Mac Computer Art & Mon. Oct. 10 Mpls. College of Art and Design Note 7 or call 870-3268 for most I Design Group 6:45 pm 133 East 25th Street, Room 325 current meeting info (recording). I MicroSoft® Works™ S.l.G. Tues. Oct. 11 Edina Library—50th and Hwy 100 Note 13 7:00 pm I Languages/Technical S.l.G. Wed. Recess—no meeting until further Note 5 notice. Call for information. The Smalltalk Group Wed. Oct. 12 250 S. Milton St. Programming in Smalltalk 7:00 pm St. Paul, MN Note 10 j Board Meeting Thur. Oct. 13 Brookdale Hennepin Area Library Members welcome, Note 1. 7:00 pm 6125 Shingle Creek Pkwy., Brooklyn Ctr. | Mac Users Thur. Oct. 13 Eisenhower Community Center Guy Kawasaki demos 4D Version 2.0! Note special dale & location (6:30) 7:00 pm 1001 W. Highway 7, Hopkins, MN Map on page 23. Notes 14 & 4 Fourth Dimension™ Group Mon. Oct. 17 Hennepin County Library, Southdale Note 2 7:00pm Branch, 70th & Xerxes, Edina, MN Small Meeting Room, 2nd Floor HyperCard™ Group Mon. Oct. 17 Hagen Office Equipment Note 4 7:00 pm 801 W. 77-1/2 St., Richfield, MN MacCAD/E User Group Tues. Oct. 18 Heath/Zenith Computers Note 8 7:00 pm. Shady Oak Road, Hopkins, MN Beginning Macintosh™ Tues. Oct. 18 Hennepin County Library, Southdale Note 15 Programmer 7:00 pm. Branch, 70th & Xerxes, Edina, MN Small Conf. Room, 2nd Floor I. Apple II Users Wed. Oct. 19 St. Louis Park Sr. High School HELP for Beginners 7:30 pm Room 4 and Intermediate users. Note 11 Mac Novice User Group Mon. Oct. 24 Highland Branch Library Note 9 7:00 pm 1974 Ford Parkway, St. Paul, MN Northwest Branch Tues. Oct. 25 Rockford Road Library Note 6 7:00 pm. 6401 42nd Av. N., Crystal, MN Apple IIGS S.l.G. Wed. Oct. 26 1st Minnesota Bank Note 12 7:30 pm 31-9th Ave. S., Hopkins, MN Mac Desktop Publishing S.l.G. Wed. Oct. 26 First Tech Computer Note 3 (New Group) 7:00 pm 2640 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis, MN AppleWorks© S.l.G. Thur. Oct. 27 Murray Junior High School Word Processing—Basic, Intermediate, 7:00 pm 2200 Buford, St. Paul, MN and Advanced, Note 1 Mac Users Thur. Nov. 3 Hennepin County Library, Southdale Br. Notes 14 Microsoft® Works™ S.l.G. Tues. Nov. 8 Edina Library—50th and Hwy 100 Note 13 Languages/Technical S.l.G. Wed. Meeting cancelled—watch for notice Note 5 The Smalltalk Group Wed. Nov. 9 250 S. Milton, St. Paul Note 10 Board Meeting Thur. Nov. 10 Brookdale Hennepin Area Library Members welcome, Note 1 Mac Computer Art & Design Mon. Nov. 14 Mpls College of Art and Design Note 7 MacCAD/E User Group Tues. Nov. 15 Heath/Zenith Computers, Hopkins Note 8 Beg. Macintosh™ Programmer Tues. Nov. 15 Hennepin County Library, Southdale Br. Note 15 Apple II Users Wed. Nov. 16 St. Louis Park Sr. High School Possible CD-ROM demo. Note 11 AppleWorks© S.l.G. Thur. Nov. 17 Murray Jr. High, 2200 Buford, St. Paul Troubleshooting in AW, Note 1 Fourth Dimension™ Group Mon. Nov. 21 Hennepin County Library, Southdale Br. Note 2 HyperCard™ Group Mon. Nov. 21 Summer Recess—No Meeting Note 4 Apple IIGS S.l.G. Wed. Nov. 23 1st Minnesota Bank, Hopkins Note 12 Mac Desktop Publishing S.l.G. Wed. Nov. 23 First Tech Computer, 2640 Hennepin Ave. Note 3 Mac Novice User Group Mon. Nov. 28 St. Paul Highland Branch Library Note 9 Northwest Branch Tues. Nov. 29 Rockford Road Library, Crystal Note 6

- Notes: 1. Dick Marchiafava, Pres 572-9305 6. Jere Kauffman 535-6745 11. Tom Ostertag 488-9979 2. Ian Abel 824-8602 7 . J o y K o p p 4 4 0 - 5 4 3 6 12. Dick Peterson 473-5846 3. Charles Bjorgen 633-8850 8. Bill Langer 937-9240 13. Ed Spitler 432-0103 4. Mike Carlson 866-3441 9. Tom Lufkin 698-6523 14. David Stovall 474-8015 5. Wesley Johnson 636-1826 10. Martin McClure 227-9348 15. Tom Vind 473-0455 Coordinators - Please Call John Hansen (890-3769) by the 1st Friday in order to have your meeting listed correctly! The Minnesota Apple Computer Users' Group, Inc. mini'apples P.O. Box 796, Hopkins, MN 55343

Board Members: This is the Newsletter of Mini'app'les, the Minnesota Apple Computer Users' Group, Inc., a Minnesota non-profit club. The whole newsletter is copy Officers righted © by Mini'app'les. Articles may be reproduced in other non-profit President Dick Marchiafava 572-9305 User Groups' publications except where specifically copyrighted by the 7099 N. E. Hickory Drive author. Please include the source when reprinting. Fridley, MN 55432 Past-President Ann Bell 544-4505 Questions — Please direct questions to an appropriate board member. 8325 39th Avenue N., Technical questions should be directed to the Technical Director. New Hope, MN 55427 Vice-President W i l l i a m L a n g e r 9 3 7 - 9 2 4 0 Membership — Send applications for membership directly to the 14160 Green View Court Membership Coordinator: Anne S. Charity 935-4845 Eden Prairie, MN 55344 PO Box 796 Secretary E d S p i t l e r 4 3 2 - 0 1 0 3 Hopkins, MN, 55343 P.O. Box 24476 Current membership dues are S20 for the first year and $15 thereafter. All Apple Valley, MN 55124 members receive a subscription to the newsletter and all club benefits. New Treasurer J. Edward Wheeler 881-5928 members receive a special package of member lists and software catalogs. P.O. Box 796 Hopkins, MN 55343 At Mail eDOMs Meetings Order Directors Members: 5 1/4" eDOMs S3.00 S4.00 Publications D a n B u c h l e r 8 9 0 - 5 0 5 1 3 1/2" Apple/MacCDOMs S5.00 S6.00 Software T o m G a t e s 7 8 9 - 1 7 1 3 Non-Members: 5 1/4" eDOMs S7.50 $8.50 Technical J o h n H o o k 4 3 5 - 6 2 8 1 3 1/2" Apple/MaceDOMs SlO.OO $11.00 SIG: Macs David Stovall 474-8015 Send orders to Mini'app'les at PO Box 796, Hopkins, MN 55343, attention SIG: Apples Tom Ostertag 488-9979 eDOM Sales or MaceDOM Sales. Membership Anne S. Charity 935-4845 Coordinators Dealers — Mini'app'les does not endorse specific dealers. The club Beginners' Consultant E a r l B e n s e r 8 8 4 - 2 1 4 8 promotes distribution of information which may help members identify best buys and service. The club itself does not participate in bulk purchases of Shows & Conventions (Your Name Here?) Northwest Branch Jere Kauffman 535-6745 media, software, hardware and publications. Members may organize such activities on behalf of other members. * Apple II Users Tom Ostertag 488-9979 Newsletter Contributions - Please send contributions on Mac c Apple IIGS Dick Peterson 473-5846 C AppleWorks Dick Marchiafava 572-9305 3 1/2" disks, or via telecommunications, directly to the Newsletter Editor. t Beginner's Basic Tom Alexander 698-8633 Contributions on 5 1/4" disks should be sent to the club PO Box, and marked: « Languages/Tech Wesley Johnson 636-1826 "Newsletter Submission". * Tech. Adviser (hdwre) Roger Flint 771-2868 Deadline for publication is the 1st day of the month preceding the month in which the item might be included. An article will be printed when space Mac Users David Stovall 474-8015 permits if, in the opinion of the Newsletter Editor, it constitutes suitable Mike Carlson 866-3441 material for publication. Excel M. Nightingale 545-9380 Beginning Prog. Tom Vind 473-0455 Meeting Dates — Please phone calendar announcements to John HyperCard Mike Carlson 866-3441 Hansen 890-3769. CAD & Engineering Bill Langer 937-9240 4th Dimension Prog Ian Able 824-8602 Mini'app'les Mini'lnfO ExCh BBS -Club members may utilize Novice Tom Lufkin 698-6523 the club's BBS: Telephone No. 831-6235 Smalltalk Martin McClure 227-9348 DeskTop Publishing Charles Bjorgen 633-8850 Advertising — Direct all advertising inquiries to the club's Advertising MicroSoft Works Ed Spitler 432-0103 Coordinator: Bob Lowe 612-933-0464 Software Director's Staff 14717 Idylwood Road Minnetonka, MN 55345 Apple // DOM Editor Tom Gates 789-1713 Eamon Dave Nordvall 724-9174 MaceDOM Editor/Prod Joe Carroll 938-4028 Newsletter Publication Staff Director & Daniel B.Buchler 890-5051 E-mail CP/M Open Editor 13516 Grand Avenue S. AppleLink LiaiSOn Contacts (Contact with non-Mini'app'les SIGs) Burnsville, MN 55337 UG0012 Announcements Kent Edwards 452-4956 Genealogy Jules Goldstein 690-4447 CompuServe Medical Stewart Haight 644-1838 Calendar John Hansen 890-3769 73537,463 CP/M Jim Rosenow (414)261-2536 Contributing Ed. Steve George 935-5775 GEnie: DBuchler Contributing Ed. Tom Edwards 927-6790 Circulation this issue: 1350 Dave Brown Comp./Layout Joan Kistner, Bob Lowe mini'app'les October 1988

In This Issue Advertisers Announcements 6 D r . M a c 1 9 Apple System software available to members 6 E P S 2 1 Classified 23 Hagen 23 Membership Promotion 4 HAMFEST 5 o AppleWorks Advisor by Dick Marchiafava 7 M a c C h u c k 1 5 3 9 MacPRO 18 I / D O M . 4 8 b y T o m G a t e s TCCN 9 Graphic Files Yukon Computer Products C4 o Beginners' Comer—Basic Loops by Tom Alexander 12 o Evolution of the Apple II (Part 2) by Stephen Brown 10 CJ GraphicWriter for the IIGS by John Fellows 13 6 AppleLink Personal Edition from AppleLink 14 Membership Application Designs on You (DTP report) by Tom Edwards 22 and Renewal Form 10/88 Thanks to Frank by Joe Carroll 6 Seatbelt Fastened (Mac User report) by Tom Edwards 18 Name: Ring My Chimes by Tom Edwards 21 (HyperCard SIG report) Address: New at MacWorld 15 Wire Job for the Mac by Tom Edwards 20 City: (August Mac Novice report) State: > V i r u s a n d by Joe Carroll 16 ffiS utilities ZIP: r The Fine Print Home Phone: ( The Mini'app'les newsletter is an independent publication not affiliated or otherwise associated with or sponsored or sanctioned by Apple Computer, Inc. or any other computer manufacturtcr. The opinions, statements, positions.and views stated herein are those of the autnor(s) or publisher and are W o r k P h o n e : ( ) - _ not intended to be the opinions, statements, positions or views of Apple Computer Inc., or any other Computer manufacturer. Apple®, the Apple® #, Apple UGS®, AppleTalk®, AppleWorks®, Macintosh®, ImageWriter®, LaserWriter®, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. N e w M e m b e r ( ) o r R e n e w a l ( ) LaserShare™, Finder™, MultiFinder™ and HyperCard™ are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. PostScript® is a registered trademark of Adobe Inc. Times® and Helvetica® are registered trademarks of Linotype Co. Spouse's name:

Childrens names: HyperCard (if interested in 1.2.1 computers) is now available! Sponsored by: • System Updates for Macintosh • ProDOS and DOS 3.3 systems for Apple II/IIGS I own or use a: Mac+ ( ) SE ( ) Macll ( ) Apple //or //+or//e( ) //GS( ) //c( ) Apple II SIG MacUsers O t h e r ( ) Oct 13 St Louis Park High Eisenhower Center Special Interests - Check all that apply. P r o g r a m m i n g ( ) S p r e a d s h e e t s ( ) B u s i n e s s ( ) D T P u b l i s h i n g ( ) HELP Kawasaki E d u c a t i o n ( ) N o v i c e ( ) for beginners and demos 4D v 2.0 intermediate users Send tO: Membership Coord Special Guy, Day, Place Anne S. Charity Mini'app'les BBS — 831-6235 (New Software) PO Box 796 October Mini'app'les Newsletter goes to press Oct 17. Hopkins, MN 55343 Please observe minimum one week leadtime. Club Dues: $15/yr + $5 application fee.

