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1. lt gt Mac File Transfers Van der Stra 6 9 10 Sept Oct 9 Repairing Your Profile Consorti 6 9 10 Sept Oct 3 6 A History of EZ Pieces Ottalini 6 7 8 July Augu 3 5 Letters to the Editor Consorti 6 3 4 March Apr 9 11 Letters to the Editor Consorti 6 5 6 May June 6 Letters to the Editor Consorti 6 7 8 July Augu 7 9 Review On Stemspeller Breneaux 6 1 2 Jan Feb Helpful Hints Lomartire 6 3 4 March Apr 7 8 Helpful Hints Tatom 6 5 6 May June 6 Helpful Hints Lomartire 6 5 6 May June 6 Helpful Hints Ricker 6 7 8 July Augu 6 Helpful Hints Lomartire 6 11 12 Nov Dec 7 Multi Column Labels in Word Juggler Lomartire 6 5 6 May June 7 The Best of Ottalini 5 6 1 A NEW RGB CIRCUIT FOR THE GETTING A HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR By D D Meisel Recently faced with the prospect of having to buy a new color TV set for the family steadfastly insisted at the store that my purchase would only be made if the set had RGB outputs in addition to the standard NTSC ones Since the apple owner s manual had a neat conversion circuit printed in it on Page 135 Appendix C figured that setup would be no problem while the sensible solution of course would be a purchase of an xRGB compatible monitor dedicated to the computer my wife and daughters wanted a video recorder and so the money for a separate monitor was spoken for Besides the Apple at our house is for business only and games are not allowed They couldn
2. SIG Co Chairman DISKSO4 APRIL When your s hardware or software gets a little sick it can be one of the most frustrating experiences you ll ever have Most of the time you really don t know what s wrong It just doesn t work or there s information you just can t access And even if you did have an idea of what was wrong where would you go to get help The reality of owning an orphan is that your options are relatively limited Sun Remarketing can always come to the rescue if need be But that can be expensive So the alternative is to try and fix it yourself perhaps with a little help from your fellow SIG members Having been frustrated myself more times than care to count I ve put together a series of disks for our PD that can at least provide some help if you have a hardware or software problem No guarantees of course but at least they are something you can go to to try and provide some clues about what can be done Our first PD offering this month is disk 1088 Repairing Your It s a double sided disk full of information related to problems experienced by others and suggestions about how to fix them It s not really a tutorial per se just a collection of problems people have experienced over the past few years Much of the information comes from the section of CompuServe or from Ed Gooding s s Company BBS Disk 1089 is called Brain Surgeon It s a Backup repair program which is not for the faint of he
3. Finally if you are really interested in delving into what your programs look like disk 1095 has the Jeppson Disassembler which will take any Apple program and disassemble it into assembly code for you It includes source code and other information Most of these programs all have help files or other The Best of Ottalini 5 2 0 information to get you up and running But as always it s a good idea to work on a copy of your program if you need to do a little repair work on it Next month it s time for another Dr Bloom disk and we ll stir the pot with our first cookbook disk AND SPEAKING OF DR BLOOM A final update to disk 1085 AWEZP and what it can really do when changing AppleWriter text files into EZ Pieces Word Processing files from Dr Bloom himself EZP can import an ASCII text file directly but only the text An Apple Writer document file contains more than text All the dot commands for page layout and document formatting not to mention the basic page layout information in the accompanying SYS PRT file If you import an Apple Writer file into EZP as text you have a whole bunch of dot command text that must be manually deleted and replaced by EZP cmds Plus top bottom line title entries and such the like As a properly lazy sort I d rather have a program replace those AW commands with their EZP equivalents And that is what AWEZP does Ever wonder about the compatibility of Apple and disks Dr Bl
4. XRGB1 on the equals Pin 5 Red XRGB2 n Pin 9 Blue XRGB4 n Pin 2 Green XRGB8 A Pin 10 Intensity SYNCH Pin 3 GROUND v Pin 13 5 Volts n Pin 15 CONNECTED TO THE RESISTOR NETWORK ONLY AND NOT THE MONITOR All the RGB colors produced by the come from the resistor network and not directly from the which is why you have to have it in order to produce a correct Apple color set Interestingly the early Apple publications I ve been reading to research this article made reference to third party manufacturers planning to introduce a plug in RGB color card for the Apple And in the past year reported to you about Lt Dale Sykora s work on a graphics card that would be hooked up to an RBG monitor Unfortunately none of them ever seem to have become actual products If you remain interested in purchasing a new color RGB monitor there are a number available at reasonable prices Looking through Computer Shopper for example find a Samsung 14 RGB monitor for 219 00 a TAXAN RGB monitor for 215 00 and a Magnavox 14 RGB monitor for 235 00 with composite input Jameco sells a Casper 14 RGB monitor for 249 00 Magnavox also still sells a composite color monitor Lyco has it for 189 95 believe Apple also still sells a composite monitor FINAL THOUGHTS Hooking up a color monitor can add some fun to your game playing and can be useful while doing color graphics or using the in emulati
5. Programming Applewriter WPL Software Topics CP M Topics Software Topics Questions Answers WO CON AM BWN PR NNNRPP RPP RPP RPP PR NPOWUANDUBWNRO Some of the recent additions include programs to print Pascal source code an article on the best environment to keep your hard disk running longer and more reliably how to have both the Dvorak and Sholes QWERTY keyboards available at the same time a program that will calculate what stamps to use on mail after you enter the weight and much more We already have two Best of s Company disks in our PD and will attempt to do some more downloading soon so we can provide you with another few disks Ed has contributed mightily to the Community over the years and has made many of our disks much better than they would have been otherwise You really owe it to yourself to try it at 804 747 8752 ENDIT That s all for this month hope some of you got to the January Garage sale didn t see a lot of ers But luckily Jim Salerno was there He s always one of my best customers The Best of Ottalini 5 14 ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE III By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman April 1990 PRINTERS I ve been considering an upgrade to my printer of late and have been looking at two possibilities a 24 pin printer or a Hewlett Packard Deskjet Plus But can they work with the The answer to both questions appears to be yes The Deskjet is the more expensive of the two
6. and may need an Epson emulation card but otherwise should work fine As for 24 pin printers On Three s Bob Consorti recently told me on CompuServe The simply sends out normal ASCII characters and commands and the printer prints the characters in all of their 24 pin glory The only program that know of that recognizes 24 pin printers is TGM The Graphics Manager It will support graphic printing at the full resolution of the printer Actually think the upper limit is like 180 or so dots per inch But Dr Al Bloom suggested one problem to be on the lookout for Some are a little fruity when hooked to a My dad had an Epson LQ800 that would only print a page or two before hanging up It worked great on PC s and on Apple II s that his local computer store could test Instead of throwing it out he gave it to my wife for her e We also used it with our Mac II for a year before swapping it out for a LaserWriter IINT But it wouldn t work with a Just that one borrowed an LQ800 from my dealer and couldn t get it to fail bought an LQ800 for the office that could not get to fail Turns out it was a bad chip and Epson ran him around long enough that the warranty expired and it was cheaper for him to buy an LX 800 that worked than to fix his LQ800 If you get a 24 pin and if it doesn t work right off take it back KEYBOARDS was able to pick up some extra Apple s recently Thank You WAP member Rae Benadetto and
7. interfaces like SCSI For one thing SOS can handle a maximum of 32 megabytes 16 megabytes if you re using Pascal So the Sider D7T for example is partitioned into four volumes 16 16 16 14 to handle it The Apple GS s GSOS which has its roots in SOS has NO volume limit Nor does the MAC My interest in SCSI is due to recently developments with CD ROM drives and especially placing Apple information on a CD ROM for archival purposes with Apple and MAC material like was done recently for the National Apple Users Group Conference But CD ROMS hold as much as 600 megabytes of information and Consorti says it s doubtful a manufacturer would be willing to partition a CD ROM in 32 or 16 megabyte partitions but since no one s ever been asked There are other problems of course CD ROM Drives cost a bundle few programs to read the data is available none of course on the etc making it doubtful we ll ever hook up our SARA to a CD ROM That includes Titan Emulation mode since the Apple SCSI cards are 2 too long to fit in our s But still think that given the amount of space available it would still be worthwhile to see if Apple information couldn t be placed onto a CD in conjunction with Apple and MAC material Even if it had to be read by a MAC or Apple and this IS something will pursue Consorti DOES say he s been trying out different devices with the Sider SCSI card and thinks there may be some dev
8. 50 the GS library is the beneficiary on our end If you re interested in more information or want to drop a line to give some encouragement write to Rick at xxxx Columbus Ohio 43231 Phone number is 614 xxx xxxx THAT S ALL For this month Have a great Halloween Hope to see you at a SIG meeting in the near future The Best of Ottalini 5 40 ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE III By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman November 1990 CD ROMS TAKE TWO Some additional comments this month on our interest in CD ROMS scanners and the Apple Lavona Rann of the Third Apple User Group TAU says if and it s a big if at this point a second PD CD ROM through the InterChange group that sponsored the National Apple Users Group Conference is developed she will see about getting some Apple material on there which we would be happy to contribute to That s the good news The bad news is as we discussed last month your while it could hook up to a CD ROM with the Sider SCSI card will probably never be able to READ the information in a usable form On the other hand if you have an Apple GS or access to one this wouldn t necessarily be a problem i e download it to disk using the GS and then use it ona asked On Three s Bob Consorti to provide some additional details on this and here s what he told me I can make a SOS driver to read blocks from the CD ROM disk but it would take a controlling progra
9. C COS T R 24 EXP C 2 COS 4 T SIN T 12 5 H 140 R S V 96 R C PERFORM DOTAT H 8V NEXT VPOS 23 GET AS CLOSE TEXT HOME END Note that the way the program is written BGRAF INV must be in Drive 1 since that is where it is called in line 120 You might have some fun changing the parameters in line 180 used Desktop Manger to capture the listing and print it into Business Basic PowerKeys in our PD library has the same capability and ran this program It takes a short while but it does indeed come up with a butterfly Enjoy The Best of Ottalini 5 18 ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE III By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman May 1990 HAPPY BIRTHDAY SARA May 1990 is a significant month for the Apple as it marks our computer s 10 year coming out anniversary It was during the National Computer Conference NCC in Anaheim California ten years ago this month that the was introduced to rave reviews Despite getting stuck in the basement garage of the Disneyland Hotel Apple s display of the was the second most popular of the Conference Yes IBM was first In fact people had to wait in line 20 minutes just to get near a machine Don Williams Apple s Marketing Manager at that time described what it was like during a talk at the October 1987 Phase Conference in Chicago Illinois Apple President Mike Markula perceived that the one way to bring attention to Appl
10. Jump on board First off your Apple produces two types of color for output to a color monitor The first is called NTSC composite The second is called RGB There are monitors that offer each separately or together hold on though it s not as easy as it seems The NTSC signal is the same type used by your video tape recorder That means you can directly send the output of your into a VCR and from there into your TV set It s a cheap way to get color and be able to tape the output as well Of course you can also plug your directly into a composite monitor if you wish or get an RF modulator and hook it between your and a regular TV One additional plus is that you can get color out of emulation mode with this hookup RGB is NOT available In fact if all you want to do is play games in Em mode composite is the way to go Unfortunately composite color does not have the quality RGB has but George Oetzel writing in On Three a few years back feels An NTSC monitor and a B W monitor together cost less than a good RGB monitor and it seems that this is the best for the Apple No sacrifice of Apple color is involved in the use of an NTSC monitor because the Apple hi res color mode is identical to the corresponding Apple mode If you have a newer Apple you should be able to pull a composite signal directly out of your Apple s monitor connector which uses a standard RCA type cable You can get a Y con
11. OUTPUTS 7 V 1K 1K XRGB1 O 4 414 FL af l 2 2K A LESA ft OR 4 7K 1K 2 2K XRGB2 O LAA gt O B 15K TRANSISTOR 2 2K INPUTS XRGB4 O LLE gt OG 6 8K 2 2K XRGB8 O a ae ae a A 7 7 4 7K 1K l 2 2K 7 T E E 4 7K SYNCH O O SYNCH The Best of Ottalini 5 63
12. a readable format the trade off quality is not as good as you would see on a MAC or MS DOS machine It took a bit of work to bring these to you First each picture had to be converted under e emulation mode with a program called GIF The GIF pictures became Double HiRes Apple Binary files These were read into Graphics Manager and saved as Apple FOTO Files There are some interesting pictures here From the Space Shuttle to Bugs Bunny and even a few pretty faces These are all double sided but are NOT self booting We have another disk in the works and will make it available as more GIF graphics become available And there there s our first Shareware offering called GrafixWorks Compiled by yours truly GrafixWorks 3GRX 27 and 28 is a set of two double sided disks that contain tools you can use with On Three s Graphics Manager or other graphics program to draw and design all sorts of things It provides templates to use in all sorts of graphics projects and even offers a few examples of how they can be used for things like letterhead design borders etc Documentation is included Shareware donation is 10 00 A NEW CLUB Yes it s hard to believe but a new Apple group is being formed This one is in Columbus Ohio Rick Gast who has joined WAP is heading up the effort for a club tentatively being called the Active Computer Enthusiasts They ve already purchased 50 of our SIG PD disks and traded for another
