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Northern Virginia ommunity College (NOVA) Table of Contents From the President Volume 16 April 1994 Number 4 TheTCS As It Evolves Club News Artist on Exhibit ...... 26 by Lorin Evans by Blake Lange WAPHotline ...... 39, 42 Tutorials ...... 28 he operation of an electronic WAP Calendar ...... 40, 41 Tutorial Registration Form ...... 29 bulletin board such as ours is a ln:dex to Advertisers ...... 2 Special Computer Offer ...... 30 T Classified Advertisements ...... 79 never-ending cycle of moderniza­ WAP Membership Form ...... 80 tion, expansion, and upgrade. The current TCS is a full replacement Apple II Articles for the Corvus network that was SIGs and Slices Teach a New Trick to a Venerable cajoled and coerced into the 20th Computer century. This first year of opera­ Stock SIG ...... 7 Dave & Joan Jernigan ...... 35 tion has given us a good idea as to by Morris Pelham Notes from the Apple II Vice what our members would like to see Mac Programmers' SIG ...... 8 President ...... 36 changed. We now know where to by John D. Barnes Beginner's Comer: Polishing spend our next dollar so as to move Green Apples toward our goal ofproviding friendly General Interest Steve Weyhrich ...... 36 access to information in a timely The TCS As It Evolves Apple II History (continued from and reliable manner. by Lorin Evans ...... 1 Feb. Journal) ...... 50 General Meeting Summary: Here are some of the things we Macintosh-December, January & Apple Ill Articles want to accomplish: February Little-Known Utilities for the 1) Expand the TCS. by Lawrence Charters ...... 5 System Utilities Electronic mail is the latest Intemetting ...... 9 by Hal Edelstein ...... 44 introduction in a continuing flow of by Susan Kayser The Apple Ill Internal RAM Test improvements. Work is being done The Curse of the Telephone in by Rod Whitten ...... 45 on many more such projects, some Times of Family Crisis The Music Goes Round and Round subject to the availability of by Phil Shapiro ...... 20 by Gary Hayman ...... 46 The World Software Industry: A additional hardware. We promised "Profile" of a Hard-Learned Lesson more storage potential, and you are Brief Overview by Burr Patterson, Jr...... 47 by Joseph A. Hasson ...... 31 putting us to the test by nearly The Apple III System Configura­ filling our first 1.2 gigabyte hard Gaining Access to Computer­ tion Program drive in its first six months online. Oriented Academic Journals by Joe Dombrowolski ...... 48 by Phil Shapiro ...... 33 We will need another large disk drive soon.

Macintosh Articles Disk Libraries 2) Make TCS services more Macintosh with Power PC ...... 13 Macintosh Disk Library ...... 58 attractive to you. As You Like !~WordPerfect 3.0 by Dave Weikert The TCS is no longer solely by Douglas M. Bloomfield ...... 14 Macintosh Disk Order Form ...... 67 inhabited by a small group of System Enablers ...... 17 Apple Disk Library ...... 68 hobbyists. It services a wide range Everything You Ever Wanted to by John Ruffatto ofmembers including professionals, Know About Laser Printers Apple Disk Order Forms ...... 75-78 students, senior citizens, children by Thomas J . Piwowar ...... 18 and others of different degrees of New Macintosh Files on the TCS involvement with computers. We by Lawrence I. Charters ...... 20 want you to have a choice ofdifferent levels of service, and clear upgrade paths as one way to match your The Journal of Washington Apple Pi, Ltd. is an independent publication not affiliated or interests. So, we created three levels otherwise associated with or sponsored or sanctioned by Apple Computer, Inc. The opinions, statements, positions and views stated herein are those of the author(s) or publisher and are of access for you. not intended to be the opinions, statements, positions or views of Apple Computer, Inc.

April 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 1 3) Make TCS services more accessible. entire fee Index to An accessible service means a reliable one, such structure with that the appropriate-speed system will be available the goal of pro­ Advertisers when you call. An increasing number ofyou have high­ viding a regu­ speed modems now, and the demand on those few TCS lar source of A Computerist ...... 6 lines has been overwhelming. To compound the problem, funds for what AllNet Service Center ...... 79 some ofour oldest hardware has proven only marginally looks to be a reliable. Replacing those components will mean more continuing Arminius Publications ...... 19 systems are ready to answer when you call, effectively cycle of mod­ Dupont Computers ...... 9 increasing the number oflines available. This means ernization, ex­ upgrade the low-speed lines and add additional high­ pansion, and FC Business Systems ...... 8 speed ones. upgrade. Greencastle Graphics ...... 23 It goes without saying that the above goals require So, on HyperGlot Software Co ...... 16 funding, and a solid financial commitment behind April 1, 1994, them. The TCS in particular, and WAP in general, are Washington MacUpgrades ...... C4 operating in a market in which more emphasis is being Apple Pi will Publishers Service Bureau ..... C3 placed on global telecommunications. We must adapt restructure its with this trend in order to remain competitive. pr1cmg for The question presented to the Board ofDirectors at TCS services. Ifyou are eligible for TCS access according its February meeting was how to fund the items needed to the TCS Guidelines, you will be offered a choice of one to finish the initial outfitting, acquire the additions we of the following three levels of service as an adjunct to now see as necessary to the continued growth of ser­ your WAP membership fee. vices to an expanding population of users, and provide A transition period will be required to bring everyone a reserve for maintenance. While we could have sent from the old pricing structure to the new. On or about out a second direct mailing asking for help as we did April 1, each existing TCS member will shift into the over a year ago, at best it would only be a temporary above levels of service as follows, for the remainder of solution. The Board felt it was time to address the his or her prepaid membership. If you wish to upgrade in the middle of your current membership, the fee is the same j ~Gjt!9~rv. Co$~'.cixoh1dlllg. WAP ·d~~) •· ... Description:;:: •· .: ·· .· and the upgrade will apply for the T(b~;Lfmit@d $eUj¢e- «FREE>i: '. . Free afces& to the remaining portion of that ~s~~m fo.r 15: iniriutes per day includirtgfull participation in intra-TCS membership. b~etiJiboards;. up-f;(rthe-Diinute meeting ailriouncemerits,·.• reaq-orily • WAP members who already ·a~ssto'Usenet·newsfeeds; and downlqacls limited to ce~·key areas have TCS passwords but who are : (~eritly #2~ TC~ J[elp·Files, #21; Ma¢.~ssenti8.ls, and 4#4~, Apple. II not listed among the contributors · Es$entials.> · · · · · to the TCS Improvement Fund as of February 22, 1994, will be ',~.$....d•rsl•. ·. ..· $15/y~!ll' Acee~s ~ theilystAlln for assigned "TCS Standard Service." · 1~() minutes per cJ.ay'·including full participation ill'intra-TCJS'.bulletin · • WAP members who already bQ~, up-to-the-miriute meeting anrio~cements, read-only access to have TCS passwords and who are .trsenet newsfeeds; and tuitestrict.ed doWnloading from all file transfer listed among the contributors to ·ar~ils. ·· ·.· -···· · ·· · .·· · · · · , the TCS Improvement Fund as of , T~{-;--~::.::::~ .-: ~ ,·. :- , -'~4· ·; ~, , • ·_ ~ ,,,;,;,r··: February 22, 1994, will be assigned ''.;:'tfB~'i»llU!,m 1 ~~i'c't' ·$25/yeit¥;;, AccesstQ:~e:s,ystem'for "TCS Premium Service" in ''tt.l().;ilQinutesper·day·iJicluding full Participation in intra-TCS bulletin appreciation of their generosity !~tis, up•tO.othe~mii;aute meeting announcements, full p&rticipation in and their support which has led U~enetn&wsfeeds, Urirestrict.ed d~wriloadingfrom all file transfer areas, the TCS this far . .. and electronic mailtoandfrotn local and Internet addresses. Ifresponse Ifyou are a member and do not 'f'f this Service is: sufticielit for the TCS Committee to provid! more and have a TCS password, you will not *~~~r .. serVices:·s:i)c.~xas ofBine "point»;·Illessage h~dllng, graphical be assigned one automatically. ; ·.~,~s .• or other Pt~J~~ts. ®rrently .beil).g'.i11vestigated, '. ~C~ P:remium When you renew, you may select '.,,~etjice:subscri~ers;\Villbe the first to be asked to beta test;and/or the from among the three options. • ·· flliSt to have available these new services.

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4 Washington Apple Pi Journal April1994 rr See page 1 for From General Meeting Summary the President column Community College, scheduled site ofthe meeting, was closed down due Macintosh to severe winter weather. Snow and ice-bound parents were busy trying December, January & February to figure out if their kids would finish snow-makeup days before the by Lawrence Charters Fourth of July. At least a couple of Pi leaders thought about making a ski trip to Capitol Hill, but bagged December 1993 Question and Answer session. the idea: there are no ski lifts. General Meeting One big surprise: over half the There was no General Meeting questions concerned QuickTime February 1994 in December. Instead, roughly a movies, Microsoft PowerPoint, or General Meeting thousand people showed up at the MOD music files. As a guess, this In a break from recent December Garage Sale to try and sell may be due to the QuickTime, precedent, the February meeting their old Mac computers in PowerPoint and MOD music files on was held as scheduled. Mike Tippets preparation for the introduction of the Mac Ilci used for demonstrating came out from Utah to demonstrate the PowerPC-based Macs in March answers to people's questions. WordPerfect 3.0 for the Macintosh, 1994. Or they showed up to purchase and Ben Calica flew in from Tokyo used Macs that were more powerlul January 1994 to demonstrate Lunicus and Jump than whatever machine they General Meeting Raven. No one bothered to count the currently had. Or they showed up to There was no General Meeting crowd, but Mike gave away 350 ask questions during the all-day in January. Northern Virginia "User Group Special Offer" coupons

