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1. that change from language to language are ASCH 35 64 91 0 92 93 0 96 123 i 124 125 8 126 and 127 Czech video ROM needed I need to be able to operate a database in the Czech language My Ile has a German key board and a switch that lets me flip to an Ameri can keyboard Where can get a chip that would let me switch between German and Czech also need to find a supplier of European alpha bet daisy wheels for my printer Any ideas Myron Schirer Vienna Austria According to Jim Sather s Understanding the Apple He now out of print the video ROM in your Apple Ile is an 8K 28 pin 2764 ROM Hes sold in the U S use a smaller 4K video ROM We know that it s technically pos sible to replace it with an EPROM that holds the German and Czech character sets but we dont know where you d get one already made Open Apple 4 69 up We don t know of a source for the daisy wheels you need either but will be interested in what our European subscribers know about this Old DOS new CAT Finally the CAT command comes to DOS 3 3 CALL 151 SD4C 6D N ABF1 43 41 N A937 40 70 DIS This changes the INT command to CAT CAT does the same thing as CATALOG CATALOG still works too INT doesn t Mark Cornick Charlottesville Va RESUME doesn t A DOS 3 3 quirk I ve run into and never seen an explanation of is the use of RESUME after an ONERR GOTO when there is an I O ERROR after a text file2. called The Information Age Economy by Apple s president John Sculley which appeared in the September 5 issue Sculley s main point is that as the world moves from an industrial age economy to an information age economy schools have to prepare workers for a different type of job I s not that schools have to train people to do the jobs them selves what schools really have to do is train people to be trainable Sculley says Institutions used to be measured by their ability to be large self sufficient and stable Today the most successful enterpris es are measured by their flexibility their ability to adjust quickly to change Among other things Sculley seems intent on keeping Apple itself flexible He s preparing it for the information age by reorganiz ing it every three months or so The latest reorganization announced in mid August divides all of Apple into four divisions They are Apple Products product marketing worldwide manufacturing and research and development headed by Jean Louis Gassee Apple USA U S sales and business marketing information systems and technology customer satisfaction and systems integration headed by Allan Loren Apple Europe headed by Michael Spindler and Apple Educa tion amp Apple Pacific headed by Del Yocam The symmetry limps a bit But it s clearer than ever before that the future of the Apple I at least for this quarter is in the hands of Gasse and Yocam I don t
3. difficult to move files from 5 25 floppies to the hard disk There are also some limitations to the DOS 3 3 partition which has a maxi mum size of 38 140K volumes per drive 400K DOS 3 3 volumes are not supported There was also a problem with the configuration soft ware which couldn t deal with drives larger than about 43 meg but that bug has been fixed The software now works with drives up to 64 megs in size As for the IBM drives we priced all the vari ous items you need separately If you are able to buy them in a bundle or get them when you buy your system as you did the prices get bet ter We ve always agreed that BM type drives are Cheaper than Apple drives our point is simply that the real price difference is less than the perceived difference users who put together a hard drive system using IBM type drives will save money but usually not as much as it would at first appear Open Apple 4 71 French accents Using an Apple Ilgs and ImageWriter IL I have been unable to access French vowels with cir cumflexes the vowel with a caret above it All other accented vowels are available in the French character set on the ImageWriter and via the control panel on the IIgs but not with any software I ve yet tried AppleWorks Word Perfect GS MultiScribe know it s accessible in Word Perfect for IBM How do Apple users manage Dorothy Nesbitt Winnetka Il Let s start with the AppleWorks example Go into the
4. has a familiar interface but that allows you to select only among System Utilities FastCopy Applesoft or the ancient ProDOS throw your hands up and quit routine Otherwise everything on It duplicates material on the July llgs disk which is now available for downloading on the major online services Your dealer may even have a copy you can copy If you don t have it yet however wait for 4 0 Bob Sander Cederlof has ceased publication of his newsletter Apple Assembly Line and gone to work for Applied Engineering He had previously done a number of projects for AE on a consulting basis This is the second Apple I publication to pass away this year the other was Apple User a British publication Sander Cederlof s last article was a analysis of Apple s new Basic system Version 1 2 It vividly demonstrates why his publication will be missed New Version 1 2 of BASIC SYSTEM by Bob Sander Cederlof Copyright 1988 by S C Software reprinted with permission When I receive a new version of something from Apple my first impulse is to try to find out exactly what they changed Especially when for the first time in four years they update a program so impor tant as Basic system And especially when there have been excellent articles published in the fast four years clearly describing definite bugs patches and work arounds was very disappointed this morning after carefully analyzing the new version 1 2 of Basic system started by B
5. has been partially read RESUME does n t work it just prints a on the screen If there are still N records in the text file to be read you can hit Return N times and then the file is closed and the program continues Any ideas John Waters Tampa Fla Under DOS 3 3 an 1 0 ERROR will tum off your READ and close your file When you RESUME you go back to the INPUT statement that was being executed when the I O ERROR occurred Since READ is no longer active INPUT looks to the keyboard rather than the file and a question mark appears on your screen Most programs simply declare the file unreadable at this point if you want to be more sophisticated your error handling routine would have to reOPEN the file and issue anoth er READ command This of course would set the file pointer back to the beginning of the file not to the spot you were reading when the error occurred You could track how many characters have been received as a file is read and use a B parameter with your READ state ment to go back to the exact byte that caused the 1 O ERROR See July 1985 page 1 51 for more on the B parameter Also see January 1985 page 1 02 for mare on ONERK GOTO with READ Assembly RUN know that you can RUN an Applesoft pro gram from assembly lanquage by jumping to D566 54630 This will execute any Applesoft program in memory from the beginning as if the RUN command was entered I d like to be able to execute a program
