 499 00 or just the driver alone if you want to buy it locally 50 00 A better deal may be the Central Point Software 800K drive and card with software also ON THREE that lets you hook up any 2 MAC 800K 400K or Apple 140K drives 399 00 Card and software alone also available 149 00 e Modem Any modem now on the market will work with your Apple One that is Hayes Compatable would be best Check the WAP Office for their group sale price for a 2400 baud modem e Trackball Developed by Dale Sykora this is a Mouse s
68. n the old CONSOLE In fact you can also OPEN CONSOLE and do the same thing but CONSOLE is the text screen to play around the right text in the improved fonts whatever since you can switch fonts on the fly in a position using the QuickDraw CALL In all respects whatever QuickDraw condition CALL you gave it in the right text you can print number functions at that particular spot It s really straightforward to do stuff in the GRAPHIC environment In fact it s trivial to do that kind you just clear one of the windows clear the port and start printing stuff in the GRAPHICS Of course the clipping boundaries and scrolling and so forth are easy to support too We really tried to make it pretty easy This is a fun application even when just hacking around In this particular example shipped with the disk so you can basically use that as a starting point for how to get this cranked up It s simple enough so that all you have to do is eliminate some windows and not load the PICS and you can do anything else you want basically in the GS environment It is pretty tricky to do ToolBox programming Sequence of events startups dealing with all the pointers building a window data The Best of Ottalini 4 60 structure you still have to deal with all that stuff to initialize but there s enough examples in here think to get you going and if you re used to dealing with the ToolBox documentation this is going to be a pleasure compared probably to wh
69. ncluded a Text Dump program so you can print the instructions from BASIC The SOS Driver file also contains the ATTACH Driver that lets you dump what you see on the screen to a printer as well Side Two has the actual Diagnostics program You will discover that it is NOT listable but will copy and boot without any problems THREE SIG 1014 BASIC Boot Disk This two sided self booting disk has a number of programs on it Side One contains the BASIC boot menu and programs as written by SIGer Jim Salerno It s basically the same program found on our Profile at the office From the BASIC Boot menu you can automatically handle a number of utility operations all from BASIC For you folks trying to learn how to program this disk can give you a number of ideas On Side Two we have put a number of printer control programs and programs that will make labels for you Some changes to the programs may have to be made to a particular program so that it will work with your printer that is you will have to change the control codes etc THREE SIG 1015 Best of s Company Another double sided disk with a ton of basic information about your Apple and how to get the most out of it This disk is self booting on Side One and includes tutorials on how to put a battery backup in your install a clock kit upgrade to 256k etc There is additional information on the emulation mode getting information from a Mac to a and back laser printers many
70. nd inbetween to really do much good in the long run So the bottom line here is that On Three is moving basically to streamline costs Consorti stresses that there will be no change in service and support Their full line of products and services continue as before Here s their new address On Three Attn Bob Consorti 8920 Yolanda Ave Northridge CA 91324 The 800 line for orders remains the same 1 800 443 8877 but it is no longer a direct line to On Three Instead you will be getting an operator who will only be able to take your order and not answer any real The Best of Ottalini 4 33 questions the operator is in Washington state There is a new support line number however which is 1 818 701 1355 Bob also tells me that there is a good chance On Three Magazine will be going to every other month beginning with the September issue There are only about 500 subscribers If you are not getting this magazine especially all you new folks out there would urge you to subscribe currently 40 00 year There are a number of excellent articles each month and lately there s been a super series especially for new users Sykora Software Lt Dale Sykora keeps improving his Trackball Driver This latest and now last version adds some additional features and cleans up any last minute bugs For our new SIG members the Trackball is an excellent substitute for a mouse if you are interested in using one The Trackball works from
71. ness If you have any other questions about how to do something on your please feel free to write me in care of the WAP office or call me or Co Chairman Tom Bartkiewicz Our numbers are listed at the front of the Journal FINALLY Reports are that On Three s new spelling checker for EZ Pieces is not selling well If you need a spelling checker this product is by all reports excellent and well worth the 69 95 cost I ll be getting a copy soon and report back to you on its merits The Best of Ottalini 4 18 ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE III By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman May 1988 PUBLIC DOMAIN DOINGS Our SIG PD offerings have grown so fast in the last year or so it s time for a breather of sorts This month we ve taken a look back at some of our older disks and begun the process of updating them a bit Specifically we re now looking to replace older versions of Menu Maker with the newest version 3 00 which makes its debut this month Among its new features is a running clock at the main menu level While the review process is going on we ve gone ahead with plans to combine Basic Utilities disks 1002 and 1003 into one disk which now becomes 1002A B It should be available as you read this see accompanying article on this new disk As a result we are also introducing a new PD disk 1003 called Footnote It s a Pascal program that will allow you to merge text and footnotes into one file Thanks to
72. new format and better attempt to meet criticisms about too many On Three ads There s still a need for more articles and there was a call for more submissions but On Three appears back on track and that s good news for the community Speaking of On Three look for a contest announcement in the next few months that should give you budding Business Basic programmers a real workout The magazine also announced the availability of a new Super Accessories Disk 3 for Desktop Manager Cost is 29 95 It includes a new Accessory Manager for customizing your TDM menus a character ruler to help align text a powerful new block editor and more On Three s order line is 1 800 443 8877 AND OVER AT SUN REMARKETING Bob Cook and crew have also been busy Their latest catalog is the best looking yet and contains a number of Apple specials Their list of software has also expanded to include such programs as Desktop PLAN for financial and business planning and VisiSchedule for project scheduling needs Sun has also agreed to carry ThreeWorks my set of EZ Pieces AppleWorks data bases full of information about the For you Lisa MAC XL owners Sun continues to expand its offerings and officially announced in this catalog its MacWorks Plus program that allows the Lisa to use Hypercard and newer Mac programs Sun s Customer Service number is 1 801 752 7631 To order 1 800 821 3221 NEW PUBLIC DOMAIN DISKS Our PD library just keeps on growi