April 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 5 spell checker available on any co-pilots for the Jump Raven craft, word processor. purchasing weapons from the arms Mike's presentation had one tiny mistress (a hilarious spoof of TV We service flaw: the audience. He bravely shopping channels), and getting offered to answer any question, instructions from the boss. Ben's c Macintosh so naturally a physicist asked favorite feature, the wickedly funny Computers him to demonstrate Perotbot help system ("rm glad you 0 WordPerfect's new equation askedfor help, not a handout") didn't editor. Mike knew which button survive the corporate lawyers into M activated the equation editor, the shipping version, so Ben showed p knew which file had a sample a pre-production copy - and gave it equation, and also knew he didn't away in the drawing. u 24 know anything about equations. While Jump Raven takes place T HOURS The crowd, obviously, forgave on a near-future Earth, Lunicus is a E him: Mike was mobbed in the space-based adventure. As the name ON lobby when he gave out special suggests, most of the action takes R CALL coupons offering the $495 place in and around the moon, with I package for $49. When he left for a daring band of U.N. personnel the , he looked both elated racing to keep an evil alien artifact s and somewhat shell-shocked. from destroying humanity. It has TT.\! In contrast, Ben Calica looked the same rich sound and graphics, amazingly awake. As Director of and superb speed. The characters Production for Knoxville-based in the game are surprisingly well Cyberflix, it would seem a trip to detailed, with some hilarious the DC area would be touches. (703) 569-5584 unremarkable - except that he A COMPUTERIST, LTD made a detour through Future Events MacWorld Japan. After The March 26 General Meeting admitting he was suffering from will be at Burning Tree Elementary jet-lag, he plunged into an School in Bethesda, Maryland, and enthusiastic demonstration of feature Timeworks and GeoPoint. - all he had. two astounding CD-ROM-based April 23rd will see us back at Mike gave a superb demon­ games, and didn't look in the least Burning Tree for a presentation by stration of WordPerfect. He started fatigued. Microsoft on their hot new FoxPro by admitting Version 1. 0 was Jump Raven, an award-winning database. The Pi will be at MacWorld terrible, and Version 2.0 was good "shoot everything that moves" style Summit on May 10-12, at the but not, perhaps, great. Then he put game featuring a heavily armed Washington Convention Center. WordPerfect 3.0 for the Macintosh police vehicle, is fast-paced, The General Meeting will return to through its paces, and it did, indeed, beautiful, and funny. The game has Northern Virginia Community look great. It has a great table tool; astonishing detail, beautifully College onMay26 for a presentation better than Microsoft Word's. It has designed and rendered graphics, and by Ares Software - a record third a great macro language; as good as a clever interface. It doesn't really attempt to make a presentation. Nisus. It has an incredible look like a computer-based game There will be no meeting in June "watermark" feature (nobody else but, rather, more like an interactive (but there will be a Garage Sale). has one at all). It has a great built­ movie, which is precisely what Northern Virginia Community in drawing package; better than Cyberflix intended. (The company College will host the July 23rd Microsoft Word's. name reflects careful thought.) meeting featuring Global Village Plus, it looks neat, with The audience was clearly and Microsoft Home. MacWorld customizable button bars and a impressed with the rich color, Boston will be held Aug. 2-5. unique, unobtrusive but helpful help remarkable three-dimensional feel, bar. Things he didn't have time to and speed of the game. But Ben Meeting Credits show: an integrated grammar spent at least half the time on the Macintosh llci: donated by Falcon checker, and the best, most flexible characters, "interviewing" potential Microsystems

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Bernoulli 150 drive: on loan from StockSIG ofbuying and selling what and when Iomega Corporation. Mark's database said to. Proxima Ovation LCD panel: by Morris Pelham The results are good. I passed loaned by Proxima Corporation. around a detailed printout of my PowerPoint presentation pack­ results, which generally agree with age:. donated by Microsoft Corp­ ebruary weather is awful. Ice Mark's results. I asked if anyone oration. (I forgot to install the saw any errors, and no one did. The and snow, followed by snow and Pi's copy prior to the meeting F profits were: and used a privately owned copy ice, followed by more snow, followed of PowerPoint. But Microsoft by more ice. But we met anyway. We began with our beating the 1989 : 34.96% still deserves credit for the 1990: 18.65% donation.) Dow strategy for 1993. I passed around my Excel spreadsheet 1991 : 44.58% Silver Spring Metro Station 1992 : 43.98% showing the 30 Dow stocks the 10 penguins: photography by 1993 : 60.23% Dennis Dimick high yield stocks, the 5 lo~ price stoc.ks, and how they had prospered TCS Penguin: Freehand Most years this strategy buys 6 illustration by Nancy Seferian durmg 1993. Our beating the Dow strategy had picked the 5 low price or 7 funds, one at a time, has one big Setup and General Worrying: profit .early and 3 to 5 small profits Tom Witte, Lorin Evans Beth stocks, which had prospered most finishing the year with a profit of later m the year with one or two Medlin and Bill Wydro. ' small losses each year. It works Communications Support and 34.20% compared to 17.89% for the Dow stocks. We feel kinda proud of well for an account that does not Publicity: Washington Apple ~ayincometaxes,suchasanIRA. It PiTCS ourselves. Most mutual funds :etirement accounts, and othe; is the tax-free compounding that mvestment advisors are reporting produces these superior results. In Drawing Winners: a taxable account you would have to Digital Nation bulletin board: 1993 profits of15 to 20%, similar to theDow. Our34.20%profitisworth subtract an income tax from each Digital Nation T-shirt- Frank profitable transaction before Potter bragging on twice. Then we turned to beating the reinvesting into the next fund thus lmspace Systems: Kudo Image seriously reducing the returns Browser - Michele van Horn Dow for 1994. I passed around another set ofspreadsheets showing shown above. Such is the foolishness Apple: Software Dispatch CD-ROM of trucing savings and investments - Frank Bingman the strategy for December 1993 and January and February 1994, with the same as regular, every two-week, Apple: Software Dispatch CD-ROM paychecks. - Gregory Stanton several stocks falling onto and dropping off of our lists. I see Several of us are following this VentanaPress: The Book strategy with real money, so you - Joe Swick potential here to buy our stocks at lower prices, which always helps ~now we believe. If you are Que: Using the Macintosh With mterested, come to our meeting System 7 - Chris Nottingham profits. MarkPankin passed around his report on progress of one 1994 stand up and speak up. We probabl; Hayden: Macintosh Revealed, Vol. will be talking about our 1994 1 and 2 - Thomas Culbert portfolio, up by 7.6% at the end of January compared to 6.0% for the progress at every meeting this year. Cyberflix: Lunicus _ Walter StockSIG meets the 2nd Forlini Dow. A good beginning. Then we turned to our newest Thursday of each month at 7:30 PM Cyberflix: Jump Raven - Gary at the WAP office. • Smith idea, using the Fidelity Select Cyberflix: Jump Raven Limited mutual funds to beat our beating Edition - Chris Kolb the Dow strategy. WordPerfect: WordPerfect 3.0 _ Mark had given me a list of Pat Garvey which Fidelity Select funds had WordPerfect: WordPerfect 3.0 _ been picked by his complex Excel Mitchel Coak • formula, when and at what price. I set out to verify independently from my stack of old Barron's the results

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Mac Programmers• SIG Challenges that he had passed out AT&T VIRUS: Every three min­ at the January Meeting. Several of utes it tells you what great service by John D. Barnes the SIG's members discovered you are getting. Mac Programmers' SIG Chair quirks in the way their libraries handled floating point numbers MCI VIRUS: Every three minutes when they tried to work one of the it reminds you that you're paying t its Feb 2 meeting the Pi Mac problems. It seems that they had too much for the AT&T virus. A Programmers' SIG featured a forgotten that financial applications discussion of AppleScript, Apple usually treat cash as a matter of PAUL REVERE VIRUS: This revolutionary DOS virus does not Computer Corp's latest technology cents rather than as dollars horse around. It warns you of im­ forinterapplication communication. expressed in floating point. • pending hard disk attack-once if Cal Simone, of Main Event, by LAN, twice if by C:>. discussed the philosophy behind AppleScript, illustrated some of its POLITICALLY CORRECT VI­ features, and discussed some of the RUS: Never calls itself a "virus", growingnumberofapplications that April Fool's Speculation butinsteadrefers to itselfas an "elec­ support AppleScript as a way of on Future Viruses tronic microorganism." passing information and control from one application to another. Of BILL CLINTON VIRUS: Prom­ course AppleScript can also be While we all know that Disinfec­ ises to save your disk, then once regarded as a programming tant*© will protect you from all installed, does what all of the other language and can be used to build known Mac computer viruses, viruses tell it to do and ignores its applications on its own. Donald Kahler found, on the installer. Main Event is currently working INTERNET and passed me, the fol­ to bring Scripter, a tool designed to lowing entertaining list yet to be GEORGE BUSHVIRUS: It starts let programmers and non-pro­ foun~ viruses. by boldly stating, "Read my grammers alike buildAppleScripts, docs .... No new files!" on the screen. to market. *(version 3.3 available from TCS It proceeds to fill up all the free The Session was a very lively one, file area Essentials or the Diskiteria) space on your hard drive with new and went on well past the 10 p.m. files. "witching hour". OPRAHWINFREYVIRUS: Your While Cal was setting up his 200MB hard drive suddenly shrinks ROSS PEROT VIRUS: Activates demos on the Pi computer, Greg to BOMB, and then slow~y expands every component inyour system,just Bartolette also reviewed his back to 200MB. before the whole damn thing quits. solutions to the Programmers' AL GORE VIRUS: Undistin­ guishable from the directory PROMPT & RELIABLE REPAIR tree. MARIO CUOMO VIRUS: It • Apple, HP, NEC, Radius, & RasterOps authorized would be a great virus, but it refuses to run. • LaserPrinters & Notebooks • Warranted repair - original parts TED TURNER VIRUS: Colorizes your monochrome • AppleCare maintenance contracts monitor. Special Discounts for W.A.Pi members Authorized ftl ll'llU11 t'l' l'Vl'Tr'l 11' AASPPlus A R N 0 L D -.. SCHWARZENEGGER VI­ uu.:::~:..:-.:······-·-- .:- ...... : .: : :.:u.: .. Service Provider RC RUS: Terminates and stays 10565 Lee Hwy., Fairfax, VA • (703) 385-2758 resident. It'll be back. (continued page 19)