6. ics companies we deal with Power supplies and TTL logic chips are the most notable items that are available from sources other than Apple We have tested and sold non Apple power supplies for the Il Plus and lle Our experience is that yes they are cheaper but they also have a shorter life span We have also had a defect rate approaching 25 per cent Very little component level service is done anymore on logic boards so we consume few TTL ICs these days Apple doesn t care where we obtain these parts Vern Mastel Bismarck N D I added an automatic printer switch to our collection of equipment this month and the cable connections made me crazy The switch connects four computers to one printer The computers are a Ile lic Iigs and Mac SE so there s quite a combination of connectors The October 1988 printers an ImageWriter II The printer switch I used had standard RS 232 25 pin connectors It took forever to wire up all the cables As you predict my carefully thought out plans for the cables using wiring diagrams from a num ber of books wouldn t work 1 soldered and unsoldered cables until the wee hours of the moming before I got things going The printer switch I used automatically detects when any of the computers starts to print something and connects it to the printer While that computer has the fine the printer appears not selected to the other three com puters so if you try to use one of them to print
7. something it will politely hang until the first computer is finished Another feature of the box is that it has lights that flash constantly which is much more impressive to friends and neighbors than any other equipment I have The company bought the switch from said it wouldn t work with an Apple Il they wanted me to buy a twice as expensive unit with a memory buffer so Im not going to recom mend them If you know of anyone who pro duces a switch like this with mini 8 connectors and decent wiring diagrams I d like to know about it Printing double wide What are the control codes to get an ImageWriter Il to print 4 and 6 characters per inch Clen Clogan Monticello Ill To get characters this big you have to use the ImageWriter s codes for double wide char acters You cant actually get 4 characters per inch But you can get 4 5 by setting the ImageWriter for 9 cpi and double wide 6 cpi is the ImageWriters 12 cpi and double wide For example 10 DS CER 4 ESCS CHR 27 20 PRINT D PR 1 RSM printer on 3 PRINT ES n REM 9 cpi 4 PRINT CHRS 14 REM acuble wide 50 PRINT This is 4 5 chars inch 60 PRINT E E REM 12 cpi elite WC PRINT This is 6 chars ineh 89 SRINT CHR 15 REM couble wide off 99 2RINT This is 12 chars inca 95 PRINT D PRs SCSI numbers don t add In the July issue on page 4 46 you say that up to seven SCSI devices may be connected to one SCSI card pu
8. A1 Thomas Militello Rancho Palos Verdes Calif We ve given essentially this same informa tion before see Blink and its gone May 1987 page 3 52 and Changing the blink speed September 1987 page 3 63 The important new information your tip ads is that you can replace the insert cursor with any of the MouseText characters by using values in the 64 to 95 range i Update blues think I am going to write a book and entitle it Adventures in Upgrading Getting Apple Works 2 1 to work with my other software has taken a lot of postage and aggravation At the rate 1 am going with problems with JEM Beagle and Applied Engineering it will probably be Christmas or maybe even AppleWorks GS before get v2 1 installed The only thing so far that has been easy about upgrading has been the response from Claris could not believe how quickly they provided the update Their Vol 4 No 9 parent never responded so well Whit Crowley Manchester Mo Upgrades are always a hassle especially for those who are near the front of the line I ve been known to skip a revision level every once in awhile but im not convinced even that real ly helps Don t pass go v2 1 I thought you might like to have the patches to bypass the startup press space bar to contin ue and enter current date messages for the new AppleWorks 2 1 BLOAD APLWORKS SYSTEM TSYS AS2000 POKE 14118 44 REM bypass press space b
9. Holdsworth Wilbraham Mass To use the Epson s underlining feature from within Apple Writer enter control V the Epson s underline on code and another con trol V Use the same sequence to turn it off The control V allows you to enter control codes into your text Back when used Apple Writer all the time I had some glossary keys or macros set up to enter all the codes all had to remember was which macro turned under fine on and which turned it off To avoid having underlines sticking out past the left margin when a line breaks while under line is on you also need to use the printer s Yol 4 No 9 left margin command and leave Apple Writer s left margin set to zero I looked in our Programmers Handbook of Computer Printer Commands for the Epson underline on and off codes It doesnt show any for the MX 80 which could be a sig nificant limitation of this technique for some Epson owners For other Epson printers including the Epson FX that started all this underline on is ESC I the hyphen is part of the command and underline off is ESC 0 The left margin command is ESC L n where n is the width of the teft margin in characters The width in inches depends on what charac ter set you are using Mini 8 ImageWriter dealers A cable is almost always a cable when refer ring to the Mini DIN 8 IIgs modem cables cont September 1988 page 4 58 But if you use a switchbox to run more than one
10. LOADing the old ver sion 1 1 and they copying it into bank 2 of my ligs Then BLOADed the new version 1 2 and used the Monitor s V command to compare the two There were a total of 24 bytes changed Thirteen were inside the parameter block for a Get_File_info call so their value is irrele vant One is a byte that is never referenced in any way Three bytes were Changed in the title screen so that you see 2 instead of 1 1 and COPYRIGHT APPLE 1983 87 instead of COPYRIGHT APPLE 1983 84 That leaves only seven bytes in the total update whose change has any significance They have not fixed even ONE of the many published problems in Basic system So what did they fix The description sheet that came with the update said they were trying to fix a bug in the CATALOG command A variable they call TOTENT which happens to be at BCB9 BCBA is used for a counter to control the loop that displays file names and info When the directory is first opened the total number of files in the directory is copied into TOTENT The original intention of the pro grammer was to decrement TOTENT after reading each file entry in the directory When the counter reaches zero the catalog should be finished Unfortunately the program did not decrement the counter properly To make matters worse the new code in version 1 2 does not fix the bug Instead the patch just omits testing TOTENT altogether Now if you have a iong directory delete most the f
11. Options selection in the ligs Control Panel and set the screen display to French You may also be interested in setting the keyboard layout to French which is a separate selection Now AppleWorks will display the built in French characters which as you point out do not include circumflexed vowels To get this much to print on your printer you have to tell the ImageWriter you want to print in French You can do that permanently by setting the dip Switches correctly or with an AppleWorks printer setup see Danish t0 g0 in our July issue page 4 47 for more informa tion In France suspect the ImageWriter adds the circumflex by backspacing over the vowel and printing it separately There is no way to duplicate this on the ligs text screen and it is a feature that the U S version of AppleWorks doesn t support I rely on our French sub scribers to fill us in on how this works with the French version of AppleWorks With a program like MultiScribe you are not limited to the figs text screen or the ImageWriter s built in fonts What you need is simply a font that contains all the French char acters I m not sure whether there s a French font in the public domain but if there is I m sure we have it available for downloading on GEnie There may be problems with display of even special fonts however as described in the next two letters To summarize don t know very much about this but know we have subscribers in Eur