73. ng This month am happy to announce FOUR new disks 1026 and 1027 are more D A DataSystem disks 1026 is double sided and self booting It includes two programs On side one is Data Window a utility program that will provide a standard formatted dump that is it will print the information of Apple RAM or of any Apple file On side two is Source Window The Best of Ottalini 4 A 5 a powerful reverse assembler that is it takes a program and breaks it down to its machine language origins for printing Both should be used by experienced ers Disk 1027 is also self booting and contains a VERY useful utility program on side one called Power Cat that will catalog any number of disks and then sort them Wondeful for hard disk users or anyone wanting a way to put your disks in some sort of order Side two contains Basic XRF another utility program that will produce a sorted cross reference of all variables in any Business Basic program Very useful for the Basic programmer Disks 1029 and 1030 contain the manual and program disks for Ink Well the word processing program recently placed into the public domain by FoxWare of Salt Lake City Utah Both disks are self booting and easy to read and use As mentioned last month Ink Well is a What You See is What You Get WYSIWYG word processing program written in Business Basic This is the last official release version although Pair Software sells its own upgrade If AppleWriter
74. o be renamed AppleWorks GS is apparently finished programmers are rumored to already be at work converting the program over to the Mac The Best of Ottalini 4 41 ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE III By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman November 1988 WHERE DO I FIND PARTS FOR MY APPLE Finding parts is becoming more and more important for the Apple community The reason of course is that Apple has not made our computers for some time In fact some reports say they are actually destroying machines But don t fear there are still a number of third party vendors who have everything from whole Apple motherboards to memory cards chips etc The list below with some additional notes should give you a good idea of where to start looking COMPANY NAME Computer Service Experts ADDRESS Box 70698 CITY STATE ZIP Sunnyvale CA 94088 PHONE 408 338 4339 CONTACT David Rowe Computer Service Experts says it has Apple ROM chips Check the Apple Service Manual for more information about this chip in the WAP library Call for more information and availability The last information had indicated they were going for 5 00 each with quantity discounts COMPANY NAME Electrovalue Industrial ADDRESS P O Box 376 CPC CITY STATE ZIP Morris Plains NJ 07950 PHONE 602 428 4073 These folks say they have Genuine Apple Parts so they may also carry parts that will work in your COMPANY NAME Jameco Electroni
75. o have a new backup program for hard disks on the way named after a PC program of the same name FASTBACK and a couple of other programs As your Co Chairman must tell you that remain very skeptical of Pair and warn you in the strongest possible terms that this company s commitment to the Community remains questionable The Community on CompuServe met this newly rejuvenated vendor with a great deal of skepticism and even derision As I ve said in the past if there was a problem it would have been very simple to tell people about it and they would have more than understood That did not happen and people got burned They are not likely to forget anytime soon even with the need for more Apple vendors One individual in fact SIG member Dr Al Bloom even wrote his own ASCII to DIF format converter program for the public domain after a similar program was announced in the flyer and others notified FASTBACK s publisher inquiring about possible copyright infringement The Best of Ottalini 4 16 LET S MOVE ON On a happier front Lt Charles Dale Sykora has just come out with a modification to his Trackball driver which now allows it to work with On Three s Graphics Manager and all other mouse driven software He also has patched the driver onto Console for use specifically with Catalyst but is also works very well with Selector These upgrades make the Trackball a much better buy as it is now usable with essentially
76. of GS That means for example there s a program segment several data segments anything else it uses memory segments as opposed to grabbing the machine like Business BASIC did That means for example when there s an ability to run multiple applications in memory we can mix In fact it enables us to run multiple COPY s in GS BASIC So we had to cooperate with the memory manager That means that there s no way to predict where a particular program is going to be because it can get moved around So we have this giant disclaimer in the thing that says well you can do PEEKs and POKEs if you like it but don t believe anything you hear Particularly don t use any value more than a few microseconds at a time Yea there s PEEK and POKE in the language The Best of Ottalini 4 56 Particularly there s also support for C strings Pascal strings and other kinds of sting based structures In using the structure type we can basically map onto other kinds of string structures That means you can CALL the ROMs like they ought to be CALLed using automatic interface In fact invokables now are truly string quantities which you can handle using a string parameter To do that we do all the fix up between what the ROM knows about strings and what we know about strings and what BASIC knows about strings There s quite a bit of work in there to make sure that all that sort of fuses Anyway think you will enjoy the Structure type and it does give a nice in
77. on disk drive or hard disk to match your system s setup Now with the Print Program Commands set let s get to the actual PD CON program PD LOAD P PD CON by Dave Ottalini WAP SIG PND QCPD P Load the Print Program file START PPR NY PPR PPR PD Format Conversion Program PPR PPR S RAM FILE PIN Load which file Sa NY L Sa PPR PPR Hold on now I m working as fast as I can P This is the body of the program It loads the file then prints it P with the proper settings as contained in the Print Program file B PNP NY L RAM FILE P Now load the converted file back into memory clean it up and save P it back to the proper location The Best of Ottalini 4 11 B F A S Sa Y OE RAM FILE NEW P PPR PIN Another File C P If you want to convert another file hit Y or y P Otherwise reload the startup values and quit PCS SC Y PGO START PCS C y PGO START PPR NY PDO D1 STARTUP PPR QUIT POT This is basically how the program works It first loads the new print program commands and then clears memory The empty file FILE is saved to the RAM disk since you can t print to disk unless there is a file present first and you are prompted for the text file you want to format Once designated that file is loaded and the processing begins It is printed to disk allowing the file to be formatted properly according to the print program commands you set