13. all the graphics disks at the time since could also use them with Graphics Manager in native mode Wanting to make this as easy as possible decided to use one of the brochure formats available from the Design Ideas disk that Timeworks sells The format as you can see uses a regular 8x10 page in two columns both sides it folds in half lengthwise With 128k have enough memory to produce this brochure with one graphic a picture of the Apple on the front page wrote my copy using AppleWriter in native mode and then imported it into Publish It 3 did the necessary editing font changes etc from within the program The graphic was an Apple 33 block Fotofile whose file type was changed to Binary and then imported into Publish It There were a few problems along the way but it got easier as worked with the program and got to know it better found it s actually easier in some ways to use Publish It using key commands rather than a mouse or joystick I have a joystick One of the neat things about Publish It 3 is that you can save your work as a Postscript file actually the fancy name is Encapsulated Postscript or EPS so that it can be printed on a laser printer uploaded that Postscript file to the TCS so that it could be printed in the WAP Journal for you to see what kind of quality is available Here s what a small part of the brochure looks like in the EPS Postscript language which is saved as an ASCII text
14. at that point and order a new keyboard from Sun An IC puller is great for yanking key caps The Best of Ottalini 5 2 3 DIAGNOSTICS DISK 2 A note on disk 1094 Repairs 02 our second Apple Diagnostics disks Like the first one this disk was written in Integer Basic and runs under Emulation Mode it is self booting But John Lomartire warns that the disk test section may be faulty He says that while it will correctly test the built in drive it does NOT test the peripheral drives even though it pretends to and will give you some fictitious results John asks if anyone on the side knows much about Integer Basic it might be a good project to look at the program and see if it can t be fixed Any WAPer interested I ll be happy to give you a free copy of BOTH diagnostics disks PUBLIC DOMAIN Our Apple Librarian John Ruffatto recently reorganized the entire Apple library to weed out the deadwood and condense by putting programs on both sides of the 5 25 disks just like we ve been doing from the beginning with the PD But as a result John also pushed me and he had to push hard into reorganizing our library too Basically that means our disks are now going to be offered by category instead of simply in succeeding numbers I ve gone though and categorized the whole thing so that it should be much easier to find the disks you want For example we now have categories for Graphics Information Utilities and even G
15. been in the PD for a while from other sources but think now is the time to add them into our library See the accompanying article for more on each program but this is what you ll find Disk 1081 Calendar which not only prints calendars for you but lets you include a wide choice of typewriter art as part of the printout Disks 1082 and 83 have two sides each of typewriter art for you and more is on the backside of disk 1084 On the front of 1084 is Poster by Bloom which will is a utility program to print word posters using any Apple font you might care to These programs are fun to use and play with and as always Dr Bloom has included complete documentation on disk I ve also updated our Disk 1000 this month to bring it up to date I ve done a little format changing and condensing as well to make it easier to use The 3 EZ Pieces data base version has also been updated and is on side 2 as before FINALLY Dr Bloom writes to say that was a little too optimistic about his new PD program AW3EZP described in last month s column In discussing what it can do SHOULD have said it will convert Apple Writer files into 3EZP AppleWorks word processor files not any ASCII file into any 3EZP file He gets so picky sometimes Anyhoo that s all for this month We look forward to working with you this year Let s make it the best Apple year ever The Best of Ottalini 5 7 ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE III By David Ottal
16. file to disk Encoding macvec def BuildChar bmbc load def end mfont definefont pop bdf currentscreen prce exch def ang exch def frq exch def rscr frq ang prce load setscreen bdf TT 00 792 612 100 72 72 1 FFF FEFTTT psu Publish It document SIG BROCHURE 2 jn O mf od op O 0 xl 1 1 pen 00 gm nc 31 30 761 582 6 rc kp The Best of Ottalini 5 59 1 1 pen 8 lt FEF7BFFB7FEFFDDF gt pat think the final product is pretty good for my first Apple e DTP effort It should be going out with all Apple inquiries even as you read this By the way you Apple and users and not just GS folks can hook up your machines to laser printers most have serial ports and get excellent output Don Lancaster of a company called Synergetics in Arizona 602 xxx xxxx has lots of information about doing this on the much of it applicable to the see back issues of Computer Shopper through early 1990 As for the specifically there is a laser driver on our Drivers disk 3UTIL 04 And you ll find some additional information from these articles TITLE Magazine VOL IS MTH YR PG S Using a Laser Printer TAU Journal 7 9 June 1989 18 One Two Forum On Three 4 6 June 1987 29 31 HP Laserjet Printer vs A On Three 5 4 April 1988 3 4 The Best of Ottalini 5 60 A 1990 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ON THREE MAGAZINE By David Ottalini Our favorite Apple magazine continued with its bi monthly f
17. from Teknika You ll also be interested to know that while Apple provided a schematic for that resistor network in the Apple Owners Guide it was WRONG and does not work Dr Astrahan redesigned it to work and that schematic is in the back of the Draw On manual as FOTO files that come with Draw On and is also available in the Apple Data Library on the TCS and from many other sources too Dr Astrahan even went so far as to replace some of the fixed resistors with 5000 ohm 10 turn variable potentiometers That allowed him to change those 16 available RGB colors into a color set that Dr Astrahan says is much more useful than Apples Thus if the available 16 colors don t fit your needs you could change them fairly easily obviously you need a bit of knowledge about circuit layout etc in order to build this Now if you want to hook up your to an RGB analog monitor you ll need to find out what kind of plug the monitor has It should be either an EIAJ 8 eight total pins or a DB 9 IBM usually nine pins Here are the pin outs for the two connectors again the DB 15 is the Color Video Port on the back of your 11 The Best of Ottalini 5 10 DB 15 to EIAJ 8 DB 15 to DB 9 1 5 GND 1 1 GND 2 3 Green 2 4 Green 3 7 Composite Sync 3 889 H Sync V Sync 5 2 Red 5 3 Red 6 6 GND 6 2 GND 9 4 Blue 9 5 Blue 10 1 Intensity 10 6 Intensity Apple DB 15 Pin Connector Designations
18. from There 3INF 10 Inpert s Corner by Bloom InpertO8 09 and 10 and 3TEL 02 Telecommunications 02 which contains the file Telecom Info with a tutorial on Apple communications The Best of Ottalini 5 3 1 DIFFERENCES DIFFERENCES Just what are the differences between the and Ed Gooding explained it all on CIS recently with some added comments from yours truly The only difference that know of might be that the power supply for the is stronger than its brother in the vanilla I ve got two retrofitted s with all slots filled and don t have any problems though The basic differences between the two models were the interlace kit that fills in the spaces to make characters more readable battery backup clock kit keyboard that includes a true delete key and power supply All of the aforementioned can be installed in a plain vanilla however MAUGer Bill Arnold gets the last word however The main reason for the was to meet FCC requirements The disk connector was changed to DB 25 Other DB connectors were changed to shielded connectors The motherboard had some minor changes for EMI as well PUBLISH IT 3 UPDATE Yes know The saga continues But this time the news is all good I ve already related the Profile problem preventing anything above ProDos 1 1 1 from working That fixed by removing the Profile could still not get Publish It to print on my little Seikosha SP 10
19. me or did Ray Settle s November report of the last Applefest really say that the new Prodigy on line service would NOT support the Apple because they will only support a system that will grow with them into the nineties Sears and IBM co sponsor this new low cost graphics based service that includes on line advertisements Maybe they don t think the millions of Apple users including those of us who use the in emulation mode buy anything suspect no one has told Sears IBM that there are a lot more s out there than MACs even suspect more GS s were sold this holiday than MACs Interesting isn t it that Sears sells Laser Apple compatibles which they ve also decided NOT to support with this service have seen some extraordinary short sightedness by retailers but this really takes the cake It s not even an Apple issue should think the Atari and Commodore folks would also be a bit upset The point is how does Sears IBM know no one but MAC or PC users would want to use this system You can t tell me that the AMIGA with its excellent graphics output should not be a candidate Perhaps a letter or some other action might make them take notice Prodigy s address is Prodigy Services 101 California St Suite 500 San Francisco CA 94111 415 955 7400 1 800 822 6922 ext 777 DISKS We offer two new PD disks this month I ll have more to say about them in the PD article but let it be said both should be of interest
20. member the price for the magazine is still right and the information is always excellent last time there was a super article on repairing ProFiles On Three s order number is 206 659 6245 By the way we still have Apple T Shirts available in the WAP office originally from On Three which we sell at cost just 9 00 each There s still a good selection so don t miss out s COMPANY haven t been saying enough recently about all the wonderful stuff you ll find on Ed Gooding s s Company BBS in Richmond Virginia For just the cost of a phonecall s Company offers a tremendous amount of information programs etc Logging on myself the other day found that Ed continues to update and add on to what is already The Best of Ottalini 5 1 3 available Here are the categories offered Important Bulletins Files recently added or modified Programming 6502 Disassemblies Programming 6502 SOS Drivers Programming 6502 Invokable Progs Programming 6502 Misc Topics Programming 6502 Ques amp Ans Programming Basic Misc Topics Programming Basic Invokables Info Programming Basic Ques amp Ans Programming Basic Sample Programs Programming COBOL Sample Programs Programming Fortran Misc Topics Programming Modula 2 Misc Topics Programming Modula 2 Unix Shell Programming Pascal Misc Topics Programming Pascal Patches Programming Pascal Ques amp Ans Programming Pascal Programs
21. of what everyone said I ll make a few comments here and there as appropriate In answering why they were a member most folks answered the obvious which was they owned a Tom Linders added that he wanted to gain more information and pass out the articles to his ATUNC friends in the San Francisco Bay area Gerald Abelson says he likes being a member because it helps him to get over problems and Robert Howe was kind by saying The WAP SIG is so far as know the most professional of the remaining user groups George Blosser already explained about how he thinks we can be of better service Gerald Abelson says Keep it coming there was a feeling of being deserted when we missed getting in the Journal one month Trish Babylon says she d like a list of SIG members and Dave Jernigan asked for a list of printers and other hardware that can be hooked up the to Most everyone said they liked our articles in the Journal But the Public Domain Library also got a lot of votes for what the most important thing about being a member was Meetings came in third As for the one thing most would like to get out of the SIG our answers included Operating tips for the More technical articles More on Apple Graphics How to maximize hardware and software we addressed that a bit last month Help to convert Apple disks to Mac and Hotline help Some of these I ve already tried to address For example look below for more o
22. old motherboard they will credit your account with 50 00 About a week later it being Christmas had the new refurbished motherboard it comes mounted on the bottom plate installed it and everything has worked fine since then Moral of all this is even if you THINK you know everything sometimes everything you try defies your best attempts 200 00 and postage is a truly inexpensive way to let someone else worry about a sick and it gets you up and running within a relatively short time if you are desperate Sun will Federal Express it to you overnight Sun s address is PO Box 4059 Logan Utah Order line is 1 800 821 3221 DOBROWOLSKI NEWS owe it to Joe Dobrowolski of Apple Users Group International to let you know that he continues to hang on and publish his News and Views newsletter each month Hanging on is the word for it though since he is still suffering from his move to Guam after being in Norfolk for a long while The Best of Ottalini 5 8 The newsletter continues to offer articles many reprints from the Journal as well as providing MAC and offerings Although he sent WAP his library he continues to offer software and some hardware I ve enjoyed his efforts over the years and you may too To get a sample copy of News and Views you can write to Joe directly at xxxx Barrigada Guam 96921 Membership is 18 00 per year in the US PRODIGY AN APPLE FAMILY COMMENTARY Did my eyes deceive
23. t understand what wanted color for anyway Well when I dutifully assembled the Apple conversion circuit and tried it with my newly purchased RGB TV set it did not produce the standard Apple color set When I ran the Apple demo diskette the one with the colored horses the results were bizarre So went back to square one and started hooking up the four xRGB Apple outputs after passing through the proper transistor matching circuits one at a time to a single color input Then by looking at the standard 16 color chart was able to decode the meaning of the xRGB outputs The standard color chart consists of four horizontal stripes and four vertical stripes By a superposition of these stripes the various colors come out Here is a list of the standard colors and the xRGB inputs used to make them black none magenta xRGB1 dark blue xRGB2 lavender xRGB1 xRGB2 dark green xRGB4 gray 1 xRGB1 xRGB4 blue xRGB2 xRGB4 light blue xRGB1 xRGB2 xRGB4 brown xRGB8 orange xRGB1 xRGB8 gray 2 xRGB2 xRGB8 pink xRGB1 xXRGB2 xRGB8 green xRGB4 xRGB8 yellow xRGB1 xXRGB4 xRGB8 aqua xRGB2 xXRGB4 xRGB8 white all xRGB inputs Armed with this knowledge started to make a simple mixing network consisting of 2 2k ohm resistors Then by trial and error connected various higher resistance values across the 2 2k ones until got a reasonable match for most of the colors Since had to use values to those commonl
24. the most important invokable modules and a number of programs and utilities that you ll find useful as you develop your programming skills Disk 3INF 16 is called The Best of Pair BBS and contains some excellent assembly language programs downloaded from a Bulletin Board offered for a time by Pair Software in California Pair was active in the community for a time with a newsletter and magazine and a host of software offerings It finally ran into big financial troubles and pulled out of the market Word has it now that Pair s owner Frank Moore is retooling for the MS DOS world Let s hope his prices are better than they were for the folks Disk 3MSC 12 is called A2 BOOT It s a disk for everyone with Titan e cards who want one disk The Best of Ottalini 5 35 containing some of the best Apple public domain utility software available Using a PD menu program called Windows you can run Basic or System files view text and graphics files and more The programs include a word processor much like AppleWriter IIGIF the great program that will convert GIF files to Double or single HiRes as mentioned above a fastcopy program for disks the famous Shrinklt file compression program and much more Complete documentation for each program is included Some of these programs require an enhanced e meaning you ll have to install a 65c02 chip in your s motherboard They re available from Jameco Electronics for just 6
