Washington Apple Pi Journal, June 1986
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$ 250 Wa/hington Apple Pi The Journal of Washington8 Apple Pi, Ltd Volume. 8 June 1986 number 6 Hiahliahtl v - - • Adult Games (pg 21) • Family Home Money Manager:'Part 2 • Using 30 Fonts in MacDraw • Generating MacPaint Documents from MacForth • Mac Compatible Home Controller ~ I~ _______________I_n__T_h_is__Is_s_u_~______________~ Officers &Staff, Editorial ••• 3 Family Home Money Manager: Pt 2 •• Brian G. Mason 28 President's Corner ••••••• • Tom Warrick 4 A New Way to Skin a CAT (ProDOS) •• Chester H. Page 34 Classifieds, Event Queue, General Information •• 5 Music SIG News •••••••••• Raymond Hobbs 37 WAP Calendar, SigNews • 6 ByLaws Changes ••• • • • • • • • •• • 37 Meeting Report: April 26 Adri en Youell 7 Best of Apple Items - UBBS ••• =Alexander- 38 Minutes •• 7 The View from Durham • • Chris Klugewicz 42 WAP Hotline ••••• 8 Mac Q &A • • • • • • • • • • Jonathan E. Hardis 44 Apple Teas •••••••• Amy T. Billingsley 9 MacNovice Column •••• Ralph J. Begleiter 46 AppleWorks SIG News • • • • • • • •• Peg Matzen 9 Frederick Apple Core • •• •• • •• 48 The UnCopyProtect Driver:A Review •• David Ottalini 10 Gato - "Game for the Rest of Us" ••• Lynn R. Trusal 48 New Information in WAP Library •••David Ottalini 10 Softviews ••••••• • David Morganstein 50 Apple III SIG News ••••••• Charlene Ryan 11 Using 30 Fonts in MacDraw •••Jonathan E. Hardis 54 DisabledSIG News. •••••• • Jay M. Thal 12 The Musical Apple. • •• Raymond Hobbs 55 Microtest II: A Review ••••• Walter Rhett .13 Views and Reviews •••• • • • • • Raymond Hobbs 56 EDSIG News ••••••••••• Peter Combes 13 The New LaserWriter Plus • •• Earl W. Dougl as 60 Choosing School with Computer Prog .•• Walter Rhett 14 'EXCEL'ing With Your Mac • • David Morganstein 62 Q &A • • • • • • • • • •• Bruce F. Field 15 Managing Your Bulk Mailing • ••• Martin Milrod 63 BBS Phone Numbers • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 16 MacPaint Documents from MacForth. • Bill Wurzel 64 Learning Dvorak: Meeting Report ••Michael Spevak 18 Pascal News • • • • • • • •• Robert C. Platt 66 dPub SIG •• •••••••••• • Tom Piwowar 19 Mac Software: Latest Versions ••• David Morganstein 67 dPub SIG Minutes ••••••• Rosemary Connelly 19 A Developer's View ••••••••• Jim Lanford 68 WAP Acrostic ••••••••• Professor Apple 20 Mac Compatible Home Controller ••• William J. Jones 70 GAMESIG News ••••••••••• 8arry Bedrick 21 Power User Shortcut Summary. • ••• Dan Allen 72 The American Challenge: A Review ••• Lester Shipley 23 Best of the Mac Items - UBBS ••• Regina Litman 74 Black Cauldron : A Review •••• •• Don Smith 23 A Byte of Bix • •• •• • Hunter Alexander 77 Wizardry for the Determined. • Duncan Langford 24 Disketeria Dispatch ••••••••• Jim Little 78 Lap Computers: Part 7. • • .George Kinal 26 Order Form, Registration and Indexes •••• 79,80 For information on joining WAP, see "General Information". page 5. Anniversary Anniversary Sale! Sale! The Macintosh™ Only Software and Peripherals Store )(XX)c::II()()(:::::;;;:::::·:·:· :·:·:·:·;·.·.·.·.·.·· .. .. XXXX)(XX)(:::::::::::·:·:·;·: ·:·:·:·.·.·.·.· ....... Great Anniversary Sale Memorial Day weekend -June 15th \§ Simulations Galore! ~t.;, Flig~t Simulator All games Orbiter 0 MICAHII. ~, ;:.: : ,~I MacGolf 30-60 Yooff . I : "' ~ (great father's day present!) Micah 20 AT '\';:"i '~"~;~"; ' $1449 more than 20 new games In stock Without question the highest performance Hard Disk Odesta HELlX ... in stock again! for the Mac. Benched at three times the speed of a HELIX is THE Database for Macintosh. Whatever Hyperdrive, its excellent design makes for quick, your needs are, from simple Jistsings, to complex trouble free internal installation. It includes printer relational applications helix will let you do it quickly and spooling,backup, partitioning & security. THE hard easily! ...Then of course, there is the MacComer price. disk to beat for speed,compactness & sophisticated SW. HELIX... $149 For the Mac plus & Mac 512 ~::- Programer's Zone SUPERMAC _ lhenew TML Pascal utilities are TEe H N 0 LOG Y em on their way. Call for availability & Pricing Z-Basic $75 DATAFRAME 20 $1049 All Mac Furniture in TML Pascal $75 The dataFrame 20 is the fastest external Mac Plus stock 20-40% off Aztec C L.1 $159 Hard Disk available. 