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Cooperating Businesses: Businessland Mini'app'les 7400 France Avenue 1988 Membership Drive Edina, MN 55435 893-1343 Computer Applications The Club is looking for: New members 7101 France Avenue Edina, MN 55435 920-1154 Cooperative Dealers and Schools Renewals and Referrals Computer Pavilion Pavilion Place • 1655 West County Rd B2 With your help and enthusiasm, we are embarking on a Roseville, MN 55113 631-2766 concentrated effort to build and strengthen member resources within Mini'app'les to GROW IN 1988! Computerland-Hopkins 11319 Highway 7 Add YOUR helping hand! Hopkins, MN 55343 933-8822 Computerland 2471 Fairview Avenue North Roseville, MN 55113 636-2366

Sponsoring Members:! Cooperating Schools: Computerland Your name will be listed here, each time that 7025 France Avenue you are listed as the sponsor of a new member. Anoka Technical Institute Edina, MN 55435 920-6100 Here's the latest honored folks... Congrats! 1355 West Main Anoka, MN 55303 First Tech Dick Marchiafava 2640 Hennepin Ave. South Joy Kopp Bloomington Comm. Ed. Service Minneapolis, MN 55408 377-9300 Bill Langer 8900 Portland Ave. Bloomington, MN 55420 Hagen Office Equipment 801 West 77-1/2 Street Brooklyn Park VoTech Richfield, MN 55423 866-3441 900 Brooklyn Boulevard Brooklyn Park, MN 55445 Heath-Zenith - Hopkins 101 Shady Oak Road New Members this month: Dakota County Technical Institute Hopkins, MN 55343 938-6371 145th Street East First—Last Zip Phone Rosemont, MN 55068 Hutch Computer Industries (H.C J.) Gene Patrin 55013 612-462-2141 8017 Glen Lane Timothy N. Heasiey 55013 (none given) Hennepin Technical Institute Eden Prairie, MN 55344 944-1356 Dave Young 55014 612-781-2332 South Campus Steven Axdal 55016 612-853-5830 9200 Flying Cloud Rd. IND Corp Julie & Tony Pecoraro Eden Prairie, MN 55344 1620 County Road C 55044 612-924-8523 Roseville, MN 55113 Wallace J. Sapp, Jr. 55075 612-944-8559 Kennedy High School 9201 Nicollet Ave. So. Paul Spilseth 55082 612-439-2215 Moore Business Forms 3650 Hazelton Road 55105 Bloomington, MN 55420 Mary E. Kraft (none given) Edina, MN 55435 929-4334 Henry C. Brom 55303 (none given) Cindy Sandstrom 55344 (none given) Twin Cities Computer Network Bradley Molitor 55369 (none given) 75 South 5th Street — Suite M-100 Barbara Lerschen 55372 612-553-4781 Minneapolis, MN 55402 (modem) 349-6200 Michael Ferrier 55406 612-332-8300 Thomas Rossin 55412 612-330-1270 The GIZMODE Data Bank Katsuhiko Momol 55413 (none given) 3519 West 50th St Doug S. Roerden 55416 612-863-5888 Mpls, MN 55410 (modem) 929-6879 Lael Eginton 55422 (none given) Dick Rentsch 55423 (none given) Mark Dantuono 55425 612-853-5414 A Challenging Goal: Todd Gardner 55435 612-546-3481 Kwok Ng 55443 612-633-0735 To have 1,988 members Kelly D. Breit 55447 612-379-3950 by Dec. 31,1988 Ron Strand 56001 (none given)

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OCTOBER 29,1988 7:30 AM - 3:00 PM Midwest's Largest Fall Indoor Hamfest & Electronic's Show! World Famous Guest Speakers: Roy Neal, Best indoor hamfest location in beautiful, K6DUE, NBC Television Science Correspon roomy, well-lit HENNEPIN TECHNICAL dent and Host of New World of Amateur INSTITUTE, 9000 Brooklyn Blvd., Brooklyn Radio; and Will Steger, Artie Explorer! Park, MN. Parking for 2,000 cars. Second year of Hamfest Minnesota Annual Tickets available at all Dayton's Stores, or by CW Contest! $100 First Prize. mail. Just $4.00! Tickets day of show $5.00. Expanded Indoor Flea Market and Huge Retail Flea Market Display Tables $10.00. Display Area with Amateur Radio Dealers from throughout the Midwest, Computer Advanced Registration: Mail SASE to Hamfest Retailers, and Electronic Supliers. Minnesota, Box 5598, Hopkins, MN 55343. Grand Prize: Kenwood TM-721A Dual Bander Advanced Registration Prize: Kenwood TH-25AT Handheld

Pre-reglster NOW - Send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: Hamfest Minnesota & Computer Expo, Box 5598, Hopkins, MN 55343 For Information call: (612)474-8682(weekdays) & 542-8450 (evenings &weekends) Name: Call: Street: City: ~ State: Zip: TICKET AND FLEA MARKET INFORMATION: ■ 6' x 2 1/2' Tables in Main Area - $10.00 (Full) or $5.00 (Half) - 8' x 2' Tables in Hallway Area - $10.00 (Full) or $5.00 (Half) - Maximum of 4 Tables per Seller in Main Area - No limit in Hallway Area Tickets: x$ 4.00 (admission) =$ Reserve Early Flea Market Tables: x $10.00 (full table) »$ for the FleaCl .. Market . . Preference: n x$ 5.00■■■ ■ (half table) -$ Best Location! Main Area (6' x 2.5* Tables) TOTAL =$ Hallway (8* x 2' Tables) You must have an admission ticket to display in the flea market area. Make checks payable to: Hamfest Minnesota. Tickets also available at all Dayton's Stores. mini'app'les October 1988

Announcements

The September 21st meeting will be an AppleWorks S.l.G. educational software demo. Thanks to Frank! The October 19th meeting's theme is by Joe Carroll Meeting Schedule & MacEDOM Coordinator Announcements "Help!" Beginning and intermediate users: by Dick Marchiafava bring your software, questions, and problems. Experienced users are strongly encouraged to August Newsletter, "A Survey of New Fall Meeting Location bring expertise, patience, and goodwill. Mini'app'les MacEDOMs for AppleWorks SIG meetings are at a new loca The meeting on November 16th will be a Mac JJ Compatibility", was a tion, which began with the September meet CD-ROM demonstration, if any Apple II vol Hrank Vanmagnificent Alstine's piece article of work in andthe ing. We now meet at Murray Jr. High School, umes are available by then. Otherwise, Sen VERY much needed! As your poor 2200 Buford Avenue, St. Paul. Parking is at sible Writer, Sensible Grammar, and Sensible MacEDOM coordinator, I only have access to the north side of the school, on Buford. Enter Speller will be demonstrated. a Mac Plus and sometimes an SE. Thus most the main door, inquire for the room location. December: No meeting. See you at the of the programs put out so far have not had the Murray Jr. Hi is centrally located a few Swap Meet Saturday, Dec. 17,10 a.m.-2 p.m. quality control which I would like to see - i.e. blocks east of Highway 280, near Como Ave in the St. Louis Park Senior High School full testing on all possible machines and a nue which, near the border of Minneapolis and Cafeteria. compatibility chart for each month's produc St. Paul. See the map for directions. January 18, February 15, March 15, April tion. In addition, MacEDOMs prior to the 19, and May 17, 1989: We have the site middle of last year actually predate the Mac II. On the coming schedule: booked for these dates, and request sugges October 27th: Word Processing; basic, inter tions for topics. We may do another Help! Thanks, Frank continues GOTO 8 mediate, advanced. session in winter or spring, depending on November 17th: Trouble Shooting in Apple perceived need. Works. More information: Tom Ostertag, Current Apple System software December22nd: Data Base; basic, intermedi 488-9979, or Lee Reynolds, 874-7820. available through Mini'app'les: ate, advanced. Guy Kawasaki to demo Software Ver Date Format Corrections to the published meeting calen II. II+. lie. He dar will be posted on the Mini'app'les BBS. 4D version 2.0 Oct. 13 DOS 3.3 Master n/a 09/10/85 5.25" Meetings are monthly, on the 4th Thursday, ProDOS 8 1.6 06/13/88 5.25" unless there is a conflict with a major holi Thursday, October 13 at 7:00 pm, we fill the theater at the Eisenhower Community Center day. In that case, the meeting will be the 3rd Apple IIGS in Hopkins (Map on page 23) for a return en 3.2 06/14/88 3.5" Thursday of the month. Call 572-9305 if you Syst. Disk * need information about meetings. gagement of Guy Kawasaki of Acius. The ProDOS 8 1.6 06/13/88 3.5" focus will be a premier demo of 4th Dimen Dick Macintosh sion, version 2.0 (real soon now), but Guy is a System Tools 6.0 05/01/88 3.5" very animated and interesting speaker. Expect Print Tools 6.0 05/01/88 3.5" Schedule of Meetings: to hear a lot of comments about the computer Utilities 1 6.0 05/01/88 3.5" Apple II User Group industry, and Apple, when Guy is in front of Utilities 2 6.0 05/01/88 3.5" by Lee Reynorlds the group. This meeting will be hosted by Mac Users HyperCard 1.2 04/25/88 3.5" All meetings take place on the third Wednes for the enjoyment of all Mini'app'le members. H. C. Update 1.2.1 05/25/88 3.5" day of the month from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. in You are urged to attend. (This will be the only Room 4 of St. Louis Park Senior High School, Mac User meeting in October. Please mark Apple System Software disk prices are 33rd and Dakota, St. Louis Park, MN. your calendar for this change of date.) as follows: 3.5" Systems disks $3.00 each.

Hennepin ^-ii-y Larpenteur 5.25" Systems disks $1.00 each.