12. Ware s MultiScribe or Apple s Apple Writer in addition to or instead of AppleWorks But in most cases lve said the average Apple II user is far better off learning how to do what he or she wants within AppleWorks than chasing the elusive perfect word processor But now the Bank Street College of Education and Addison Wesley have brought a new writing environment to the Apple II called Wordbench that has me reconsidering my position Not to the point that I ve actually invested the hours it would take to read the manuals from beginning to end and touch the far limits of the program mind you but enough that I haven t yet been able to get the manuals off my desk or the disk out of the Ilc Fuse as a second computer Wordbench note the small B thank you was developed over a three and a half year period by a team lead by Bank Street s Franklin Smith It s a lot more than a word processor Just as AppleWorks inte grates a word processor with a database and spreadsheet Word bench integrates a word processor with a database system oriented around notes outlining software a spelling checker and thesaurus a reference tool for creating bibliographies a print manager that can automatically create a table of contents sophisticated headers and footers and footnotes a folder manager for file and disk formatting renaming copying and deletion and an add in brainstormer Addi tional add in products are
13. _Open Apple Releasing the power to everyone October 1988 Vol 4 No 9 ISSN 0885 4017 newstand price 2 50 photocopy charge per page 0 15 As happens all too often anymore t once again find myself trapped in the infamous AppleFest time warp I m writing this letter to you before the new product introductions of AppleFest but you re reading it afterward I could ask you to pretend AppleFest hasn t happened yet or I could report that Apple s supposed to Have a new Iic the IIc Plus and the real ProDOS 6 GS OS up its sleeves and hope it really does Or 1 could just ignore the hubbub in San Francisco and tell you some amazing Apple stories For example have you heard that Apple fl software develop ers all received the Apple II System Disk Version 3 1 April 14 1988 the first week of September Most of them threw it in the round file thinking Apple had really screwed up this time since two months pre viously these same developers had received the Apple Igs System Disk Version 3 2 June 24 1988 from Apple Moreover they ll be get ting Version 4 0 any day now But it wasn t a total fiasco it turns out many developers missed the subtle difference that the disk they got in July was a ilgs disk while the September disk was a II disk Among other goodies the September disk has the heretofore missing version 1 5 of ProDOS 8 the July disk has version 1 6 and a new program selector called LAUNCHER SYSTEM that
14. an only access about 25 megabytes on my drive Due to its speed and other features J find that limitation accept able The Megaboard allows partitions for DOS 3 3 ProDOS CP M and Pascal I find the system quite fast and flexible If I had it to do over again would still have purchased the Mega board although a drive with an even number of heads would have been better 1 feel I must correct your other impression as well In addition to several Apples I also own an IBM clone added a 32 megabyte hard drive to it also The drive was purchased for 325 and included a controller card and cables That s all you need No upgrades to the power supply or operating system were needed con trary to your statement IBM power supplies include connectors for four drives hard or flop py MS DOS 2 0 or higher which is included in most system purchases is fully capable of accessing hard drives without modification My IBM drive is an admittedly slow 65 millisecond model but it has worked fine for about two years l find each machine has its own set of advan tages and disadvantages and that one of each is the best way to go John L Alexander FPO San Francisco I reviewed the major complaint letter we ve received about the Megaboard and have to admit it contains a lot more smoke than fire In addition to requiring an even number of heads the other big complaint is that on a Ilgs the Megaboard has to go into slot 6 which makes it
15. ar POKE 14436 208 REM bypass enter date POKE 14437 19 BSAVE APLWORKS SYSTEM TSYS AS2000 Daniel R Creech Hannibal Mo Desktop expansion What are three economical ways of expand ing AppleWorks desktop memory T Garner Coquitlam B C There are only three ways With the price of RAM chips none of them seem very economi cal They are aux slot standard slot and memory slot RAM cards lle owners can buy either a standard slot or an aux slot memory card Examples of stan dard slot cards are Applied Engineering s Ram Factor Apple s Memory Expansion Card and Cirtech s PR cards AppleWorks 1 3 and higher automatically recognize this type of card and use it for desktop expansion Examples of aux slot cards are Applied Engineering s RamWorks and Checkmate s MultiRam AppleWorks must be patched using software provided with these cards to recognize aux slot memory The patch programs however provide word pro cessor and database expansions beyond what AppleWorks itself provides for standard slot cards lic owners have the same options as Ile owners However the only standard slot type card available for the lic is Apple s own Older lic models require a free motherboard upgrade to use this card Applied Engineering and Checkmate Technology both make aux siot type cards for the lic AE s is called Z RAM and Checkmate s is MultiRam CX ligs owners will find that AppleWorks 2 0 and higher automa
16. blem is that you can t delete a subdirectory from Applesoft unless it s empty First delete all the files in the subdirectory then delete the subdi rectory The FILE LOCKED error will disappear along with your subdirectory Undelete problems Yesterday while doing some house cleaning of disks to remove old files I inadvertently deleted a needed file tried to undelete using Copy iI Plus but couldn t In what way does AppleWorks delete a file so that it cannot be recovered Donald Bock Hudson Fla it depends which version of ProDOS you were using with AppleWorks when you deleted the file Files deleted while using versions of ProDOS prior to 1 5 cannot be recovered How s that for a good reason to update your disks with a newer version ProDOS ImageWriters in the office Today we had a labe stuck underneath the platen of one of our ImageWriter Ils We spent more than an hour with screwdrivers tweezers pliers a pencil compass an Exacto knife and anything else we could think of trying to get that little sucker out of there we have a blowtorch downstairs I was tempted but managed to resist l even spent about half an hour trying to fig ure out how to just remove the bloody platen from the printer but nothing about the task is obvious While I sat there with sweat pouring off my face one of the secretaries brought me a bottle of something called Dr Scat typewriter cleaner was very skeptical especially because