25. to you Disk 1085 is a new program by Dr Al Bloom that will allow you to automatically convert AppleWriter text files into EZ Pieces formatted text files Disk 1086 is our third Contributor s disk We offer games financial programs a ton of EZ Pieces data bases from Jim Suthard and some other bits and pieces so take a look In coming months hope to offer you my forth Best of Ottalini disk more graphics diagnostics disks and more so stay tuned As always your suggestions for disks are greatly appreciated Let us know what you need RGB COLOR MONITORS As promised last month we continue our discussion of color monitors by taking a look at RGB monitors for the Using an RGB monitor is a bit more complicated than a composite monitor for reasons we ll The Best of Ottalini 5 9 describe below If you can easily connect a color composite monitor why even bother with RGB would again direct you to Dr Mel Astrahan s fine article on connecting color monitors to the in the February 1986 On Three He notes that an RGB monitor will provide you with highly readable 16 color text and graphics as well as providing color quality equivalence approaching that of your black and white or green monitor such as the Monitor Bottom line is that picture quality in native mode is simply better than an NTSC composite monitor The computer directly controls the Red Green and Blue color guns providing higher resolut
26. useful Both disks are self booting and fully documented As for future month s offerings look for a great accounting package all kinds of Pascal Language disks and much more As always we continue to seek interesting and unique offerings as well as trying to enhance disks that other clubs already offer Jim Jutzin has been working the phones of late to see about getting some commercial but now no longer available programs into the PD Stay tuned MACRO MANAGER QUESTION SIG member George Blosser recently asked me on CompuServe if had any suggestions to the following question about the Desktop Manager s Macro Manager utility didn t have a good answer but if you do let me know and we ll publish it in a future Trail column Here s an edited version what George asked I have been using Bob Consorti s DTM for several years now and have found it to be indispensable for moving around within the Apple III environment The Macro Manager does not have the capability for a time delay within in a macro string This creates a few problems because delays are sometimes necessary when something has to come from the Profile or disk Bob says the man that wrote the program didn t make provisions for this and is not interested in The Best of Ottalini 5 42 rewriting the program now Do you think some of the Apple Gurus could figure this out Any ideas or thoughts UPCOMING MEETINGS Our November meeting is the Wednesday follow
27. you could do a little trouble shooting to find out why your isn t working correctly We try to help you a little this month with some disks specifically aimed at helping you to repair your In fact that the title of Disk 1088 which contains two sides of information gathered from many sources to help you with your troubleshooting Not a tutorial per se Repairing Your contains a number of files that should at least give you an idea of what to do if your is hurting Other disks this month also will help with repairs Disk 1089 is Brain Surgeon and will help repair files damaged by Backup Disk 1090 is Disk Map which will help restore damaged hard disk directories Disk 1091 is Diskcheck and Prohealth utilities that will check the healthiness of your files and of your Profile Finally disk 1093 has Vindicator and Catalyst Fixer Vindicator will check the memory of your up to 512K Fixer will fix program disks that have been locked by Catalyst when loaded onto your hard disk See our PD article for more on all these Next month we ll offer even more disks to help with repairs including a dealer diagnostics disk If you have any tips or suggestions for a second Repairing Your disk pass them along and I ll see what can be done There are a number of disks working right now for your PD library so stay tuned SURVEY NOTES As all our SIG members know with your January mailing you received a Quick Survey to get you
28. 00AS Printer That is until really started playing with all the settings That s something I m used to in emulation Print Shop thinks it s using a Super Serial Card to an Epson Machine Now Publish It thinks it s using a Super Serial Card through a Laser 128 interface Yah That works alright But don t ask me why The result is now have a complete and up to date DTP system with an 800K drive as well that works perfectly I m using a joystick instead of a mouse But Publish It allows you to use the keyboard for many functions which makes handling easier I ve already done up some SIG specific letterhead for us and a brochure that can be sent to prospective members And when finally get that scanned and converted WAP A logo lookout WOZ COMMENT A Steve Wozniak Apple comment from the old Softalk magazine of December 1983 Commenting on Apple s closed machine policy as relating to the One of the downfalls was that we were too smart We knew the proper ways to do all sorts of things and we didn t allow hackers to do things their random ways feel we were wrong to believe in our religion Users should only use a good product like SOS if it s better for their application not because the company feels only one way is right It s a good lesson to learn The Best of Ottalini 5 32 FINALLY Remember we will NOT have an AUGUST meeting So enjoy the rest of your Summer and see you in September The Best of Ottali
29. 5 22 disk It s a SCSI device which also means it can be used with a MAC or Apple Expensive but we are talking power here SOURCE On Three which also has other hard disks Sun Remarketing also sells hard disks you can use on your e Modem Today 2400 Baud is the standard The should be able to handle it with no problems SOURCE Various Software On Three or SIG PD e Color Monitor We discussed the ins and outs of this at great length in past columns If you can get an older color monitor that has the necessary Apple RGB resistor network get it Otherwise get a composite monitor and you ll be in fine shape SOURCE Various see Computer Shopper e Commercial Software Selector program switcher for your hard disk The Communications Manager for telecommunications Three EZ Pieces AppleWriter or Word Juggler The Graphics Manager and Draw On Desktop Manager and its many accessories ThreeWorks Apple Encyclopedia on Disk SOURCE On Three Sun Remarketing Three Cheers Press 301 681 6136 e PD Software The WAP PD library is a goldmine even for power users Daryl Anderson s programs are all excellent as are Dr Bloom s like the Sketchpad graphics program and all the graphics disks Lots of excellent information about the in general STICKY KEYS Although tried to cover all the bases in recent Trail columns about Apple keys and keyboards overlooked one sticky problem some of you may be comi
30. 95 Their number is 415 592 8097 and the part number is 65C02 Jameco does require a minimum purchase By the way if you have a e and a 5 25 disk drive this disk will work just fine And since this is ProDos based these programs can load text files from SOS formatted disks I ll keep looking for other programs and will put together a second A2 BOOT disk if there s enough interest Our last new disk is 3TEL 08 the WAP TCS Disk This is our version of the Apple TCS disk that is designed to help get you onto the club s telecommunications system We ve included all the help files updated everything as necessary and included Menu Maker so you can read and print all the files you need If you were looking for an excuse to join us on the TCS this is it In fact if you join the TCS for the first time during the month of September we ll include this disk FOR FREE to help you get started Just tell the office staffer when you pay your 6 00 annual fee thus your actual cost is 4 00 Finally we ve updated our New Member Disk and the PD Disk catalog for you The New Member Disk now has more information about WAP so newers will have a better idea of what they re getting themselves into AND A THANK YOU TO SIG member Bob Shaffer Jr for donating a ton of Apple software to the club Bob cleaned out his basement at the request of his new bride and WAP is the beneficiary We ll use them as part of our Apple Donation Program and t
31. I files As usual this disk is double sided and self booting There are recipes here for just about any taste BREADS MORE BREADS CASSEROLES The Best of Ottalini 5 52 DESSERTS DRINKS EGG CHEESE MEAT DISHES MISCELLANEOUS SALADS SNACKS VEGETABLES In addition have downloaded some great outdoor Bar B Q recipes from CompuServe that you may find fun to try It s under the Cooks Forum subdirectory on Side Two I ve also added some recipes and information from our own WAP TCS If we get more recipes another disk is a definite possibility Disks coming in the future include a demo disk for Programmers Power Tools put together by Jim Salerno and a disk call Double Boot which will boot on either an Apple or Apple Finally to celebrate reaching our 100th disk we will be offering a number of Apple demo programs think you ll really enjoy The Best of Ottalini 5 53 APPLE PUBLIC DOMAIN LIBRARY By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman DISKSO7 JULY Our PD library adds two more disks this month our 98th and gg offerings PPT Basic Helps has some material for those of you interested in Basic PPT on Side One is a demo of what the many Programmers Power Tools Invokables can do Our own Jim Salerno put this together and we invite you to try it Self booting as usual PPT will let you greatly expand Business Basic and make it more useful On Side Two you ll find Basic Helps This is a side full o
32. PPY HOLIDAYS don t always have a chance to say thank you for your interest in our SIG so I ll do it now To those who have worked to make our SIG worth something thank you To those who support our efforts thank you May 1991 be full of happiness health and a fully operational Apple FINALLY Please remember we will NOT have a meeting this month Enjoy the time with your family and friends and make a New Year s Resolution to join us at our SIG meetings in 1991 The Best of Ottalini 5 4 7 APPLE PUBLIC DOMAIN LIBRARY By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman DISKSO1 JAN We add some additional and think interesting graphics programs to our PD offerings this month All are by SIG member Dr Al Bloom You know these Virginia Tech folks have very little to do out there in the boonies of Blacksburg Virginia except watch football and hack at computer programs and luckily Dr Bloom chose the for his hacking All these have been around for a while but fit in perfectly for us right now given our emphasis on graphics the past few months These programs are also fun which makes it even better Disk 1081 is called Calendar by Bloom and it will make calendars for you for any given month and year along with a typewriter art style picture Typewriter art is the kind computers made in the days before Print Shop and other true graphics programs Disks 1082 and 1083 are full of typewriter art you can try alon
33. The Best of Ottalini 5 ORIGINAL DISK NAME THE BEST OF OTTALINI 5 IILTIL TTT TL TTT TTT TT TTT I I I I TT SIG Washington Apple Pi 12022 Parklawn Drive Rockville MD 20852 301 984 0300 WELCOME WAP SIG Public Domain Library Disk Category Number WAP Articles 3 WAP 05 This is the fifth disk containing articles written by WAP SIG Co Chairman Dave Ottalini All the articles on this disk are from 1990 All were published in the WAP Journal and we offer them here for your edification and enjoyment As always your comments and suggestions are valued WAP SIG PUBLIC DOMAIN LIBRARY PDS NAME BEST OF OTTALINI 5 DISK ID 3INF 17 The Best of Ottalini 5 1 CONTENTS TRAIL COLUMNS 1990 January The year ahead Repairs Color Monitors for the February More on Repairs Joe Dobrowolski Prodigy commentary March WAP 10 year anniversary National Apple Users Conference April 24 pin printers Keyboards May Happy Birthday SARA On Three moves ThreeWorks update June How to be a power user on the Dealing with Sticky Keys July SIG survey results Titan e update August 100th PD disk Apple Donation Program Mentor Program The Best of Ottalini 5 2 CONTENTS September More on the Mentor program IIGIF Apple to Mac October SCSI on the On Three News Pair Software News November CD ROM Drives On Three News Donation prog
34. a correctly formatted 3EZ Pieces AppleWorks text file You might correctly ask why should one need such a program when 3EZPs can directly import ASCII text files The answer is that Dr Bloom s program can do the conversions quickly and with less overhead than 3EZPS can If you simply need to convert a number of AppleWriter files into 3EZP or AppleWorks text files then this is a great way to do it As with all of Dr Bloom s disks this one has extensive documentation on side one It s Pascal based so once again any of you Apple Pascal phreaks could with little effort make it work on your Disk 1086 is our third Contributors Disk It has a number of real goodies on it a Business Basic game a tutorial on how to accelerate your Apple some Basic programs to help you with your finances a number of excellent 3EZP templates from our own Jim Suthard everything from doctor s information to labels D D Meisel explains how he dealt with the desire to have an RGB Color Monitor attached to his And our long time Canadian contributor C M Davidson offers some font related programs One FontFlip is a reworking of Jeppson s Character Design Program to cive the user the option of making a printer font from an Apple font Next month we hope to have my 1989 compilation of Trail articles for you and perhaps some other things as well so stay tuned The Best of Ottalini 5 49 APPLE PUBLIC DOMAIN LIBRARY By David O
35. aded one of the s to 256K Now what did we get Two Apple s with Titan e cards extra disk drives Profiles hardware and tons of software Hopefully will have found two good homes for these machines by the time you read this details next month But want to say THANKYOU to Trish for her donation I should add she was very upset at having to give her s up If you know of anyone who has a that s not being used please have them contact Jim Salerno or Jim Jutzin and we can arrange a pickup BOOKS etc Trish s donation also gives me a chance to bring up another project for the Fall While we ve been adding things to the WAP library over time am still not convinced it s in a form that is as usable as it could be much of the stuff is buried back in one corner We will plan to add many of the program manuals donated by Trish and others into the library for the use of our members But we need someone to coordinate with WAP Librarian Walt Francis to get these properly logged in etc It would also be nice to have a complete inventory of what Apple materials we have so everyone knows what is available Longer term I m interested in a project to get some of these books scanned and placed on disk for wider dissemination hope to have found a volunteer to take this job on by the time you read this but would add that the WAP office could always use additional help to keep the library in order along with a num