Notes: Como • The Macintosh System Tools and Utilities disks are available only as a set of 4 disks. ST. PAUL • ProDOS requires 64K of memory on the Hwy #280- Apple II and II+ MINNEAPOLIS • Apple IIGS System Disk 3.2 also contains: Buford Location Map for ProDOS 16 (P16) V1.6 06/13/88 UolM AppleWorks ProDOS 16 (ProDOS) v1.6 06/14/88 Como Exit- St. Paul Meetings, Fall of Campus BASIC.SYSTEM v1.2 12/14/87 North 1988. S y s t e m U t i l i t i e s v 3 . 1 0 3 / 0 3 / 8 8

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The AppleWorks Advisor A Column For Users Of AppleWorks by Dick Marchiafava

AppleWorks Update Version 2.1 described the repeated initialization delay I defined and saved as a default. Now I can get laris has released version 2.1 of experience each time I access Dialer and reit the type of text file I need without quitting erated my request that Alan Bird make avail AppleWorks 2.0 and starting AppleWorks AppleWorks. As gleaned from able a mail merge for TimeOut, like the excel various sources, this update of version 1.3. lent mail merge in AutoWorks. I also ex fers several improvements Category Search which include: pressed my interest in a TimeOut product, A utility for use with the data base, Category "Accountant," which is in development. Search lets the user pick a specific category to ProDOS 8, Version 1.5 m Mark de Jong, author of some TimeOut search. This speeds searches and reduces false Permits use of @ character in commands software and Beagle tech support person sent finds. Single and multiple wildcard characters Use of 64 character pathnames a reply to my letter. He said he would take a are supported in the search. Fixes "disk full delete file" bug which can look at the delay in the Dialer which I de trash files when saving Desktop Sorter scribed. Mark says Alan Bird has been Lets the user arrange the order of files on the Intelligent spreadsheet recalculation swamped with requests for a mail merge and it desktop by alphabetizing the files or manually Page number bug fix is probably just a matter of time until he begins positioning files in the order desired. This Supports up to 8 Meg of RAM on Ilgs working on that. could be useful to position files on the desktop Ilgs printer buffer bug fix My interest in Accountant has been relayed when the order of files is critical to the opera to the authors of that package. Perhaps I may tion of a macro command. According to the information sheet I re be contacted to test it when development File Librarian ceived from Claris, this update is free to users reaches that stage. Resembles the similar feature of Mac of AppleWorks version 2.0. This sheet says roWorks and the Disk Librarian in Au the offer expires September 30. That is a short TimeOut PowerPack toWorks. A special data base file is loaded to time to offer the update, considering the an This recently released addition to the TimeOut nouncements were released in August. Hurry! desktop. File Librarian will read the directory of any ProDOS disks into this data base file, To find out how to update to AppleWorks product line from Beagle Bros is a collection of 10 "Power Tools" for AppleWorks. I have V2.1 from whatever version you have, call creating a data base catalog of the disks read. added most of these utilities to my list of desk Claris at 1-800-544-8554. There may be a Help Screens r tools. A user can change word processing docu charge to update from early versions of Apple ASCII Values ments into Help Screens. These screens can Works. I suggest AppleWorks users order this This is a converter to display ASCII, deci use normal, inverse and Mouse text in making update. mal, hexadecimal, binary, code and the screen Note: The release of AppleWorks version up the screen. One can create custom help screens or reference lists. I easily converted 2.1 appears to have been sudden. Other ven equivalent for numbers between 0 to 65535. This will be useful when working with printer the word processing file which contains the dors whose products work with AppleWorks codes and writing macros. command summary and description for my are scrambling to update their software expan AWP to TXT macro list into a help screen. sion, patch or installation utilities to be com This utility restores to AppleWorks a capa I expect that individuals who are more crea patible with this new version. Some updates bility that was removed in the upgrade from tive than myself will create some very imagi required to work with AppleWorks are Beagle 1.3 to version 2.0. In the early versions of native screens. Bros TimeOut version 2.0, Checkmate Multi AppleWorks, the print ASCII file to disk pro Line Sorter Ram version 5.2 and Applied Engineering duced a text file on disk which had carriage This utility will alphabetize (A-Z, Z-A) a AW2 Expander version 3.0, or later. returns placed where AppleWorks places When you get AW 2.1, you may have to range of lines in word processing documents. them in a word processing document. This It works best on lines with a carriage return at park it on a shelf for awhile until the updates the end (such as a list). The cursor is used to a for various enhancement products catch up. type of text file when transferred by modem to other computers, can be reformatted and define block which contains the lines to be manipulated. sorted. Sorts are based on the character at the Operating System Caution For those needing text files with hard car left edge of each line in the defined block. There has been much discussion in the user riage returns for each line of text, it was neces Program Selector community about problems with the recently A great utility for those who need to jump in released ProDOS 8 version 1.5. Without being sary to create a "print to disk" driver in the printer section of AppleWorks. Perhaps that and out of AppleWorks frequently. This is a specific about the bugs being discovered, the more sophisticated utility than program selec consensus emerging from these discussions is may have been considered difficult to do. The tors such as "Squirt" or "Bird's Better Bye," that it is probably best to continue to use ability of producing text files with hard car which are modifications to ProDOS and oper ProDOS 8 version 1.4 with a patch for a minor riage returns was implanted into AppleWorks 2.0, replacing the ability to produce a text file ate when one exits a program. bug, or skip onto ProDOS 8 version 1.6 which without hard carriage returns. is beginning to circulate. Program Selector launches a specified pro AWP to TXT restores the ability of produc gram directly from AppleWorks and returns to ing text files on disk without the added car Beagle Bros Replies AppleWorks when you quit that application. I recently wrote a letter to Beagle Bros with riage returns of the built-in function. A spe Up to 4 programs can be defined as applica cific location to save such files to can be tions to launch from AppleWorks. This is a comments directed to particular people. I -7- mini'app'les October 1988

great time saver if one jumps in and out of built-in printer drivers in AppleWorks support and instructions I encountered. Of course, I AppleWorks, as I do. proportional printing, the custom printer need to encapsulate it in a short and to-the- If the user exits via the normal AppleWorks driver does not All my efforts to trick Apple point paragraph including several pieces of "Quit" command, control is given to the exter Works into giving me proportional printing data and points to look out for which I feel are nal program selector, or the ProDOS Quit failed. Similar efforts using Printer Manager unique to the Club useage. This miscellaneous command. produced the same results. information is scattered about, and necessi Triple Clipboard Somehow, AppleWorks manages to pre tates returning again and again to the applica Clipboard full? Transfers getting compli vail. The hex code for proportional print is IB tion or one of its documents. What I really cated? How would you like to have the 50. With this code entered in Printer Manager need is threeMacs: one for the application, one equivalent of 3 normal AppleWorks Clip and this mode selected, the printer set to hex to contain the instructions, and one upon boards? dump mode (a diagnostic mode), the printout which to perform the write-up. Well, now you can! Each clipboard is shows the code IB 50 followed by IB 4E The above process must be repeated for independent The user can easily switch be which is the command for 10 characters per every program downloaded or given to me. tween clipboards. When accessed, Triple inch, which is also the command to turn off Then there is the problem of a "THEME" for Clipboard indicates the type of data on each proportional printing. So, the command is the EDOM. We usually try to collect things clipboard including the number of lines. being sent and immediately canceled. such as utilities, games, viruses [Egad! I hope Triple Desktop A hex dump for an ImageWriter, which will not! Ed.] and the like onto their separate disks. The complementary utility to Triple Clip print proportionally, shows a different se This takes a lot of mulling around to chose a board. Each desktop can use any or all the quence of codes. I am puzzled about how to collection of programs that will just about fill clipboards. This desk tool lets one have up to use Printer Manager. More about this another a disk, including a written description of the 36 files on desktops at once. This can be a time. disk (in Take A Letter format). This final part handy way to keep different tasks separated requires a lot of jockeying in order to make when it is necessary to leave one for another. AppleWorks questions and tips from any things come out right. Most people operate in an "interrupt mode" one are welcome. Send to: 7099 Hickory The write-up is sent off to your friendly instead of in a linear manner. Perhaps this is Drive N.E., Fridley, MN 55432. Include your Newsletter editor and the disks are reproduced natural to us, or a learned behavior. Regard address and phone number. Or call 612-572- for your eager hands (and machines). less, most of us do not (or are not permitted to) 9305, no collect calls. Dick That's all there is to it! Do you get some idea complete a task without interrupting the proc of what Frank went through as he tried to ess. I recall times while I worked for the big review some 45 disks full of the stuff (junk?)! corporation that I had as many as 6 to 8 projects You also, I hope, get some appreciation of why in work and on hold, while I was directed to Thanks Frank, from pg 6 I now ask if you would like to help with this mess? What I could really use are people who proceed elsewhere. Despite Frank's mammoth work, don't are willing to periodically (say every 3-6 Triple Desktop will allow users to keep the expect such quality control anytime in the near files required for different tasks separate, until future. The plain fact, as Frank mentions, is months or so) put together such a disk. I can ready to return to them. that it takes far longer than one would expect help with the final editing - that and the pro That is it for PowerPack. On the whole, I to put together and publish a DOM. Actually duction of the disks are the easy parts! If we find the utilities included to be most useful. had 3-4 people who could regularly contrib acquiring the programs is only the start. I ute, then things would run a lot smoother and periodically survey GEnie's 10,000 Macin More On Printer Manager tosh entries, downloading those which appear I'd feel a lot less guilty (we currently do notput Last month, I left this desk tool (from Desk- out a disk each month!). I am not really alone; interesting. Then starts the real work! Each Tools II) after only a brief examination. I have has to be arranged (after unpacking!) into ap there are two other people helping me. But we had more time to examine it since and have yet are kept quite busy covering meetings and pro propriate folders so I don't lose track of the to arrive at an understanding of how this print documents, files, and the actual application. ducing the disks. In addition, we are attempt utility enhances AppleWorks. Then I attempt to make sense of any "Read ing to put together a new version of the disk Once configured with the correct codes, Me First" or documentation files to try to catalog. Someone who would take that over Printer Manager will let the user preset some understand what the thing does and how to would also be appreciated and would get a printer modes globally. Since most of the install it (if necessary). If I still think the Club reward (in heaven). modes, such as characters per inch, are ade could use it, I then actually try it, being mind In any case, I wanted to formally and pub quately supported by AppleWorks, I fail to see ful that Vaccine is on and watching out for any licly thank Frank Van Alstine for refereeing the point of using Printer Manager. Especially other squirrelly things! Mostof the time things the EDOM/Mac II batde. A great service has since there is no indication or trace of what run immediately and display yet (or perhaps been performed; it will need periodic updating features have been invoked with Printer Man the only) instructions. I try out a few of the as time marches on!! THANKS, FRANK! ager. options and do a slight (usually VERY slight) Presumably, it could be useful to preset amount of playing around and finally quit. If your printer to do entire documents in bold, or any crashes or other hitches occur in this Apple II SIG some such print mode, where AppleWorks process, I usually trash the thing immediately. October 19 may force a print mode off after a line or You can see from Frank's article thatmuchre- paragraph. mains to be done. HELP for I had expected to be able to use Printer Having concluded that the Club could use Manager to use print modes which the Apple this goodie, I then to create a write-up. This is Beginning and Works Custom driver does not support. The usually pieced together from the descriptions intermediate users

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minutes. Of course, once the file is decoded /DOM.48 you can save it in normal Apple format, and re O ][GIF Version 1.0 IIGS.06 ©1988 display it in a matter of seconds. Collection of by Jason Harper HOW IS ][GIF USED? The file "IIGIF" is a ProDOS SYStem pro Graphic Files 5.25" disk ProDOS format 3.5" format gram, and can be run from any ProDOS-based Personal Domain program selector, or from ProDOS Basic by Requested Fee $0 typing: -IIGIF from the ] prompt. You can also make an auto-booting ] [GIF disk by copy Run on any Apple II computer using ProDOS. ing the files IIGIF and PRODOS to it, then Portions of on-disk documentation reprinted renaming IIGIF as "IIGIF.SYSTEM." by Tom Gates Program operations are performed by using the arrow keys to hi-light a selection, then WHAT IS IT? pressing Return. In many places, you can also ][GIF allows you to convert and display GIF- press Escape to return to the previous menu. and RLE-format graphics files on Apple II CONVERT GIF PICTURE starts the con Review by Tom Gates series computers, and to save the converted version process for a GIF file. You should pictures in standard Apple graphics formats have no troubleusing the file selection routine, By popular demand, another full disk of IIgs for use with other programs. IF you are familiar with ProDOS terms such as graphics files is available. I will also try to "directory", "volume", and "prefix". If not, include some graphics files on most of the WHAT IS NEEDED TO RUN IT? just play around with it: there's no way to future Ugs disks as well, if the particular disk ][GIF will run on a ][ or ][+ with at least 64K damage a disk with the file selector. Upon warrants. Seems many people are struggling of memory, and the He, He, and Ugs (although selection of a valid GIF file, you will be asked artists like myself, struggling with whether or there is a better program available for the Ugs: if you want to use default scaling and position not to tell others who really did the artwork. So look for SHRConvert wherever you got this ing or not. The defaults result in a centered for them, I dedicate this disk. program). It should work on any Apple com picture, scaled so that most of the picture will This disk contains about two dozen files in patible machine, although I cannot guarantee be onscreen: use it for your first look at a file. PIC, PNT, GIF or RLE format. In the past I this. It runs only under the ProDOS operating If you decide not to use the defaults, you'll be have converted GIF and RLE to the Apple PIC system, andean only work with GIF/RLE files presented with a series of menus asking for or PNT formats. However, with the introduc- stored on ProDOS disks. conversion parameters. In each menu, the default selection will be marked with an aster GOT013 WHAT GRAPHICS MODES DOES isk. The actual conver IT SUPPORT? sion process will then ][GIF can use normal HiRes graphics on any begin: you will see the A SPECIAL INVITATION TO MINI' APP'LES machine that it will run on. In addition, it can conversion on screen. use the better DoubleHiRes graphics on ma Don't worry if there are chines that support it: namely the Uc, IIgs, and long pauses, this is nor any He with at least 128K of memory (except mal. When the conver for the Revision A He, which can't use Dou sion is finished, the com bleHiRes). In either graphics mode, you can puter will make a funny select either Black & White or Color conver noise: press Return when sion, which will produce pictures appropriate you're done looking at for viewing on that type of monitor. the final picture. "LOAD HIRES/DHR Dial into the area's largest FREE WHAT IS GIF? FILE" allows you to computer network! Includes: GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is a new view a HiRes or Double standard developed by CompuServe to sup HiRes picture saved in Electronic Mail USA Today News plement RLE. It allows pictures of arbitrary standard Apple format, Product Testing Public Forums dimensions and up to 256 colors (with tech such as a previously con BBS Listings Flea Market niques available to represent even more colors verted GIF picture saved User Group Info Sports than that). GIF also uses a much more efficient with "Save picture". It'll make you want to hug your modem! data compression scheme than RLE: unfortu DoubleHiRes pictures nately, the complexity of de-compressing the will be rejected on ma Access Number: (612)349-6200 data, plus the difficulty of coming up with a chines without DHR Logon: TCCN (all caps) close approximation of arbitrary colors on a capability. If you're us Password: GUEST (all caps) machine that can only display a few colors, ing a Ugs, you'll have a Comm Parameters: 7 Data Bits makes the decoding of GIF files a lengthy couple of extra options 1 Stop Bit process. All but the simplest files will take here. Even Parity over a minute: the most complex may take 15 300, 1200, and 2400 bps Voice Phone: 332-2101