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File Transfer Access to information MAC REPAIR CENTER lnternetting is the most vaunted by Susan Kayser © 1994 value of the Internet, ri Dupont and there are L, ~~~puters ou've finally gotten that Internet connection-or several O perhaps it's your child, just offto college who's got modes of Yit-and an Internet address, and you want to getting that 1761 S Street, NW know, "What do I use it for, and how do I go about it?" information. Washington, DC The answer to the first part is threefold: 1) for e-mail, On the low­ 202-232-6363 2) for getting information (documents, software, and est level, if data), and 3) for Usenet, the world-wide collection of you already Computers • Monitors • Printers news groups-the TCS multiplied many times over. know the file To get started on the Internet, you will do well to you want MAC REPAIRS buy a book or two. Here are the ones I like best: Ifyou and where it are a complete novice to the Internet, try The Mac is, use Internet Tour Guide by Michael Fraase. It guides you Fetch. This MAC UPGRADES step by step through the most useful programs, and connects and comes with a floppy of software. Ifyou are a little more logs you in to MAC PARTS& confident, and want a broader and deeper coverage of the requested ACCESSORIES topics, a good list of Internet nodes to start your "anonymous" explorations, with a better collection of software on (i.e., publicly On-Site and In-House Repairs floppy, go for The Internet Starter Kit (for Mac) by accessible) Service Contracts Available Adam Engst (of Tidbit fame). He includes the MacTCP server on Special Ducounu for W .A.Pi Members control panel, so if you don't have that Internet fileswhich reside your ... ______connection yet, you can get one now. If you need MacTCP, this alone is worth the cost of this book. The You use a Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog, by Internet dialog box like the Open dialog box from any Mac guru Ed Krol, gives an excellent UNIX perspective. application to locate the file (see Figure 1), click the Get Venturing onto the Internet for the first time is like File button, and a few seconds later, the file appears on walking into a library where all the books are arranged your Mac, unhexed and decompressed. This is very chronologically, and are uncataloged. How do you find useful for getting ; the best archives are at anything? Lists of nodes, such as those in the Internet sumex-aim.stanford.edu and mac.archive. umich.edu. Starter Kit and The Whole Internet give you a start. The best collection of lists I've found is The Internet Fetch: moc.orchiue.umlch.edu G!I~ Directory, by Eric Braun, which has over 500 pages Cop11right © 1993 [Close Connection xw) Fetch Trusttts of Dartmouth College ~ of nothing but access points. moc""'I fil!!!!! Some of the best software for navigating the I COMtcttd . () .cacht 2K .hn 28 10:29 I File Internet is free, and this is what will be discussed CJ OOhtlp - Jan 24 20 :26 ~ (Put Fiie ... ) below. Much ofit is included on the floppies ofthe two () OO!ntroduction 18K () OOls-lRfilt 4691< ~= ~~ ~: '~ Mac books mentioned. CJ OOMwmes - Jan 2809:15:,; ~~ (Get Fiie ... ) CJ development Oct 20 13:34 !1! Icsf!!: - 1 CJ g~m• - Oct 20 13:37 ! f E-mail CJ graphics - Oct 20 13 :46 l'@: ®Automatic Eudora is the program for e-mail. It has recently CJ ho,ipercard - Dtc 29 21 :00 I OTeHt CJ incoming - Jan 2900:58 O Binary gone commercial, but there is still a free version 2.1.1 J1iil available. If you have an Internet connection, you Figure 1. Fetch dialog box, at top level of mac.archive. almost certainly already have a mail server. Tell Eudora its name, and your Internet address, and you can send On the next level, if you know approximately the and receive e-mail world-wide. name of the file you want, or the subject matter if you

April 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 9 re want a document, use TurboGopher. Gopher servers There are two good, free, news readers, and also a contain indexes to their contents. In a document, every shareware reader ($25). The free readers are Nuntius word may appear in an index. You do a Search for a and News Watcher. I have had trouble with the character string (e.g., "child abuse"), and if you are shareware program, named The News, so I won't report linked to the appropriate server (here's where the list further on that. Deciding between these readers is of nodes comes in handy), you will get a list of all difficult. Both let you select ("subscribe to") only those documents containing those words, which you can then groups you're interested in, so you don't get swamped "Get". Clearly, you can use this to search a directory of with all 2800, but Nuntius indicates in your group shareware titles, and fetch your shareware that way. window only that there are new messages, while News At the top level, we find the World Wide Web (WWW), Watcher tells you how many there are. Opening a which is an extension of the gopher idea. Every node in group gives you a new window listing each message, the WWW has created "hypertext" documents. When organized by "threads". (See Figures 3 and 4.) That is, you access a node, you are presented with its "home a message and all the responses to that message appear page", a list of offerings of that node with some together (except that neither application is very good at explanation as well. Highlighted offerings are hypertext: identifying responses). News Watcher is much faster at when you click on them, you are transferred to the node this. Nuntius shows each message, while News Watcher on which they occur. Most home pages have a gopher as shows you a "folder" and provides the number of items one of the offerings, and every gopher lets you connect in each thread, which is more economical of space in to any other gopher, so WWW access gives you your window. Both also show who sent each message. everything from the lower levels. The Mac program Double-clicking a thread lets you read it. Nuntius that opens the WWW to you is Mosaic, which you can stacks the whole thread into one window; News Watcher get from ftp.nsca.uiuc.edu; part of its home page is puts only one message there, and you have to request shown in Figure 2. "Next message". Ifyou want to submit your own message ("follow up", or "post"), Nuntius lets you choose the ~,'!;.JU .... ,.. · ... NCSA Mosaic Home Pqe ;r. ..·,.·..,,;;;· .. 111 .. ·1 ~1' 1 • Uilll word processor, but goes through some contortions in closing the file; to reply privately (that is, to send e-mail -~: fittp ://WWY llCSl.uiuo.fdu/SOO/Sofhtw•/Mos1to/HCS~icHomt.htmi to the poster), Nuntius must use Eudora (a separate mini editor designed to send e-mail with Nuntius, Each h1ghlTglileO phrase Tm cOTor or unllerlTnB 2 Jm Sturges NEED L~ENSEMETER Figure 2. NSCA Mosaic's home page. 2 ~on WhitfieldGurte Speelcei'!lhone App? • : :<1:=~oilrii:li?Ti'I~':~~en1' "·<·' '.n I> 2 Rich Seifert Re: OCR progre:M? Usenet ke-.inrehbein Re: Photoshop 2.5 end 840AV lnlo\Nlted "' Paul Gllmeltin Re: Decompression ol .bin 8< .hqxfdes? Usenet is like the TCS multiplied enormously. guclces~ntJu-belfin HPDesk..mterSOO onat.18c? Mlcho.elJ Kress Re:RE:Vitue!De~op pro~ There are over 2800 different news groups on my news Mrle_L._BrO"wn~b Oient Billing-Portable I> CheiM!yRene stod: Mel1cet ..tNlysls Pro~s lorMacs Wonted server, with names like comp.sys.mac.apps and I> Scott Lindsey Rc:CenClmisW01b openMicfosottWOlt:sllles? ~on SJomss ResEdit bombs on 660AY rec.art.dance and soc.culture.bulgaria; you can guess Scott HudZielc red-eye scnning prob NEIJRO Stull~ Ex1>«1der..,cn1 drag&drop from the names what the subject matter is. Warning: I> "' Brien K. McClure Apple FDe E~henge I> Matti Lerbom Cricket Graphll access to Usenet (and even more so to the WWW) may "' .Amo Tledtke Where cenltind GhostScriptlorMecs? "' hem dresch Re: Qutc!cTlme 1.6.18'.PhotoCDeccess? be hazardous to your social life! (On the other hand, some people feel this is their social life.) Figure 3. News Watcher window displaying a group's messages.

10 Washington Apple Pi Journal April 1994 Internet Starter Kit. An ·····························································+ up-tq-date listing can Prices for PoW'erBook 165C - Lee Chen ..... be obtained by sending ...... :- . a_i~ ...... mm e-mail to mail­ Extension Manager john hansen M.R.Sees [email protected], with William T. Akers the body ofthe message Michael as: get PUB Alan Coopersmith ilml nixpub.long (or ...... ~. ~i_ll_i~~ !·.A_k~~s ... Hilli nixpub.short), or check II - brandon milner ~Hi~ the Usenet group -. brandon milner m~l ...... t!1::: comp.misc; the nixpub Can't rename drive!! ... and file sharing is off! • Thomas Reed 11l!il • Mark Richard Koehle 1iJ!il list is posted there • • ,:j:;: • Chns Re1d mi!i regularly. See?You can • Scott Lindsey ttHzl find anything on the • Scott Kraj~ski !fl!~! Internet...... • Tho mas Reed !il!!lf!i?!: !!!!MyClassicBombs!!!! • lloyd m~l HELP·!!·a·v~~z~pp~ci PRAr11i ...... :_. r1~. 'si>~cic ...... '1!l~f ~~

Nuntius defines three kinds of messages: new, old Books but unread, and old and read, and you can ask to have The Mac Internet Tour Guide, Michael Fraase any of these displayed. News Watcher has only two Ventana Press (1993). $27.95. Floppy has Eudora, kinds of messages: new (accessible from your list of Fetch, Stuftlt Expander. subscribed groups) and all messages (which you can access only from the full group list); once you close a The Internet Starter Kit (for Macintosh), Adam C. Engst, group window in your subscribed list, you can't go back Prentice-Hall Computer Books (1993). $29.95. Floppy to see an old message except by searching for a specific has MacTCP, InterSLIP, Eudora, Fetch, TurboGopher, string in the message header (or by opening the full Stuftlt Expander. group list). Documentation for NW is good, whereas Nuntius' is The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog, Ed scanty. Nunti us takes up more room on your hard disk, Krol, O'Reilly & Associates (1992). $24.95. and prefers more memory than News Watcher. My personal choice goes to News Watcher. Except The Internet Directory, Eric Braun, Fawcett Columbine for the awkwardness in rereading old messages, and (1994). $25.00. the extra keystrokes in reading all of a thread, I find it much easier to use. You can get a 20% discount from Prentice-Hall, by virtue of being a Pi member; contact Sherrie Johnson Getting connected at 1-800-428-5331 x9-4502 (there's a $3 shipping If all this has whetted your appetite, but you charge). The other publishers probably offer something haven't got a connection yet, you can still get hooked similar. • up, as long as you have a modem and the right software. Some of the commercial services, such as CompuServe and America On-line, offer limited access through their own software, mostly e-mail. Delphi advertises complete access. In addition, there are independent providers of conne~tions. In the DC area, try Digex (Greenbelt, MD, 310/220-0462) or Highlite (Laurel MD, 301/924-5998, or Sytex (Arlington, VA, 703/528-4380) orTNC (Fairfax Station, VA, 703/803-0391). I got these names from The