78. on the you paid a performance penalty for using integer although not a lot of people knew that because the system first converted the integer to floating point and then did the calculation and converted it back to an integer In this expression evaluator we don t drop into 32 bit integer or in floating point until we have to So any complex expression will be evaluated at the lowest common denominator or arithmetic until it s time to pump up We actually started calling that degenerative arithmetic but it s sort of the opposite Actually it s sort of a smart expression evaluator The other thing we ve done is data types already said we implemented the different integer types We implemented 32 bit floating point arithmetic We have a 64 bit floating point type so you get the accuracy You deal with this basically with all the same tools inside the GS We also internally at least support the full 80 bit extended type So you can store and restore that in expressions and do comparisons but there s not an extended type in the language In addition there s one other data type in the language you assembly guys will enjoy and actually almost anybody else too which is a concept called structure that is basically an unsigned byte array One of the important things about arrays in GS BASIC is we ve removed some of the old Apple limits Arrays can now be 4 megabytes in size You can have as many of these as you have memory That s handy because w
79. ood as the others because it had been ported over from our version But because SOS and ProDos 16 are in many ways alike the fact that it was ported over may actually be one of its major strengths The Best of Ottalini 4 A 0 ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE III By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman June 1988 THREEWORKS UPDATE It s been a year in coming but the latest version of my Apple databases ThreeWorks should be available by the time you read this column For those of you who don t know ThreeWorks is designed to be a tremendous resource for all Apple ers Using Three Easy Pieces AppleWorks these databases include bibliographies of more than 15 hundred Apple articles going back to 1980 In addition there s information on everything from Apple books vendors public domain offerings tips repair sources bulletin boards and clubs and much more For you Three Easy Pieces AppleWorks users there s a separate data base listing all known books dealing with those wonderful programs and the vendors list includes sources for templates Business Basic users will find a complete list of Keywords as well as information about converting programs from Applesoft something GS Basic users might find worth looking at New additions with this update include a data base of programs and information found in the DL7 and DL8 sections of MAUG The Micronetworked Apple Users Group on CompuServe The Glossary DB has been grea
80. ovide 8 pages of 640 x 192 graphics resolution or 4 pages of 640 x 384 resolution I ve seen some printouts from this card and they look great The package would include a Basic invokable module HIGRAF INV the HIRES driver a Pascal library unit and utilities and cost between 30 00 and 60 00 Estimated cost for the hardware will be around 200 00 Olbrys stresses this will be most useful to ers who write their own programs since store bought programs like Draw On Three or Business Graphics wouldn t be able to fill an entire 640 x 384 screen He also says the video monitor must be able to handle high frequency bandwidths and interlacing such as the Monitor which is not a color monitor however The caveat here is that as with other Apple products these days there would have to be enough interest to push this thing along If you would be willing to spend the money on this please contact Erik Olbrys on CompuServe His number is 71236 1245 Or you can write to him directly at 41 Pepper Ridge Road Stamford CT 06905 AND FOR YOU MUSIC LOVERS For Al Lambert and other ers who wish there was a way to provide a MIDI interface for your machine look no longer The same Erik Olbrys mentioned above has written a MIDI driver and uploaded it to CompuServe It needs a Passport compatible MIDI interface card to work He s also uploaded a Basic program that converts the MIDI data stream into English words such as NOTE ON OFF and program
81. pard 9 Sep 24 ay Printer Utility DMP Imagewriter Consorti 5 M 23 28 Programmers Q amp A 01 Programmers Paradise Consorti 10 Oct 21 22 Review The Unprotect Driver Ottalini Jan 9 Review Copy Gooding Apr 25 26 Jun Review Think Tank Fritz 11 14 Review MatchPoint McNeese Aug 25 26 Review Super Desktop Brelje Aug 9 12 Review Super Disk No 2 Martin 12 Dec 11 15 Review 01 TCM XModem Unveiled Gooding 9 Sep 11 13 Review DCO1 Data Capture Gooding May 19 22 Review DTMO2 The Desktop Manager Gooding Feb 20 24 Sort Program An Improved Sort Teel Jan 10 Sun Systems Remarketing Interview with Bob Cook Ottalini Mar 17 18 Apr Telecommunications Telecommunications Hendricks 9 10 Jul 19 21 Tutorial 256K RAM Upgrade Gooding Tutorial Joystick Gooding Aug 21 22 Versions Program Version Update Ottalini 10 Oct 23 24 HPILWl RIN R aA uM oN The Best of Ottalini 4 64 FORMATTING PUBLIC DOMAIN ASCII TEXT FILES By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman The Washington Apple Pi SIG s Menu Maker program included on all of our PD disks can among other things read ASCII text files and send them to the monitor for the user to read The fact that it does it using Business Basic is no surprise But preparing the text files to begin with so that Menu Maker can read them properly can create big headaches To work properly each line can be no longer than 77 columns and must have a RETURN character at the end
82. past six months or so It has the new Menu Maker program on it an updated bibliography of The Best of Ottalini 4 17 WAP Journal articles about the and an updated A3 Information file KEYBOARD LIGHT PROBLEMS Your Apple s keyboard ON light might seem innocuous enough but it can keep your SARA from booting If the light is burned out a circuit is broken and the doesn t think the keyboard is hooked into the system Thus the machine won t boot There are two fixes to this problem The easy way is to simply hit the RESET key That will complete the circuit and allow the to boot The second fix is more permanent and involves replacing the light Your WAP SIG has some of these in stock if you need one or you can get one from Radio Shack The number is 276 036B To make the repair follow these basic steps 1 Turn OFF your s power better yet unplug the power cord and remove the disk in D1 2 Turn your over and remove the five screws holding the keyboard to the case 3 Pop out the keyboard 4 Carefully remove the old lamp 5 Mark the positive side of the lead 6 Trim the new lamp s wires to match the old lamp s 7 Insert the new lamp into the socket it may require a little squeezing making sure the positive side is aimed towards the 3 key 8 Turn on your If the lamp does not come on turn off the power and reverse it 9 Replace the keyboard hook everything else up and you re back in busi