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Evolution of the Apple II (Part 2, The Second Generation: lie, lie and ProDOS) by Stephen Brown desired, an "80-Column Card" had to be cussed the evolution of the Apple II added. This device, which usually plugged in terms of its implementation, fea into expansion slot #3, was a whole separate tures, and important landmarks in its video section which replaced the one on the Dn the first part of this article, I dis history. I covered the original Apple motherboard when the 80 column text II, the ROM upgrade to the Apple II Plus, mode was enabled. Unfortunately, there various peripherals which were critically v/ere many brands of 80-column cards important, and the advent of Apple DOS 3.3. (the Videx Videoterm being the most This article continues where the last one left popular) and they were not all compat off, about the changes in the philosophy be ible with one another, nor was software hind the Apple II series, and how this was compatible with all cards. Compounding the that could be used, was used. Programmers expressed in the design of Apple TJ hardware problem was that the quality of the display had learned to make calls to "undocumented and software. usually left a lot to be desired, and that the 80 entry points", that is, to depend on routines column display did not function in a fashion (short programs) that were designed for the pple had to make some major consistent with the 40 column display. Even machine's internal use only. On the surface, design changes and improve with an 80-column card installed, upper/ this doesn't sound like abad thing, but itmeans ments if the Il-line was to lower-case text could only be entered by some that no major changes or improvements could continue to be a viable prod indirect method, because there was no real be made on future revisions without making at uct. There were several seri "shift" key. Methods such as the "shift key least some software incompatible. This was ous limitations that Apple had to address in mod" (soldering a wire from the keyboard such a serious problem, that making any im hardware and software, that necessitated shift-key to the game port) or using a control provements would require virtually starting change from the bottom up. character (often ESCAPE or Control-A) as the over from scratch. Since there was no such By the early eighties, the "state of the art" shift key, were frequently used in lieu of a real thing as enforceable programming standards, had changed, compared to the late seventies. shift key. this meant that a new operating system might One notable change was the price of computer Similarly, DOS 3.3 had not kept up with the be subject to the same examination and over- parts, in particular memory chips and storage changing times. It was not suited to large or exploitation as DOS 3.3. What Apple needed devices. With the price of RAM a fraction of varied types of storage devices, nor did it was an operating system which was guaran what it was, it was now possible to equip a support commands typed with lower case let teed to be amenable to change, except for a computer with a reasonable amount of RAM ters. Initially, anything larger than the Disk II small section which was guaranteed NOT to quite cheaply. However, both the Apple II and (140K) drives were of prohibitive expense. change, and whose functions were used in a II Plus were limited in their ability to access Disk II type drives were commonplace, and standard (location independent) way. Finally, memory. They were only able to look at DOS 3.3's filing structure worked well. To Apple did not appreciate the presence of expansion memory in "banks" (pieces) no day, 800K drives are within the reach of most compatibles on the market, and they wanted to larger than 12K in size, by using the "bank Apple users' budgets, and larger drives arc do their best to make future machines harder to switching" technique (mapping memory constantly becoming more affordable. Unfor copy, and future operating systems reasonably chunks into the same address space, one at a tunately, with larger storage devices, DOS 3.3 incompatible with Apple compatibles. Thus, time). Though this worked, it was slow be requires that the drive be artificially divided new hardware would have to have at least one cause themachine wouldhave to decide which into "volumes", numbered 1 (not 0) to 255, proprietary (custom), or semi-custom compo bank(s) of a memory card that data was in, each one no larger than 400K. Worse still, nent, and the operating system would have to switch in that bank, and then retrieve it in lots since DOS 3.3 was never designed to support be able to distinguish between a compatible of pieces. (One popular and large memory anything other than a Disk II-like device, to and a real Apple II. expansion card that supported bank switching make it work with any other type of device In early 1983, Apple introduced the Apple was the Saturn 128K Card. Itevenhad3LEDs meant that it had to be "patched" (modified). He and lie as successors to the II Plus. In devoted for displaying which one of its 8 16K A more sensible approach to disk filing was a January 1984, Apple introduced ProDOS, as banks were currently in use.) A preferable tree-shaped filing system, in which volumes the successor to DOS 3.3. These represented approach would be to do bank switching in (analogous to a tree trunk) can have subdirec a major overhaul of the Apple II system, and larger banks. Since the Apple II was an 8-bit tories (like branches) which contain organized Apple hoped that they would correct past machine generating a 16-bit address (2A16th, files (like the leaves). Ideally, avolumeshould mistakes. or 65536 possible unique addresses), the most be permitted to be of any size, and all storage In many ways, the original Apple Ue (Revi sensible bank size would be 64K banks. devices should be treated similarly. sion "A") and He both fulfilled many of the While the Apple II's hardware was elegant But these were not the only problems with goals that Apple had aimed for. First, and in the simplicity of its design, it had some DOS 3.3. DOS was known too well, and it was foremost, they were largely hardware and serious shortcomings. The II and II Plus being used in unorthodox ways. Over the software compatible with the U/TJ Plus, but lacked an integrated 80 column display, and an years, programmers had examined the internal provided the machine with more power and upper/lower-case keyboard. In the days of the workings of DOS 3.3 (and the motherboard features, and the machines themselves were II and II Plus, if 80 columns of text were ROMs) so thoroughly that every possible part difficult to copy. Both included semi-custom

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and custom gate array ICs, including a PAL column display work, it was necessary to plug the new IC had a slightly lower power con (Programmable Array Logic) for timing, an either an 80-Column Text Card, or an Ex sumption. The new ROMs improved the MMU (Memory Management Unit) for tended 80-Column Card into the auxiliary slot. handling of interrupts, the smoothness of memory-refreshing and bank switching logic, Both cards made 80 column text display pos scrolling in 80 columns, the thoroughness of and an IOU (Input Output Unit) for video, sible, but the latter also supplied an extra 64K the built-in self-diagnostic program, and the sound, cassette and gameport I/O functions. RAM, called the "auxiliary bank". This consistency of the so-called "80 column firm The He had an additional GLU-PAL (General brought the amount of RAM to 128K, like the ware" routines. The Mini-Assembler of the Logic Unit). The chip-counts on the He (31 JJc. Since 80 column display and 128K were original Apple JJ Integer BASIC ROMs also ICs) and Uc (44 ICs) were drastically reduced almost mandatory for most Ue software, the reappeared, but the Enhanced He's Machine compared to the E Plus' 89 chips (approx). machine was normally sold with the Extended Language Monitor remained subtly different The Apple lie was a desktop machine simi 80-Column Card already installed. thantheJJc's. One difference was that the lie's lar in appearance to the U Plus, while the JJc However, due to the fact that the "firm Monitor disassembler included the 65C02's was portable and compact with a carrying ware" ROM for the 80-column card was tradi new opcodes (contrary to what I said in "The handle. The former preserved seven of the JJ tionally mapped to (expected in) slot 3, using Apple Monitor", Maple Orchard Vol.8, No.2) Plus* eight expansion slots, but the latter had any 80-column card in the auxiliary slot dis but the Enhanced He's Monitor did not no expansion slots at all. What would be slots abled the (real) slot 3. As a consequence, only Strangely, the new ROMs did not use any of on a Ue were filled on the JJc, so that nothing a very few expansion devices (i.e. those with the new instructions peculiar to the 65C02 new would have to be (or could be) added to out ROM of their own which would conflict which would have allowed Apple to optimize expand or customize the unit with the 80 column firmware) would work in and shorten the contents. However, the most In the JJc, slots 1 and 2 contained a pair of a He's slot 3. important reason behind the introduction of serial ports (each similar, but not identical to As time progressed, it seemed as though the new ROMs was to increase the overall the Apple Super Serial Card), slot 3 contained Apple was never terribly comfortable about software-compatibility with the JJc. an 80-column card and 64K extra memory using the auxiliary slot to add additional banks The new Character Generator contained a (similar to the Extended-80 Column Card, of 64K RAM. In fact, to this day, Apple has second set of text characters contained in the discussed later), slot 4 contained a mouse, never introduced a card with more RAM on it He, called "MouseText". The MouseText slots 5 and 6 a disk controller card, based on the than the Extended-80 Column Text Card. Character Generator IC, and the new ROMs to IWM (Integrated Woz Machine) disk control Fortunately for JJe owners, Applied Engineer support it, could display graphic characters ler IC, and a built-in disk-drive. Slot 7 was ing and others did support the auxiliary slot for (e.g. an open apple, a solid apple, a pointer, an empty. The JJc had a stripped-down gameport, memory expansion beyond 64K. Applied hourglass, etc.) mixed with normal alphanu- and outputs for both a monochrome standard Engineering has sold literally tens of thou merics. A good place to read up on the monitor, a special RGB video monitor, or a sands of "RamWorks" series cards, some of MouseText Character Generator is in Open LCD flat-panel display. The power supply which are expandable to 16 megabytes. Apple, Vol.1, No.3. The very latest Character was an external unit After the first 50,000 to 100,000 He's had ROM lacked the "running man" MouseText The He, like theH/II Plus, had seven general been released, Apple updated the motherboard characters. purpose 50-pin slots (numbered 1 to 7), but to Revision "B", which supported two addi The ROMs in the Uc were upgraded once instead of having a special purpose 50-pin slot tional graphics modes, one called "Double Hi- that I know of. The changes in the new 32K 0, it had a special purpose 60-pin "auxiliary Resolution" and another, more obscure one, ROMs were mainly concerned with using a slot" which was also designed for memory "Double Lo-Resolution" graphics. The 3.5" disk drive (the Unidisk 3.5) on the He's expansion. The auxiliary slot is often thought Double HiRes mode was capable of display disk port and adding the Mini-Assembler to of as a second slot 3 and a third thumb, for ing 560x192 pixels in monochrome or the Machine Language Monitor. The new reasons that will be explained later. 140x192 in 16 colors (no restrictions). These ROMs were accompanied with slighdy modi The JJe was equipped with only 64K of double-resolution modes, present in the JJc, fied circuitry, because it was found that a RAM and 16K of ROM, which included the required an 80-Column Text Card (Double timing error with the serial ports caused loss of AppleSoft BASIC interpreter (language) and LoRes only) or Extended 80-Column Card characters with high speed (1200 bps and up) the Machine Language Monitor. Though it (both Double modes) in a JJe, because they modems. In its final days, the He's internal was capable of doing the 12K and 4K bank needed the extra screen memory from the memory was upgraded to 1 megabyte (in 64K switching that the JJ/Q Plus could do, it also memory on the 80-column card. Along with banks) with an expansion analogous to the could do bank switching in 64K banks. The the subtly different motherboard in the Revi Apple Memory Expansion ("Slinky") Card. 64K on the motherboard was the first such sion "B", the keyboard was changed so that it To go along with the new hardware, Apple bank, and was called "main memory". All low had white letters on brown keycaps. discontinued DOS 3.3 in favor of ProDOS. and high resolution graphic modes were pre About 400,000 lie's after the first Revision The first version of ProDOS that I saw was served in the JJe, and the keyboard was a full "B", around March 1985, new He's were Version 1.0.1 (about l-JAN-1984). After upper/lower case keyboard, with black letter equipped with a new ROM set, and the ma numerous major and minor revisions (v. 1.0.2, ing on brown keycaps. chine was called the "Enhanced Ue" (this was 1.1, etc.), ProDOS exists today as ProDOS/8 Eighty column display was done in a most offered as an upgrade for about $100 for older (for8-bit) Version 1.4(17-APR-87). Itisvery unconventional way, which made it generally He's). The upgrade provided the machine similar to DOS 33 in that on a floppy disk, it incompatible with any of the JJ Plus' 80- with anew microprocessor (a 65C02 versus a is 16-sectors-per-track and 140K per disk. column display cards. The JJe couldn't actu 6502), new system ROMs, and a new Charac However, this is where the similarity ends. ally display 80 columns as it was, even though ter Generator ROM. ProDOS is an hierarchical filing system, de it already possessed 90% of it's 80-column The 65C02's instruction set had some very signed to meet-AS demands placed on it by card on die motherboard. To make the 80 handy instructions that the 6502 lacked, and GOTO 12 -11- mini'app'les October 1988