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Having found myself wishing that my extended family had been online during these trying times, I've taken it upon myself to become a The Curse of the Telephone more vocal advocate of online com­ munications. Vocally advocacy need in Times of Family Crisis not be pushy advocacy, mind you. The most effective social advocacy by Phil Shapiro has a strong grounding in tact-let­ ting others draw their own conclu­ sions in their own good time. It's interesting to consider hu­ wo months ago a close relative requested. man nature in this case. Had all of mine became seriously ill. Curiously enough, each one of my family members been communicat­ TFamily members on both the relatives had a microcomputer in their ing with one another via e-mail prior Eastcoastand West coast spent hours homes. But none of them subscribed to to the crisis, they would have had no on the phone conversing with one a national information service. problem using the technology to ad­ another. Daily briefings as to the With the stress of the family cri­ dress the new situation. But with all current health situation were inter­ sis, my relatives were not about to the worry ofa very ill family member, spersed with lengthy discussions as start learning how to use a modem, few persons would have the mental to treatment options. The natural send e-mail, capture messages to disk, composure to learn to use a new stress of worrying about this and send replies. In times of crisis, communications technology. individual's health were compounded people are just not receptive to learn­ Which all goes to say there are by worries about the steep health ing to use a whole new mode of long benefits to bringing family members care costs. And then as ifto add insult distance communications. online. These benefits go far beyond to injury, sky high phone bills were But had they been comfortable us­ being able to "stay in touch" or "casu­ added to the picture. ing this technology, there would be no ally socialize." When the going gets The phone at the house where doubt that they could have made good tough you can be there for one an­ my ill relative was staying was ring­ use of it. Instead of disruptive, noisy other, day and night, via online com­ ing off the hook seven days a week. phone calls bouncing around the conti­ munication. The peace and quiet this ailing per­ nent each and every day, quiet non­ And the phone can sit quietly off son so desperately needed was shat­ disruptive e-mail could carry the same in the comer --- almost inconspicu­ tered ten or twenty times each day. information content. My relatives ous --- for days on end. So that heal­ Which all got me thinking about wouldn't have felt tied down to sitting ing can take place. the curse ofthe telephone. To be sure, bythephoneallevening---makingsure real-time voice communications has they would be available to take the call [The author takes a strong interest in its place. But phone communications when the phone rang. the social dimensions ofcommunica­ can be so annoyingly disruptive at This is not to say that electronic tions technology. He can be reached times. And when you factor in the mail can totally supplant phone con­ on at: p.shapirol; on America added curse of call-waiting, these tact in times of a family crisis. But e­ Online at: pshapiro] interruptions themselves can be fur­ mail can help minimize the stress ther disturbed by even more inter­ and costs of lengthy long distance This article was originally written for ruptions. phone calls. And GEnie's flat-rate, GEnieLamp, the new online publica­ Electronic mail would have unlimited e-mail service could keep tion on the GEnie information ser­ worked so well during this family everyone in the family in contact vice. (c)Copyright 1993 T/I'alkNET Online Publishing and GEnie. To join GEnie, set crisis. Daily briefings on the current with one another with a minimum of yourmodemto2400 baud(orless) andhalf health situation could be courtesy­ expense and disruption. [Editor's duplex (local echo). Have the modem dial copied to all family members. Note: This article was written at a 1-800-638-8369 (in Canada, have the mo­ (Thereby cutting down on much of time when GEnie had unlimited e­ dem dial 1-800-387-3880). When you get the redundant long distance conver­ mail for $4.95 per month. Since July, a CONNECT message, type HHH. A the sations.) All family members could 1993, GEnie implemented a new rate U#= prompt, type: XTX99014,DIGIPUB and hit the [return] key. The system will stay in touch with the situation, of­ structure which works out to be about then ask you for your information. Need fering their ideas and input when $3 per hour.] more help? Call (voice) 1-800-638-9636 for more information.

12 Washington Apple Pi Journal April1994 I Macintosh with PowerPC Macintosh PowerPC 6100/60 7100/66 8100/80 AV Models 6100/60AV, 7100/66AV, 8100/80AV Processor PowerPC 601 PowerPC 601 PowerPC 601 AV Technologies include tele­ Speed 60MHz 66MHz 80MHz communications, video and speech Cache1 optional optional 256Kstnd. Video In NTSC, PAL, SECAM Performance Video in resizable window Native apps2 2 to 4x 68040 @33MHz 25% faster than 6100/60 Nearly 2x faster than 6100/60 Frame and video capture Emulated apps3 fast 68030 to 6804 fast 68030 to 6804 fast 68030 to 6804 Video Out NTSC,PAL RAM 8MB standard 8MB standard 8MB standard VRAM 2MB standard, not Max.DRAM 72MB 136MB 264MB expandable SIMM slots 2 4 8 Interface S-video for video in/ Expansion Slots One 7"NuBus 3 full size NuBus 3 full size N uBus out Storage Composite (RCA) Stnd. HD configs 160MB to 250MB 250MB to 500MB 250MB to 1 GB adapters included Floppy 1.4MB and DMA 1.4MB with DMA 1.4MB with DMA Software CD-ROM Optional Optional Optional • System 7 .1.2 Macintosh operating Video system with AppleScript, PC DRAM4 Standard Standard Standard Exchange & QuickTime VRAM3 lMB standard 2MB standard • PlainTalk text-to-speech and VRAM expansion 2MB 4MB speech recognition software Standard Support 1 monitor 2 monitors 2 monitors • MS-DOS/Windows 3.1 with Insignia Solutions SoftWindows software. SCSI6 High-speed asynch High-speed asynch High-speed asynch Dual SCSI channels Other Networking SIMM 72-pin 80ns or faster, installed in pairs Ethernet on-board with DMA7 channel, AAUI3 connector CD-ROM Apple CD 300i, Other built-ins double-speed CD­ ROM drive supports 16-bit audio stereo in/out with DMA audio CD, Kodak Photo CD 2 serial pots-LocalTalk and GeoPort compatible with DMA channel 100 to 240 volts, 50 to (ADB for input devices) 60Hz 1 Cache is a temporary holding area in the computer's memory where the com-puter EnergyStar stores information that is used repeatedly. compliant (7100/66, 8100/80) 2 Native apps are Native Applications such as a Mac running a Mac program 3 Emulated apps are Emulated Applications such as a Mac running an IBM program 4 DRAM is dynamic random access memory. This type of random access memory will not hold information for any real length of time, and therefore requires the computer to rewrite the information every few thousandths of a second. 5 VRAM is video random access memory. VRAM is type of memory used on some video adaptors to speed up the display images on the screen. 6 SCSI is the standard for connecting of personal computers to peripheral devices and having them send information to each other. Apple is serial not parallel. 7 DMA is Direct Access Memory. A DMA channel allows the peripheral device to write directly to memory.

April 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 13 on my default button bar, customized some ofthe existing buttons, removed some I'll never use and kept a few I'd like to try out. As You Like It To take a test drive, WordPerfect has included a file with four sample pieces of stationery, each with its WordPerfect 3.0 own custom button bars. Should you forget what the By Douglas M. Bloomfield symbol standsforinoneofyour button bars, simply pass the cursor over it and it will be identified at the bottom ofthe page in the status bar, another or someone who frequently buttons any way you wish. It great new feature. [Fig. 2] spends 10 or more hours some comes with one for documents, The Status Bar offers a dozen Fdays at the Mac, it is difficult another for graphics and a third customizing options of its own. Atop to call a word processor fun. Nor is for equations. You can create as that list is "show help," and with that that what I'm looking for in the many within each function as you activated the status bar also provides program. I want it to fit like the wish, e.g., one for correspondence, help in identifying the buttons and proverbial glove and resemble the another for memos, and others other features on the page. It is what cockpit of a sports car, with all the for faxes or for editing or Apple's disappointing balloon help controls I need right where I want them, responding smoothly to my '• • fllo Ult IMttl la,out T- ._ 1•1 i.:. ~ lllu ~1~04 2:04:41 PM iii" touch and getting me where I want 8 --II Ill to go quickly and efficiently. . ,•.11., WordPerfect 3.0 may have all .... __ ~:~~~---···]·' -~~~~~-~!!!::~:IT!~~-~~.,n-!l;!'~~g~!!!!-:._g~-g~~ ! , ·1-~. ' .... the bells and whistles of the fully , , • >icl.JUtup:~=hlf~r-t.l'Wt)dir...... ,,.u.ttt_.cidririniw. i"!lUl WailPtrdtc:,hx.W.....:t1•-....,.11..,..ntll&N.""l•lit1a..... loaded Rolls Royces of word I•).:;_, ...11Alllt.wlll.1UGW,;~H111•1»r"...... it111t..i4-..co..1ru.\!r."' ..." =-~!1.'.:n::..~,.,:;.zi;;:::;:::~;•. ::;4""P- I.II processing, but it still handles like Ii . !II! the Ferraris That's because it has =W:.~~if~?#:f;~~~ci!i::F'" ..i,:,__,:.~.-.~.:· t····· ····· ~11.lltLGlt~"!!\l"-l.,_."'.ttsa.:~W~.....,lltr.:•1.tY!tR11ctlll molded its many and diverse - .....J•W.~'fnt:tm&Ha•IHU"f,p.al~~\ia-a&..1.tH ! ' OM'•~,..rn.tto1~~~Ul«Srt:t.,..::»ltJ1 .. .,,,,.,,~ features into a highly utilitarian i•"•' .. .:. and appealing package. iii It is quicker, livelier, more .!!!' streamlined, easier to use and customize than its predecessors and ..... ,. competitors. It boasts a multitude of new attributes that make the upgrade ··11 •••11.u.o.1. highly recommended on their own, but several stand out as superior. Topping that list is the button bar. Figure 1. Draft of Review-A view of the draft of this review sho:-vs the curs~r on the button bar at the far left, and you can see in the status bar at the bottom nght what will happen when Actually there are several button the button is clicked ("adds a bullet to and indents each selected paragraph."). The result can bars, and you can create as many be seen at the top of the page. Other attributes of the status bar are evident at bottom left. Copy more as you like. Most often used also can be boxed, as shown here. program features - print, print preview, shift to graphics mode, spell newsletters, and on and on. Put it should be. The status bar can also checker, thesaurus, headers and on any the right or left, top or tell page and line, date and time, caps footers, sub- and superscript, and bottom of your screen or hide it. lock and more plus battery infor­ so on - are readily accessible at a [Fig. 1] mation to Powerbook and Duo users. click. The first thing I did was put At the top of the screen are seven You can customize, edit, move, one of my most frequently used ruler bars, or more accurately seven save or arrange button bars and macros and most used stationery separate buttons to open and close

14 Washington Apple Pi Journal April 1994 documents - but also to send it :u formatting; tables for directly to the printer without ;r. l numerical having to open it. That saves much fl. data; lists, time and bother. ~~ ...... , .. including These features alone make it H ! index and worthwhile to move to WordPerfect ti Ii • from your old word processor or to ri contents; and I! I merge, which upgrade from 2.xversions. But there markedly is much more. n~l I' !! I simplifies that process. [Fig. • Gramma tik 5, a grammar 3] reviewer, is fully integrated, ~ ! 11111111 eliminating any need to go outside Another the document or program to check ~~~~!e!l~lllllllllll~~~r~~l~l~·,·~l~~,,.:1 1 ·-· .... l._:~I, valuable it and make revisions. r . i ' , • .• ' i•••l.l'T.l"l; ~rnm;:'!r: improvement .•~•!.""2...J ""'' ..t"~' ·lT' Figure 2. Cursor, status bar-Look for the cursor at the far left and at the is an im­ • Drag & drop makes moving text bottom right look at the status bar to see what will happen when it that provement easier. There's no need to cut and button is clicked. Button bars can be customized for each user and each long available paste, just highlight the text and in DOS put the cursor where you want it to the horizontal bars singly or in any versions, document preview. In the go. combination. They include the "Open" dialogue box it is now standard ruler bar for margins and possible not only to see the document • Help is greatly expanded and tabs; layout for justification, spacing, before opening - a feature I easier to use.

• Macros are improved and easier to use, but instead of having a pull down menu of their own, as in previous versions, they are now buried under the "Tools" menu.