17. button A menu will drop down that includes the NDAs on the disk you booted from There are limits to how many desk acces sories you can have access to at one time However those limits have been punctured by programs such as Two Apples and Master CDA mentioned here in July Desk accessory limits page 4 45 Beagle Compiler and slot 2 Since the time I wrote the ligs is slot poor letter that you published in the September issue page 4 62 Alan Bird has modified the Beagle Compiler such that APPLEMEM SYSTEM now rec ognizes a memory card in slot 2 Elliot Lifson Yonkers N Y The bias potential request that my subscription be cancelled immediately and that you refund the prepay ment amount on my subscription While 1 don t owe you a reason will volunteer one While I cannot be knowledgeable as you or your staff about the bottom line in what it costs to run such a newsletter as yours have become painfully aware in recent months of the shift in emphasis on sideline retailing of books When received this month s issue and saw the atten tion given to the pitching of memory cards decided it was time to part company support Consumer Reports Magazine for the same reason I ve supported you in the past believe there is a place for newsletters and magazines of small select audiences that do not accept advertising and do not sell the prod ucts they are talking about You ve crossed the line And lost a subs
18. column text screen from Applesoft with PRINT CHR 4 PR 3 yield ed a NO DEVICE CONNECTED error PR 3 in immediate mode did the same It turned out to be a control panel problem slot 3 was config ured for Your Card Clark Hugh Stiles Grand Rapids Mich CDA NDA lesson have downloaded some Classic Desk Acces sories from GEnie but haven t seen how to install them or how to access them Could you fill in the details John Christensen Indian Head Md Desk accessories come in two flavors clas sic or CDA and new or NDA They are useful only on the IIgs earlier Appl s can t use them Take your CDA and NDA files and copy them to your ProDOS 16 System Disk the disk you boot from They must go in the SYSTEM DESK ACCS folder subdirectory When you next boot that system disk the desk accessories will be automatically installed To use the classic ones press open apple control escape just like you were going to use the contro panel You will see a list of the CDAs and you can choose which ones you want to run You can access this menu from any kind of software including newer ProDOS 16 older ProDOS 8 and DOS 3 3 packages unless the program turns off interrupts in which case the menu isn t accessible To use new desk accessories you must be Vol 4 No 9 using a ProDOS 16 program such as Finder Point at the small apple in the upper left corner of the screen and press on the mouse
19. criber Kate Kelbaugh Herndon Va I dont think it s fair to compare Open Apple to Consumer Reports Consumer Reports is a mass market publication that is ten to twenty times larger than our newsletter online ser vices and book and product sales combined It solicits receives and depends on tax deductible donations for its existence But I m sorry if i created the impression somewhere along the line that Open Apple would be designed on the Consumer Reports model Consumer Reports is not just a differ ent animal from what we re trying to do here it s a different species Open Apple is a high tech high touch information Age enterprise What we do for a living at its most essential level is bring peo ple with a common interest together so they can help each other accomplish their goals This is easy to see even in the Cirtech case where we re giving U S Apple I users the opportunity to obtain high quality products made by European Apple I users On the other hand recognize that selling both products and information about products creates an explosive mixture I m acutely aware that we have to handle it carefully If we ever start to Jet our newsletter rather than our cat alog recommend what we sell rather than what s worth recommending we ll dilute the value of our information dont want or intend to do that and I appreciate people like you making every effort to keep me honest
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21. d any such problem in the old version and was unable to make it happen today But sure enough it doesnt fail that way in the new version either After all they didn t change any of that code anyway Why didnt Apple confer with Ken Kashmarek Cecil Fretwell Sandy Mossberg Don Worth Pieter Lechner Dennis Doms or others who have been so carefully analyzing ProDOS and Basic system over the last four years Anyway after all the above is said maybe you still wish you had version 1 2 If so you can tum version 1 1 into 1 2 like this BLOAD BASIC SYSTEM TSYS A 2000 CALL 151 2282 82 was B1 229A A0 was AC 22A2 B7 was B4 3A76 EA EA was FQ 28 3AIC 26 was 3A 3JA9E EA A9 FF DO was AD BA BC 10 3D0G BSAVE BASIC SYSTEM TSYS A 2000 Shem the Penman s Guide to Creative Writing Reasoning and Programming is one of those rare educational software pack ages that does things in the classroom with a computer that can t be done any other way It s the foundation for a semester long hands on course designed to improve the writing reasoning problem solving planning and organizing group cooperation and learning skills of stu dents They also pick up some Applesoft but that s just a by product Students taking a course based on Shem s guid spend a semester writing an all text adventure The author of Shem s guide Chet Day is a high school English teacher novelist adventure programmer and inhabitant of the steamy s
22. eWorks and you ll find it appears hundreds of times POKE 768 33 REM char BSAVE SEG M1 1S00 A 300 11 B 14B0F BSAVE SEG M1 1 00 A 200 11 5 14B6F BSAVE SEG M1 7 00 A 309 i1 5 14BB0 BSAVE SEG M1 7 00 300 L1 B914C02 BSAVE SEG M1 7 00 A 300 51 B914C05 BSAVE SEG M1 1 00 8 309 71 3915836 BSAVE SEG M1 1S 0 A 309 41 8 15942 As for the space at 300 both Timeout and UltraMacros use parts of that page However 300 31F is still safe from both these two add ons Mark Munz Fort Lewis Wash The ASCII 124 problem was encountered in Greece two years ago when we were localizing AppleWorks About 12 other ASCII codes also caused problems used ProSEL s BLOCK WAR DEN and recommend the following procedure a Make lots of AppleWorks disks b Prepare yourself to stay sleepless for a week or so c Scan SEG MO and SEG M1 for the assem bly commands LDA LDX and LDY followed by ASCII 124 that s A9 7C A2 7C and A0 70 Change them one by one and try AppleWorks every time Not all are meant to be changed It took me a full month s work to change all of AppleWorks into Greek Nick Andritsakis Infostar Computer Consultants Kallithea Greece The lesson here for software authors is to set up a table in your program that holds all the changeable characters Instead of doing an immediate register load get the special char acters from the table Localizers could simply scan for and change the table The characters
23. ers are able to understand The disk also includes a teacher s manual the programming skele ton and a sample adventure A Day at the Morgue written especially for 13 to 18 year old students The course requires a lab of 80 col umn capable Apple IIs one per student and AppleWorks The disk isn t copy protected and comes with an unrestricted site license priced at 65 per school Demonstration disks are available from all the usual online sources on GEnie search for uploads that include the keyword Shem or for 2 from Shem the Penman Software 625 Smith Dr Metairie LA 70005 504 837 0343 For the past several years I ve been convinced that one of the last things the Apple II world needs is another word processor My position has been that if you own an Apple Il you should own and know how to use AppleWorks It will do 90 percent of what you want to do There are lots of people Supporting it with books newsletters and training seminars If you re one of the people who needs that final 10 per cent I ve said look at the other word processors that are available and decide if obtaining the final 10 is worth what it will cost you in dollars and in learning time In a few cases of course it is My wife for example uses both AppleWorks and APA Manuscript Manager a word processor designed specifically for writing professional papers in the format and style required by the American Psychological Association Many of you use Style