36. al interface It DOES work very hard to get the most out of the software available to it It can do word processing data base and spreadsheets It can play games and even do some graphics on occasion At that basic level what other machine can do better with 128 to 256K of memory No Apple machine certainly save the Apple which is also a 6502 based computer SIG BROCHURE Thanks to Lee Raesly we ve gotten a laser quality printout of our new SIG Brochure It looks great if do say so myself A copy will be included in with other WAP materials when someone with a expresses an interest in joining the club HOLIDAY DISKS If it s December we must have some new PD disks for your consideration How about a complete accounting program called EASy Accounting Originally a commercial program from a long dead company called Denver Software we re placing it into the PD for all to enjoy We re also created a new category Accounting for it You ll need all four disks to use this system 3ACCT 01 through 04 On disk 3ACCT 01 you ll also find some information about the program and what it can do for you The manual was too long to place on disk But it HAS been placed into the WAP library if you are interested Also going into the PD this month is Three Cheers the only known magazine on disk for the Apple The boot and program disk is 3MSC 13 and the two issues are on 3MSC 14 Three Cheers is Pascal based and the graphics are exce
37. ames Since am not sure all the changes will have been made by the time you read this I ll give you both the old and new numbers for our disks this month Disk 1096 nformation 10 contains all of Dr Bloom s Inpert s Corner columns which we have started to reprint the last couple of months This is a double sided disk and is self booting As usual Menu Maker will allow you to read or print any of the articles you might be interested in Disk 1097 Miscellaneous 05 is called Le Grayhaven Menu Plus OK so this is a disk full of recipes Why not And besides there are some interesting offerings here that you ll want to try out The Plus comes from the fact that we ve added some recipes to the source Apple disk that originated with the Big Red Apple Club in Norfolk Nebraska The PD column has the complete rundown Finally you might also want to note that ever so quietly and disks have again been reduced They are now just 2 00 each Non members pay 5 00 per disk so this is a terrific bargain considering the fact that practically every disk is double sided Graphics Revisited I ll do more on this in a future column but let me just say here that it IS possible to see color on your RGB monitor while using the Titan e cards The key is using AppleSoft Basic s LoRes graphics GR mode instead of HiRes HGR LoRes offers the same 16 colors that the s Graphics Mode 1 or 3 offers and that seems to be the reason HiRes
38. ard you can try Sun Remarketing 1 800 821 3221 They sell them for 75 00 Or you could try one of the parts houses I ve mentioned in the past see the back of Computer Shopper like Shreve Systems or Pre Owned Electronics Of course another way is to simply pick up a used and swap out the keyboard Note that there is a difference between a and keyboard so if you want to put a keyboard into a or vice versa you ll need to make sure you have the proper ROM chip to plug in SUN has them believe COLOR MONITORS AND THE APPLE This has always been a subject of great interest to users so l Il spend a couple of columns on it First off your Apple produces two types of color for output to a monitor The first is called NTSC composite The second is called RGB There are monitors that offer each separately or together hold on though it s not as easy as it seems The NTSC signal is the same type used by your video tape recorder That means you can directly send the output of your into a VCR and from there into your TV set It s a cheap way to get color and be able to tape the output as well Of course you can also plug your directly into a composite monitor if you wish or get an RF modulator and hook it between your and a regular TV One additional plus is that you can get color out of emulation mode with this hookup RGB is NOT available In fact if all you want to do is play games in Em mode comp
39. art Please read the documentation file carefully before using this program Disk 1090 is called DiskMap Written by Rick Sidwell this program is a hard disk directory fixer Complete documentation included Disk 1091 has Diskcheck on side 1 and Prohealth on Side 2 Diskcheck is useful for 2 primary types of situations 1 Directory damage or 2 Using a block editor on a disk It will let you know what kind of damage exists to the directory and attempt to fix it if you wish Prohealth only supports Profiles and will check it for general healthiness Our final offering this month is disk 1092 Vindicator is a RAM memory check program and will work on s with up to 512K If you think you are having a RAM program run this program all night for the best results Next month we ll have more programs related to helping you fix software on your including some block editor programs another diagnostics disk and a disassembler program Oh yes We re also putting together a cookbook disk so any contributions welcome The Best of Ottalini 5 51 APPLE PUBLIC DOMAIN LIBRARY By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman DISKSO6 JUNE As mentioned in my Trail column we offer two disks this month Disk 1096 Information 10 is another compilation of Dr Al Bloom s articles originally published in the TAU Journal This particular series literally has something for everyone as you have already seen just from the first two articles r
40. ber of other projects NO WD 40 At least that s the admonition from SIG member Tom Linders Writing in the August ATUNC Newsletter he warns that using a spray of WD 40 to help liberate a sticky key is done at your own risk Linders says These products have an oil base They pick up dirt lots of it The keyboard should have nothing more than air blown across it If a key sticks pull its cap up put a little isopropyl alcohol 99 9 down the stem and then push on the key to move the dirt off Tom also warns that if your disk drive needs to be oil a tiny amount of turbine oil works best for the soft bearings in the motors The rails should be given a light once over with TufOil before being cleaned off Tom by the way continues to offer his services for sick disk drives He fixed one of mine at a very The Best of Ottalini 5 39 reasonable price Contact him directly for details at 408 xxx xxxx in Saratoga California PD DISKS If it s October it must be Graphics We are offering a super set of graphics disks this month which I think you ll really enjoy Graphics disks 23 to 26 3GRX 23 to 3GRX 26 contain converted GIF Graphics Interchange Format graphics from the WAP TCS Many thanks to John Ruffatto for making the GIF disks available GIF pictures are a standard format for graphics that can be used by a number of machines from Apple to MS DOS But for use on the Apple and they have to be converted to
41. complete Apple system one of his own for donation to the Rockville Senior Center run by the City of Rockville Jim Jutzin followed by getting two Apple s donated to the club One went with Jim Salerno to the Senior Center A second will go to the Churchill Road School in McLean Virginia for use by the students there this Fall We d like to thank Mr Joseph Burgin Jr of Burgin Kreh Associates of Baltimore for their donation of two s and other hardware and software Although can t say this was something we planned from the beginning it s obviously a project that our SIG can take a leadership role in and provide some encouragement for our Apple and MAC brethren Old Apple Pluses Old Mac 128 512K or even Plus units could all be put together as part of a complete system that would include hardware hard disks and printers if available software and instructional help Hopefully membership in WAP would follow thus gaining valuable new members for the club As your new WAP Secretary will also pursue this project at the Board of Directors level But see this as something all members of the SIG could get involved with and make a real contribution to their communities The Best of Ottalini 5 29 Guidelines There s nothing set in concrete but here are some things to keep in mind e Make sure the system is in proper working condition e Try to upgrade it if at all possible to make it more useful e Gather appropr
42. connectors again the DB 15 is the Color Video Port on the back of your 11 DB 15 to EIAJ 8 DB 15 to DB 9 1 5 GND 1 1 GND 253 Green 2 4 Green 3 7 Composite Sync 3 889 H Sync V Sync 5 2 Red 5 3 Red 6 6 GND 6 2 GND 9 4 Blue 9 5 Blue 10 1 Intensity 10 6 Intensity Apple DB 15 Pin Connector Designations XRGB1 on the equals Pin 5 Red XRGB2 a Pin 9 Blue XRGB4 m Pin 2 Green XRGB8 M Pin 10 Intensity SYNCH m Pin 3 GROUND m p Pin 13 5 Volts A Pin 15 CONNECTED TO THE RESISTOR NETWORK ONLY AND NOT THE MONITOR All the RGB colors produced by the come from the resistor network and not directly from the which is why you have to have it in order to produce a correct Apple color set Interestingly the early Apple publications read to research this article made reference to third party manufacturers planning to introduce a plug in RGB color card for the Apple And in the past year er Dale Sykora s was reportedly working on a graphics card that could be hooked up to an RBG monitor Unfortunately none of them ever seem to have become actual products If you remain interested in purchasing a new color RGB monitor there are a number available at reasonable prices Looking through Computer Shopper for example found a Samsung 14 RGB monitor for 219 00 a TAXAN RGB monitor for 215 00 and a Magnavox 14 RGB monitor for 235 00 with composite inpu
43. drive backup will also be available The Best of Ottalini 5 41 Prices on many other products have been cut of late so if you re not on their mailing list call 206 xxx xxxx or write On Three xxxx Lake Stevens WA 98258 DONATION PROGRAM I m happy to announce that Kensington Day Care Center and Grace Episcopal Day School are the proud recipients of Apple systems placed through our Apple Donation Program These are the fourth and fifth machines that have found new homes thanks to folks who want to see their SARA s keep living We are always looking for donations and for worthy recipients Care to contribute or make a suggestion Call our SIG Co Chairman Jim Jutzin at 703 xxx xxxx NOVEMBER DISKS Dr Al Bloom strikes our PD fancy once again this month with two more of his disks Disk 3GRX 29 is a graphics program called SIGN that will make big signs for you easily and quickly Documentation is included And disk 3INF 17 is called Reviews by Bloom which contains reviews of programs published by Dr Bloom over the years Both are self booting But that s not all Two of the programs Dr Bloom reviewed are also going into out PD 3UTL 32 is called Catalyst Release It s a bootable run time disk that Catalyst users can use in place of their locked boot disk There are two versions for 2 0 and 2 1 users And 3UTL 33 is Reformatter a program that is a text to data base or spread sheet conversion utility you will find
44. e was to introduce the Apple at NCC 1 and 2 we had to have some way to get people to come to our booth to see the thing So what we did was rent Disneyland for one night And we gave away tickets had booth duty at three o clock in the afternoon and to get to my station the only way could do it was to get my elbows up like this and get to the station When you came off booth duty since there was no air conditioning you just wrung your shirt out It was so hot and just so many people Everybody wanted to see this Apple We had three of them down there This was now the prototype To tell you how realistic we were Apple was promising 600 dealers an Apple within 30 days of NCC We had three of them that we d made and they were all basically hand made There wasn t a PC board Apple intended to sell the as a business machine in bundles with a choice of software and printers It was as Byte Magazine called it a logical upgrade of the Apple for use in professional applications like word processing and information management But Compute Magazine reported the was also the ultimate hobby computer an indication that Apple was still having trouble moving beyond its Homebrew Computer Club roots The s developer engineer Wendel Sander said What do you expect They gave me a blank check and told me to go build a computer It s the ultimate homebrew And Apple Co Founder Steve Jobs told Byte lightheartedl
45. epublished the past two months We will continue to republish them as possible But to whet your taste a little more here s what is on this double sided self booting disk INPERTO1 SOS Driver file INPERTO2 Catalyst INPERTO3 Selector INPERTO4 Applewriter 2 0 INPERTOS Hardware tidbits from the ON lamp to disk drive speed INPERTO6 Hardware tidbits 2 more on drive speed and A3 diagnostics INPERTO7 Basic Exec Files INPERTO8 Data Communications 1 CompuServe tips INPERTO9 Data Communications 2 Serial data transfers Serial port INPERT10 Data Communications 3 Mechanics of communication transfers INPERT11 3 5 Disks Transfering files from the to a MAC INPERT12 3 5 Disks 2 PC Disk 400 MS DOS Transfers Backup INPERT13 EZ Pieces Dealing with files too big for the memory INPERT14 Mail List Manager Utilities INPERT15 Data transfer between Apples MAC Il vs Apple INPERT16 Bitnet and CompuServe INPERT17 Catalyst and Lazarus D1 Boot Disk on Hard disk And now we come to 1097 Miscellaneous 05 the Le Grayhaven Cookbook Plus disk know This ISN T a true Apple disk But it is for fun and that s what we re supposed to have with our computers aren t we At least on occasion All the files are ASCII so even our Apple friends can purchase this disk and read the information without trouble using AppleWorks or a ProDos based word processing program or Basic menu that can read ASCI
46. er computer Ready Let s get started First off upgrade your s power supply to that used in the It s more powerful and can better handle a full load of cards in your extension slots SOURCE Sun Remarketing 1 800 821 3221 Add a clock chip battery backup and interlace kit improves screen quality SOURCE Sun Interlace Kits On Three 1 206 334 8001 Clock Battery combo and Jameco clock chip alone Now upgrade to 512K so you can run any and every Apple program especially a must for Draw On and Selector SOURCE On Three Titan s e cards will add 128K e flexibility for Emulation Mode and the memory can be used as a RAM disk in native mode SOURCE Sun Remarketing Swap your 6502A or B chip on the mother board for a 65C02 chip so that the Titan Cards can use the latest Apple software like Publish It This chip also uses less energy SOURCE Jameco among others Add an Apple mouse or better yet a Trackball for graphics purposes SOURCE On Three Trackball Driver Mouse Mouse Driver Apple Dealers Mail Order Mouse You will need On Three s driver for Trackball or Mouse 800K Unidisk with e controller card or 800K CPS drive for easy storage backup and importation of GS files SOURCE On Three Unidisk and CPS Drives Drivers for both Dealers Mail Order card and drive Hard Disk The Sider D7T Turbo holds 62 Megabytes of information the most for any hard The Best of Ottalini
47. esignation But as more and more used machines come on the market businesses have grown up around the nation to deal exclusively in those machines For many people going the used route makes sense You can get into computing or upgrade without a great deal of cost And many times the computer comes in a package with monitor and software that would have cost much more to purchase if new For those looking to purchase Apple s I had two calls on this just in October Sun Remarketing 1 800 821 3221 remains a primary source Cheaper routes include clubs WAP TAU and ATUNC mainly local papers check the Washington Post Friday Saturday and Sunday and word of mouth Some companies like Shreve Systems 1 800 227 3971 and Pre Owned Electronics 1 800 274 5343 usually carry parts but may be worth calling about systems One other possible source is the growing number of Used Computer stores opening up around the nation the ACE folks meet at CompUsed in Columbus There isn t one in the Washington area yet at least couldn t find one in the phone book but they are coming saw two used computer stores advertised in the New York Times recently and they may be worth calling about Apple s Crocodile Computers 212 769 3400 and Key Computers 212 349 3669 Another source is the National Computer Exchange NACOMEX based in New York City It s a nationwide brokerage service for used micros NACOMEX is actually one of 200 such broke