• The Conversions feature makes it easier to interchange documents with WordPerfect on DOS and Windows as well as with other word processors. To help, some new, common fonts like Ariel and Times New Roman have been added.

• WordPerfect can now perform simple math functions (add, subtract, multiply, divide, sum and average) as well as create and organize tables. Figure 3. All Ruler bars open-You can open any or all or any combination of the ruler bars across the top of the page. Each performs a multitude of • The new Equation Editor makes functions. Down the left side (you can put it anywhere you wish) is the button it possible to create and edit bar, which can be arranged and composed any way you wish. Along the bottom mathematical equations within a is the status bar. document. columns and the like; font for type genuinely appreciate because it is • Data can be organized in tables faces, sizes and features; styles for easy to forget the names of old containing columns, rows and cells

April 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 15 remains safely tucked away package instead of sold separately. unchanged. Any work that is done on the page, which is • Not just a spell checker but a real U~~~N ~ ~O~IIGN L~NGU~GI! essentially a blank matrix dictionary that gives definitions.

I It's EASY with Software from HyperGlot! is saved automatically as ~ new document. WordPerfect 3.0 could well be The most complete line of foreign language the most personalized word software for the Madntosh avaflable • Page layout features and processor available, with its anywhere. Our products are used graphics capabilities in extensive options for customizing extensively In universities and by previous versions continue and ease of designing your own lndlvlduals throughout the world! to be strong points. package, complete with styles, buttons, options, macros, fonts, • Style sheets facilitate bells, whistles, layout, graphics, formatting elements or lists, equations, QT movies, publish entire documents. They and . subscribe, drag and drop, save a great deal of time preview, review and more. provide consistency and ar~ What WordPerfect has done simple to set up and use. with 3.0 is fill it with perhaps the widest array of features on the ~P~HIUl-~i,HC~-J~P~HU'-"iffi~H The list goes on and on market today, give it an attractive iUUl~H-IT~ll~H-'HGLIUl-UllHU' with features new, old and new interface and then make it To Order, or to receive a improved. But there are still easier to use than any other. The list offeatures may be intimidating, free catalog, call a few that I'd like to see 1·800-800·8270 added-everyone has their but walk around it, kick the tires and sit down behind the keyboard or write: own, and this is by no means and take it for a spin around the P.O. Box 10746 complete, so feel free to add block. You'll find it a sporting, good Knoxville, TN 37939 your own and send them to folks in Orem, Utah. looking, comfortable model. But if there's something you like to change, • A simpler method to some simple t~ering can make it convert old macros, and user as you like it. • dictionaries when updating with versatility with the help of the versions. table ruler bar. Name: WordPerfect 3.0 Some longstanding WordPerfect • A more usable manual. The new Publisher: WordPerfect Corp. features continue to be strong assets. manual continues to be well written Address: 1555 N. Technology Way and easy to follow but impractical Orem, Utah 84057 • Stationery is one I use all the and difficult to use because of the Phone: 8011222-4200 time. I tallows creation of templates way it is bound. You need three Fax 801/222-4277 for frequently used documents, such hands to work from it: one to hold as letterheads, memos and fax the book open and two more to type System Requirements covers. Some are included and can and use the mouse. It would be best Mac Plus or later with hard be easily customized, but it is simple to return to the old loose-leafbinder disk, 2M available RAM, and to create your own. Each can have which was easy to use and to updat~ .0.7 or later. its own button bars for added or correct. The manual for a $495 convenience. I have created my own software program doesn't have to SRP $495 stationery, complete with logo and look like a $4.95 paperback novel. Street Price $299.95 custom font, for letterheads and fax Upgrade $24.95 (License and memos and put them on my button • The ability to do some editing in disks only, Mac bar for quick 'n easy call-up. When print preview. Warehouse) opening a stationery file, a copy of the document comes up as an • A macro manual included in the untitled page while the original

16 Washington Apple Pi Journal April1994 System Enabler 001 1.0 - First release. 1.0.1 - Improved support for serial communications and System Enablers improved accuracy ofthe system clock. Also addressed a rare problem where floppies may not be ejected properly at shutdown. System Enabler 003 nablers are system extensions that patch the Macintosh 7 .x.x system 1.0 - First release. E software so that it best matches your particular model. If you have System Enabler 040 one of the Macs listed below you can find your enabler in your System 1.0 - First release. Folder. If you click on it once and use Getlnfo from the file menu you can 1.1 -Added support for Quadra 610 determine ifyours is the latest version. Ifyou need the latest version, you and Quadra 650. can download it from the TCS or order it from the Disketeria. System Enabler 065 1.0 - First release. Here is the list of current enablers. *System Enablers - 8-Feb-93 System Enabler 088 1.0 - First release. 1.0.1 - Required for System 7 Pro Macintosh System Enabler Used Current Version Note 7.1.1 support. 610 System Enabler 040 1.1 1.1 - Added support for Quadra Macintosh Centris 650 System Enabler 040 1.1 660AV. Macintosh Centris 660AVSystem Enabler 088 1.1 System Enabler 131 Macintosh Color ClassicSystem Enabler 401 1.0.5 1.0 - First release to support the Macintosh Ilvi System Enabler 001 1.0.1 PowerBook 180c. Replaced System Macintosh Ilvx System Enabler 001 1.0.1 Enabler 121 (supporting 165c) as well Macintosh LC III System Enabler 003 1.0 as System Enabler 111 (supporting Macintosh LC 4 75 System Enabler 065 1.0 160 & 180). Macintosh LC 520 System Enabler 403 1.0.1 1.0.2 - Corrected a problem involving Macintosh PowerBook 160 System Enabler 131 1.0.3 A the serial driver.Ha user has the serial Macintosh PowerBook 165c System Enabler 131 1.0.3 A driver open, but is not transmitting, and Macintosh PowerBook 180 System Enabler 131 1.0.3 A then puts the PowerBook t.o sleep, any Macintosh PowerBook 180c System Enabler 131 1.0.3 A attempt t.o transmit upon waking, would Macintosh PowerBook Duo 210 PowerBook Duo Enabler 1.0 B cause the system t.o hang. Macintosh PowerBook Duo 230 PowerBook Duo Enabler 1.0 B 1.0.3 - Added support for the Macintosh PowerBook Duo 250 PowerBook Duo Enabler 1.0 B PowerBook 165. Macintosh PowerBook Duo 270c PowerBook Duo Enabler 1.0 System Enabler 401 605 System Enabler 065 1.0 1.0.4 - First release. System Enabler 040 1.1 1.0.5 - Fixed a problem involving Macintosh Quadra 650 System Enabler 040 1.1 erratic mouse movement with Apple Macintosh Quadra 660AV System Enabler 088 1.1 II mouse based applications running System Enabler 040 1.1 on the Apple Ile card installed in the Macintosh Quadra 840AV System Enabler 088 1.1 PDS slot. Macintosh TV System Enabler 404 1.0 System Enabler 403 1.0 - First release. Note: 1.0.1-Manufacturingrelease only. A-System Enabler 131 replaces System Enabler 111 and System Enaber 121 B-Express Modem users should also install the Duo Battery Patch (Extension). System Enabler 404 1.0 - First release. Changes: PowerBook Duo Enabler Apple Computer, Inc. February 8, 1.0 - First release. Replaces System Enabler 201. 1994

April 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 17 I Another article on decorating T-shirts described how a clothes iron could be clad in sheet metal to make a service­ Everything You Ever able press for transferring toner to T­ shirt. Even the ads were educational. Wanted to Know About One advertiser offered a printing util­ ity to print drafts with less toner by Laser Printers making the laser print lighter. Oth­ ers offered a range of spare parts for printers and toner cartridges. Ifyou by Thomas J. Piwowar want to take a self-reliant approach to your laser printer this is the place to be. To add to its home-spun flavor, here is a cult that worships An expose of laser cleaning papers The Flash runs occasional phoney the laser printer. These people revealed that many manufacturer's ads. The editors claim the phoney T know just about everything claims are dubious. There was a tuto­ ads are so outrageous that anyone there is to know about laser print­ rial on writing fractal geometry pro­ should be able to spot them. They ers. They speak in Cannon codes grams in PostScript and articles on also believe this is a great way to like: CX, SX, LX, and BX. They take making designs to print on T-shirts remind readers to examine all ads their lasers apart and make repairs and to etch glass. with a healthy dose of skepticism- themselves. They know how toner is These are practical, nuts-and­ good advice. made, its different varieties, and bolts, how-to articles. This type of The best of the first five years of where you can buy a special batch. writing is more often found in com­ The Flash have been collected in a They also know of some mighty sur­ puter-user-group publications, sel­ book-''The Underground Guide to prising things a laser printer can do dom in a commercial magazine. For Laser Printers"-fromP eachpitPress beyond just printing on paper. example, the article on etching glass (800-283-9444; $12). This is must The source of this laser mania read for anyone who must work with is a bi-monthly magazine called ''The "For $12 the Guide a laser printer. Flash," published in West Topsham, is a great invest­ The book begins with an easy-to­ Vermont. The Flash is a unique understand, but thorough explana­ blend of Yankee ingenuity and the ment to keep your tionofhowalaserprinterdoesitsjob. kind of computer madness that we laser printer pro­ This is important information for usually associate with California. ductive and safe. understanding much ofwhat follows Five years ago The Flash began It can easily save and for learning to solve basic print­ as a four-page newsletter to promote you ten-times its ing problems. the business of a laser cartridge Next is an overview of laser remanufacturer called Black Light­ cost the first time printer marking engines. It reveals ning. Today, BlackLightning, Inc. is it helps solve a that despite the many brands we see a supplier of many unique laser problem." in stores, there are relatively few printer enhancements. The newslet­ companies that actually build the ter has grown to be the largest part of engines. Several pages present a ''field the enterprise, a whopping 96 pages, had a remarkable make-everything­ guide" to laser printer cartridges. with a circulation over 50,000, pro­ yourselfattitude. The article revealed With this you can identify the kind of duced by BlackLightning Publishing that the normally discarded backing marking engine your printer uses Company (802-439-6462; $15/yr). used for peel-off labels made an ex­ and possibly locate a betteror cheaper Examining a recent issue, I en­ cellent release paperfor laser printed source of replacement cartridges. I countered a detailed article on replac­ art. This could be transferred to glass learned that my NEC laser printer ing the paper pickup rollers in the by cooking in a kitchen oven to coat ex was actually manufactured by printer engine- a major disassembly the glass with an acid-resistant layer Minolta. task. Another offered advice on pre­ of toner. The only essential expendi­ General maintenance procedures paring files for imagesetter output. ture was for the etching gel itself. are outlined that go far beyond any