24. extra 256 times to count it peti to a negative value in BCBA The end of loop test code is at BOSE BOSE LDA BCBA BOAL BPL B078 The correct way to decrement the 16 bit value is like this LDA BCB9 BNE 1 DEC BCBA 1 DEC BCB9 This results in both bytes being zero when it is counted al the way down Code to test the TOTENT variable for zero already exists at the top of the loop in Basic system B070 LDA BCB9 B073 ORA SBCBA B076 BEQ B0A3 A little restructuring of the code would result in even fewer bytes being required to do the decrement and loop control correctly Instead we have this strange wipe out instead Apple went further and changed the branch at B076 to two NOPs and the error branch following the call to Read Next Catalog Entry to terminate the catalog without error Very interesting I wonder if they know something I don t Maybe the value in the directory that we get TOTENT from is sometimes incorrect Maybe it is sometimes 0000 when there are really files Why else NOP out the instruction at B076 Well I have never yet noticed such a problem Have you Notice that with these patches if you get a disk error when reading a directory block CATA LOG will terminate without reporting the error you just will not see the rest of the files The description also claimed to fix a problem that caused CATA LOG to prematurely terminate if a lt space gt was pressed after a con trol S I have never notice
25. from any line is there a way to RUN a program starting from a specific line number Perhaps a GOTO would be better as the variables could be retained Benjamin Ng Calgary Alb Make sure that Applesoft has been initial ized see August page 4 56 and that your pro gram has been loaded then Ag YY LDA YY Store SXXYY in 50 51 85 59 STA 59 AS XX LDA 4 XX 85 52 STA 51 4C 55 D3 MP S0355 4 70 Open Apple This is the equivalent of a GOTO XXYY command where XXYY is a line number in hex ProDOS zero page usage I m writing a program on my Ife using assem bly language under ProDOS Where can I find a listing of zero page locations used by ProDOS so that don t accidentally clobber the area my program is using with ProDOS or vice versa Allan G Dunn The ProDOS Machine Language Interface uses locations 40 through 4E but it restores them to their original values before a call is completed This is why you never see much about ProDOS zero page usage The floppy disk driver routines inside ProDOS also use 5A through 3F These are not restored and should be avoided if your program will support 5 25 inch disks Directory deletion When try to delete a subdirectory from a ProDOS disk from Applesoft it says FILE LOCKED Even if I unlock it have the same problem Chang Yuh Kang Singapore FILE LOCKED doesnt describe the actual problem it was just an error message already built into Basic system The real pro
26. he question asked in last month s letter Orange Micro s Support page 4 58 is to get a v1 1 ROM for the imageBuffer from Orange Micro And finally TIM SWIHART one of the lead ers of the Apple Il Programmers and Develop ers RoundTable on GEnie sent me an electron ic pie embedded with a message that said my answer to last month s letter UniDisk Tech page 4 59 60 was incomplete Full informa tion on UniDisk 3 5 intemals is also available in the Apple figs Firmware Reference Manu al pages 142 151 Back to bent arrows I read in the September issue that you are in search of a way to get the AppleWorks word pro cessor to display the MouseText bent arrow character for Return instead of the fuzzy box I ve uploaded a file called AW LOCATION BNY to GEnie that contains this patch as well as many others Or you can use another of my uploads SUPERPATCH to install these patches into AppleWorks 2 0 f John Link Kalamazoo Mich Here s the patch You have to change three locations POKE 768 205 BSAVE SEG M1 T 00 A768 L1 B 6FE1 BSAVE SEG M1 7 00 A768 L1 B 7175 BSAVE SEG M1 7 00 A768 Li BS7A91 Link s files are probably available on other online services by now as well Another bent arrow Another good place to use the MouseText bent arrow in AppleWorks is in place of under line cursor It makes it much easier to see To make this change do this POKE 768 77 BSAVE APLWORKS SYSTEM TSYS A768 L1 BSD
27. hen enter the changes in AppleWorks You could make the string in the macro as long as you want I ve found five char acters virtually always enough You can do a lot to make sure that they are enough by typing a string that contains the end of one word and the beginning of the next The final lt rtn gt is neat since it works for both lt N gt o I don t want to find the next occurrence and lt Space Bar gt as in Not Found press Space Bar to continue Michael Leddy Charleston Ill Since almost all of the public domain tem plates I ve seen have nothing more than the stock two column layout for the single record screen I like you suspect most people don t know they have the capability of rearranging the positions of the categories on that screen Some of the AppleWorks enhancement pro grams that add mouse support to AppleWorks allow you to use the mouse to layout the cate gories on the screen For my time this is the best use of a mouse inside AppleWorks Exclaimated vertical lines 300 In May a Swedish Apple Il user asked how to change the vertical lines in AppleWorks so they used the exclamation point instead of ASCII 124 which isn t a vertical line in the Swedish character set but an o with two dots over it Here are the patches for the menu cards and the oa Q menu I wasn t able to find the needed locations for the Database Spreadsheet vertical lines or for Tab Stops Try looking for ASCII 124 in Appl
28. iles leaving just a few file names in the first few entries and CATALOG it in Basic sys tem it will read all the entries anyway No real problem the disk just spins a fraction of a second longer The original bug was not a very serious probiem either It only failed when the total number of active files in a directory was a multi ple of 256 which seldom happens In fact it seldom happens that there are that many files in any one directory because so many of the utilities and even AppleWorks get confused with large directories The symptom you would see if you had exactly 256 files in a directo ry as understand it is that you would get an OUT OF DATA error message at the end of the catalog instead of the number of blocks fine suppose that could be unnerving so the bug should be removed if possible The faulty decrement code is at the end of the Read Next Catalog Entry subroutine at B215 and looks like this B215 DEC BCB9 B218 BNE B21D B21A DEC BCBA OH SURE 1 8 MILLION DOLLARS SEEMS LIKE ALOT RIGHT NOW BUT WHAT ABOUT RANDY WHAT ABOUT HIS FUTURE THINK WHAT A COMPUTER LIKE THIS WILL DO FOR HIS SAT SCORE SOMEDAY 4 66 Open Apple B21D RTS if the initial number in BCB9 low byte and BCBA high byte is not a multiple of 256 this code will always result in BCBA going neg ative when the total value has been counted down But if the initial value IS a multiple of 256 it will take an
29. ist One solution is to access the second 3 5 by name using the ProDOS directory choice at the bottom of the list Another solution is to tell ProDOS you really only have one 5 25 drive connected If you have Glen Bredon s ProSEL his SCAVENGE program will remove the phantom drive from the ProDOS device table The newest version of ProSEL s CAT DOCTOR also has this ability from its auxiliary CD EXT menu 40 521 State Rd Princeton NJ 08540 If you know a little assembly language another possibility is to get a copy of Apple s ProDOS Technical Note 8 last revised 12 85 from APDA or an online service It explains how to remove drives from the Pro DOS device list lt L gt ayout search macro Do you think most AppleWorks users know about using open apple lt L gt ayout to modify the single record screen in the database I ve been using AppleWorks for almost three years and just stumbled upon it it gets a mere half page in the old manual At last I have a readable for m t for bibliographic entries The most useful word processing macro I ve thought of is lt oa 1 gt lt sa F gt lt key gt lt xey gt lt key gt lt key gt lt key gt lt rtm gt lt rin gt note lt sa F gt is lt oa F gt t lt oa gt Press solid apple lt S gt earch and five charac ters and the macro will take you to the first occurrence of those five characters in the docu ment find it useful when revise long docu ments on paper and t