48. f hints and tips from a number of sources designed again to help those of you learning how to program Our second disk is called Double Boot I ve been talking about this for a few months and think you ll get a kick out of it Basically it isa 5 and a quarter inch disk that you can place into an Apple or an Apple e boot it and the disk will load and run Side one has our Menu Maker program as well as an Apple menu program from the Apple PD library There s an information file that you can read from either program as well Frankly all these files take up the whole disk on Side One So Side Two is JUST the basic Double Boot files You can copy them to another disk and then add the appropriate files For example on the side you would have the ProDos Kernel file and then a System file like Basic System and if it is Basic a Startup file This compares to the files SOS Kernel SOS Interp which could be Basic and SOS Driver and then Hello Useful Hard to say but it can be a lot of fun if you have similar programs that could be run from just one disk on two machines The Best of Ottalini 5 54 APPLE PUBLIC DOMAIN LIBRARY By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman DISKSO8 AUGUST As mentioned in my Trail column this month we ve finally hit the century mark for our Public Domain disks Actually considering most all but one if remember correctly of our disks are double sided we actually hit that mark a lo
49. g with side 2 of disk 1084 What kind of pictures are available A sampling from disk 1082 includes ANDY CAPP BETTY BOOP BILL THE CAT BUTTERFLY BUTTERFLY 2 CAT CAT1 CLIPPER SHIP CLOWNM DAVID STATUE DOG EAGLE and ENTERPRISE Complete documentation is included on disk 1081 and it is self booting to boot As for Disk 1084 Dr Bloom gives you the chance to make giant posters with his Poster by Bloom program Also self booting it will make giant typewriter style textual posters Again this disk is self booting and has documentation available for printing out or reading under Menu Maker We have more disks waiting in the wings for you in the coming months including another Dr Bloom offering and a new Contrib disk But as always we are very interested to know what you d like to see included in the library As you might imagine developing these disks takes a great deal of time But we do them for fun and for you to enjoy Of course you realize that IF you bought EVERY disk in the PD library now it would cost 252 00 Glad I m being paid a flat salary for doing these things The Best of Ottalini 5 48 APPLE PUBLIC DOMAIN LIBRARY By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman DISKSO2 FEB We offer two new disks this month SIGers Disk 1085 is yet another offering from our good friend in Blacksburg Dr Al Bloom This is a self booting program that will take any AppleWriter ASCII text file and convert it into
50. have an impact on all those using the GIF format An Apple GIF decoder is out of the question at the moment the data compression scheme used in GIF LZW turned out to be patented by Unisys Nobody knows yet whether Unisys is going to make any claim against authors of GIF utilities and CompuServe has disclaimed all responsibility for any patent infringements that might result from the use of GIF so don t consider it to be a good risk at this time especially considering the 20 000 licensing fee Unisys is charging for certain other uses of LZW By the way I ve also been talking with Andrew Nicholas the author of Shrinkit the standard Apple file compression program to see if we can t get an Apple version Sounds like it will be difficult but I ve asked On Three s Bob Consorti to help so stay tuned The Best of Ottalini 5 34 APPLE TO MACINTOSH There s always a continuing interest here on this question as SIGers add Macs to their inventory Shawn Goodin a SYSOP System Operator on CompuServe s Micronetworked Apple Users Group MAUG tm and new WAP member should add had these comments on how to do it recently There are a couple of possibilities here the easiest way in my opinion is to get the files transferred to a 3 5 disk this can be done on an Apple Ilgs or a c that has a 3 5 drive and a 5 25 drive SOS on the Apple has the same file structure as ProDOS on the Apple line so if t
51. he Teknika MJ 22 Apple still makes a color composite monitor you can use with your but other than that none of these monitors are manufactured today So if you can get ahold of one second hand at a good price 200 400 do it know for a fact that Electrohome and Teknika still sell their reference manuals and you can still get a cable for your from Teknika You ll also be interested to know that while Apple provided a schematic for that resistor network in the Apple Owners Guide it was WRONG and does not work Dr Astrahan redesigned it to work and that schematic is in the back of the Draw On manual as FOTO files that come with Draw On and is also available in the Apple Data Library on the TCS and from many other sources too Dr Astrahan even went so far as to replace some of the fixed resistors with 5000 ohm 10 turn variable potentiometers That allowed him to change those 16 available RGB colors into a color set that Dr Astrahan says is much more useful than Apples Thus if the available 16 colors don t fit your needs you could change them fairly easily obviously you need a bit of knowledge about circuit layout etc in order to build this Now if you want to hook up your to an RGB analog monitor you ll need to find out what kind of plug the monitor has It should be either an EIAJ 8 eight total pins or a DB 9 IBM usually nine pins Here The Best of Ottalini 5 57 are the pin outs for the two
52. he file is a standard text file you can copy it to a 3 5 disk The next step is to run Apple File Exchange on the Macintosh This will permit you to copy the files from the ProDOS 3 5 disk to a Mac disk After that perhaps your favorite Mac program should be able to read the file The other way to do it is via a modem or hardwired connection from an Apple to a Mac or IBM This would require you to have a terminal program on the Apple that is capable of doing file transfers to another machine Need more information Look at SIG PD disk 3INF 10 Inpert s Corner by Dr Al Bloom This might make for an interesting SIG meeting as well some time so we ll look into that in the next few months ANOTHER ON THREE MOVE On Three s President Bob Consorti has moved once again He provides all the technical help for purchasers and users of On Three s excellent line of products New address is xxxx Chicago Il 60626 His new phone number is 312 xxx xxxx DISKS THIS MONTH We re kicking off the fall with a number of excellent disks for your Public Domain pleasures Our second 3 EZ Pieces offering disk 3ZAW 02 is a great checkbook template from John Lomartire It s usable by all you AppleWorks owners as well We ve also included some other goodies by John and a bibliography of articles he s written over the years 3BSB 07 is our Business Basic 1 23 disk While all of our Basic disks include this version this PD offering contains many of
53. iate software and very important manuals e The system should be turnkey from the start that is set up and ready to use immediately Make it easy to use simply by booting it NOTE We will provide a standard set of software to all those receiving Apple machines e Provide tutorials and be available after installation to provide additional support e Make those groups receiving machines aware of WAP and what it can provide especially by way of support software and the Journal so that they will join Sources for computers could include companies folks moving on to other machines even schools or other organizations In some cases for example s are literally being used as doorstops or are gathering dust in closets Wouldn t it be much better that they be refurbished and reused by a non profit group or school I ll try to update you on the progress of this project as time passes But if any SIG members have suggestions would care to take part or know of machines that might be available please call our Co Chairman Jim Jutzin MENTOR PROGRAM In a way we ve been providing this service to new members all along But I d like to try and make it a little more organized in the coming months Specifically as new members join we d like to assign a current SIG member as their mentor or person who can be called to help with problems or just talk about their s and what s available Some of us are already involved but we could
54. ices like a 1 4 megabyte disk drive that could be made to work with the If that s true we may have an alternative to the hard disk that would help our s remain useful for some time to come The Best of Ottalini 5 3 7 ON THREE NEWS Bob Consorti s love affair with the Apple continues despite his returning to school in the Chicago area in a field that has nothing to do with computers Evidence a 4th Super Accessories Disk is now available for the Desktop Manager And it s got some great programs that you can call up from within any program you have File Finder will find any file on any disk in 15 seconds or less And it can do partial name matching as well Disk Eraser is an accessory that will wipe a disk clean without having to reformat it There s also an accessory that provides area codes and time zone information and a List Files accessory that will list directories and subdirectories and let you see it on your screen or print it to a printer or to disk It costs 29 95 and is available now Another program that is also available Disk Fixer Much like Mr Fixit for the Apple Disk Fixer will correct directory errors and much much more Call for pricing on this one On Three s number is 206 XXX XXXX PAIR SOFTWARE recently saw a note in the ATUNC Newsletter saying that Pair Software was getting out of the market completely Frank Moore had his problems with the community over the year
55. ing Thanksgiving and should not be a problem But the December meeting is on the 26th the day after Christmas Given that fact we will NOT have a December meeting so please mark your calendar Now back to this month s meeting It will be our first annual Apple Tune Up meeting Bring in your there are monitors in the office and appropriate cables including monitor cable We ll have the tools to help you open up your reseat your chips and try to deal with any of the little problems you might be having We can NOT fix major problems though we can suggest what to do if one is found and as always this kind of service is done basically with no guarantees But if you d like to learn a bit more about your and how to maintain it and meet your fellow ers this will be your chance Refreshments will be served Until then Happy Thanksgiving The Best of Ottalini 5 43 ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE III By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman December 1990 THE END OF ANOTHER YEAR Hard to believe that 1990 is nearly over hope you feel you ve gotten your money s worth from WAP and your SIG this year Your kind words in those recent surveys indicate that for the most part you are pretty happy with what we re trying to do Our primary goal for the New Year remains to help you make your SARA as productive as it can be Your Apple doesn t multitask it doesn t RISC it doesn t even have icons or a graphic
56. ini WAP SIG Co Chairman February 1990 REPAIRS Well it seems even your illustrious SIG Chairman doesn t know everything about his Apple That may be hard to believe but was humbled rather quickly this past December when was given a non working AHA said and pulled out my Apple service manual to try and do a little troubleshooting unplugged everything turned SARA over and unscrewed the bottom plate with motherboard attached The main problem was that the 128K would not boot The first thing did was to reseat all the chips They needed it but that of course did NOT fix the problem tried plugging in a different disk drive to see if that was the problem No go Then using the aforementioned service manual began to replace chips from another mother board I ve had just for this purpose Unfortunately they didn t help either UGH Was it the RAM card It was a 256K board populated to be 128K replaced it with a full 256K board was then able to go into the Apple s monitor by pushing the CONTROL RESET and OPEN APPLE keys together and by typing in F6E6G run the s self check It worked fine and said the RAM way OK But that didn t help get the up and running NOTE We have two copies of the service manual in the WAP library Sooooo decided to take the easy way out and called Sun Remarketing For 250 00 they will send you a working motherboard and RAM card When you send back the
57. ion and clarity Historically when the came out there were few color monitors available those that were cost upwards of 1000 00 Because of its roots in the Apple the was provided with a digital RGB output rather than an analog output yes we have Steve Wozniak to thank for that What it means is this All RGB monitors on the market today are analog That creates a problem you can overcome if you want to buy a new RGB monitor but only by building what s called a resistor weighted network to change that digital output into an analog one Why Apple didn t build it into the to begin with is beyond me Wouldn t it have been easier to make it part of the s design rather than count on monitor manufacturers Early on there were some manufacturers who luckily DID include that resistor network into their design Thus all you had to do was plug it into your s color video port and you were set What models were they Apple Color 100 Monitor Amdek Color Monitor TAXAN RGBvision Color Monitor Electrohome ECM 1302 2 Dr Astrahan s favorite Heath Zenith ZVM 135 and the Teknika MJ 22 Apple still makes a color composite monitor you can use with your but other than that none of these monitors are manufactured today So if you can get ahold of one second hand at a good price S200 400 do it know for a fact that Electrohome and Teknika still sell their reference manuals and you can still get a cable for your
58. le or Apple and boot directly The machines can read the disk and will know which software to load You may find this useful in developing a single boot disk application if you have a anda at home The Apple side is ProDos based as you might expect The Best of Ottalini 5 28 ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE III By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman August 1990 HAPPY 100 Your SIG reaches another milestone this month as we finally go over the century mark in disks believe we have the best PD library in the nation and your support is the reason Thank you for buying the disks And to those who have thank you for your contributions We continue to look for ways to serve you and encourage PD contributions that help make our library a unique and useful value for our members To celebrate this month we re introducing four Apple Demonstration Disks There numbers are 3MSC 07 08 09 and 10 think you ll find them interesting especially if you have access to a color monitor As with the vast majority of our disks these are all self booting Note that in honor of our SARA we ve left SOS 1 0 and Business Basic 1 0 on disk 3MSC 08 which contains the earliest of the Demo programs APPLE DONATION PROGRAM Thanks to our SIG Co Chairman Jim Jutzin and long time member Jim Salerno we ve started an Apple Donation Program that s already off to a rousing start Jim Salerno started it all by setting up a
59. llent You ll also enjoy the articles and other information Looking into the new year can promise you a new contributions disk a disk full of Basic programs from On Three a ton of Pascal disks and even the fourth Best of Ottalini disk with all my columns from 1990 buy that one early there s always a rush The Best of Ottalini 5 44 By the way I ve also updated our 3WDP 01 Word Processing disk When the disk first came out about two years ago we included some information from Dr Al Bloom about placing Super Apple Writer onto a hard disk under Catalyst Well turns out there were some problems with those instructions and Dr Bloom has graciously gone back over the material to bring it up to date Any member who has been having trouble with this can get a free replacement disk by bringing in their old one in trade Finally in order to make joining the WAP TCS a little more valuable to SIG members we will now include a copy of the TCS disk 3TEL O8 when you sign on The TCS really is a great value for WAP members and we d love to have more ers on board All you need is a modem 2400 Baud now goes for less than 100 00 and telecommunications software try XMODEM 3TEL 05 for 2 00 DISK DRIVE MAINTENANCE With the holidays upon us it s a good idea to consider doing a little maintenance work on your disk drives to keep them up to speed for the next year Sun Remarketing offered some tips a while back about how to do