18 Washington Apple Pi Journal April 1994 rr described in manufacturers' manu­ als. Specific procedures are present.eel for the popular CX, SX, and LX en­ gines. If you are at all handy with tools, the common repairs described here can save you hundreds of dol­ ! !REPAIRS!! lars. Apple/Mac/l*M Motherboard Repairs The health impact oflaser print­ from $45.00 + S&H ers is an important, but seldom dis­ Apple/Mac/I*M Power Supply Repairs cussed, issue. The Guid~ describes from $45.00 + S&H how the high voltages inherent in the Apple/Mac/I*M Drive Repairs printing process produce ozone. While from $45.00 + S&H we all know that ozone in the upper Apple/Mac/I*M Monitor Repairs atmosphere is important to protect from $60.00 + S&H our environment, few ofus know that Apple/Mac/l*M Keyboard Repairs ozone is undesirable in our immedi­ from $12.50 + S&H Apple/Mac/l*M Upgrades ate environment. Ozone can irritate Available! the eyes, nose, and throat and lead to headaches and lung infections. In Future Viruses Used Apple/Mac/I*M CPUs, high concentrations it can be toxic. (continued from Disk Drives, Monitors, Laser printers contain activated-car­ page 8) Keyboards available for resale bon ozone filters to break down ozone molecules into harmless oxygen mol­ DAN QUAYLE VI­ Warranties to one year on most repairs! ecules. Few of us know that these RUS: Prevents your Same day turnaround on most repairs! Arminius need to be periodically cleaned and system from spawn­ ing any child process 8519 OrchardAvenue replaced. The Guide describes where Merchantville NJ 08109 these filters are located on popular without joining into (609) 662-3420 printer models and how they should a binary network. be maintainedand replaced. Another part of the Guide describes how GOVERNMENT clogged ozone filters can lead to fre­ ECONOMIST VIRUS: Nothing eratically with a message appear­ quent paperjams and how the filters works, but all your diagnostic soft­ ing on each half blaming the other can be cleaned to correct the problem. ware says everything is fine. side for the problem. For $12 the Guide is a great investment to keep your laser printer NEW WORLD ORDER vmus: AIRLINE VffiUS: You're in Dal­ productive and safe. It can easily Probably harmless, but it makes a las, but your data is in Singapore. save you ten-times its cost the first lot of people really mad just think­ time it helps solve a problem. For ing about it. FREUDIAN VffiUS: Your com­ those who want to push the limits of puter becomes obsessed with mar­ their printers to make T-shits, etch GALLUP VffiUS: Sixty percent of rying its own motherboard. metal and glass, or make rubber the PCs infected will lose 38 percent stamps, it can also be a lot offun. • of their data 14 percent of the time. PBS VffiUS: Your programs stop (plus or minus a 3.5 percent margin every few minutes to ask for Dr. ThomasJ.PiwowarisPresidentof of error.) a Washington-based consulting and OLLIE NORTH VffiUS: Causes training company speciali.zing in desk­ TEXAS VffiUS: Makes sure that your printer to become a paper top publishing and graphics. He is it's bigger than any other file. shredder. also one the "Computer Guys" on pub­ lic radio station WAMU-FMs com­ ADAM AND EVE VIRUS: Takes SEARS VffiUS: Your data won't puter call-in show, broadcast at noon a couple of bytes out of your Apple. appear unless you buy new cables, on the first Tuesday of euery month. power supply and a set of shocks. Contact him at Thomas J. Piwowar & Associates, Inc., 1500 Massachusetts CONGRESSIONAL vmus: The Aue. NW, Suite 34, Washington DC computer locks up, screen splits 20005, tekphone: (202) 223-6813

April 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 19 earlier), in either direction. NETWORKSOFT.SIT: Latest AppleTalk network software including AppleTalk 58.1.2, EtherTalk 2.5.6, Network New Macintosh Files Control panel 3.02 and more. Area 6: Misc Documents BABYLON5.FAQ: Text file containing all on the TCS kinds of vital information on Babylon-5, the new science fiction space opera that uses computer animation for virtually by [email protected] all the space shots (no Styrofoam models, a plus for the ecology). JNET.SECURITY: Malicious hackers have devised a scheme to vacuum passwords and account names off of networks on The TCS Committee has been the Internet. This Bulletin gives more hedayofthestandalonecomp­ strugglingmightilyto meet the tele­ uter is long since past. While technical information. Must Reading if T communications needs of its users you run a Sun or Solbourne workstation. millions of people around the world and the Pi. By the time this column LEGALLISTFAQ: Legal resources on still have individual computers, con­ is printed, there is a good chance the Internet. nected to nothing, the most produc­ MARILLION.SIT: Frequently Asked TCS will be offering Internet-ca­ Questions about the progressive band tive computers are joined in net­ pable electronic mail. During beta­ Marillion. works. Some ofthese networks span testing, it was quite a thrill seeing STARTREKSHIPS: text file listing all the offices or, occasionally, private E-mail from New York, Denver, San various ships (including, curiously, homes. A few networks span the unnamed ships) mentioned in Star Trek Diego, and Houston as well as from movies and episodes over the last world. The Washington Apple Pi Yokohama, Canberra, Stuttgart and quarter century. Really entertaining to Telecommunications System is of Edinburgh. The thrill was com­ see how many times the Enterprise has the world-spanning variety. pounded by the knowledge that the been destroyed. In the past year, it wasn't at all STRANGEWAYS.SIT: electronic magazine TCS is written in Applesoft BASIC devoted to the rock band Kiss. unusual for the TCS to get calls by a Pi volunteer: a state-of-the-art STARTREKPLACES: text file listing all from overseas. At any one time, the telecommunications system for one the various places all the various TCS almost always has someone of the oldest Enterprises (and Deep Space 9) have on-line from out of state (of course, visited or mentioned over the past 25 groups, running on the first per­ years. A labor of either love or some being located near four different sonal computer, the Apple II. deep psychological illness. area codes helps). But there have New, improved fine print: a re­ been an increasing number ofinter­ cent decision of the Washington Area 7: GIF Graphics national connections. One Pi mem­ Apple Pi Board of Directors has ELLE9204.GIF: Australia's best export on ber was on a ship in the Persian opened the TCS to all Pi members. a bicycle wearing a bikini. Gulf and desperately needed a util­ ELLE9205.GIF: Australia's best export But if you want to download some­ redux. Sigh. ity for his PowerBook . Another mem­ thing, or have E-mail (electronic HUBBLENEW.GIF: Side by side photos of ber called from Japan, searching for mail), you must have a TCS sub­ galaxy MlOO taken by the Hubble, color GIF files to use in a presenta­ scription. Call the Pi Office at 301- before and after the repair mission. You tion. Yet another called from Nor­ can see a dramatic difference. 654-8060 for information on how to MAINEBOAT.GIF: Color photo of Maine way during the winter Olympics - fully participate in the Washington fishing boats just to read the messages. Apple Pi Telecommunications Sys­ MARSl.GIF: Mars, the God of War. In this If the point isn't obvious: we tem, the Pi's "24 hour a day General case, the planet. If you look at the GIF have seen the future, and it is based with CloseView, you can see the Meeting." abandoned cities. on telecommunications. To get the PACIFICCHA.GIF: Pacific Challenger, most out ofyour computer, you must classic steam locomotive. have a modem. To get the most out Area 3: Apple System Software POWERPCPENT.GIF: When this ad of your user group, you must have a DUOPATCH.SIT: battery patch to solve appeared in the Wall Street Journal, problems with Duo 210, 230, and 250 Intel's stock took a sharp drop, and Intel modem. Otherwise, you run the risk with PowerBook Enabler 1.0. responded with a flurry of press ofdiscovering you've become roadkill HYPMVRllMAC.CPT: HyperMover 1.1 releases. It dropped further. alongside the National Information assists in the translation of HyperCard REDHAIR.GIF: Portrait of a Girl, drawn stacks between HyperCard 2.0 (and freehand on a Quadra 660av by Pi Superhighway. earlier) and HyperCard Ilgs 1.1 (and

20 Washington Apple Pi Journal April 1994 member Joseph Morey Jr. VORLON.GIF: dramatic shot ofVorlon Nowhere, Produce Section of the Gods, ROMULAN.GIF: as seen on the spacecraft from the hit new series Young Nerds in Love, When Parents Enterprise's view screen. Babylon-5. Finally Flip, Practical Jokes on Other SHUTl'LEINSP.GIF: shows a view VOYAGER.GIF: Close-up of Jovian moon. Worlds, Sperm School, At the Pain vs. looking aft on the Shuttle with the This picture is particularly interesting Pleasure Debates, Truly Pathetic Earth in the background. because of the telemetry data Lemmings, Attack of the Ethel Mermen, STTNGDISPLAY2: an "empty" monitor surrounding the picture. As the Plane Gained Altitude, Scene Cut screen, which you can customize with from Jurassic Park, Don't Let Joe Have whatever strange indicators your Your Stapler, The AV Police, "Anything warped mind might desire. Can Happen" Day, We've Replaced the STI'NGDISPLAY: nicely done monitor Bad Cybernetic Brain, Don't Taite That display in the fashion of Star Trek: The "But there have One - That's Their King, Alien Football, Next Generation. Incidentally, most of Scene from "Altered Steaks,", Look! the monitor displays and animation on been an increasing Borg Get Upgrade Already! Star Trek: TNG are done on Macs. number of interna­ TOKYO.GIF: Color photo of downtown Area 9: MOD Music Tokyo. tional connections. TINYTOONS.SIT. MOD file in TORII.GIF: this famous torii was built in SoundTracker format of various Tiny the waters of the Inland Sea off of One Pi member was Toons characters' one-liners ("A Hiroshima, and is ranked as one of the computer varmit!" - "Isn't that "seven most beautiful sights in Japan." on a ship in the Convenient!" etc.) to a disco beat. TPLAUNCH.GIF: Topex, a joint U.S.­ Persian Gulf and French satellite designed from the ground up for environmental desperately needed Area 22: Mac Appllcatlons monitoring of the Earth's oceans, is BBEDITLITE.SIT: superb freeware launched on a French rocket in this a utility for his extensible text editor. RLAB.0.97Dl: an night shot. interpreter for the Matlab-like RLaB TREK1 .GIF: 3D rendering of the starship PowerBook. Another /Environment Enterprise member called Oinear algebra package). TRIBUTE.GIF: Shuttle Challenger's last CONSTRUCTIO.SIT: estimate the ratio of mission patch from Japan..... " Cement, Fine/Course rock, water to TROI.GIF: Counselor Troi of the starship construct a cement slab. Also a base Enterprise estimator program to determine amount UKR.AINE2.GIF: stone castle on a rocky of rock for base; written by a Pi member. point overlooking a lake or sea. VW1958.GIF: Loving photo of a 1958 DOCMAKER4.0: program that allows you USR00001.GIF: U.S. Robotics Courier Volkswagen bug to create stand-alone documents. V.32bis modem, the industrial-strength, WATERWHEEL.GIF: Great photo of a Documents now support Quick.Time high-speed modem used on the high­ classic mill video, sound, document linking, and speed lines of the TCS. WAVE.GIF: Hiroshige's most famous more. USR00009.GIF: Headquarters of U.S. painting, with a wave cresting with Mt. EASYERRORSl.SIT: allows you to quickly Robotics. The company name comes Fuji in the background. find out what a particular error means from the fictitious company in the Isaac WFPC.01.GIF: from the Hubble Space on the Mac and the Newton. Select the Asimov robot novels. Telescope showing a scene shot with the appropriate system, type the error code, USSATPHOTO.GIF: incredible photo of corrected mirror and an enlarged scene and press return. the entire "lower 48," created from from that shot. FORMAL.TEMPLATE: Microsoft Word hundreds of satellite photos, showing WHITEALB.GIF: Beatle's album cover. template for the Macintosh. This the U.S. as it would appear without This is hilarious. template is suitable for all sorts of cloud cover and with a bit of false color YACHTRACE.GIF: Great action photo of formal reports. to highlight details. Great image! yacht race LAN.SAT.1.0.4: application for viewing, USSHADEDREL.GIF: Massive image YOSEMITEFL.GIF: Great photo shows monitoring, and graphically mapping showing the lower 48 states in shaded upper and lower falls your AppleTalk network and its devices. relief, with the relief exaggerated by a MORTCOMP.SIT: compare Interest, Prin, factor of six to show detail. An Area 8: JPEG Graphics or Term and get comparison printouts outstanding image. on screen or printer; written by a Pi DR. Fun, the Internet daily cartoon in 24- VANUAREEF.GIF: Great underwater member. bit color: .My Quacker Just Went Off, photo of a reef WP.THREE.MACROS: three WordPerfect Mediocre Performance Artists, Check VGERCRATER.GIF: Close-up view of macros: Revised Endnotes->Text Macro, your Lotto Number First, Selling Out, Jovian moon. Either that, or the crater *Case Convert Macro, and *Page X ofY­ TV Clogged with Televangelists, left when the Voyager spacecraft BBS. Multimedia Oafs of North America, He slammed into the surface. Ain't Gonna Shoot, Records Your VGERSPOTS.GIF: Close-up view of Jovian Neighbors Listen To, The New Area 23: Mac Utllltles moon. Or possibly ice crystals on the Campaign Just Isn't Working, Dogs on lens of the Voyager spacecraft camera. CRON1.0D13D.SIT: Mac version of the Cruises, Zoo Complaint Department, UNIX cron utility: set up timed tasks. VIEW.GIF: orbits above the Yippy Blimey Little Dog, The Ultimate Quite powerful. Pacific. Of course, 44% of the time the Pole Lamp, His Therapy Was Going Shuttle is over the Pacific. DISKEEPER.SIT: freeware application;