83. placing a copy of that into the library in the near future as well Our thanks to Bill Roady a er on CompuServe for making the upgraded program available to us MOVING ALONG Lt Dale Sykora continues to work on a number of projects Recently on CompuServe he said he has figured out how to configure Joystick Port A to be used as a serial port This could have immediate impact since all it would take is a specific driver and proper cable to hook up a second serial device printer or modem without wasting a precious slot A new set of utilities for use with On Three s Desktop Manager are in the works and are already getting rave reviews from its beta testers Created by Earl Brelje Disk 83 containing programs you can call up with a few keystrokes from ANY program includes a Block editor a ruler that allows the user to measure the X and Y position of a character on screen an Accessory Manager designed to make loading and managing DTM modules very easy and a new more powerful Print Screen utility The disks should be available about the time your read this By the way any of you with GS s should really check into the DTM GS version It really is excellent and will like our version work from within ANY program running on the GS Other Background Utility programs like Pinpoint or TimeOut are restricted to working only from within AppleWorks a major disadvantage Recent reviews of DTM missed the mark a bit complaining that it was not as g
84. ple Users Group International and probably a few other groups as well We will also offer some of the programs but given the great number will be more selective Let me or Tom know which ones you would be most interested in seeing If any of you have any of these programs and would like to donate a copy for the PD and our back up program library please also let me know I m not sure what impact this action will have on another vendor On Three which offers the Desktop Manager a product similar to Power Keys DTM is a more sophisticated program that has a more professional on screen look than Power Keys But for many users it will be hard not to resist at least trying Power Keys to get a feel for what a desktop utility is and how much more productive it can make the If you would like to write to Daryl his address is xxxx Hamburg NY 14075 The Best of Ottalini 4 52 APPLE S TAYLOR POHLMAN ON GS BASIC Part 1 Transcribed by John Lomartire Edited by Dave Ottalini The following transcription is taken from a seminar given by Taylor Pohlman at the October 1987 Phase Conference in Chicago This seminar along with others given during Phase will soon be issued as a WAP SIG PD disk We believe that GS BASIC is going to provide an environment to do any sort of software you want in a GS environment Everything from converting your Applesoft and Apple Business Basic programs over pretty much straight as th
85. reviews etc These were all downloaded from SIG member Ed Gooding s s Company BBS in Richmond Virginia the best source of information in the US The Best of Ottalini 4 9 THREE SIG 1016 AppleCon As mentioned last month this is the Applesoft to Business BASIC conversion program originally placed into the public domain by Apple in 1981 It will read an Applesoft program from a DOS 3 3 disk and convert it to a point into Business BASIC saving the result onto a SOS ProDos disk as an ASCII text file Both sides are self booting Side Two is in Pascal Side One contains the instruction manual Yours truly has also included other information designed to help in the conversion process That includes PEEK POKE and CALL translations as well as information about converting other Applesoft Keywords to Business BASIC Much of that information was taken from the manual for SOSTRAN a Sun Remarketing product available but no longer advertised which has a treasure trove of information about converting from one BASIC to the Other Efforts are underway to try and convert this program to read ProDos files and as a stand alone ProDos program for the GS FUTURE DISKS have made excellent progress in getting the Taylor Pohlman Solftalk articles on Business BASIC The Third Basic formatted properly etc hope to be able to announce the first release of disks next month To maintain the sequence all five Pohlman disks will be release
86. rial versions of Power Print a series of device drivers that set aside some of your s memory as a buffer for printing purposes In this way you can print a document and continue working without having to wait for your printer to finish The drivers come in different sizes so you can use only the amount of memory you need I ve been using one of these drives for quite a while now and have found it to be a great time saver Due to the size of these programs disk 1024 is NOT self booting But it does contain Menu Maker and the Text Dump program Remember Menu Maker will make a menu of any disk in D1 simply by changing the prefix Hit the ESCAPE key and use the left arrow key to erase the old prefix Then type in the new one and hit RETURN All these disks by the way have a newly updated version of our Menu Maker program which think you ll find a bit better than the older versions Among the changes the top menu bar has been fixed to better reflect the options available to the user And the program now directly returns you to the menu after reading a text file If you want to update old versions of the Menu program from earlier disks all you have to do is copy the new version onto the COPY of your old PD disk To change the disk name on the bottom Menu bar simply retype line 260 letting dS equal the name of the replacement disk Finally have also updated the New Member disk to reflect the many changes in the Community over the
87. rks Word Processing files 230 PRINT from Applesoft Basic Programs 240 PRINT PRINT Select a small word processing file 250 PRINT and enter the filename here 270 INPUT FLS 300 REM BS File starting point 310 BS 8192 HL 300 320 PRINT CHRS 4 Bload FLS A BS TAWP 330 HOME SPEED 70 INVERSE 340 PRINT DISPLAY FILE FL NORMAL POKE 34 1 345 REM Lines 360 400 form MAIN BODY program 350 START BS HL 360 Y PEEK START 1 370 IF Y gt 208 THEN GOSUB 10000 380 IF Y lt 208 THEN GOSUB 19000 400 GOTO 360 10000 REM Sub handles lt CR gt lines amp Command Lines 10010 IF Y 208 THEN PRINT CHRS 13 GOTO 11000 10020 IF Y 223 THEN PRINT justify GOTO 11000 10030 IF Y 224 THEN PRINT unjustify GOTO 11000 10040 IF Y 225 THEN PRINT center GOTO 11000 10050 IF Y 255 THEN POP SPEED 255 TEXT END 10060 IF Y 230 THEN PRINT single space GOTO 11000 The Best of Ottalini 4 31 10070 IF Y 231 THEN PRINT double space GOTO 11000 10080 IF Y 232 THEN PRINT triple space GOTO 11000 10090 IF Y 233 THEN PRINT new page GOTO 11000 11000 START START 2 RETURN 19000 REM Subroutine handles Standard Text 19010 SL PEEK START REM ength of string 19020 Z PEEK START 3 gt 127 19030 FOR I START 4 TO START SL 1 19035 IF PEEK I