60. lor text and graphics as well as providing color quality equivalence approaching that of your black and white or green monitor such as the Monitor Bottom line is that picture quality in native mode is simply better than an NTSC composite monitor The computer directly controls the Red Green and Blue color guns providing higher resolution and clarity Historically when the came out there were few color monitors available those that were cost upwards of 1000 00 Because of its roots in the Apple the was provided with a digital RGB output rather than an analog output yes we have Steve Wozniak to thank for that What it means is this All RGB monitors on the market today are analog That creates a problem you can overcome if you want to buy a new RGB monitor but only by building what s called a resistor weighted network to change that digital output into an analog one Why Apple didn t build it into the to begin with is beyond me Wouldn t it have been easier to make it part of the s design rather than count on monitor manufacturers Early on there were some manufacturers who luckily DID include that resistor network into their design Thus all you had to do was plug it into your s color video port and you were set What models were they Apple Color 100 Monitor Amdek Color Monitor TAXAN RGBvision Color Monitor Electrohome ECM 1302 2 Dr Astrahan s favorite RGB only Heath Zenith ZVM 135 and t
61. m to pull the DATA from the High Sierra disk into a format the SOS can understand The format on the PD CD ROM is not ProDOS and it isn t SOS It works on the Apple IIGS because the GS has a High Sierra file system translator The Apple s operating system has no equivalent translators so it just won t work without a major amount of coding The scanner will likewise need some controlling special software to import any graphics If you re going to be mastering a CD you could put a series of 16 megabyte partitions on the drive and I could write a driver that would access them but I really have to question the cost and effort that would be required to do so My time alone on the project would cost several thousand dollars and with the state of the Apple market can t see how anyone could afford the mastering costs my fees and getting enough sales CD drive and the Sider interface card alone are about 150 ON THREE NEWS Speaking of On Three after a long hiatus On Three Magazine actually more like On Three Newsletter has finally reappeared Off from school for the summer Bob Consorti was able to get out two editions within a few weeks of each other bringing us up through the May June issue Bob again promises his GoBack disk backup utility by the end of the year and a disk directory fixer He also says On Three will be offering a new line of low cost hard disks that work with the Sider SCSI card They ll range from 20 to 105 MB and a tape
62. me that his company is still servicing the cards for 85 00 plus 7 00 PSH And he says they are still making them in small batches They appear to be the only source for the cards now as Sun has apparently stopped selling them To help make it easier for everyone to get the Titan cards I m happy to announce that we have worked out a group purchase agreement with GR amp D for all WAP SIG members interested in buying a set Normal price is 299 00 and well worth the price But through our special purchase plan you can get them for just 249 00 Postage and insurance is another 7 50 Since they don t take credit cards you ll have to order direct and pay with a check This is a great deal and will be good through Labor day Please say you are a SIG member when you order If you have any questions GR amp D s phone number is 313 677 4122 for technical help and 313 677 4110 for sales Their address again is 2862 Page Rd Ann Arbor MI 48104 The Best of Ottalini 5 27 PD LIBRARY We offer two new disks in our PD this month This first is for you Basic programmers or would be programmers out there PPT Basic Helps includes demos of the Programmer s Power Tools Invokables already in the library And Basic Helps has a number of files that answer questions and provide guidance as you explore Business Basic Our second disk is one I ve been talking about for a while It s called Double Boot and is a disk you can place in either an App
63. n Apple Graphics We ll continue publishing Dr Bloom s articles on occasion which are more technical and also include information on things like transferring files from one machine to another And we ve started to add names to the WAP Hotline Hopefully we ll even include phone numbers soon The survey asked about what it would take to get folks onto the TCS Telecommunications System Our long distance members are mostly concerned about line costs I ve suggested the TCS look into an 800 number and that s being discussed I m not sure that is the answer but we will look into alternatives And Trish Babylon asked for a tutorial The TCS has a disk on the side with those files in Shrinkit format We hope to unshrink them and offer those disks in the PD in the next few months The Best of Ottalini 5 26 As for final comments there were a bucketfull Here s what folks said Everyone s help has been very much appreciated The SIG is my security blanket With On Three s future looking dimmer monthly and Sun Remarketing moving to Macs etc who else is there but Dave and a few tenacious loyalists Keep up the interest resources Keep up the good work Well blush thank you for those kind words It s obvious we have a great SIG full of folks who still care a great deal about little SARA All we can do is promise to try and continue earning your trust in the future We want to keep serving you in the best way possible But
64. nated software Donate it give it away to new users etc e Are we offering the kinds of PD software you are interested in If not what would you like to see e Should we establish a parts bank for members to use parts offered at cost The Best of Ottalini 5 4 The list could continue but think you get the idea Since we AREN T hearing any complaints maybe we re doing a fine job But then again maybe not In any case please take a moment or two to think about what direction your SIG should be taking and jot down an idea or two REPAIRS Ever had a key on your keyboard go bad er Charles Boos suggested on CompuServe a few years ago that if a key stops working fails to go into upper case or works only intermittently a soldering gun may be the answer Heat up the solder connection of the particular key he says and that will usually do the trick just be careful as too much heat can be disastrous Our own SIG member Ed Gooding suggests your trouble shooting begins by taking off the keyboard Remove the screws on the bottom of the keyboard cover and remove it Then thoroughly clean out around the keys with a vacuum cleaner followed by a good old rag Use a chip puller to remove the specific keys that are giving you trouble and clean extra well around them 9 times out of 10 this will take care of keyboard problems This is not unusual if you have been pounding on it for some time If you need a replacement keybo
65. nector from Radio Shack and hook both your Monitor and composite monitor or VCR up together Just remember to turn down the contrast of one while using the other Your also has a Color Video Port in the back a 15 pin plug called a DB15 What do the pins on the Color Video Port supply According to the Owner s Manual Appendix B it supplies seven different video signals and four power supply voltages It carries NTSC compatible positive composite synchronization color and black and white video signals The actual pin outs are as follows 1 Shield 6 GND Ground 11 B amp W NTSC Video 2 Green 7 5 volts 12 Color NTSC Video 3 Sync 8 12 volts 13 GND 4 NC 9 Blue 14 12 volts 5 Red 10 Intensity 15 5 volts The Best of Ottalini 5 56 To make the cable for an NTSC signal using the Color Video Port you ll need a DB 15 connector and an RCA type plug from Radio Shack Solder a wire from pin 12 of the DB 15 plug to the center connector of the RCA plug A second wire the ground runs from pin 13 on the DB 15 to the ground ring of the RCA cable For a more complete description see the Draw on manual pages 135 136 RGB COLOR MONITORS If you can easily connect a color composite monitor why even bother with RGB would again direct you to Dr Mel Astrahan s fine article on connecting color monitors to the in the February 1986 On Three He notes that an RGB monitor will provide you with highly readable 16 co
66. ng time ago But who s counting Anyhoo in honor of this milestone in the history of our SIG you will find FOUR new disks All are Apple demo disks from the earliest days to the present They are Miscellaneous Disks 07 through 10 3MISC 07 includes a version of the Apple Demo that was developed for our s in the office It s self booting as are all of them and is continuous Early on pulled some of the routines from this version of the demo disk for a Basic utility disk 3UTIL 06 believe 3MISC 08 has two versions of the original 1981 Apple demo called Focus 81 3MISC 09 is a Business Applications demo and 3MISC 10 has a Keyboard Demo If you have a color monitor think you ll find these demos to be even more interesting highly recommend the famed running horses demo in color I ve show this during past SIG meetings and if there s enough interest I ll be happy to do it again Looking into our crystal ball for the future stay tuned for a new AppleWriter tutorial a Best of Salerno disk Raster Graphics demos and much more The Best of Ottalini 5 55 COLOR MONITORS AND THE APPLE By David Ottalini Color It adds a whole new dimension to programs like Draw On Graphics Manager and any number of Business Basic programs But hooking up a color monitor to a has always seemed to be a bit mysterious That s the why of this article to clear up the mystery and get you onto the color bandwagon
67. ng up against As usual the great folks on CompuServe s Apple section come to the rescue The question about what to do with a sticky key was answered by John Lomartire and Dr Al Bloom Both SIG members as well Lomartire The first thing do when I get erratic performance from the keyboard keys is to take off the keyboard cover by removing the five keyboard cover mounting screws underneath the keyboard You will then be able to see if the keyboard needs cleaning The key caps can be removed by pulling straight up on them have found that a chip puller helps get a good grip on the cap After removing the cap you have a short stem and I squirt a little bit of WD 40 in the small column replace the cap and test the key If it works then reassemble the cover and you are done If this does not work you may have to resort to key replacement and that is a bit more difficult Bloom Yes it is possible to un stick a key or two The caps just lift off the s keyboard having been designed for re mapping say to Dvorak layout I d suggest however yanking the whole keyboard out for a cleaning Easy Four screws on the bottom under the keyboard and unplug a ribbon connector Then vacuum around the keys clean around the posts with a damp rag and just maybe squirt with a non conducting cleaner lube Blue Stuff TV tuner cleaner is my favorite from the days of TV tuning knobs If that small stuff doesn t fix the problem I d chicken out
68. ni 5 3 3 ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE III By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman September 1990 MENTOR PROGRAM As mentioned last month your SIG is beginning a Mentor Program to help new members find their way around WAP and the Apple a little better I m very pleased to announce that Dave Jernigan has agreed to take on the position of Mentor Program Coordinator He ll be calling all the SIG members and may already have done so to find out who is willing to volunteer to be part of the program From there he ll provide a list to the WAP office so that each New Member Packet that goes out to a SIG member will include the name of an Apple mentor who can be called on for help and advice Again if you are interested in helping with this on a rotating basis would urge you to talk with Dave Very little time is involved but the bottom line will be added service to the members who need our help the most IIGIF I ve discussed this excellent utility by Jason Harper just a little bit in previous Trail columns Basically it s a program that decodes Graphics Interchange Format GIF graphics files into Apple HiRes or Double HiRes 33 block binary files On Three s Graphics Manager can read those and turn them into 33 block Apple Foto files Recently asked Jason on CompuServe if he could produce an Apple version But there was some bad news and not for the reason you might think In fact the reason could
69. o add to our PD library and make it as valuable as possible 3 Keep you informed through this monthly column in the WAP Journal 4 Maintain our board on the TCS to provide a forum for SIG members 5 Make the hardcopy library a resource for all SIGers and 6 Maintain s for use in the office and as loaners to those who need them Are we doing a good job would have to say the results are mixed at this point Few of you attend the SIG meetings we have a core of 4 6 who usually do attend The hardcopy library does get used on occasion and the video tape tutorial is taken out fairly often by new users Our PD library is our bright spot with many of you showing strong support for many of our offerings What feedback get from my columns are usually positive So the basic question is how can we better serve you Within the next few months our SIG Co Chairman Jim Jutzin will be giving members a phone call trying to get some input In the meantime here are some possible things to think about e Do we need to change the meeting night to make it easier to attend e Would you attend if we offered meetings in Virginia e Would you attend if you had a program schedule ahead of time e Would you like to see Apple subjects added to the WAP Helpline and would you be willing to volunteer e Should we upgrade one of our s in the office to 512K e Should we get an 800K drive for a in the office e What should our policy be about do
70. o make sure the hard copy library has copies of the manuals that are becoming more valuable each day FINALLY Remember If you have an Apple gathering dust or know of someone who has one that is not being used please donate it or get it donated to the SIG There are a lot of groups out there that would love to have a computer to use Call Jim Jutzin or Jim Salerno for more details The Best of Ottalini 5 36 ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE III By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman October 1990 SCSI ON THE APPLE Apple s have it Macs have it MS Dos has it And the Apple Well yes it does in a manner of speaking It is a SCSI interface On Three sells it as a plug in card with the Sider D7T Hard Disk 62 Megabytes drive that can also be used with any other computer with a SCSI port or interface card What is SCSI pronounced SCUZZY It s a hardware and software interface that connects your computer with any number of devices Everyone else can connect not just hard drives but scanners and even CD ROMS And what about our SARA Can we use the D7T s SCSI interface card to hook up these other devices too Unfortunately it s not that easy in fact it s essentially impossible because of a number of factors recently discussed these factors with On Three s Bob Consorti who told me that one major problem is SOS It s a ten year old operating system that has its limitations when dealing with newer devices and