30. know if you have any need for any BIG DUMMYs around your place but recently needed one here I had installed one of these newfangled StatDisks in my wife s enhanced Ile When she ran AppleWorks AppleWorks recognizing the card as a RAMdisk expand ed itself into aff the remaining memory on the card figured she d need a little free space on the StatDisk even while running AppleWorks enough for the QuickSpell custom dictionary to expand into if nothing else Open Apple published an AppleWorks Open Apple 4 67 patch previously for limiting the amount of RAM used by AppleWorks August 1987 page 3 56 but unfortunately that patch doesn t work with Beagle Bros Timeout Another possibility was to move a little jumper on the StatDisk itself so that AppleWorks wouldn t recognize it as a RAM card but so that Il Pluses and unenhanced Iles would recog nize it as a bootable disk drive but that static memory is expensive and wanted to use it as much as possible My solution was to write a short Applesoft program that saves a dummy file on the StatDisk Then it runs an UltraMacros task file that starts up AppleWorks and deletes the dummy file thereby opening up some RAMdisk space Task files are an UltraMacros extension that start up AppleWorks and press its keys My task file which I called AW START presses Return a couple of times to get past the flip disk and date prompts then finds the dummy file and deletes it then changes the Curre
31. me remembering to pick the proper printer than they did remembering to use Pause Each Page Dean Esmay Flossmoor Ill You could probably even name the printers continuous paper and single sheets Those make sensible answers to the question Where do you want to print the file You hint at another useful tip here but don t actually say it when switching between contin uous paper and single sheets on an Image Writ er Il you don t have to completely remove the continuous paper from the printer When you flip the single sheet switch it disconnects the pinfeed tractors so you can leave continuous paper threaded as long as it s clear of the plat en area Print downhill no more I read with interest last month s letter called Printing downhill page 4 59 My Epson MX 80 used to print with a downward drift in double strike mode when each character was being underlined separately A magnifying glass revealed the reason Prior to the second pass for printing each underlined character the paper would advance a fraction of a dot and the second strike would fill in white space between vertical dots A fraction of a dot is not much but when it happens for very many characters it is decidedly noticeable The answer is to use the Epson s underlining feature not Apple Writer s The paper still advances for overstrike but only once for the entire line rather than once for each character underlined Robert H
32. n try of manufacture code The other set has a NEC manufacturer code a JAPAN country code just beneath it and a four digit date code to the right of JAPAN followed by a P and some more stuff If you have a memory expan sion card with chips like these soldered onto it your Apple dealer will replace it free If you bought an Apple memory expansion kit with chips like these chips bought from Apple have an A marked in the lower left comer of the chip your Apple dealer will replace them Apple s September s service notes also said that beginning this month the Apple ligs will be shipped with a new operating system called GS OS on system disk 4 0 Older ligs units will require the ligs ROM upgrade see September 1987 page 5 57 to use this software Shhhh we re not supposed to know this Also in August page 4 50 I left a comma out of line 50 of the program that checks for CyberAIDS It goes between the open quote and the A And on page 4 54 third column second paragraph gave two of the Manx C compilers the same name Aztec C65 d is the correct name for the DOS 3 3 system the Pro DOS system is called Aztec C65 c Way back in March page 4 15 dropped an S from the answer to the letter Overstrike cursor at startup it goes between APLWORK and SYSTEM l A representative of Orange Micro was our guest at a real time conference on GEnie on August 30 we found out the answer to t
33. nt Disk Drive to the one my wife normally uses for saving data files In the end it stops at the main AppleWorks menu just as AppleWorks normally does This trick would be useful with any RAMdisk so many of you might be interested in looking at these programs To start up AppleWorks under this system put the Applesoft program BIG DUMMY in the same subdirectory with AppleWorks and UltraMacros set your prefix to that subdirectory and run BIG DUMMY This starts a chain reaction that ends up within a memory expanded AppleWorks that hasn t over taken the entire RAMdisk Here s the Applesoft program 10 REM Save his as 313 DUMMY 20 PRINT CHRS 4 BSAVE DUMMY AS80 1 8000 30 PRINT CHRS 4 AW START Here s the beginning of the Task File that erases the file created by BIG DUMMY You can add other macros to it but the part shown here should come right at the beginning If you re not thoroughly familiar with UltraMacros proceed like this Add a zew word processor file to the desktop from scratch Press open apple esc tc see the Timeout menu t Select Macro Compiler cher Display Current Macro Set This will 111 the word processor file with your current macros Add the macro shown below at the top of the file Do not enter the comments You can however enter the commanas in a vertical column as I ve dore here or you can enter chem ali in one line as is more typical Delete any other 34 macro you might have and a
34. ny cther start Select Macro Compiler again and Compile a New Set of Macros Select Macro Options and Creaze a Task File When it asxs for a filename enter AW START There s no need zo enter zhe prefix of your AppleWorks subdirectcry VitraMacres already knows where it is stert lt ba gt lt al_ gt tais must follow riget after start lt rtn gt pass disk fiio crompt lt rtn gt pass caze prompt 3 lt rtn gt chocse Other Activities 4ertn gt choose Delete files lt 0 DUMMY gt set up naczo 0 for upcoming FIND lt find gt Put curscr on DUMMY lt right gt select it lt rtm deleze it y Yes I n suze l lt rtn gt choose Change Current Disk select list s secona drive back z3 main meny 2 lt rtn gt lt esc gt 3 end of macro One final warning Before trying to start the BIG DUMMY chain reac tion run AppleWorks and use Other Activities Select Standard Loca tion of Your Data Disk to point the current disk at the subdirectory you have AppleWorks and UltraMacros in This is where the dummy file gets saved The macro won t find it unless you set up AppleWorks _to default to that subdirectory As mentioned before the end of the macro as written changes the default to the second device in Apple Works disk drive list You can change this to whatever you like Ask or tell Uncle DOS Corrections and Amplifications The list of third party updates required f