88. s and a lot of language features that parallel Business Basic We continue to support 64 bit integer type for instance scale function and all the rest of the stuff for math We ve considerably enhanced the numerics environment by putting in a number of new data types We support for instance a 32 bit integer type which enables you to deal with pointers directly and makes a much nicer interface to the rest of the system not to mention the fact that a lot of arithmetic integer arithmetic now works We also integrated the math in such a way that you don t have to worry about real long integer types being compatible Now complete mixed mode operations work The MOD function works everywhere We built the whole numerics environment on top of SANE think it was done in a very clever way In expression evaluation now in the language we maintain a concept called the type of the expression That means that if you re doing integer expression with just small numbers say small scale constants it s going in the integer math pack in the GS It s extremely quick We also tokenize this function now at entry time so constants don t have to slow the machine down The Best of Ottalini 4 55 In fact you get a real payoff in this machine for using the integer type For Next loops execute six times faster if they are integer than if they re floating point That makes a significant difference compared to the performance on the in that mode In fact
89. s been a classic problem with GOSUBs or whatever How to give people interesting things to use without them screwing them up very much Well now you can do three reasonable kinds of procedures These procedures can CALL functions and CALL other procedures in a recursive way It can CALL itself too for that matter So we do support recursions essentially at any level In addition to procedures we have multi line FUNCTIONS with argument passing An external function interface the old EXFN interface in Business BASIC has been beefed up significantly so that external functions can now be typed and used almost in any environment In fact they can return strings for instance They can return any data type So there s a lot of stuff that enables structured programs from a procedure oriented standpoint The other thing we ve done that really helps with structured programming is implement DO WHILE and UNTIL So you have a full capability there to impact decisions You can do DO DO WHILE WHILE logic expressions and UNTIL logic expressions in relatively any combination of those In addition we are supporting in a limited way multi line IF THEN ELSE As long as a follow up line starts with a THEN or ELSE you can NEXT any logical level It s explained fairly well in the manual The old Business BASIC would let you NEXT IF THEN ELSE statements but after about 150 characters or so you sort of lost track of which was which and so forth This will allow you to b
90. s you read this we are testing the computer interface circuitry So far we have not tried to contact anyone for commercial applications for the board Rather we are developing it for the use of the orphaned Apple ers out there To realize the ultimate capability of the design while offering a less expensive entry level option the C3RGB as we are currently calling it project uses two boards the second of which piggy backs to the first The first board contains the computer interface circuits monitor drivers and 512K of RAM The second board which boosts the resolution capability by a factor of two includes another 512K of RAM plus an optional 65C02 65C816 character generator and programmable graphics controller Although it is still early to make precise predictions we believe that the basic board would cost 300 400 plus 50 for the analog RGB inter face if desired and the second board 250 350 plus whatever the on board optional computer costs Resolution The C3RGB uses a family of special purpose chips from Hitachi the central part of which is the graphics coprocessor itself The single primary board is capable of 640X480 resolution with 4 bit i e 16 color pixels with VGA PGA quality monitors such as the Mac II s trademark Apple or SR12 P of Princeton Graphics The board will also be capable of using the IIGS analog RGB monitor at standard resolution with 8 bit i e 256 color pixels A color palette RAM on the board
91. st showed you with reals and so forth is our interface to TaskMaster And the way TaskMaster works once you ve set up your window definitions your menu definitions and basically your environment then it manages the events for you and interrupts you only when certain things happen Now what we ve done is built an interface GSMaster that allows you to put BASIC line numbers or LABELS into an array And so when TaskMaster has something for you that your program needs to deal with it will appropriately jump to the right part of your BASIC program makes it do a GOSUB or a CALL to do effectively a GOSUB to whatever routine you provide to link into that key development Let s say for example in the case showed you have on one of the menus Windows 1 2 3 4 Now there are routines that basically handle that message So they bring to TOP the Window command can be issued by picking up the menu pick and then dispatching again the appropriate Tool CALL In that way we ve enabled a very fast clean interface to TaskMaster while leaving most of the tricky stuff in the interface behind Otherwise there would be no way to really do it in an interpreted language like BASIC On the other hand if you judiciously use the capabilities it s really pretty straightforward We ve also implemented the idea of a GRAPH port in BASIC what we call a Window File You can OPEN a window as a file and do PRINT number statements to that file as you would use to do i
92. terface to some of the other capabilities We did not expand the string pool It s still 64K maximum number of strings available but there are structures for storing string like arrays if you want to do that construct and quickly convert back and forth And for people who need access to the system if you remember Business BASIC had a few short hooks that let you get out from assembly language and find some things that you needed GS BASIC has a complete set of entry points and a well documented zero page You can call the floating point accumulator call the math pack you can do the kind of invokable for example from matrix arithmetic that people really wanted to do with Business BASIC but couldn t In fact you can even call the interpreter ask it to find a particular line number for you and execute that line and then go back to the assembly language routine That s fairly good control back and forth In fact this is one of the ways Taskmaster works I ll talk about that in a minute when get to access to the ROMs and tools Basically we ve taken Business BASIC and in the area of data type and access to memory and so forth extended it significantly By building a sort of SOS like character file interface on top of it we ve been able to convert programs a lot easier than you would if they had to say Oh my gosh now have to deal with ProDos which is sort of a different animal as we are all aware We mentioned just a minute ago access to