71. offers the same Apple Mode 1 screen size 280x192 but only 7 colors The Best of Ottalini 5 24 We ll explore this a bit more in detail later and we ll also have a PD disk for you to compare graphics programs on the and The translation is not always easy And it doesn t always come out like it ought to But it is helpful while trying to learn Business Basic or AppleSoft Basic If you ve done any translations of to graphics programs I d love to add them to the PD disk I ll need both programs and their ASCII listing as well if possible SURVEYS A few continue to trickle in The Trail will have a complete report next month So you still have time So far it seems that most of our out of town members have sent theirs in with a smattering of locals If you did not receive one please let me know directly and l Il send one out ASAP FINI That does it for this edition of The Trail Next time we meet yours truly should be a Daddy again Stay tuned for details The Best of Ottalini 5 25 ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE III By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman July 1990 THE SURVEYS Ahhhh the surveys Yes we did get some of them back And yes we did enjoy reading your comments The best comment of the lot was from member George Blosser who said simply Just keep up the good work when asked how we could be of better service It would probably be easiest to go down the list and give you a brief overview
72. on mode But do you need to spend the money for one It s really up to your own tastes But my guess would be that unless you can get one of the used RGB monitors described above most of which are switchable between RGB and Composite you re better off getting just a composite monitor or sticking with your non color monitor The Best of Ottalini 5 11 ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE III By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman March 1990 FIRST OF ALL Sorry about missing you in the January Journal These new deadlines have really caused some problems which hope are behind us now hope all of you received your copy of the January column in the mail along with the survey Please if you haven t filled it out yet be sure to do so as soon as possible and send it back It will help us serve you better TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY The Apple Community will be celebrating its tenth year in just a few months It was in May 1980 that Apple introduced our SARA at the National Computer Conference in Anaheim California Next month l Il start using a part of my columns to provide you with a little history and comment about that Hopefully you ll find it all as interesting as do NAUGC The National Apple Users Group Conference is being planned for April 20 through 22 this year in Arlington Heights Illinois a suburb of Chicago mention it here because TAU s Lavona Rann is heading up the conference this year Lavona and her husband Richa
73. oom gave an excellent and rather succinct account of the differences and similarities on the Apple forum on CompuServe On II disk compatibility the answer is a qualified maybe SOS disks cannot be read by a DOS program Programs like SOSTRAN from Sun Remarketing and PUFFIN can read files on DOS disks into SOS with maybe even file conversion Pascal disks are sort of interchangeable The can read II Pascal disks and format and write to II Pascal disks The I cannot read Pascal disks that haven t been specially formatted by the for use by the Il SOS and ProDOS disks are identically formatted FINALLY Many thanks to former Co Chairman Tom Bartkiewitz who donated some programs and an Apple disk drive to the SIG We ll hold on to it as a loaner for those members whose own drive needs to be repaired and we ll use it in the office as well The Best of Ottalini 5 21 ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE III By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman June 1990 POWER COMPUTING Ever wonder if it s possible to be a Power User on an Apple By Power User mean you have upgraded your machine to its maximum making it the most powerful it can be and thus able to do practically everything your was ever capable of doing A MAX 2 Sure For a price But it CAN be done in a way that will include some products that can be used elsewhere disk drives modems monitors after you ve decided to move on to anoth
74. or Video Port you ll need a DB 15 connector and an RCA type plug from Radio Shack Solder a wire from pin 12 of the DB 15 plug to the center connector of the RCA plug A second wire the ground runs from pin 13 on the DB 15 to the ground ring of the RCA cable For a more complete description see the Draw on manual pages 135 136 the file Color Monitors on side 2 of our New Member Disk 1005 or the file Video Helps on Disk 1015 The Best of s Company Next month we ll discuss RGB monitors TITAN e REPAIRS Many thanks to Jim Wilson on CompuServe for passing along this information e Sun Remarketing does not have an exchange policy for defective boards Everything goes thru Titan e The current number for Titan tech Support is 1 313 662 8545 e They have a flat rate repair fee of 85 00 plus 7 00 S amp H which includes any updates to the board Emulation disk should be included with boards The older Il board repair was quoted at 50 00 2e upgrade 150 00 e Boards are sent directly to GR D Inc 2862 Page Rd Ann Arbor Mi 48104 With check included e The RMA number is 911 044 and should be clearly marked on the outside of the return shipping container The Best of Ottalini 5 6 e Turnaround was quoted as appx 1 Week NEW PD OFFERINGS continue my love affair with graphics this month SIGers by offering some more graphics programs All these are by the prolific Dr Al Bloom These programs have
75. ormat in 1989 Bob Consorti was able to keep publishing despite some major changes in his own life including a move to Chicago so his wife could attend medical school at Loyola University this medical stuff must be rubbing off Bob is taking Biology classes himself now There were a number of excellent articles this past year although have to admit really enjoyed the offerings of one certain author As always though On Three needs your help to continue publishing More articles are needed as is your support though subscriptions and renewals Washington Apple Pi is offering a free PD disk to its members for subscribing a promotion other clubs might also consider In any case here s to On Three as it enters the 90s TITLE AUTHOR VOL ISSUE MONTH PG S On Three Bibliography 1988 Ottalini 6 9 10 Sept Oct 7 CPA Service for the Apple Hauwiller 6 1 2 Jan Feb Apple s Andy Hertzfeld on the A Ottalini 6 11 12 Nov Dec 9 Lunar Lander Game Cason 6 11 12 Nov Dec 3 6 Spreadsheet Hello Cason 6 1 2 Jan Feb US Geography Cason 6 5 6 May June 5 Programming in Basic Lagoe 6 1 2 Jan Feb The Beginning Rann Rann 6 1 2 Jan Feb 3 6 The Beginning Rann Rann 6 3 4 March Apr 3 6 Apple Sauce Consorti 6 5 6 May June 1 Apple Sauce Consorti 6 7 8 July Augu 1 Apple Sauce Consorti 6 9 10 Sept Oct 1 Apple Sauce Consorti 6 11 12 Nov Dec 1 Ranntings Rann Rann 6 1 2 Jan Feb Ranntings Rann Rann 6 5 6 May June 3 4 Apple
76. osite is the way to go Unfortunately composite color does not have the quality RGB has but George Oetzel writing in On Three a few years back feels An NTSC monitor and a B W monitor together cost less than a good RGB monitor and it seems The Best of Ottalini 5 5 that this is the best for the Apple No sacrifice of Apple color is involved in the use of an NTSC monitor because the Apple hi res color mode is identical to the corresponding Apple mode If you have a newer Apple you should be able to pull a composite signal directly out of your Apple s monitor connector which uses a standard RCA type cable You can get a Y connector from Radio Shack and hook both your Monitor and composite monitor or VCR up together Just remember to turn down the contrast of one while using the other Your also has a Color Video Port in the back a 15 pin plug called a DB15 What do the pins on the Color Video Port supply According to the owner s manual Appendix B it supplies seven different video signals and four power supply voltages It carries NTSC compatible positive composite synchronization color and black and white video signals The actual pin outs are as follows 1 Shield 6 GND Ground 11 B amp W NTSC Video 2 Green 7 5 volts 12 Color NTSC Video 3 Sync 8 12 volts 13 GND 4 NC 9 Blue 14 12 volts 5 Red 10 Intensity 15 5 volts To make the cable for an NTSC signal using the Col
77. ought from the SIG have found the Menu Maker program one of the most useful With a few modifications have got it to run off my basic boot disk and give me access to all directory levels on my hard disk While the program allows one to descend a directory hierarchy it allows ascent only to the top level via the lt ESCAPE gt key have got around this by writing a short basic program called Backout which truncates the current prefixS at the next and thus generates a new prefixS one level up Running my modified menu maker program with this new prefixS defined gives me a screen showing the next higher directory ready for use The program looks like this 10 1 LEN PREFIXS 20 aS LEFTS PREFIXS 1 1 30 s LEN aS 40 aS LEFTS aS s 1 50 IF RIGHTS aS 1 THEN GOTO 70 ELSE s s 1 60 GOTO 40 70 PREFIXS aS 80 HOME PRINT PREXIXS 90 END We ll take a look at this and see if it can t be incorporated into the program directly Mr Davidson says he hopes to do something similar with the PASCAL Menu Maker program too We appreciate the contribution PUBLIC DOMAIN 1 I m happy to announce a little color is entering our PD disk library Blue to be exact Nothing to do with the IBM variety Rather the color of our new release disks will be the color blue to help give our library a little more uniqueness Thanks to John Ruffatto for pushing this through The Best of Ottalini 5 16 Public Domain 2 Ever wish
78. our SIG Co Chairman s columns and other assorted rantings during 1989 We re going easy on you this month while completing work on a number of disks we hope will help when your takes ill More on that next month DESKTOP MANAGER PROBLEM I m not sure if anyone else has had this problem but it may be something to look out for was printing out a letter with my Star Powertype daisywheel printer and used On Three s Desktop Manager at the same time In the process the Powertype began printing gibberish It doesn t affect my dot matrix printer so this may be a problem only the poor daisy wheels must deal with Lesson here Don t use DTM while using your daisy wheel or at least a Powertype ON THREE NEWS On Three s Bob Consorti recently sent me a program called Bad Block Fixer to test It s a neat little program that checks any disk emphasis though on hard drives and will flag any bad blocks At that point if you re willing it will fix the disk so that the bad blocks are shut out of the system The program is being sold now but users will be able to upgrade to a program called Disk Fix that Bob is working on now No indication when that will be ready As for On Three Magazine it continues for the present in its bi monthly format But word has it the magazine may in fact become a newsletter due to a dwindling subscriber list New members of WAP get a 10 discount on the 20 00 subscription price Even if you are NOT a new
79. please remember we can t do it alone As Robert Howe put it when asked how the SIG could be of better service he answered Shouldn t this read How can you better help the SIG I d like to call on you folks on occasion for a little help especially now that our second little boy should have arrived by the time you read this And if you have suggestions we re always open to them to Thanks again to all those who answered the survey TITAN e UPDATE In January reported some information from Jim Wilson on CompuServe about getting your Titan cards repaired Recently had occasion to call the folks at GR amp D who now build and service Titan products and found them to be extremely helpful and eager to help with any problems Mine was a particular vexing one could not load the ProDos Kernel beyond 1 1 1 It turns out that the problem was not the Titan cards but the Profile card It seems that after ProDos 1 3 Apple changed the software enough to make the Titan cards burp when they tried to load Prodos 1 4 or higher The solution was to remove the Profile card and everything was fine Slot 4 could still be used for other cards though like an 800 Unidisk that would work in emulation Or I could still use the Profile but would NOT be able to use it in Emulation Mode you have to move a post off a plug on one Titan card to enable the Profile as well as make some changes to two chips on the Profile card itself Greg at GR amp D told
80. r thoughts and feelings about how we re doing want to thank everyone who has sent them in so far and would urge those who have not yet done so to take a couple of minutes OK after you ve finished your tax return to get them in We really do care about hearing from you am happy to report that we are getting some response to our request for Hotline Volunteers In fact we will have our own Apple section for easy use by all ers As soon as a majority of the surveys come in I ll let you know the results as we travel down The Trail BUTTERFLY Finally from SIG member John Lomartire comes this fun little program you might like to try Commenting about it on CompuServe recently he said The newsletter from Adam and Eve Apple Users Group of Madison Wisconsin contained a review of the Ariel Publishing Company newsletter According to the reviewer H Jackson the July August issue published an AppleSoft Basic program Apple II that would produce a butterfly on the screen have rewritten the program so it will run on our Apple and since it is so short I have listed it here with acknowledgement to Adam amp Eve and Ariel Publishing The program 100 HOME 120 INVOKE D1 BGRAF INV 130 OPEN 1 GRAFIX 140 MODE 0 BUFFER 1 PERFORM GRAFIXMODE MODE BUFFER The Best of Ottalini 5 17 150 160 170 180 190 200 210 220 230 PERFORM FILLPORT PERFORM GRAFIXON FOR T 0 TO 75 36 STEP 01 S SIN T
81. r a Business Basic file Harry suggests What I know works is to convert the program to an ASCII file and then use almost any communication programs on both sides to send it over a null modem The BASIC program to print a program to disk as an ASCII text file is 10 OPEN 1 AS OUTPUT D1 yourfile 20 OUTPUT 1 30 LIST 40 CLOSE 50 END This program should be placed at the top of your program you may have to change the numbers or use the RENUMBER Basic program to merge the two and the pathname changed to meet your needs that is D1 yourname becomes the pathname you want the information to go to Ed Gooding of s Company BBS fame adds that you can send the program directly through the s Serial Port if you desire You can connect your PC to the via a serial port and use say PC Talk on the PC side to capture the Basic program from your NOTE use the above program as described but change D1 yourname to RS232 and make sure the RS232 driver is in your SOS Driver file If your PC isn t near your then you can convert the Basic program to ASCII upload it here to your mail box on CIS CompuServe then call here from your PC and capture it on disk that way You could also upload it to the Data Library on the WAP TCS and then download it Just make sure to delete the TCS file when you re done For more information on Apple to MS DOS transfers try SIG PD disks 3INF 09 The Best of Bloom Getting Here