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Includes all SW : printer spooling, keyboards, including editing SW from Opcode! ~ : :::::: :: . backup & volumizing SW & supports HFS & MFS iI Sony 17.95 Casio CZ 3000 $795 iiilii iiiilii iii i1ii ", CZ 101 $299 I! '1 Opcode Casio Patch Librarian $49 [lj)@~1E U'IHI01.00 ~ OO£IC IP'!JilOOIlDIC'1Jlil 11M ~lI'@ICI){iii ~hadYGrOV~ GREAT SPECIALS THROUGHOUT THE STORE!! _.-.; 1~~'35 All prices subject to change without notice. " Limited Availability ~ MacCorner All prices reflect a 5% cash discount, and verifiable WAP membership 1 ' 27~ IZetts A I.- Lioht Local: 330-9116 Area: 340-7032 8653 zetts Av. Gaithersburg 1 block West 01 1-355 The Macintosh™ Only Store clinton . Clinton Computer - Computar Your #1 Apple Dealer 277 S. Washington St., Alexandria, VA (703)838-9700 • 9636 Ft. Meade Road, Laurel, MD (301)953-1110 .6443 Old Alex. Ferry Rd., Clinton, MD (301)856-2500 A Special Washington Apple Pi Newsletter Supplement June 1986 Apple Offers Our Service Center- Rebates, Clinton Computer p.s. Rebates, Rebates! Macintosh SI2K Recent Clinton Computer, p.s. is the larg Purchase Rebate est and most professional microcom If you purchased a Macin puter service center in the Metro area. tosh 128K or Macintosh 512K The p.s. symbolizes that you get some or 512K Memory Expansion thing extra -- Professional Service, Per between January 16, 1986 and sonal Service, Prompt Service, Post April 14, 1986, you can qualify Sale Service, Parts and Supplies -- the for a $75 rebate from Apple type of support that our customers have when you purchase an 800K come to expect, the type of service that Disk Drive Kit between Jan. 16 has won us rave reviews from local L-_________,-______....J consumer rating services! and July 15, 1986. Located at 6457 Old Alex. Ferry Road in Clinton, with Apple 1/ Peripheral Rebates satellite shops at our Alexandria and Laurel stores, p.s.'s Now through July 31,1986 Apple Computer, Inc. is primary purpose is to provide factory-authorized service for offering the hottest promotion in Apple II history. Customers the main lines of products we sell. We stock the parts to can receive rebates directly from Apple on a wide variety of service your equipment quickly, generally "while-you-wait." peripherals. The p.s. Sales Aoor is our company-wide outlet for used, demo, discontinued and overstocked equipment and periph erals at fantastic savings. $50 Rebate $25 Rebate $10 Rebate Training Available in Laurel (On Each Product) (On Each Product) (On Each Product) Clinton Computer's Laurel store is offering a compre DuoDisk lie Numeric KeWd hensive training program on both AppleThf and IBMTM ImageWriter II Printer AIEle 5.25" Unidisk ~n!:le Joystic A~ple Unidisk 3.5" xtemal Disk IIc lie' allccment Kit microcomputers. Classes are available for the new owner px e Personal Modem lie or lie Mouse Ifc Ca~in~Case as well as the seasoned user who wants to learn a specific ~ple If~ Memory Sheet Feeder Cala yst .0 xpanSIon Card for ImageWriter II and more! software package. We offer public computer courses and private tutoring for adults and children, as well as executive seminars, field training, and a custom courseware service for agencies and organizations. For further information, please call Paula Majerowicz at Pi Pricing for Macintosh Upgrades (301)953-1110. Give your Macintosh 128K or 512K the POWER of a Macintosh Plus! *CLlNTON COMPtJI'ER is plea~ed to offer Washington Apple Pi members a 25% DISCOUNT OFF TIlE LIST PRICE on all Apple brand peripherals and List Pi Price* software and on AprleCare. Discount is available to persons who have been Pi Macintosh Plus Internal Disk Upgrade $324 $243 members for alleas three months. Discount applies to cash and certified check (list includes $25 installation) purchases of Apple peripherals and software (no CPU's) and may not be applied Macintosh Plus Upgrade from 128K or !1!1roa<;tively. Aild f% (or credil card alld personal.check purchases. If the pmduct $849 $637 IS not In siock, we can take your prcp:ud order. PI meml:)ers nced 10 prescllllheir third party 512K; also requires Disk 10 cards up-front. Discount cannot be used in combillation with other promolions Upgrade (list includes $50 installation) Members Should primarily utili7.e the Pi network of experts for after-sale support.