35. ope who are very familiar with the issues and who ll tell us how to proceed More characters more tongues HodgePodge from the Programmer s Intro duction to the Apple Iigs disk let s me s e and print all characters of any font from 00 to FF including accented letters symbols and ding bats But all other ProDOS 16 applications let me see and print only from 20 to 7E Is it possible to use all characters with Multi Scribe Draw Plus Graphic Writer or Paint Works And why don t these applications obey the Display Lanquage and Keyboard Layout options of the IIgs Controt Panel l also tried to read with MultiScribe 3 0 an ASCII file with accented characters taken from a Mac but MultiScribe resolutely refused Luigi Bruno Rome Italy There is one aspect of some Ilgs software that have not seen mentioned in any article have read In Macintosh software it is possible to generate extra characters by holding down the option key when typing This is not possible in all IIgs software for example it doesn t work in MultiScribe GS at least up to 3 01c but it does in TopDraw These two programs are from 4 72 Open Apple the same company Mac and GS fonts use 8 bit ASCII Normal characters are low ASCII and the extra charac ters that are available correspond to high ASCII These extra characters are most easily seen using HodgePodge asked StyleWare about this nearly a year ago and their respon
36. or AppleWorks 2 1 that we published last month appears to be wrong from beginning to end According to Mark Simonsen at Beagle Bros Claris made some last second changes to AppleWorks 2 1 that prevented the third party updates the com panies had prepared for AppleWorks 2 1 from working At the moment it appears you need Applied Engineering s AW 2 Expander v5 0 1 Beagle Bros Timeout v2 1 Jem Software s v2 1 and you have to stick with AppleWorks 2 0 if you want to use Pinpoint Update at 11 as in November On last month s page 4 64 mentioned the programs Iconix and Sonix from So What Soft ware but neglected to include prices or a phone number Iconix is 59 95 Sonix is 49 95 and So What s phone number is 714 9644298 Back in July page 4 45 I neglected a phone number for innovative Systems the company that s producing the floating point card for Apple Ils that uses the 68881 math chip You can reach Innovative at 501 987 8688 or 501 768 4599 Apple s September dealer service notes have more complete information about the problems Apple had with KAM chips last New Year s Eve mentioned this in August page 4 49 The problem concems both Ilgs memo ry expansion cards and ligs memory expansion kits The problem is that some of the chips Apple used weren t CAS before RAS so even Apple makes this mistake There were two types of bad chips One type has a NEC man ufacturer code and just below it a UK cou
37. possible using a standard programming interface Wordbench supports macros shortcuts and will use mem ory expansion cards recommended For screen display Wordbench uses double high resolution graph ics which means it displays on your screen exactly what will be print ed out on paper including features such as underlining boldface and October 1988 superscripts When printing however it uses your printers standard text rather than graphics generated fonts And although it uses the graphics screen and Apple desktop like menus it doesn t use a mouse All command and block selections are made using cursor keys and Return What s so striking about Wordbench is how it far departs from today s software trends while still using many of the elements that define those trends Its use of the graphics screen and its user inter face is up to date and modern yet it won t print using fancy fonts or graphics within text Instead of concentrating on tools for enhancing the look or form of the resulting document the emphasis in Word bench is on tools that enhance the content of the document The form vs content opposition has always pretty much defined the differ ence between Macintosh and Apple Il computing but there hasn t been a new Apple II product for months that focuses and delivers on tools for enhancing content as well as Wordbench does The documentation that comes with the program includes three books a Tutorial a User s G
38. printer computer combination you will get into trouble if you use all standard mini 8 cables Whether you have one computer and several printers or one printer and several computers the cable from the box to the single device can not be a normal mini 8 it must be a special straight through cable If not the combination will not work ImageWriter lls can be very crabby about paper The symptoms described in Chronic printer problems page 4 59 and earlier letters can be a result of paper that is too thin or too thick Too thin paper doesn t push well espe cially when the humidity is high Extra thick paper also can be too hard to push through the printer It s also possible that the paper is hitting the bail and binding when the printing begins ImageWriter II paper drive motors can fail and still work sorta kinda This failure is charac terized by a horrible grinding noise when the paper should be advanced but will not be con sistent Sometimes the paper will feed some times not The fix is to replace the motor Incidentally I m an Apple dealer and I dis agree with a statement in the letter Repair Restraint page 4 62 Apple does not specifi cally require a dealer to use Apple parts for the repair of Apple computers Most of the parts simply aren t available anywhere else The prices aren t cheap but we ve found Apple to be a fast and fair supplier of service parts wish could say that about most of the electron
39. rchased a CT 20 hard drive from Chinook Technology but the User Manual indicated only two devices could be connected Which is correct Gary Mertl Brookfield Wisc SCSI allows for seven devices per SCSI chain Current versions of ProDOS however only allow two devices per slot This is where the confusion comes from expect future ver sions of ProDOS will leap over the two devices per stot limitation Another view on cheap drives In your reply to Rethinking hard disks cont in the August issue page 4 53 you say IBM type drives aren t really cheaper in the long run and that all the letters you ve received about the Perlin Megaboard have been negative have found neither to be true 1 purchased a Megaboard about a year ago and have been very satisfied am using a Tan don TM 703 drive that obtained surplus for 200 it is an AT class drive that formats IBM to 32 megabytes has an average access time of 45 milliseconds fast and has auto park With a case and power supply available for as little as 50 I paid 75 for extra current capacity and with the Megaboard which includes all cables and software for 195 00 I was online for under 475 00 The only drawback to the Megaboard is that its hardware is set up for drives with 4 6 or 8 heads As about 80 per cent of the drives avail able fall into one of these categories it s usually not a problem The TM 703 however has 5 heads This means that c
40. se was the lack of ability to access the high ASCII set is a limitation of the operating system of the Apple llas In Top Draw it was possible to overcome this limitation without corrupting the system files but we have yet to find a way to do this in MultiScribe also tried asking Apple Australia about this but did not get anywhere It s possible to overcome this problem but it s tedious First you need to create a file that has the 128 low ASCif characters in it Do this with MultiScribe or whatever Next use a zap program to change each character to it s high ASCII equivalent Once you have a file like this you could also use a program that will deal with high ASCII characters like TopDraw to cre ate it you can use copy and paste via the clip board to put the special characters into your a document On another subject in reference to Speaking in tongues in your August issue you didn t mention Pecan s Power System software haven t used this software or seen any reviews but have the following information from their brochures UCSD Pascal Modula 2 FORTRAN 77 and BASIC compilers are available as well as a separate assembler Each of the five is available in either an Apple if 6502 version or a Apple lgs 65816 version All of the compil ers use SANE numerics and can access ProDOS files although the compilers don t appear to be Open Apple E Saas is written ed ted published an