sage enclosed in the double quotation marks Page" (256 bytes of variables and vectors). causing the messages to print one below the ProDOS is called into action by using a stan former. This last point is important. Using a dard Machine Language Interface (MLI), for loop, you can print a number of characters which there are 26 functions. This mechanism across the screen on the same line. You have prevents programmers from doing anything to add one thing to the above algorithm: A "tricky", and hopes to ensure that any program semi-colon. Ok. What good is this? that adheres to calling ProDOS through the Suppose you wanted to print a line across MLI will work with all future versions of By Tom Alexander the entire screen. I've seen this in magazines: ProDOS. APPLESOFT BASIC—LOOPS 100 PRINT "—(40 dashes)—" ProDOS, unlike DOS 3.3, does not force This is fine but you have to count every programmers to take up memory space with minus sign you type. This is boring. An easier the ProDOS Basic command interpreter when oops really make the computer do what they are noted for: way would be to let a loop do the counting for it's not needed. This is done by making the BASIC command interpreter (which gives Doing large, dull, monotonous you. Here's what I mean: 100 FOR X = 1 TO 40 ProDOS commands like "CATALOG" to jobs in a shake. Granted, Apple soft BASIC isn't the fastest pro 110 PRINT"-"; BASIC) into a file, called BASIC.SYSTEM. 120 NEXT X BASIC.SYSTEM need not be run or even gramming language in town but it sure beats Notice the semi-colon after the last double included if it's not going to be used. alphabetizing one hundred names by pencil and paper. quote in line 110. This prevents a carriage As mentioned before, Apple didn't want The LOOP is designed to do repetitive return after printing the '-' and you then have their new operating system to work on com tasks. Computer people call repitition, IT a line of forty dashes across the sceen from patibles, so they included a routine that looks ERATION. It sounds more mysterious and column zero to thirty nine. for the "APPLE ][" text string in the F8 moth You can also print a line or number of erboard ROM, which they presumed was only high-tech. The Applesoft Tutorial will tell you there are two types of loops: IF-THEN loops characters of any length any place on the found in the genuine products. However, for and FOR-NEXT loops. screen. All you have to add is an HTAB every lock, there is a better locksmith, and FOR-NEXT loops will be the topic of this statement before the loop to specify where you soon compatible owners found the ways discussion. You will note that FOR andNEXT want the printing to begin. Let's say you want around this ROM check: either by removing it, are in capital letters. All Applesoft commands a line from column 15 to column 30. This or by satisfying its appetite. are typed in capital letters. would be fifteen minus signs: Unfortunately, Apple's attitude towards Let us say you want to write a spectacular 100 HTAB(15): compatibles (mainly II Plus compatibles) For X = 1 TO 15: program that prints your name five times down appeared to envelope real II Pluses as well. the left side of the screen. You could accom PRINT "-";:NEXT X Software which Apple had marketed has been The above line will probably need a PRINT plish this feat by typing 100 PRINT "Your apparently carefully designed not to support II Narre" five times, increasing the line number statement at the end. Why? Because no Pluses. Examples of this are AppleWorks each time. It would work. It would also be carriage return was generated after the last (Apple's best selling product), AppleWriter monotonous. What if your teacher told you to minus sign was printed. U, version 2 (ProDOS AppleWriter) and print your name one hundred times? There's Apple Access II. a better way. Use a loop. There was no reason why these programs could not run on a 64K II Plus, except for The FOR-NEXT loop will do a task the Evolution, concluded from Pg 11 number of times you specify by the ARGU Apple's unwillingness to include the neces MENTS in the FOR statement. It is written as: multiple (up to 9) large storage devices (up to sary memory and display drivers. Now how FOR X = 1 TO 5. 32 megabytes with files up to 16 megabytes), ever, II Plus users can use AppleWorks be This sets the number of iterations (repiti- and implicitly supports file date-and-time cause a commercially available "patch" pro tions) the task will be set to. In this case five stamping, with a clock. Data is stored on disk gram, PlusWorks, makes it possible to do what times. The NEXT statement written at the in 512 byte "blocks" instead of 256 byte should have been done in the first place. bottom of the loop will cause the program to "sectors". ProDOS automatically sets up a 119 AppleWriter II, version 2, can be made to return to the PRINT statement at the top as block (63.5K) ramdisk (a "disk drive" in "sort-of' work on a II Plus with only a small long as the result of subracting the number of memory) called/RAM (logically slot 3, drive change. And with respect to Apple Access II, times the task has been performed from the 2), if it finds an Extended-80 Column Card. being unable to use it is no loss. iteration amount (five in this case) is more than ProDOS also has a very convenient method of Apple's attitude has worsened since the He, zero. Once the subtraction results in zero the exiting one application and starting another, by subordinating research and development NEXT statement fails and the program pro which allows programs such as ProSEL and on the Apple II series, possibly to protect their ceeds to the next line number. MouseDesk to work the way that they do. precious baby Macintosh series. For more To put this in perspective, let's use the ProDOS picks up where DOS 3.3 left off, information on this, read Open Apple "Reality and Apple's Vision" (Vol.3, No. 10, pp.3.73) problem stated above and use a loop: and while it is harder to learn, it is much more 100 FOR X = 1 TO 5 versatile. Apple has proven that they mean and "Claris and its Cash Cow" (Vol.3, No.12, 110 PRINT"Your Name" business in discouraging sloppy programming pp.3.90) for some disturbing facts. I hope 120 NEXT X by bringing out ProDOS. ProDOS is ever things have changed! This ALGORITHM (method) will do two changing; programmers cannot dissect it as Even with everything Apple was doing to things: Print 'Your Name' five times and in they did to DOS 3.3. The only part that is push the Macintosh, and ignore the Apple II, voke a carriage return after printing the mes guaranteed not to change is ProDOS' "Global the sales of Apple II series machines were still

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quite good. [Two] years ago, Apple released 0^ its first 16-bit Apple JJ, the Apple JJGS. Though the operating system for the JIGS is GraphicWriter for the IIGS not yet available in its final form, the JJGS with A review its Desk Accessories, higher speed. Toolbox, by John Fellows and its amazing graphics and sound, is no w the text and graphics, including Appleworks and most exciting Apple U yet. a JJGS one and a half years ago, and Paintworks files. You can draw your own, and has been waiting patiently for the you can use the word-processing feature to Recommended Reading: software to arrive. type in your own copy and headlines. You can Apple Computer, 1985. Apple He Technical D'm one ofI'm those patient, people but it's been who a bought lonely create up to four columns automatically, or Reference Manual. Addison-Wesley pub. Filer, Aaron, 1984. Apple Thesaurus. Chatsworth, Cali vigil. At long last, it may be over, at least there creatively vary the number, size of type and fornia, Datamost pub. Sather, Jim, 1985. Under is hope. My thing is desktop publishing. Of graphic "regions". standing the Apple He. Chatsworth, California, course, this is a recent thing. If it had been my "Regions" is the term GraphicWriteruses to Quality Software pub. Worth, Don, and Lechner, thing when I bought the machine, I would have explain its concept You create regions on the Pieter,1984. Beneath Apple ProDOS. Chatsworth, bought a Macintosh. As it is, I have been page for the different elements (type or graph California, Quality Software pub. begging and renting a Macintosh so I can ics) which overlay each other on the page. It (To be continued?) compose my works with PageMaker. This, takes some forethought, because a graphic while I wait for the JIGS software to arrive. region may overlay type if space is not left for DOM llgs.06, concluded from pg 9 PageMaker is the definition of user- it. But mistakes are correctable. Copy can hop friendly. I can say this in a review of Graphic- over regions, it can be boxed, it can be manipu tion of DOM 48 for all Apple U's, I will now Writer because PageMaker is only available lated in terms of type size and style, it can be be leaving some, not all, files in GIF or RLE for the Mac, and the "other" system. Even so, cut, pasted and moved — in short, Graph format SHR Convert is available for the IIgs after composing my pages, I had to go to a icWriter has the capabilities you want in a to convert these to PIC and PNT format. And copier service with Macintosh work stations desktop publishing program, once you leam the Freeware program on DOM 48 will allow where—for a fee—I could print my camera- the system. Apple II owners to convert these to Hires or ready pages on a laser printer. The difference For those of you who plan to produce your Double-Hires formats for use in their Apple U between dot-matrix and laser printers is the work with an ImageWriter, the copy is as clean programs. I hope this will not cause problems. difference between crayon and Michelangelo. as an ImageWriter can make it, and you can Without the laser printer, the finished product produce your work in color if your printer has Here's a list of some of the two dozen is, well—unfinished. It looks like it was done the capability. graphics files on this disk: on a "home" computer. It has a complete easel for graphics work ALF - the Alien Life Form Of course, I could do some of the work on similar to most popular paint programs, with ARNOLD - from Predator all the necessary tools. BATMAN - comic book cover-like my JJGS .Using Appleworks, I could write my CAL.RASIN - need no introduction stories. Using Applefile Exchange on the But the bottom line is, no laser, no polish. If EAGLE KTCA.MOOSE - have you pledged? Mac, I could transfer the files to a Mac disk, PageMaker comes out for the IIGS with files RIDER • grim reaper then import the stories to the PageMaker page. that can be transferred to Mac disks and ROBOCOP Only the composing and layout is done on the printed on the rent-a-Mac/laser, all other UGS TAJ.MAHAL Mac — and the printing. WEISHAAR - Uncle DOS, after a desktop publishing software is dead meat. But this review is not about PageMaker. It's There is a hint of such a capability on the long night on the Apple II *' * about GraphicWriter. GraphicWriter, which horizon — Pinpoint Publishing is reportedly can only be used on the JJGS, is close enough readying a desktop publishing program which Software News for Apple II to PageMaker to be a substitute. PageMaker is will have this "universal" feature. September miles ahead in fine tuning and extended fea For the serious desktop publisher who, like by Tom Gates - Software Director tures, but nevertheless, GraphicWriter is the me, waits for the software to complement his first true desktop-publishing software to come machine, GraphicWriter (along with a laser down the pike for the UGS. Other software has Apple System Software Update printer) appears to be the best product to come We received the new Apple UGS System Disk been seriously deficient in features for true down the pike, and because of its head start, v3.2, which updates BASIC.SYSTEM, Pro- desktop publishing. will probably continue to be a leader as it is DOS 16 and System Utilities. (See page 6 for The first thing the JJGS user will notice refined and extended. It has the capability to current list of Apple System Software.) about this program is its speed. Mac users, of do serious desktop publishing. But for those of Remember, it is the club's policy to give course, take this for granted, but previous us who can't pop for a laser printer, and don't you coupons good towards free eDOM's when software... designed for the earlier U's... has know anyone who has one (connected to a you provide us with programs that can be used been tediously slow, or insultingly primitive. JIGS), serious desktop publishing has still not for eDOM's or help out in reviewing software GraphicWriter has the Mac-style desktop in arrived. But there is hope. We're a patient and doing a write-up for the newsletter. There living color, along with the ease of use that bunch. We're still waiting. is plenty of software needing to be reviewed goes with it The manual is short and unso j^v andalotof software around that could be made phisticated, but then, the software pretty much available to the club with your help. And, your speaks for itself. It's friendly. help is always appreciated. GraphicWriter has the basic functions nec Until next time... essary to make a good layout. You can import