April 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 21 catalogs disks list duplicate files. control over video capture on AV Macs. BEHIERARCHl.SIT: INIT/CDev which DISKSWEEPER.SIT: free up space on a CLEANING.LADY: with Cleaning Lady will automatically create a visual floppy used by an unnecessarily large installed, whenever you select "Clean hierarchy in your Apple menu under Desktop file. Simply drop the offending up... " from the Finder's Special menu, System 7.0 up to five levels deep. floppy onto DiskSweeper, and in seconds you will be asked to confirm your PARAMRAMGUASIT: will save your it will be fixed. selection (Are you sure you want to PRAM settings and restore them DUOMONl.2.SIT: nifty utility for keeping clean up "Desktop"?). without the user having to manually track of you power management. Needs CLOCKADJUSTl .2: control panel for reset all of their options after zapping power manager version 2 (i.e. the one correcting the Mac's clock. their PRAM. that comes with the Type II battery, A VPATCHES.CPT: Resource Manager POWERBAR.CPT: launch apps or open Duo Enabler 1.0). tuner and a Turbo ROM patch for the files or folders - create buttons; has EXCALIBUR.1.5; Macintosh spelling AV Macs. status pads which gives time, date, checker for LaTeX documents. COMMENT.KEEPER: preserves the memory usage, disk space left (or used), FILEUSTl.O.SIT: builds and maintains Finder "Get Info" comments when the and chooser status/access. databases of file names from collections Desktop file is rebuilt. SAVETHEDISK.CPT: FreeWare system of disks. Very fast with powerful search, DIALOG.VIEW.1.0: control panel that extension which will alleviate the sort, and text export capabilities. allows you to change the font and size excessive disk drive hits experienced by FINDSTUFF.CPT: sophisticated and used in directory dialog file lists, and owners of AV Macs. versatile System 7 Find Command. display the real icons of files in such SOFTWAREFPU.CPT: control panel that MACGZIP.02.CPT: GNU gzip - file lists. allows most programs expecting an FPU compression and decompression DOUBLE.SCROLL 2.0.3: puts both up and to work properly on Macs without one. program - for the Macintosh. down arrows at both ends of the scroll SPEEDYFNDR7.159: 1993 US MacUser MYBA1TERY2.2.2: PowerBook battery bars. award for Shareware utilities. It can management; can handle multiple FENCE.SIT: simple, safe, disk password speed up copying, remove the delay batteries as well as the new flat plate protection program. Protect your hard when renaming files, empty the Trash models. drive from prying eyes. fast, automatically resolve Aliases for POWERSCAN201.SI: creates searchable FINDERFIXER.SIT: lets you allocate the Get Info, opening documents of one catalogues of Mac volumes (more than amount of memory you want to devote to application with a different application, one volume at a time with Thread the Finder and Finder operations. and much more. Manager installed) in foreground OR FW2.1.1.SIT: Folder Watcher 2.0.1; STARTUPFONT.CPT: install and background. It can also include the shareware application that enables you deinstall fonts at startup. Requires contents of Stuftlt and/or Compactor Pro to "watch" folders on your hard drive or System 7.1+. archives. across a network. TWELVECHP12.SIT: duplicate of READTIME.1.0.1: hack which shows you I660ICONS.SIT: some icons of the 660AV Hewlett-Packard's HP 12c business the Total Power On Time of your Mac, IDSEXPRESS: nifty little hack that fools calculator. i.e. the total time your Mac (or one you HD SC Set-up into thinking a third ZOOM.TO.CURSORl: when you press its may be thinking of buying used) has party hard disk is actually an Apple key combination it draws a set of been on ever. brand

22 Washington Apple Pi Journal April1994 FINDERFONT.2.0: someone's idea of a BUGS.SIT: scan of a 19th Century better font for viewing Finder info. lithograph of 40-50 FSESHSCRIPT.CPT: nice, clean, useful insects... moths, butterflies, script font. beetles, & other creepy crawlies. GESSELE.SCRIPT: nicely done PostScript COLOR/CONS.SIT: 60 different script font. icons to enhance one's working HEAR.LD.CP'I': collection of heraldic environment. shields drawn from coats of arms and DCAREAMAPS.SIT: DC Area Maps, medieval sources. in PICT and MacDraw II formats. INSTANTLOGOCHAR: template for HOTAIRWALLP.SIT: large printing characters wallpaper pattern (you need INSTANTLOGOSTl: Type 1 PostScript System 7 to use it) of a very logo font colorful hot air balloon floating in WOOLYBUL.CP'I': heavy, fuzzy and wavy a blue sky. display face. INITS.R.US.SCRN: envious of all of ZED: Mathematical Symbol Font, in both those Power Users who boast of TrueType and PostScript format. three, four, even five rows of !nits appearing at start-up? Then you Area 26: Mac Sound need !nits R Us, a color StartUpScreen with twelve rows CASABLANCA.SNDS: collection of Sound of extensions and control panel Clips from the movie icons, fifteen in each row for a DX7.LIBRARIAN.5: Yamaha DX7 Patch total of 180! Librarian 1.0.5 GOODBADUGLY.SIT: Spaghetti Western or the Senate? You be the judge. Area 28: Mac Graphic Utlls Desktop Publishing JERKYBOYS.LASER: New York City COLORKNIT.SIT: program for Ii; radio act which makes crank telephone people who are into making calls, make an appointment for knitting crafts. Graphic Design hemorrhoid surgery. GIFCNV2.3.7.SIT: Updates GIF JUNO.LIBRARIAN: Patch Librarian for Converter 2.3.6 to 2.3.7. JUNO 106, v 1.0.3 GRAPHIC.CON.177: Greencastle Graphics KAWAI.K4.LIBR: Kawai K4 Patch GraphicConverter, v 1.7.7, Nancy Seferian Librarian 1.0.4 converts "foreign" graphic files to MIDI.PACKEN.103: application which Mac format. allows you to keep system exclusive GOSSAMER.2.0: Scene Renderer, (202) 333-5244 MIDI data in files. brings Virtual Reality to the 1425 Foxhall Road, NW, Washington, DC 20007 MSTSNDS.SIT: sounds from Mystery Macintosh desktop. Science Theater 3000. The impromptu SHAZAM: Fun 8-color paint commercial for the Mac will probably be program MOSAIC103.SIT: NCSA Mosaic 1.0.3 the most popular. multimedia browser, widely regarded as NOW.HEAR.THIS: simple program which Area 29: Mac Telecomm a "killer application" that makes it will let you play sounds from sound AMT.MORE.MODEMS: Modem Tool worthwhile to connect schools, libraries, suitcases, System 7 sound files, definitions for AT&T and and homes to the Internet. It allows the HyperCard stacks, SoundEdit or PP14400FXSA user to search and retrieve all sorts of SoundWave files, and any other file with ANARCHIE110.SIT: front end for information (text, audio, pictures, digitized sounds. browsing anonymous FTP sites on the movies, database entries, etc.) from all PARROT.CPT: listens to the sound input Internet. over the world. device, remembers everything it hears, EUDORA.1.4.1: Freeware version of SHAMAN.1.0.0.SI: AppleTalk Remote and plays everything back in a random Qualcomm's Eudora, an Internet E-mail Access utility? order. package. USRl 68.SIT: A file that details how to SOUND.MACHINE.2: plays UNIX (ulaw MACHTl'P123.SIT: HTTP server 1.2.3 for modify your US Robotics 14.4 Sportster or mu-law) sounds. It also plays WWW and Mosaic to do 16.Skbps when used with a Courier Headerless A-law, FSSD non­ MACTCPSWITC.SIT: Switch MacTCP HST modem on the other end. compressed, Linear 8 bit mono (with configurations Sun header), and AIFF and AIFC files. MARKSPACEZM.CP'I': Mark/Space VICKYS.HELLOS: Vicky says "Hello," four Area 30: Mac Product Demos ZMODEM Tool, semi-reasonably priced ways. BEYOND.BREAK.24: Excel template for ($29.95) ZMODEM tool for the WHITE.T.SPARR.OW: birdsong of the managing and forecasting a small retail Communications Tool Box. This free white-throated sparrow. or service businesses. version works only for downloading. WISHUWRNTLVNG.S: We wish you COLOR.ACCESS126: demo of version MODEMSDATAB.SIT: Database of >60 weren't living with us- 1.2.6 of Color Access, from CIS (Color popular modems and the settings Imaging Systems), Bameyscan Corp. needed to make them operate correctly CW20DEMO.SIT: working demo of Area 27: Mac Graphic Images in hardware handshake, error ClarisWorks 2.0 BEAVISWALLP.SIT: Wallpaper rendition correction, compression. EMPIRE.MASTER26: working demo of a of the Beavis icon.