41. the applicator ball was far too big to squeeze under the platen But tried it squeezing some of the fluid into the crack Then I rolled a piece of paper through the printer and said WOW as an inch square piece of label rofled right out with the paper don t even know where to get the stuff but it s probably available in office supply stores I am thoroughly impressed with it I gave the whole platen and print head a good cleaning too and the stuff did a marvelous job it s unbe lievable how filthy a year old printer can be really don t know if this brand of cleaner is the best but J certainly know that it works Here s a handy AppleWorks tip Ive never seen in print before In our office we do a lot of stuff on single sheet paper though we don t have a cut sheet feeder It s easy enough to roll the continuous paper back and flip the single sheet latch the problem was that AppleWorks was configured for continuous paper and would expect the next sheet to be there when it was n t First I tried to teach our secretaries to use Appleworks s open apple lt O gt ption Pause Each Page feature to solve this but they often forgot to include that code when printing on single sheets l So I configured AppleWorks for two printers The specifications for the two printers are iden tical except that one stops at the end of each page named them ImageWriter II and Image Pause Our secretaries have a much easier ti
42. tically expand into their memory slot cards These are made by a number of companies A ligs can also be fitted with a standard slot type but not an aux siot type memory card but AppleWorks will not expand into it without a special patch see AppleWorks IIgs defeater December 1987 page 3 86 and llgs defeater defeated in Jan uary 1988 page 3 95 Device list too short I would like to have the AppleWorks Disk drives you can use list to display the choice Disk 1 Slot 2 for my second 5 5 drive To date neither nor my dealer nor the Washington Apple Pi hot line nor Claris technical support October 1988 can get it to do this with my hardware configura tion It doesn t matter whether use plain vanil la AppleWorks or a patched AppleWorks It also doesn t matter if I start Appleworks from my hard disk or 3 5 drive In addition to my 20 meg Sider in slot 7 and two 3 5s I have one 5 25 in slot 6 and a 1 5 meg IIgs intemal RAMdisk that shows up as slot 5 drive 2 Charles O Ward Centreville Va Your problem is that AppleWorks will display only six devices in its Disk drives you can use list You have more than that The six that show up in your list are the two volumes in slot 7 two in slot 6 ProDOS cant tell if you have one or two 5 25 drives connected so it always assumes two and two in slot 5 3 5 and RAMS5 Your seventh the 3 5 that appears to be connected to slot 2 won t fit in the l
43. time usually unintentionally Unsatisfied subscribers may cancel their subscription al any time and receve a full telund of ther last subscription payment The unfilled portion of any paid subscription will be refunded even to satisfied subscribers upon request MY LIABILITY FOR ERRORS AND OMISSIONS IS LIMITED TO THIS PUBLICATION S PURCHASE PRICE in no case shail i or my contributors be liable lor any incidental or consequential damages nor for ANY dam ages in excess ol the tees paid by a subscriber ISSN 0885 4017 Printed in the U S A GEnie mail OPEN APPLE 913 469 6502 ProDOS based The brochure says the ligs implementations utilize extended memory sup port toolbox routines and are compatible with Apple Pascal A variety of utilities are available I was interested because would like a FOR TRAN 77 but am still undecided I would prefer a compiler that ran under APW Stephen Harker Oakleigh Vic If HodgePodge can display all 256 charac ters it would seem other programs should be able to We ll see what we can find out Four compilers and an assembler times two versions Apple If and Apple ilgs makes ten separate packages from Pecan Software Each package sells for 100 We haven t seen any of these products either Pecan Software Sys tems 1410 39th St Brooklyn N Y 11218 718 851 3100 or 800 637 3226 fake i Watch those controls After we upgraded the ROMs on my father s ligs trying to turn on the 80
44. ubculture of computer bulletin boards His guide is based on an elective course he designed and has given each spring for the last four years Vol 4 No 9 Day says the course turns teenagers who boast they haven t fin ished a book since 6th grade into avid readers who spend hours turn ing the pages of interactive fiction Among the course s benefits are development of a student s ability to read far details and to think logi Cally Shem s guide outlines the course week by week The first week is spent getting familiar with interactive fiction By the beginning of the second week each student must have written a story that will form the basis for his or her adventure During week two students design the map of their adventure Dur ing weeks three through five the students write ali the text that will make up their games Then the students spend ten weeks fleshing all this onto an Applesoft skeleton program that Day provides The final weeks of the course are spent debugging beta testing and creating marketing materials Like all the best educational software Shem the Penman s Guide comes with a student manual on disk where it can be shortened lengthened or otherwise modified to fit the needs of individual teach ers and schools The manual includes a thorough annotated discus sion with examples of how to write high quality interactive stories as well as a complete learn by doing tutorial on programming that begin n
45. uide and a Reference Manual The pro gram requires at least 128K in a Ile Ilc or ligs an IBM compatible version is also available There is no copy protection The program isn t perfect of course It makes your disk drive sound like it s washing clothes when you create a new file and takes almost as long Scrolling is slow and a built in keyboard buffer means the screen continues to Scroll long after you ve released the up or down arrow key But the program is new improvements will come and it s backed by some very big players in the Apple Il community A Bank Street spokesman says Wordbench emerged from Bank Street s interest in developing a product that would address writing as opposed to word processing I m a writer and I m convinced this is software writers will buy a computer for The package is 149 and is distributed to dealers by Ingram Software Micro D and SoftKat Apple s Developer Services group publishes a miserable little weekly newsletter for developers called Apple viewpoints Most of the feature length articles published in Apple viewpoints imply that if you don t develop software for the Macintosh you re a hairball IBM itself couldn t design a better piece of propaganda to demoralize Apple II developers And IBM certainly couldn t aim it at the heart of the Apple Il developer community like Apple itself can One of the few recent articles that didn t go out of its way to insult Apple II developers was a piece
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