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AppleLink Personal Edition Downloaded from AppleLink The Apple Community and General system enhancements, and additional serv AppIeFest®, Apple Compu Services ices. ter, Inc. and Quantum Com AppleLink Personal Edition is organized A monthly magazine for system subscrib puter Services, Inc. an into two main sections: the Apple Community ers, called AppleLink UpdatefTM), will pro En May 20,1988nounced a at new the online Boston com section and the General Services section. vide detailed listings of conferences and on munication and information service specifi Apple Computer provides information and line events and the latest information about cally for Apple computer owners called Ap direction for the Apple Community section. system features. pleLink® Personal Edition. Quantum Computer Services is responsible AppleLink Personal Edition will allow for the General Services section and manages Hardware Requirements Apple users to "talk" with each other and and maintains the online system. The Apple JJ version of AppleLink Personal access both Apple-specific and general online The Apple Community section includes Edition works on Apple JJGS®, JJc, and JJe information and resources. Designed to en Forums of particular interest to Apple com computer systems and on most commonly hance computing for productivity, learning, puter owners; Industry Connection, with available modems. (Apple Ue systems need creativity and fun, it will be useful to individu demonstration software, product information enhanced ROM, 128K memory, an 80-col als with a broad range of computer needs and and technical support from third-party compa umn card, and a Super Serial Card.) uses. Users can, for example, sample software nies; Software Center, with public-domain When the Macintosh version is available for Apple computers, exchange electronic software and shareware; Apple Headquarters, later this year, AppleLink Personal Edition mail, check stock quotes, and participate in an providing information about Apple products, will also operate on Macintosh 512K, Plus, SE online forum with guest speakers such as press releases, and a connection to Apple and JJ computers. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Customer Relations; Reference Library, with AppleLink Personal Edition provides in- information from Apple's technical and prod Availability and Price depth Apple-related information and services, uct databases, software reviews, special edu The Apple JJ version of AppleLink Personal Apple-specific forums, and a range of general cation software and Apple Programmers and Edition became available at authorized Apple information and communication resources Developers Association (APDA) listings; computer dealers this summer, and the Macin and capabilities. Designed to be widely acces Apple University, which at introduction will tosh version will be available later in 1988. sible, it will be available 24 hours a day include online courses on BASIC program The AppleLink Personal Edition package, throughout the United States, affordably ming and AppleWorks, and; Calendar & available for a suggested retail price of $35, priced and easy to operate. In most cases, the Events, a guide to online events in the Apple will include the software, the user guide, the service will be accessible with a local phone Community section. Questions posed to first year's subscription to the service and the call. A one-step sign-on procedure, icons and Customer Relations on the service will usually monthly AppleLink Update magazine, and pull-down menus provide simple and time- be answered within 48 hours. the first two hours ofnon prime time use. After saving access and navigation through the sys The General Services section of AppleLink the first year, there will be a $35 annual sub tem. Personal Edition includes People Connection, scription fee for the service and AppleLink Charles M. Boesenberg, senior vice presi an area featuring live "chat" from around the Update. AppleLink Personal Edition hourly dent and group executive, Apple USA, said, country, game shows, and guest speakers in rates are $6 per hour for non prime time use (6 "With AppleLink Personal Edition, we want the auditorium; Financial District, with 15- p.m. to 7 a.m. weekdays and all day on week- to provide Apple computer owners easier minute delayed stock quotes from the NYSE, ends)and$15 per hour forprime time use. The access to the information they need, whether AMEX and OTC, stock market summary and hourly charge is the same for baud rates of 300, it's from Apple, from third parties, or from investor's debate board; Recreation Center, 1200 and 2400, and there are no surcharges for each other. That way, all subscribers can get with interactive multi-player games as well as any services available at introduction. the best use from their computers." forums on sports, music and other topics; Club Quantum Computer Services, Inc. provides James V. Kimsey, president of Quantum House for special interest forums such as online services to personal computer owners Computer Services, said, "Quantum special photography and genealogy; News Room, and specializes in interactive communica izes in interactive, system-specific online with international news and weather; The tions, computer enhancement and entertain computer services. We're very excited about Mall, with more than 200,000 brand-name ment services. Founded in 1985, Quantum is joining the Apple community, which is known items available at discount prices through headquartered in Vienna, Virginia and is the for its enthusiasm and creativity, with both Comp-u-store, American Airlines EAAsy creator of Q-Link, one of the nation's most Apple® U and Macintosh® versions of Ap Sabre service for air, car and hotel reserva widely used online computer services. pleLink Personal Edition." tions, and classified ads; and Learning Center, Apple, the Apple logo, Apple JJGS, Ap AppleLink Personal Edition adds to the providing online courses and the electronic pleLink, and Macintosh are registered trade spectrum of information and support services Grolier's Academic American Encyclopedia. marks of Apple Computer, Inc. AppleLink available to Apple computer owners. It joins Real-time communication and electronic Update is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. authorized Apple dealers — primary provid mail functions work across both sections of the ers of computer support services — as well as service, and a work offline function allows /^k user groups, trade publications and other on users to save online charges. line services to provide an additional source of As AppleLink Personal Edition evolves, information and support to system subscrib- there will be more special interest forums.

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New Products Introduced at Boston Macworld

offers users several options to select from in guide and power cord. and the introduction of new preparing and modifying scanned images for hardware products were the use in desktop publishing. Scanned images Macintosh II 4/40 and 4MB Memory focus of Apple Computer, Inc. can be modified and integrated with the Expansion Kit nhe HyperCard™at the August applicationMacworld Expo Imagewriter LQ and LaserWriter printers. Apple also introduced a 4-megabyte in Boston, Massachusetts, the largest Images can also be sent by a modem to another configuration for the Macintosh personal Macworld® Expo held to date. Reflecting the Macintosh or to a fax machine. HyperScan, computer family, the Macintosh II 4/40. continuing growing interest in the Apple® written by HyperCard author Bill Atkinson, B ased on the Macintosh U, Apple's first open- Macintosh® personal computer family and its allows high-quality images to be easily architecture computer, the basic system solutions, this year's conference was scanned directly into HyperCard stacks. A includes 4MB of RAM, one 800K floppy disk expanded and held at three separate sites. powerful application that is delivered in the drive and a 40MB internal hard drive. The More than 40,000 attendees and 400 form of a HyperCard stack, HyperScan offers suggested retail price for the unit is S7.269. exhibitors participated in events at the B ayside several user-selectable options and a powerful Apple is also shipping a 4MB memory Exposition Center, the Wang Center and the automatic adjustment feature for handling expansion upgrade kit for Macintosh U users, World Trade Center. brightness and contrast. featuring four one-megabyte SIMM strips, "The Freedom to Associate" was the At a suggested retail price of S 1,799, the priced at 52,399. company's main theme as Apple reviewed package includes the Apple Scanner, HyperCard a year after its introduction. AppleScan and HyperScan software, user's Although a new concept in computing, HyperCard is experiencing an accelerated adoption rate for a new technology. Macintosh users are actively exploring HyperCard, a personal software toolkit, resulting in its rapid integration into all TM segments of Apple markets and customer base. The innovative approach of HyperCard MacChuck to information navigation, user programming and its use as an "interface toolkit" continue to KnrChndMacintoshes and PCs. Apple Scanner If you already have a cable connecting your PC to your Macintosh, just install Apple introduced the Apple Scanner, an MacChuck and go. If you don't, we have a universal 3 meter cable that can optical image scanner for inputting high connect any Macintosh to either a PC or AT serial port. quality images and text into the Macintosh computer, and its two accompanying software MacChuck ™ PC Remote Control Program— $79.95 applications, AppleScan™ andHyperScan™. Demonstration Version — $5.00 A scanner converts an image from a printed document into an electronic document that can Universal Macintosh-to-PC Cable — $34.95 be read by the computer, making it possible to American Express, VISA, or MasterCard accepted. Minnesota residents, add 6% sales tax. include graphics in a document without having to actually draw them. The Apple Scanner features a bit 8.5-inch x For more information or to order, call or write us at: 14-inch flat bed and is capable of scanning text, line art, halftones, and gray scale images into any applications supporting Picture File Format (PICT), Tag Image File Format (TIFF) Vano Associates, Inc. or MacPaint® file formats. The scanner uses a • P.O. Box 12730 • New Brighton, MN 55112 • (612) 788-9547 • SCSI interface for high-speed data transfer at Does not work with PC graphics programs or with network programs. Requires DOS 3.0 or later and Apple System 3.2 or later. variable rates up to 300 dots per inch (DPI). Macintosh is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. IBM is a registered trademark ol International Business Machines Corporation. The accompanying AppleScan application

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Virus and Utilities: MacEDOM #806 by Joe Carroll h i s 8 0 0 K M a c i n t o s h Interferon 3.0 — (41 allows you also to change the default size (by Educational Disk of the Month Kbytes; free, but popular demand). Shareware $5.00. was generated by the donation asked to 'The Macintosh Special Interest Vision Fund") This is SCSI Parker cdev 1.1 — Group of Mini'app'les, the also an application. It When your Mac is started Minnesota Apple Computer Users Group, Inc. can search for or eradicate 10 different up, SCSI Parker installs Additional copies of this disk can be obtained potential problems. Also reports on weird code (7 Kbytes) into at the MacSIG meetings: S5.00 for club resources in applications. You can restrict the memory which will park members and S 10.00 for non-members. They search to certain volumes. Documentation is SCSI hard disks by sending a STOP command can also be mail-ordered by writing to: in MW format. to the disk controllers when you select Shut Down from the Finder. Requires System 4.1 Mini'app'les Then four INITs (Just put these into your or newer and Control Panel 3.0 or newer. Attention MaceDOM Sales system folder and, upon bootup, they will be Shareware, $5. (Ed: doesn't Shut Down do PO Box 796 activated automatically.): this??) Hopkins, MN 55343 2 Menu Clock INTTs — Screener — (8 Kbytes, Please add S 1.00 for shipping. (2 Kbytes each, version v e r s i o n 2 . 0 ) M W HHUlf*- 1.3) These install a bbbbbbhbs documentation. This > The files contained on this eDOM #806 arc digital clock in the upper Mac II shareware cdev briefly described below: some contain their right comer of the menu permits you to change the own more detailed documentation. Some are bar. One shows seconds; the other does not. screen size of your MacII without regard to the also shareware; if you like and use them, actual size of your screen. This is an essential please pay the shareware fee. WARNING: MacPuke INIT — utility for getting many programs written for These have not been fully tested on all (33.5 Kbytes; free) This the old Mac to run on the Mac JJ. It is also machines and system/finder versions. So, try rNJT goes right inside useful if you only have a Mac II and want to them out first on something you can afford to your system folder test what programs would look like on the old lose! (System 3.2+). Every screen. time the mac ejects a disk, a pretty disgusting First we have three more virus fighters: digitized sound is emitted. Be the first on the One cursor and three icons: Use ResEdit to block to get this. Boy, they don't make stuff install these into Finder 6.1 (or later). The The Guard Dog — like this for the IBM. I wonder why... documentation (MW format) tells you how. ^9 W± (25 Kbytes; shareware, Try it on a copy (!!!) and see if you like them. Wl£9 $20; version 1.0) This key ahead — (2 Kbytes, is a cdev, a Control version 0.1) If you've "Both hands" clock cursor (882 bytes), File Panel Device. To use been discouraged by Folder icon (566 bytes), System Folder Icon it, merely put it into your system folder; it will programs which flush (566 bytes). show up when you activate the Control Panel the keyboard buffer DA. It can be turned on/off from the Control while they launch, keyAhead is for you. The Shredder—replaces the trash can (8 Kbytes; Panel and you can also select one or more file is an INIT which allows you to keep typing free or $5; version 6.0) By using ResEdit, you can change the trash can to a shredder. It also options such as which keys need to be commands while the program launches. Free. depressed in order to allow renaming, moving, replaces all references to "throwing away" to or copying files/folders. This prevents a virus Then, three cdev' s: Put these into your system "shred". Three resources are copied from the from attempting such without your OK. A folder and they will become accessible Shredder file and pasted into Finder 6.1. Documentation is in MW format. password option is coming in version 2.0. through the Control Panel DA. Then, ten desk accessories: Virus RX — From /\ ApFont 3.0.1 — ApFont /&£*?[ is a cdev (17.5 Kbytes) Apple Computer. SysErrTableDA — (25 which allows you to (40.5 Kbytes; free; Kbytes;) Version 1.0A2) This is change the default font an application which used by applications in an detects files damaged from KNOWN viruses. "Untitled" window. If you are bored with It provides a window for each volume (disk) Geneva, or just would like to extend the "user reviewed, lists INiTs, cdevs, and RDEVs preference" concept of the Macintosh to your ResReviewDA — (9 (giving complete pathnames), and permits font choice, this is file for you. You may select Kbytes;) This DA gives saving the results to disk. You can select any font in your system from a menu to be the access to all open which volumes to examine. Documentation is default. Compatible with Suitcase, Font/DA resources: your APPL, in Word format. Juggler. Version 3.0 includes a feature which System, Suitcase, etc. It -16- mini'app'les October 1988