93. the ToolBox and ROM Basically what we ve done there is extended the concept of PERFORM which was the old way to get to results of the module through a new service called CALL And CALL can be either spelled out or simply underlined So if you want to write programs that actually look like you see them in the ToolBox reference you can do that We support parameter passing and there is a mechanism through something called the TDF file which is a new concept we introduced in this language TDF file or ToolBox Definition File enables BASIC to know what the structure of a CALLing mechanism is for Tools And there are TDF files available for all the currently available tools What that does is allow BASIC to know what the parameter list looks like what the types are so it can check your CALLs to the ToolBox and it can also fix up the parameters in such a way that the ToolBox gets the proper stuff it is expecting And that interface basically allows us to support any tool as it comes out with proper tools and direct ROM And we CALL the Tools Locator and do all the right stuff so we re compatible in that environment We use that same mechanism in the capabilities of the H amp W Assembler to extend INVOKE PERFORM in such a way that PERFORM can now do the same type of thing parameter type checking and so forth So that your odds as a programmer using somebody else s invokable incorrectly and not being able to figure out what s going on are greatly redu
94. the records of a two disk MLM file Duplicate records are not merged into the resulting output file The result may be combined or equally divided between two output files for easy record insertion 6 MLMASCI converts MLM files to formats that can be loaded into other systems AppleWriter Keystroke PFS Easy Pieces etc MLMASCI has four output formats Apple Writer mail merge ASCII text Name Value and DIF 7 MLMUPLD uploads creates MLM files from other systems and programs MLMUPLD accepts four input formats ASCII text Name Value DIF and comma separated value ENDIT That s all for this month Have a great Thanksgiving The Best of Ottalini 4 45 ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE III By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman December 1988 HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY WAP As Washington Apple Pi celebrates its Tenth Anniversary I d like to take a little bit of this column to look back at our own roots within the club WAP was barely a year and a half old when the Apple was introduced at the National Computer Conference in Anaheim in May 1980 The was the first computer to be designed in house by Apple Computer It was supposed to be a replacement for the Apple which Apple was afraid would not continue to sell well The was specifically designed as a business machine and Apple sold it in bundles with software and hardware For Washington Apple Pi the first mention of the Apple occurr
95. the transfer of data from the computer to the graphics board Data minimal tasks i e graphics intensive should rival the Mac II in speed especially scrolling operations and windowing Text may be placed on the Graphics screen with bit mapped characters With the 65C02 65C816 based character generator computer option direct ASCII characters can be written to and read from a graphics screen complete with flashing inverse halftone boldface underline and overline Four programmable fonts will be standard with additional fonts possible depending on additional memory Software The board will of course come with a new GRAFIX Driver Hopefully someone will write a graphics program to use the new board By using the advanced features of the graphics coprocessor to Zoom flood fill etcetera sophisticated CAD CAM could be done with comparative ease Hard to say when this graphics card may be ready for actually production but we ll keep you up to date on this as well NEW PRODUCTS SIG member Ed Gooding told me recently about a contact he s made with a vendor called The Lisa Shop in Minnesota According to Ed They will soon be selling 20 and even 40 meg Profiles The 20 meg ers will be S800 and the 40 meg ers will be 1400 He s also fitting a 3 5 drive INSIDE the case to use as the internal drive This will cost around 375 including new case drive and new analog card I ll have more on this as it becomes availabl
96. tly expanded and you ll find information about the chips in your and where to get replacements ThreeWorks can currently be obtained from three sources On Three TAU Third Apple Users Group and Apple Users Group International check your new member disk or prior TRAIL articles for addresses APPLE NEWS More problems for On Three where magazine editor Olaf Wolff was fired in late March He had barely come on board Publisher Bob Consorti will take over those additional editorial duties On Three is no longer owned outright by Consorti and has been on a cost cutting binge lately Although Consorti said on CompuServe that Wolff had been fired for incompetence his salary will be a savings In addition Doc Christenson the On Three tech has been fired as has a bookkeeper and there are no plans to replace Tim Harrington who recently left to work for Apple Renewals for On Three Magazine have not been good the past few months and sales have been lagging despite attempts to market an excellent GS version of the Desktop Manager and other GS products Recent flyers have extolled the community to purchase products and to renew subscriptions or face losing On Three as a vendor would urge all SIG members to help keep On Three as a viable Apple product supplier We continue to get flyers from Pair Software as it works for a come back into the market Your illustrious SIG Co Chairman gives Frank Moore some credit for keeping at
97. ts Dale and his brother continue working on their color graphics card but the lack of an oscilloscope has hurt progress a bit Despite hopes the SOS Driver Optimizer would be finished it was originally to have been ready last January it remains in beta form and still needs some work But for anyone interested in working with EPROMs Dale now has a program available that allows you to program erasable ROM chips using an EPROM programming card from JDR The card must be filed a bit for it to fit but works very well For those of you wishing more information here s how Lt Sykora describes it The EPROM burner card is S60 from JDR MicroDevices it is an Apple card and will fit into the The Best of Ottalini 4 24 just fine With my program and Driver you can then burn data onto an EPROM 2716 2732 2732A 2764 27128 including CMOS versions or use the Pascal Assembler to create 6502 code The program will handle all necessary relocation of addresses With the program PROM Grammer you may read write burn verify erase check and copy EPROMs For anyone who wants it just have them send me two blank disks and S5 Here s the address Lt Charles Dale Sykora 39 Ibis Lane Groton Ct 06340 ON THREE NEWS The big news at On Three is as reported last month Bob Consorti taking over again as Editor of the magazine The result May was one of the best magazines produced in months On Three has been cleaned up a bit with a
98. ts if the guess is correct There are a number of disks with additional tunes available as well recently talked with author Ron Swearingen to see if he might be interested in placing Tune into the public domain But he indicated there s still the possibility of converting the program into versions for the GS MAC or other computer But Swearingen did say he was willing to give readers of the WAP Journal a break if they d like to order the program directly from him Originally 29 95 the program is now available for 15 95 There are four additional disks with tunes on them including one with Christmas tunes available for 9 95 Order directly from Swearingen Software P O Box 650338 Houston Texas 77065 When ordering mention you saw the offer in the WAP Journal We also continue looking for other Apple programs that can be placed into our PD library Look for another announcement in an upcoming Trail column WAP BOARD ELECTION Our SIG Co Chairman is once again running for the WAP board Any and all support greatly appreciated APPLE CLOCK SPEED If you re having problems with the speed of your Apple clock it s relatively easy to fix The clock adjustment pot is located on the keyboard chassis approximately under the L key Remove the keyboard and using Business Basic run this program 10 VPOS 20 HPOS 10 Print TIMES GOTO 10 This will give you a continuous time print out on screen allowing you to adjust the