82. rages now operating around the nation working to match buyers and sellers of used equipment One report read said 138 million dollars worth of used computers were sold this way in 1989 talked with the NACOMEX President Robert Zises recently and he told me that Apple s and Macs provide one of the brokerages largest areas of activity He was aware of the Apple but said there wasn t much activity on the SARA front But if you have a complete system to sell or are looking for one to buy they would probably be happy to hear from you Interestingly Mr Zises says the demand for Mac II s exceeds supply while the supply of Apple s exceeds demand That would suggest some possible bargains on the side for you schools or parents looking for a cheap way to buy a 6502 based computer NACOMEX operates by publishing lists of computers available for sale or that people are looking for It does not operate a store and does not keep computers in inventory Customers can do business by mail phone or fax The buyer makes an offer and if it s accepted sends a check to a special escrow account operated by the brokerage The equipment is sent to the buyer and if it checks out over a 48 hour time period the brokerage sends the seller a check minus a 10 service fee You can get more information by calling 1 800 359 2468 or writing the National Computer Exchange 118 East 25th St New York NY 10010 The Best of Ottalini 5 46 HA
83. ram December Disk Drive Maintenance End of the Year PD disks PD DISKS DISKSO1 JAN January Public Domain Disks DISKSO2 FEB February Public Domain Disks DISKSO3 MARCH March Public Domain Disks DISKSO4 APRIL April Public Domain Disk DISKSO6 JUNE June Public Domain Disks DISKSO7 JULY July Public Domain Disks DISKSO8 AUGUST August Public Domain Disks OTHER ARTICLES Color monitors and the Apple Desk Top Publishing in Emulation Mode On Three Bibliography for 1989 A new RGB circuit for the by D D Meisel The Best of Ottalini 5 3 ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE III By David Ottalini WAP SIG Co Chairman January 1990 THE NEW YEAR IS UPON US Happy New Year SIGers Your SARA may be one year older but believe she is just getting a little better with age Hard to believe that in just one year s time she ll be a decade old Things have really changed since the early days when Apple had such high hopes for this machine Despite the fact that the number of users continues to contract those that keep plugging away seem to be the cream who see the value of an excellent computer still able to perform the duties called upon As your SIG enters its second decade there are some basic decisions we need to make about how we can best support our members In the past our primary goals were and remain to 1 Hold monthly meetings 2 Continue t
84. rd are long time Apple supporters and spear headed TAU s Phase Conference back in 1987 that was the first true conference for Apple users This particular conference is aimed at Apple user groups around the country and will offer a number of presentations workshops hands on demonstrations discussions with developers and more Perhaps more importantly Lavona has offered to make space available for any Apple ers who might be interested in going This could very well be the last chance for the Community to get together in one place So if you re interested you can contact Lavona at xxxx Wheaton II 60187 Her phone number is 708 xxx xxxx I m not sure if am going at this point do not know if WAP is sending anyone either but would encourage anyone interested to give me a call If any SIGer does go we d love to get an article for the Journal out of it The Best of Ottalini 5 12 ON THE PD FRONT I m happy to report that Dr Al Bloom has once again come through and submitted a disk full of his Inpert s Corner columns as originally published in the TAU Journal As we ve come to expect these columns are interesting and informative and certainly well worth the price Look for this disk to come into our library within the next few months Speaking of our PD we re placing one disk into the hopper this time around call it Ottalini Disk 4 certainly an original title for yet another disk full of y
85. s but he did provide some much needed service and caring at a time others could not provide it Hating to see a number of the programs he offered go to waste wrote him in June asking if anything could be placed into the PD By July had my answer which can go into the it s possible file Frank wrote to say that he has considered donating the programs into the PD but that he has also received inquiries about purchasing his customer list sales rights and specific software rights He says If am offered a fair price for the whole package will probably sell that portion of Pair Software However if the bids are too low will probably just say the S with it and mail you all a copy Frank says there remains some interest in the Apple His recent close out sale which never heard about brought in almost 13 000 One way or the other we may win here having access to Apple products is positive in any form Just who has offered to buy his Apple product line however remains a mystery Stay tuned The Best of Ottalini 5 38 APPLE DONATION PROGRAM I m happy to report that we ve had two more Apple systems donated to the SIG for use in our ongoing Donation Program Unfortunately we lost member Trish Babylon in the process She and her husband moved to Belgium under fairly short notice which brought the donation Many thanks to Jim Salerno for picking everything up and going over everything he even upgr
86. t Jameco sells a Casper 14 RGB monitor for 249 00 Magnavox also still sells a composite color monitor Lyco has it for 189 95 FINAL THOUGHTS Hooking up a color monitor can add some fun to your game playing and can be useful while doing color graphics or using the in emulation mode But do you need to spend the money for one It s really up to your own tastes But my guess would be that unless you can get one of the used RGB monitors described above most of which are switchable between RGB and Composite you re better off getting just a composite monitor or sticking with your non color monitor The Best of Ottalini 5 58 DESKTOP PUBLISHING WITH THE APPLE By David Ottalini OK Up front I ll say this is really Desktop Publishing with the with 65c02 chip installed AND the Titan e cards But bottom line here is being able to do a DTP project just like any other Apple user or MAC for that matter and in a professional manner that looks good see example My particular project was to produce an Apple brochure that could be sent out to prospective members of WAP who had a SARA in addition to the regular application form Since operate one of my two s in 128K Apple e mode most of the time it gave me the opportunity to try out Timeworks Publish It 3 tm and see what could do Actually started out with Publish It 2 and then took advantage of the recent upgrade offer to Publish It 3 buying
87. the Telecommunications Exchange for the Deaf and found that they had keyboards with broken keys Never having actually followed the instructions I ve passed along to you in previous Trail articles decided this would be a good chance to give them a try Aside from one little self inflicted soldering gun burn managed to take two less than whole keyboards and turn them into one usable one All it really takes is the ability to use that soldering gun and a bulb to suck out the solder and a little patience to gently pry the keys out from one circuit board and replace them in another If you have some questions about this or need some hands on instruction let me know and we ll do a little show The Best of Ottalini 5 15 and tell at a SIG meeting By the way one other note have found that after working with these older s it s not uncommon for the on lamp to blow when you turn everything back on for the first time Your will beep and nothing will happen Just press lt RESET gt with the lt OPEN APPLE gt key and your should go ahead and boot You ll have to replace the bulb though still have a few or you can get a replacement at Radio Shack MENU MAKING Our good friend from Ontario Canada C M Davidson recently wrote to update us on some of the things he s been working on One deals with our own Menu Maker program that can be found on most of our Basic PD disks Here s what he says Of all the software I have b
88. this and they bear repeating here Disk drive problems can sometimes be media disk problems Make sure you keep your disks away from heat dust magnets or other electromagnetic devices To clean the head on your disk drive you ll need a cotton swab and a mixture of 80 denatured alcohol and 20 deionized or distilled water e Remove the cover of your drive and clan the guide rails the metal shafts that the head slides on with the alcohol water solution Do not use grease e Inspect the head for morn or dull spots in the ceramic If you find any you ll need to consider replacing the head Call your SIG for help on this one e Clean the head with the alcohol water solution e Move the head assembly back and forth along its full length of travel e Check for blockage and smooth easy movement e You re done IT S OFFICIAL ACE or Active Computer Enthusiasts has officially become the newest Apple users group in the U S Based in Columbus Ohio their first meeting was held this past September I ve had a chance to talk with President Richard Gast a number of times and it looks like he s determined to make the club a viable enterprise If you re interested in obtaining more information or offering support write him at xxxx Columbus Ohio 43229 The Best of Ottalini 5 45 USED COMPUTERS Yes our s are not only orphans but also used Actually since we want them used preferably every day that s not such a bad d
89. ttalini WAP SIG Co Chairman DISKSO3 MARCH We weigh in with one offering this month SIGers with the anticipation of a number of interesting disks still in development for next month This time around we add 1087 our fourth disk full of articles by your very own SIG Co Chairman These were all published in the WAP Journal during 1989 and include my columns and a few other offerings One article am especially proud of this time around is the early history of 3EZ Pieces and AppleWorks which was republished by three other Apple groups that know of as well as On Three As is almost always the case with our disks this one is self booting on side one and Menu Maker allows the user to read each text file on screen or print it out provided you have a serial printer connected to the RS232 port I ll add a little bit here about next month s disks simply because think they re worth waiting for I ve spent a good deal of time already putting together a special Repairing Your Apple disk that contains articles and information on a variety of troubles your might encounter In addition we re working to compile a number of other utility programs that will help with various repair duties Most are in other PDs too But in our case we ll make them all self booting have documentation etc So stay tuned and see you in April The Best of Ottalini 5 50 APPLE PUBLIC DOMAIN LIBRARY By David Ottalini WAP
90. use more people Care to join us This is something all SlGers can do to give a little back for everything we ve provided over the years with only a small amount of time involved And it s a great service we can provide to our new members I m currently looking for someone to coordinate this program He She will call all SIG members to see who would be willing to take part Then as new members join they ll be sent a letter as part of their new member packet advising them of their mentor A copy would go to the mentor as well Our SIG coordinator will keep track of all this so that people are assigned on a rotating basis the more who participate the more we can spread it out Ideas or suggestions more than welcome on this project The Best of Ottalini 5 30 APPLE TO MS DOS We continue to get questions about this Thanks to the folks on the section of MAUG tm on CompuServe we get an idea of what s involved with transferring ASCII text files Here s what Harry Baya says have done a lot of transfers with modem eliminators The original Apple came with a little short modem eliminator cable that you might still have around Otherwise you can buy them in most computer stores eg EGGHEAD or Radio Shack With a modem eliminator and TCM On Three s Communications Manager on the you can send stuff over at 9600 You still have to type every file name on both sides which is a drag but it works If you want to transfe
91. wever and working on a few Apple II and projects we re still waiting for the GoBack backup utility By the way just renewed my subscription to On Three Magazine and hope you are a subscriber too If not your SIG is making this offer Order a subscription to On Three for 20 00 and you ll get one WAP PD disk of your choice free that makes your actual cost just 17 00 Just bring in a copy of your check or credit card receipt to the WAP office to prove you placed an order On Three is the only specific magazine we have left and keeping it going is one way we can all show solidarity THREEWORKS The latest update to my ThreeWorks disks have now been released It remains four sides of information about the with the centerpiece a 1500 record bibliography of Apple articles going back to 1980 This version 3 1 90 includes the 1989 bibliography and updates a number of the other files ThreeWorks requires EZ Pieces or AppleWorks and a 256K machine It s available directly from Three Cheers Press 11160 Viers Mill Rd L 15 300 Wheaton MD 20902 for 15 95 postage paid Maryland purchasers please add sales tax PD DISKS DU JOUR If it s May it must mean more utilities to help you repair problems with your This month we re providing help for hardware and software problems Disk 1093 has a couple of block edit programs Disk 1094 is our second Diagnostics disk with a third block editor on the flip side
92. y available at any nearby Radio Shack store some compromises were made the required transistors 2n3906 pnp s and 2n3904 npn s for the circuits were available at my nearby Radio Shack store for only 2 00 for 10 Since my TV circuit required the synch to be hooked up separately from the xRGB ones simply took the The Best of Ottalini 5 62 synch output from the two npn transistors shown in the circuit and hooked it up directly to the RGB synch input on my TV set My final resistance network is shown in the diagram below It is to be connected between the transistor xRGB outputs shown in the Apple owner s manual circuit and the transistor RGB inputs on the same diagram While the color match is not absolutely exact and you might have to jack up the RGB monitor s brightness a bit to see them all it does give the 16 distinct colors which are very close to the standard ones I think they are better Besides my solution is cheap about 20 00 In the final test of these colors ran the infamous demo horse sequence and got back quite a show Now am sure more experimentation would have produced results closer to the Apple ones but have not taken the time to do this Anyway prefer the colors have In any event this network is a good starting point if you want to mix your own set Have fun WIRES WIRES NOT EXAMPLES CONNECTED l CONNECTED RESISTOR gt TRANSISTOR
93. y it said that the was more than just a business machine It s also the ultimate hobbyist computer The Apple was conceived primarily to fill in gaps in the Apple It will not replace the Apple by any means It s designed to enhance it The Best of Ottalini 5 19 Actually that was not quite true The driving force behind the s early and as it turned out premature introduction was the fear that the Apple would stop selling There were those at Apple who thought the would do 90 percent of the company s business in a few years with the making up the rest in the education and home markets As we ll see in future installments of my Apple History those projections turned out to be a little premature MOVING ON WITH ON THREE Just when it seems I ve brought you up to date on the doings at On Three there s more to report First off there s been yet another address change for ordering On Three products Bob Consorti s parents finally got their dream home built and have settled in to take your orders The official order address is now xxxx Lake Stevens WA 98258 Order number has also changed and is now 206 xxx xxxx As for Bob he reports from the Windy City that he s now embarking on a new career as a student As reported in earlier columns Bob s wife is currently studying medicine at Loyola University Medical School Not to be outdone Bob is now taking classes in Biology He is still repairing s ho

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