will display the ID, indicate if it is purgeable programs. Great way of importing EPSFs into #**S and if it is in the System. From the menu you your word processor. Bestpart is that this desk can get detailed displays of all accessory is FREE!! ALRTs,CURSs, PAT s, PAT#s, ICONs and ICN#s and if the Resource has a name you can Three DAs from Raymond Lau, the author of get a display of The following: PICT, TEXT, Stuffit, a compression/decompression DATA, FOND, FONT, FKEY, STR and application for use in telecommunications. A STR#s. A handy tool for programmers. MW user's manual is included. Quicker and Easier than ResEdit. (Ed: sometimes it takes a very long time - just wait Stuffit Help DA — (12 and its attention will return.) Kbytes;), UnSruffltDA o — (22 Kbytes; version Bugs Bunny Clock—(6 1.00), Viewer DA —(5 Kbytes; ) Whats up Kbytes; version 1.00) £9 Doc?? Analog clock desk ©CM accessory. Finally, four stand-alone programs: TJ > DADraw — A DA (34.5 Card File—is a rolodex- Kbytes; shareware $20; type card oriented version 2.5) that supports application (55.5 Kbytes; the most useful MacDraw shareware $20; version tools (Lines [including 2.01), supporting a HairLine], circles, rectangles, rounded-corner variety of features. Import and Export rects, text, arrows, layering) on a virtually spreadsheet and database files, print mailing (0 W unlimited drawing area. Scroll bars expand to labels and rolodex cards, etc. Supports print cover whole drawing. Also allows files to be merging with MS Word and others. Multi saved to disk. Copy-Paste between clipboard level sorting and fast searching and Undo. is also supported. MacWrite documentation in DEMO SHAREWARE, $20 gets you the full 0^ Read Me! file. version. Documentation (CF Demo Doc) in 5 0) Microsoft Word format (0 E Note Pad H DA—(15 Kbytes; shareware DOCter v23 — The $20; version 2.0) Put ' {**££>** DOCter is an application the Note Pad H File in JV^ (32 Kbytes; shareware your system folder and $16) that will allow you install the Note Pad II I to create stand alone DA with Font/DA Mover. Much better than documents with graphics and full printing the original Note Pad — this one permits capability. The DOCter can accept text files different subjects in different files and has a and documents created by it for further schrollable sheet for each. However, to copy editing. This is a great program for sending OS something out of it to another document, you letters, creating disk based documentation, have to close Note Pad first. Curious! and being able to read a document without having to worry what application you need to CO Sigma-Edit — (52 access it This version adds Show Page for CO i Kbytes; free or donation; printing and will now run on all Macs with version 1.12) A text 512k or greater. 3 +■# editing DA; good for telecommunication and Mac a loan — (53 o programming. Three text files of Kbytes, version 1.1) This HO documentation (readable by guess who?). I is the original Mac A had some apparent renumbering problems in Loan from Coconut Info bringing it up but it worked OK after that. and you will find it very easy to use (the easiest) and SIMPLE. A handy E P S - > P I C T — ( 6 dandy must for the home or business. Kbytes, version 1.0) will Compatible with 6.0 and multifinder, includes HSl convert any EPSF Documentation and registration info. (Encapsulated Postscript File) to a PICT (picture) ClockSynch—(19 Kbytes) Synchronizes all file, so that you can post it into any document clocks on an AppleTalk network when one is which supports PICT files, which includes set. (Ed: sounds dangerous to me!) many of the current word-processing -17- mini'app'les October 1988

Seatbelt Fastened? Time for SpaceMaker 3D Mac Users S.l.G., September Meeting by Tom Edwards s the program ended at the after a few clicks on the lines and "surfaces" file in as a "background", then drawing objects September meeting of Mac you've drawn, to identify them for the com on it and moving them around like cars or Users, Chuck Thiesfeld puter, you then have a representation on the furniture. leaned over and asked, "How screen of a 3D object. Surfaces are automati Ya, Chuck! This really needs more than the heck are you going to cally shaded WRITE about this presentation?" That was to give the il one very good question, one that I will be lusion of di trying to answer in the effort to follow, for we mension. had just glimpsed SpaceMaker, a 3D sketch S u d - ing program. I replied that the best way to denly, the write this up, would be to use pictures, maybe amalgam of hundreds of them! lines has SpaceMaker is being written by Lee Ander taken on a son, a professor at the University of Minne new life, life sota, School of Architecture. The program in the 3D allows you to "draw" in 3 dimensions... a neat lane. trick for a 2D computer screen, but something Shaded that I think Lee has handled very well. The polygons program is close to a first release condition, become perhaps this November, and Lee has the begin walls, chim nings for two major revisions in the near fu neys, build ture. He packs a lot of stuff into a S99 price, ings. They with a program that consumes about 3/4 of a become ob Mac disk. jects that can Lee demo 'ed the program with the aid of the be rotated, club's projection screen. As the program stretched, Pleased as punch, Lee Anderson whips through SpaceMaker, his 3D 3 opens, it looks much like any other drawing or shrunk, sketching program. You wouldn't expect Mac Users to get too excited, painting oriented program. A large tool pallet moved, but the simplicity of merely rotating a view drew a round of applause. on the left (movable, of course) seems famil combined... iar, yet sports some rather curious icons. even pushed one through the other! words... something that I'm rarely at a loss Drawing a shape on the screen doesn't appear Create a favorite shape? Save it as a library for. But even pictures, in this flat, unimagina hard nor suggest anything unusual. However, item to be called back and used again and tive paper form, would not impart the dynamic again. Want to dissect your drawing? Move and flowing feel of the illustrations brought to the ASCJJ file into Excel (or whatever) to life on the Mac screens. Do you agree? Attention, Programmers!! count, average, change, or manipulate to find Have you ever been stumped on a bug for days, area or how many "walls" face south for solar Back to the future... load projections. Naturally, this meeting was pushed off to a only to find out that the solution took you ten minutes fine start by chairperson David Stovall. As I to implement? Spent days getting information from Looking at your collage, maybe you need to see it from a different angle. A few clicks and recall, last month there was a remarkable lack Apple Tech, and your buddy tells you about a friend of quests for information at the opening Q/A who knew the answer all along? a drag or two, and a new view unfolds before Thesolution...MacPRO!! you. How would it look if tire sun cast shad session. This meeting was just the opposite: ows? Click, click... shadows. How about Dave had to call a halt in order to get the rest of the program in on time. After a call for MacPRO is a unique association of serious Mac those shadows if it were October 11th, at 1:54 PM? Yours for the clicking (and a keypress or volunteers (sure... a volunteer-run club can programmers, dedicated to providing answers to other members in the Twin Cities. Upon accep so for the time and date). And on the Mac II (or always use more!), here's some of the sticking tance into MacPRO you become part of this infor your hopped up Mac of choice) with math points that were faced by the back-to-school mation network. You will join other Macintosh coprocessor, these moves are done in "real bunch in September: time" for your viewing pleasure. • VideoWorks users, where are you? Steve experts in providing and recieving solutions to most I could go on and on about features: Laser Bibus would like to know if there are folks programming problems. We will direct you to an au Writer output, snap grids, colors, animation out there who have some firsthand experi thority on yourprogramming question. You willthen and more. The ease of use, and utility of use, ence with aComputer Friends video board. get the solution you need quickly, over the phone, • Trouble saving a large Excel file on a floppy without spending hours paging through endless was something to see. It impressed me as a technical notes. program well designed for the architect and disk? The answer to this seemed to be that professional user. Yet there was a simplicity the "Save" operation writes the revised file to the disk, then deletes the original. This Don't delay, call 427-4789 and ask Lee for your that also suggested long periods of fun, educa MacPRO membership application today!! tion and experimentation for a much younger means that you need enough free room on set, too. I could just see kids moving a paint the disk for another complete copy of the -18- mini'app'les October 1988

file to do a "Save." Try a "Save as..." then back into the bomb run! Hints? operation. This should write over the old • Yes, George, you can have your Mac SE and Oct 13 file, abolishing the need for a lot of free the quiet, too! All that's needed is a trip to CO space on the disk. your local dealer for an $80± fan retrofit. o Eisenhower Fileanddiskrepair? SUM (SymantecUtili Fans are available as aftermarket items, but C O Community ties for the Mac) seems to be one of the latest caution: the operation is rather extensive and greatest At the heart of this collection surgery and Apple might cry "foul" if you alias Bob Jarvis for the Minneapolis College of Art and Macintosh Design? Sure! Most suggestions were for the Mac JJ as a great blend of power and Consulting & Training economy. Software for those "biggies" can get real expensive... and you are locked in! Users looking to gain more DA's and fonts 379-3903 were recommended to try paring the actual University Tech. Center System down to the barest of bones, then 1313 Fifth Street S.E. installing SuitCase or Font/DA Juggler+. Minneapolis, MN 55414 This seems more stable than tricky menu patch programs or less proven DA handlers. Networks Hard Disk Management Where, oh where, has FreeSoft gone? Scott TOPS installation, backup & restore, archiving "Red Ryder" Watson has moved to Penn Appleshare Installation and Upgrade sylvania. He maintains a Round Table on MacServe GEnie, if full details are needed. systems, applications, fonts, desk Wizardry and the Mac JJ don't get along well... matter of fact, they are rated as Emergencies accessories totally at odds. Frank Van Alstine just virus removal Training and Consulting won't give up a good campaign and has disk crash found some limited running capability. But Ready, Set, Go!, PageMaker, after a few sessions, La Bomba. It is then recovery HyperCard, Pascal, WriteNow, inoperative until running Virus Rx, after Free Estimate! MultiPlan, Dollars & $ense which it will work for a few more sessions, -19- mini'app'les October 1988