99. ubstitute that will work within ANY Apple application Great for graphics programs ON THREE 89 95 On the software side of things my choices would include e Just about any disk from our SIG PD library the best bargain in town at just 3 00 each e ThreeWorks This is an encyclopedia of Apple information on four double sided disks Requires 3EZ Pieces or on the Apple AppleWorks ON THREE 39 95 e SUN REMARKETING sells a number of commercial Apple software products at discount prices Among them is AppleWriter 2 0 that contains all the excellent manuals for the program 4 1 version is available in our PD library e ON THREE sells a number of excellent programs including the Desktop Manager background utility Selector for hard disk users a number of games Draw On and Graphics Manager graphics programs A new offering is Sideprint a program that will print spreadsheets sideways Also for new users the Beginners Pack is an excellent buy at 99 00 NEW PUBLIC DOMAIN DISKS Your SIG PD library grows by four disks this month That brings our total offerings up to 40 The additions this month are described in detail in a separate article But in the meantime here s what you ll find e THREE SIG 1037 CustomFONT Manual e THREE SIG 1038 CUSTOMFONT Program Disk e THREE SIG 1039 Font Disk 1 e THREE SIG 1040 Ottalini Articles Disk 1 All are available now in the WAP office for only 3 00 each think
100. uild things so they will look nice in the program We ve really tried to modernize the syntax of the language bring it up to the present Business BASIC at the time was one of the most advanced BASICs on any micro I d say liked it a lot better than Microsoft BASIC A for a number of reasons The Best of Ottalini 4 509 So we tried to do the same product response in 1987 What did this BASIC have that wasn t there before In a way it s pretty familiar The old standard implementation People who have used other BASICs will notice these things work kind of like you expect them to IF and ELSE isn t quite as nice as it could be but it s a lot better than it was and it s really straightforward to implement BASIC by the way has grown Those of you who are used to the old 25K assembler file interpreter file will now discover Business BASIC is right at 60K at this point and growing ever so slightly with every beta version In terms of beta release Apple has it now It s pretty stable We haven t really seen a major crash bug or anything like that in some time And so for development purposes just as long as you sort of judiciously save chintzing is no serious problem ToolBox interface looks pretty solid too The only thing we can do for this is work with it think mentioned in talking about the ToolBox and ROMs structured programming and such that one of the most important parts of being able to give the kind of program I ju
101. up Memory is cleared and then the newly formatted text file is brought back into memory cleaned up a bit and automatically saved back to disk for you Now that s convenience At this point we erase the Ram FILE file and ask if you want to format another text file If you don t the program automatically re runs the WPL STARTUP program for my system If you type Y it heads you back to begin the process all over again You Apple AppleWriter users can adapt this program quite easily for your own use You ll need to change the Clear Screen command V and the pathnames for the disks since the Apple uses slot drive designations This is one of the programs we ll place on the upcoming WPL disk and would welcome any other contributions you might care to make WPL is really a great addition to AppleWriter one reviewer said it made the difference between being a good program and a great program For more information you can get our PD disk 1016 which has the 1 41 version of AppleWriter on it as well as a tutorial on WPL would also strongly recommend you get the 2 0 manuals from Sun Systems Recycling which are excellent they come with the 2 0 version the last official version of AppleWriter Sun s number is 1 800 821 3221 Normal cost is 75 00 but they have sales throughout the year FINALLY Speaking of Sun they have come out with a new Apple Do It Yourself Troubleshooting Guide you might want to get ahold of Cost is 19
102. ur Business Basic programs As relayed on the section of MAUG Micronetworked Apple Users Group on CompuServe they are powerful utilities you Basic programers should get to know better As an example Pair Software s Frank Moore says he set up the MATRW INV module which writes BINARY files to write 100 records to disk then read them followed by a WRITE for a data file for 100 records then READ back in The results were as follows MATRW INV DATA File WRITE 100 RECORDS 13 seconds 47 seconds READ 100 RECORDS 6 seconds 19 seconds The disk also contains a number of other invokables you ll find very useful Speaking of Pair Software the SIG recently received another flyer that indicates continued support for the Apple Pair offers a long list of public domain software although prices are higher than from other sources as well as commercial software products For more information write Pair Software 3201 Murchison Way Carmichael CA 95608 Phone number is 916 485 6525 As have mentioned in past Trail articles Pair has had its troubles over the past couple of years would appreciate any feedback from SIG members who gain new experience with the company FINALLY want to wish everyone a joyful holiday season and a Happy 1989 The WAP has a number of challenges to face in the coming months Let s all work to ensure the health and future of our user group The Best of Ottalini 4 49 The
103. use it at work SOFTWARE SOURCES For our newer members who may not know the best place to start looking for software is right in the WAP library It can provide the help you are looking for On the hard copy side the WAP library offers a video tape tutorial for the as well as a set of tutorial cassettes you can use They may both be The Best of Ottalini 4 34 taken out with a deposit There are also textbooks like the McGraw Hill Guide to the Apple that are an excellent source of basic information The library even has manuals technical information magazines and other information On the software side our PD disks are spectacular buys at 3 00 each Most are self booting and double sided Our excellent Menu Maker program allows you to run any program directly or read any text file directly And in our latest version you can even print a file during or after reading that file So which PD disks should you begin with When you become a member you get one of the best disks around our New Member Disk It contains a wealth of information about the Apple from a basic description of what it is to how to set up your SOS Driver file Beyond that here are my recommendations for some initial disks to purchase 1000 PD Catalog This contains a detailed list of all our PD offerings and what each disk contains 1004 System Utilities and Data If you do not have this disk it is a must have This disk allows you to make copies