Wire Job for the Mac Mac Novice S.l.G., August meeting by Tom Edwards ire. That's what they together, be they Mac or mixed. A second step So, how do you do that? used to call it, when is to call the local BBS's... a fun way to get Why did Ian get a late start on the you'd connect two familiar with your communications communications program at this meeting? It remote locations for avenues... usually without any service cost was all of those Q and A's that Tom Lujkin, communications. Wire. involved. chairperson for the group, had bouncing The two points were actually connected by a Adventuring further, the BIG TIME is to around the room. Mac Novice S.I.G.? These piece of thin copper wire. Try the same thing connect to a commercial service such as are Pro Questions, baby! To wit: today, with a couple of computers instead of CompuServe, GEnie, MacNet or • Hard or floppy? What are advantages of the Teletype "clickers", and you might think that AppleLink. This can really put you in touch hard disk over the floppy? Speed and you are back to the olden days... there's wire with the power people, but also bears a cost to capacity, surely. But the hard disk also in those cables that run from the computer to you for the time that you spend on line. Fees brings with it the specter of the dreaded the modem, and from the modem to the wall to "sign up" usually run in the S10-S30 range. "crash"... something that can happen to a and the phone jack. But after that, who knows? Costs "on line" can be S5.00 per hour, or less, floppy, too, but lacks the magnitude to be Somewhere, after the wire disappears into the during non-prime-time access. Sometimes quite as frightening. wall, wanders through the house, out to the there are premiums if you tap into a pay-for • Speaking of hard drives... if you have a phone pole and fades off into the distance, the section of the service. The BIG CHARGE CMS that seems squirrely on your Mac JJ wire might run to a microwave tower, where comes when you call during peak business (don't we all have a JJ?), use the Control its signals are changed to a radio wave hours, when fees jump to S30, $50 and maybe Panel selection to zap your parameter RAM to be bounced off of a satellite in distant more, per hour! on Restart. If you are unsure of what all this space before reversing the The how-to of all this involves software (a means, call CMS or your dealer for some process to get to the other end of the communications program), the hard-wire (a help. (Might try leaving a message on a connection. cable to get from here to there) and a modem BBS about it, too!) Just might be that the call you make to the (if you arc planning on using the phone lines as • And how does one prevent a crash? Run guy next door substitutes 50,000 miles of part of the link between you and someone "clean" systems, systems not encumbered empty space for about 50 feet of copper wire. else). Our bell rang just as Ian was beginning with un-proven programs, Desk This modem age! to venture into the nuts and bolts of speed Accessories and tricky cutsies like sounds (baud), error checking protocols and or home-brew fonts. The best insurance To ASCII* or not to ASCII*... compatibility (read "Hayes protocol"). To get remains liberal sprinklings of good old -S... Ian Abel spent his time giving the group more all of the answers to this, you'll just have to save your work often! (See? Ijustdidit, and pertinent facts about the modern age and its come to the September meeting, when Ian it didn't hurt one teensie, weensie bit.) means of computer communications than does a return engagement to fill in the missing • A good word processor? Sorry, folks, this looking to the past. (Let's face it! It ain't easy pieces. will take diligent study on your part. It's hammering out this poppycock each month. Forgive me if I tend to weave a little trivia into this stuff every once in a while!) Ian, among more profitable computer and programming pursuits, runs a local BBS (Bulletin Board System) and is a wealth of information about the Mac and its nuances. He got a bit of the short end of the stick for his topic at this meeting (August 22 at the Highland Branch Library), 'cause of all of the neat Q and A's during the opening stages of the meeting... but Ian was also the provider of a great many of the A's during this part, too! A modem can put you in touch with the world, albeit a rather specialized part. Here, you can browse databases, read chatty messages on serious and not-so-serious subjects, keep up with current events, manage financial information, ask questions of folks with the same interests as you, and perhaps even provide an answer or two to someone going through something that you experienced not so long ago, and answers are Tom Lufkin (kneeling) tells Nan to "Watch out behind you!" She falls for it, giving him fresh in your mind. You can do this one-on- enough time to hide La Bomba from the Mac Novice group. Ian Abel (standing) one, actually wiring two computers directly practices "parade rest" for the next meeting of the Indiana National Guard. -20- mini'app'les October 1988

like the choice in wine, cars or life-mates. What suits one may be poison to another. Ring my chimes! Read reviews, know what you want to be HyperCard S.l.G., August meeting able to do, ask others about what they use, and test-drive a few that sound the best to by Tom Edwards you. ounds were kind of the thing at • One person at the meeting is using the that, but Apple has done double duty. For the the August HyperCard Scotch in you, the CD-ROM also will pump meeting for all that its name implies. He has meeting. The back room at out Van Halen from your favorite CD into your not yet bought a Mac. Nutin' wrong with Hagen Office Equipment stereo. that! 'Course I hope he selects a Mac, and makes a terrific presentation So far, there appear to be about a dozen CD that is his intention, but it pays to find out all room for this questing group of a dozen or so databases available. Apple's Showcase demo that you can BEFORE you take the leap. a Mac'ers. In addition to going over the 'Tiow runs you through for a good feel of what all this • OneMacNoviceislookingtotransferMLS to" of getting sounds into your stacks (use can lead to. The HyperCard driver opens up (realtor) sheets into his Mac. Scanning is ResCopy), we also heard from someone who access to humungus amounts of data at your the related technology, ranging from $200 did a lot of that for a stack to promote his fingertips. With a transfer rate of 150 ThunderScan units to $2000 OCR (optical handcraft, windchimes. kilobytes per second, it was a breeze keeping character recognition) equipped flatbed Nathan Ranaga Farber wanted to use the up with the video. The audio took noticeable scanners. Due to the graphics involved, two capabilities of HyperCard to let people see, pauses to gulp in each chunk... sounds take a passes may be required, if both are to be and hear, his Celestial Wind Carillons®. It lot of memory! This could be made less was a great idea. Aided by the MacNifty captured. For this one, since OCR is not annoying with some attention to access, using perfect, hand transfer, or perhaps direct Sound Capture device, he has included the transition points as spaces to grab the bytes. transmission by modem, might be in order. sight and sound of windchimes in a HyperCard Nonetheless, the addition of high quality (See how we can weave in the need for all stack. It totals up to a full disk when the sound does add a great dimension to thereview these gadgets and expansion of your individual notes of each chime, and the of data that might be pretty dry, otherwise. horizons?) random sound when caught in a breeze, are As one further attraction, the CD-ROM can • Tables in Word? Call up your Ruler (... the tallied up for six chimes. If you look in the also access LaserDisk for smooth action one on the screen, nerd, not the one from the September issue of MacUser, Flash Card video. No question that this is a field that will Land of Id!) and check the left side in the tab section, you'll see more about the stack. be fun to watch develop. area. There's a vertical line tab mark that is Nathan is (was) in town to display his works an aid for tables. Also, try ending your table at the Renaissance. He called the local Apple In Search Of... lines with the special character, Shift- office to see what Mac meetings might be For those of you wanting to check the BBS's Return. This places a J mark instead of the available while he was here. Apple steered for HyperCard material, look into Triumph fl mark at the end of each line, allowing the him our way for the evening - thanks, Apple!. (HC only), MacSkyline or Fifth Dimension. table to be treated as a collection of lines, (He gave me a disk with his stack on it. If These are local boards that focus on the Mac. rather than individual paragraphs. Other you'd like a copy, give me a call. I'll try to get Stuff often shows here shortly after it's posted ingredients are tabs (not spaces), and a it to Joe Carroll and let him consider it as an on the national services such as CIS and mono-spaced font like (boredom) Monaco. eDOM, also.) GEnie. • Print out of HyperCard without going Mike Carlson, chairperson for the through the Dialog box? That's a request HyperCard group, had the main feature for this More bytes later... that was beyond the resources available at meeting, the Apple CD-ROM unit. For TWE this meeting! $ 1,199, you get a way to access 550 megabytes • Trying to master the art of using the mouse of information on a compact disk. Not only to draw cartoons? Practice, practice, practice. Also, fiddle (not piddle) with the Mouse settings in the control panel and try documentary of mine, "Gizmo." It goes them all for "feel." something like this... "...dedicated to • Change the cursor to a left-hand arrow? the principal that man's grasp should Possible with some DA's or ResEdit always exceed his reach!" patching, but the pro's suggest that this one be left alone. Failure to heed this warning More bytes later... holds the potential for some of those crashes TWE that we were trying to avoid earlier. * ASCII: A Standard Code for A final question on RAM Disks tilted off Information Interchange, or something into a ram-bling (gotchya!) discussion of to that effect. Each keyboard character is memory and the evolution of the Mac systems given a number code that the computer in general. RAM disks were needed, when comprehends. Almost all computers can disks were floppy, slow and small, not to understand a file using ASCII. Boy! I mention when programs also worked in 128K. got to quit this. I'm giving the computer Power. We all are striving for just a litde bit human abilities! more. Like the line at the end of a favorite

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Designs on You. DeskTop Publishing S.l.G., August meeting by Tom Edwards

ee. Now I know how Mini'app'les club. Ahhh, destiny. This must in length; that's an easy amount to read sardines feel. The DeskTop be a match struck in type! without having the eye wander and lose Publishing group really place in getting back to the start of the next packs 'em in. There must Back to the presentation. Nathan has designed line. have been at least 25 folks in a lot of DTP documents over the years. He • Use a "grid" to help organize and balance attendance at the August meeting. The First feels that there is no "cookbook" recipe that the elements on the page. This doesn't Tech demo room was beyond capacity, and works well for everyone, but told of the main mean have only little blocks of things, but some had to spill over into the main store area. ingredients that usually get him going on the does call for modularity and multiples of the Lucky that there was a big doorway so they right track. If you approach each project in an grid to form balance. Use the vertical ruler, could still be in on the presentation. organized and methodical manner, you might set to picas, and with "Snap to Ruler" And what was the attraction for everyone? find some of these hints to your advantage: enabled your type should align across the Long-time PageMaker user and DeskTop • Start with pencil and paper and rough out a page for a more organized appearance. vanguard, Nathan Everett. Nathan is now with basic idea of what you want to accomplish. Dotson Institute, a Personal Computer This is one part of the process that is quick As examples of good and bad design Training School. In this capacity, he will soon and easy in pencil, but gets rather set in the practice, Nathan passed out some of his past (November) be putting on full-week bits if you attack it directly on the computer. efforts for review. These made easy reference PageMaker training sessions for those that • Keep a focus on who your document it to the design elements that he was describing. REALLY want to learn the ins and outs of this intended to reach. Your design exists only Output can range from the lowly powerful program. He took a few moments to to communicate a message to your ImageWriter to high fashion Linotronics; each recall his first presentation to the Mac group on audience, and if it is a very general audience has a place in relation to the intent of the piece. PageMaker 1.0 in early 1985... been a lot of that you are going for, remember, in Most work today calls for at least a ink on the roller since then. Minnesota (probably other states, too!) LaserWriter, and Nathan had some tips for 25% of the population may not have squeezing the most out of that device. Coated We interrupt this program... completed high school. Don't turn it into a stock works best for keeping the sharpest Before jumping into his nicely assembled and self-aggrandizing effort towards only your copy. Several light passes with spray fixative visually supported program on tips for the own sense of great art. will help to hold it all together (test first!) Use aspiring document and newsletter designer, • Think about the psychology of the look and a medium density setting, and if the black Nathan let us in on a social note that will be feel of the finished piece. The weight of the areas show streaks, touch them up by hand history when this hits your mailbox. paper, its finish, margins to grip without instead of changing the setting. Do NOT send September 24, he and Michele Palmer will hiding the type, balance of elements on the paper through to print on the back side; this is marry. Michele is an Aldus employee that has page or spread, even the typeface and a recent and emphatic announcement from made several presentations to the weight. Hold your lines to about 2 alphabets Apple and Canon! For reference, you might want to read Jan White's "Graphic Design in the Electronic Age." He wrote "The Grid Book" for RSG! And there is always "Publication Design" by Nathan Everett.

Help forthose in search of a printer. Nathan Everett shows one Chuck Bjorgen, Chairperson for the group, example of a "gridded" found a lotof interest at aprevious meeting for newsletter layout to the tips on finding a printer and getting the job DeskTop Publishing S.l.G. done right the first time. At his urging, Sharon at the August meeting. Gorus took the time to put together a list of Chuck Bjorgen questions; things to ask of your printer and (background) tries things to be ready to answer for your printer. desperately to get into the She went through the items, elaborating on photo, but the photographer most, and passed out a sheet of notes. It outfoxed him! includes a lot of practical sense items that will help you get the results that you want. If you'd like a copy, seek out Sharon or Chuck... I'm sure that they will be happy to accommodate.

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