104. w time CONVS correct time IF LEN new time 1 THEN new time new timeS 80 SUBS correct time 1 2 new time 90 VPOS 1 HPOS 70 PRINT correct time time of day 100 ON KBD OFF KBD POP GOTO 120 110 GOTO 50 120 char CHR KBD IF NOT INSTR legal char char THEN PRINT CHR 7 GOTO 50 130 END NEW PD DISKS We are pleased to offer two new PD disks this month The first is disk 1035 and is called THE BEST OF BLOOM It includes Dr Al Bloom s set of recent articles from TAU Tales explaining how to transfer data from an Apple to other computers and back in various ways There s also information about all the articles he s written and where to find them as well as descriptions of all his programs offered by WAP and other Apple groups They are both provided in ASCII format and 3EZP AppleWorks Data Base files As with many of our other disks this one is self booting on side one Disk 1036 has two more of Daryl Anderson s gems On side one you ll find RAM 3 a set of VERY USEFUL RAM drivers for those of you with or e cards Side two has 2NFRO a program designed to let you return to Catalyst or Selector once you ve run the e emulation program This is a beta version and works to a point See Jim Suthard s comments about it in last month s Journal This disk is The Best of Ottalini 4 44 self booting on side one Full documentation included for both programs
105. was reduced this past month from 5 00 to 3 00 3 1 2 inch disks remain at 5 00 each for members These prices bring WAP more in line with other clubs and for you ers out there makes these disks an even greater value Most SIG disks are double sided and many are unique to our library Why not give some a try READING APPLEWORKS 3 EZ PIECES TEXTFILES FROM BASIC This is a tough one for me and I ve decided to throw it out to you real Business Basic Programmers out there was able to find an AppleSoft program that will read AppleWorks or 3 EZP s Word Processing files These are different from straight ASCII text files because AW 3EZPs adds information at the top of each file There are plenty of Peeks and Pokes in this one more than can handle So any help in converting this over to Business Basic would be appreciated You GS Basic folks might want to give it a try as well The program with a tiny bit of conversion looks like this 10 REM Program by William A Boyd 20 REM Donated to the Public Domain 30 REM Through the Atlanta Apple Users Group 40 REM All Commercial Rights Reserved 50 REM Copyright c 1986 60 REM 70 REM This program demonstrates the logic of reading 80 REM Appleworks wordprocessing files from Basic System 90 REM 100 ONERR GOTO 20000 200 TEXT HOME VPOS 5 210 PRINT This program will show you how to work 220 PRINT with AppleWo
106. within any application even Desktop Manager or PowerKeys and is excellent for graphics programs like our Sketchpad PD program 1012 It s 89 95 from On Three complete with Driver and the Trackball itself that verses 160 00 for a e mouse which also works in the Uses one slot Dale also reports that he is nearly finished with a GS version of the Trackball driver He has not indicated who will market that for him but we would also suspect On Three Watch this column for availability JULY SIG MEETING Our final SIG meeting of the summer was one of the year s best Certainly the best turnout with nearly 10 people in attendance including some new ers Much of the evening was spent answering questions and helping get folks up and running We also helped one member Jim Jentzin get 3EZ Pieces set up properly for his system know how difficult it is to get a system up and running but continue to believe that the remains an excellent home machine especially for someone who has never owned a computer before The cost is certainly right Whole systems can be had for 500 00 and less In many cases hear of or talk to people who were able to get a from work for free since it usually is gathering dust in a closet somewhere The does not deserve the closet It deserves to be used and the home is the best place for it now but don t get me wrong there are still a number of folks like member Joe Brown who continue to
107. x 644 CITY STATE ZIP Lincoln MA 01773 PHONE 617 891 6851 Another Computer Shopper advertiser Pre Owned Electronics also offers a wide range of parts ranging from motherboards 12 and 5 volt memory boards even analog disk drive boards Call or write for more information COMPANY NAME Shreve Systems ADDRESS 845 Lark Ave CITY STATE ZIP Shreveport LA 71105 PHONE 1 800 227 3971 discovered Shreve in the back pages of Computer Shopper as well Contact them for a complete list of The Best of Ottalini 4 43 offerings Has some software too COMPANY NAME Sun Remarketing ADDRESS Box 4059 CITY STATE ZIP Logan UT 84321 PHONE 800 821 3221 CONTACT Bob Cook Sun is another long time Apple vendor that offers parts including hard to find Apple chips They tend to have chips others don t have Call for latest information They have a free quarterly publication you can order TIMELY PROGRAM Here s another program with will display the correct time for you if your has a time chip and it has been set properly using System Utils This particular program will display the time in the upper right hand corner of your screen and could be incorporated into other programs fairly easily 10 HOME legal char AaBbCcDdEe 50 correct timeS TIMES 60 correct time CONV LEFTS correct time 2 70 IF correct time 512 THEN correct time S correct time S 12 time of day PM ELSE time of day AM 75 ne
108. you ll find CustomFONT to be a fun program to use It will allow you to create custom fonts for your and with specified printers even print them out The Font disk will let you see on screen all the different fonts we ve included for you There are two sides full of fonts including some converted Apple fonts and a number of foreign language fonts The 1040 disk includes many of the early articles this author published in the WAP Journal More compilations will be forthcoming The Best of Ottalini 4 48 Looking to the future the new year will bring with it CAP N MAGNETO a game program that makes heavy use of fonts some additional disks by Dr Al Bloom two Apple emulation disks more Basic utilities programs and much much more am also working on a disk with Apple repair articles tips etc Any contributions welcome s COMPANY BBS Ed Gooding s s Company BBS has been down of late Ed wanted to upgrade to a 2400 baud modem and change BBS software But Infonet the new BBS program couldn t handle 2400 baud So Ed had to do a little hacking to make it work He says things are back to speed now and you can logon without any problems It was going to take a bit longer to port move all the old s Company files over That should have been accomplished by the time you read this however BASIC EXTENSION REVISITED Our PD Disk 1031 contains a number of useful Basic utilities that can help you speed up and improve yo

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