April 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 23 wargame similar to Strategic Conflict. NOWFUNl.0.1.UPD: NowFun! update to WordPerfect 3 including straight quotes FA18HORNETDEMO: demo of F-18 air 1.0.1 to smart quotes, envelope printing, simulation. Incredible cockpit detail. OPEN.SAVE.TEXT: Excel Technote: Open/ watermark, etc. This demo is limited to Hawaii. Save Text Files WP30. WP6.SIT: Convert files between MARKSMAN.3.0: user interface editor for OPTMEM.1.5.4: Update Optimem to WordPerfect 3 Mac and WordPerfect 6 programmers to design and prototype Version 1.5.4 for Windows both ways. Mac applications. OUTSIDE.BARS: Word Technote; how to XL.AE.DEMO: Sample C program sends TRISTAN: Working demo of Tristan, a add outside bar commands to Microsoft AppleEvents to Excel pinball game Word versions 5.0 and 5.1. XL.SCRIPT. WRITE: an Excel 4.0 Add-In WBADEMO.SIT: Electrifying demo of PAGEMAKERFASIT: Usenet listing of that changes the way macros are Who Built America, a new CD-ROM written. It employs an English-like from Voyager, filled with pictures, scripting language instead of Excel's sounds and source material covering formula entry method. the last part of the 19th century to the XL4.APPLE.EVENT: Apple Events and early part of the 20th. The TCS Committee Microsoft Excel 4.0 WORD.SOLN.2.2: Word Solution Engine has been struggling DEMO v 2.2; set oflibraries for Area 32: Mac Games developers who wish to provide word mightily to meet the BAZ.FAZ.1.1: BazFaz is a little green guy processing capabilities in their who has wandered into a bad part of the software. telecommunications universe. You must help him get back needs of its users home by passing through seven Area 31: Mac Product Support wormholes. AUTO.DOUB.2.0.3: Update AutoDoubler and the Pi. By the BLACKJACKSIT: superb BlackJack to version 2.0.3 game and tutor. BBEDIT.254. UPDT: Update BBEdit time this column is BLACKJACKlO.SIT: nice version of 2.5.x to 2.5.4 BlackJack with varying rules for C.DOUBLR.203: CopyDoubler 2.0.3 printed, there is a different casinos. Updater good chance the CONCENTROIDS: Animated COMMUNICATE.SIT: Update Concentration-type game Communicate Lite to v.1.01. TCS will be offering DEAD.END.1.1: a strategy game. Your CV351UP.SIT: Canvas 3.5.1 Upgrade; goal is to find a path out of a dungeon by fixes some bugs and seems to improve Internet-capable pushing massive blocks of stone out of general performance. Also includes a your way. dozen or so tool upgrades, including electronic mail. KUNG.FU.CHNLRY: similar to Street Styles, Spelling, Pantone, Grids, etc. Fighter and possibly better. You have CVTOOLS.SIT: three tool upgrades for the choice of a fighter that specializes in Canvas 3.5.1 kicks or one that specializes in punches EUDORA.2.0.UPDT: Update Qualcomm and throws. PageMaker Frequently Asked Eudora 2.0 to 2.0.1 MACJACKlll: Casino Blackjack game. Questions. EXCEL.PASCAL: Excel Technote and MACMAN3.0.SIT: Macman Classic v3.0 PRINTING.ENVS: Word Technote: Sample Code: Pascal MACMANPRO.SIT: Macman Classic Pro Printing Envelopes EXCELTALK2.. SIT: Let Microsoft Excel vl.O RAMDOUBLER.IST: Update RamDoubler talk to you MAHJONG.SIT: real test of your gaming tov.1.01 FA181.1.01 .. SIT: Updates FIA-18 1.1.0 to skill and knowledge: the oldest, most REDLINING.NOTE: Word Technote; how 1.1.lD popular game in history, in a version Word's Find/Replace feature can be used FIX.DAMAGED.OBJ: Repair Microsoft written for the Macintosh - completely to perform basic redlining functions. Word Documents without instructions of any kind. SCREENPLAYl.SIT: long anticipated FOLD.OVER.BOOK: Word Technote; how MORPION.CPT: a great thinking game. If version 1.2 of the VideoSpigot software. to use Word to create "fold-over you like Mines you will love this. SMOOTH.CHRT.CRV: Excel Technote: booklets." MOSAICON.1.0.1: HyperCard-based Smooth Chart Curves GRAMMAR.SPELLIN: Microsoft Word 5.0 Drawing Game SOUNDEDITPR.5UP: Update SoundEdit Spelling & Grammar Update MYSTCONFERE.SIT: MYST Conference Pro to 1.0.5 MECHFIXSIT: MYST Mechanical Age with Authors USING.TABLES: Word Technote; Using Bug Fix PATHWAYS.GUIDEl: Illustrated Guide to Tables MEDICAL.DICTNRY: Medical and Pathways into Darkness WORD.5.0APATCH: Patch for Microsoft Scientific Dictionary for Microsoft Word ROBOWAR.3.1: RoboWar 3.1, design and Word 5.0 5 program robot gladiators. "If you'd just WORD.5. lAPATCH: Patch for Microsoft MW.68K.C.UPDT.2: Update Metrowerks like to throw away RoboWar and go Word5.1 68K CIC++ Compiler burn penguins, please see a WORD.FORMULAS: Word Technote: MW.68K.P. UPDT.2: Update Metrowerks psychiatrist." Working with Formulas 68K Pascal Compiler SNUGG.NADS.BOLO: Snugg Nads Bolo WORD.POSTSCRIPT: Word Technote: ' MW.PPC.C.UPDT.2: Update Metrowerks Map Introduction to PostScript Using PPC CIC++ Compiler TOURNAMENT. VII: RoboWar Microsoft Word. MW.PWRPLANT.UPD: Metrowerks Tournament VII, Results & Robots, from WP3.0MACROS.SIT: eleven macros for PowerPlant Update the Seventh RoboWar Tournament.

24 Washington Apple Pi Journal April 1994 WAROFFLOWER.CP'l': War Of Flowers, HOFFMANHOLDS600: clips from the Area 38: Mac Technical colorful Korean card game record setting Hubble Space Telescope repair mission. AVCOMPAT.I.SEA: SuperMac's AV CPU FUSEPLUGANI.SIT: Video animation compatibility list. This file is in Common Area 33: Mac Education showing the replacement of a fuse plug Ground Viewer format, and no other ALPHABOAT.CPT: Nice program to teach during the Hubble repair mission. software is required. alphabet HUBBLEREPANIMAT: Video-based MACHISTORY.SIT: very handy (and BABYSMASH5.. SIT: application generates animation showing part of the Hubble nicely done) tables (in PICT format) that random sounds and images when Space Telescope repair mission. chronicle all the ever made. someone pounds on the keyboard. KLONE.KILLER.SI: short QuickTime MEMORYUSAGE.SIT: Screen Dump Of Intended for infants, but might come in movie with an audio track sure to Ram Doubler In Action handy at work, too. attract interest from across the room: TN.FEB.1994: Mac Tech Notes, Feb 1994 MATHATHON.SIT: Exciting math Macs shooting PC clones. Update • learning game MACWORWEXPO: Comprehensive video MATRIXMASTE.SIT: Teach matrix review ofMacWorld Expo last year mathematics involving a cast of dozens, with STANDARD.MAPS30: Standard Maps 3.0, particular emphasis on video. Interactive Math Demo MOVIESTARRC.SIT: QuickTime movie STELLARN.CP'l': educational program Gust a few seconds) of Pi member Bob More FUTURE VIRUSES designed to allow the user to have the Leedom's appearance on the TV show unique opportunity to see the closest Homicide. HOFFA VIRUS: Your programs star systems as they would appear from PENCIL. TEST: animated short subject the outside looking in. from Apple, showing the trials and can never be found again. tribulations of the MacPaint pencil tool Area 34: Mac Hypermedia as he tries to cope in the real world. CONGRESSIONAL VIRUS #2: AUTOCAT4.0l.SIT: Catalog files on QUICKTIMEFEST: Where is the Runs every program on the hard QuickTime Festival? this animated clip floppies and hard disks drive simultaneously, but doesnt CATSTUFF2.0.SIT: Catalog files on your asks. Cleverly done, on a low budget. floppies THORTONFOOT.SIT: Astronaut Thorton allow the user to accomplish any­ CRAZEDBS.SIT: Crazy Ss game in a stack appears to be dancing in the foot thing. FINDERSCRIP.SIT: Finder Scripting restraints on the end of the Shuttle arm. Probably won't make it as a rock video, Toolkit v 1.1 KEVORKIANVIRUS: Helpsyour HENRY. V: King Henry V, by William but it appeals to me. Shakespeare computer shut down as an act of MUSICBOX.2.0.2: Enhanced Sound Area 36: Mac Information mercy. XCMD CCVENDORS. TXT: List of 700+ Mac NSTACK2.0A: Stack of Naturalist Software vendors IMELDAMARCOSVIRUS: Sings Information MAZEMAKERV3.SIT: Maze Maker 3.1 is you a song (slightly off key) on boot STACKOLOVE.SIT: Mystery Science an Excel macro that builds mazes. Theater 3000 encyclopedia Really fun to watch. up, then subtracts money from your THE.AENEID.SIT: Virgil's Aeneid MODEMDICTIONARY: very Quicken account and spends it all WINONASTACK: Stack with pictures of comprehensive dictionary of modem and on expensive shoes it purchases Winona Ryder telecommunications terms. through Prodigy. TIDBITS# 209 to 212 (Jan. 17, 1994 to Area 35: Mac Multimedia/QT Feb. 7, 1994): the famed on-line weekly ACTSTOSDEPLOYl: Satellite deployment magazine. STAR TREKVIRUS: Invades your from the Space Shuttle. ZTFAQ16.SIT: ZTerm "Frequently asked system in places where no virus has BREIFING.ROOM: remember the questions" 1/94 gone before. Saturday Night Live parody of Apple's "The Power to be Your .Best" Area 37: Mac Programming HEALTH CARE VIRUS: Tests commercials? Well, the QuickTime CONVERT.PROJ.B2: "public beta" version programming team at Apple makes a 1.0b2 utility which will read a THINK C your system for a day, finds nothing parody of that. or THINK Pascal product, and produce wrong, and sends you a bill for ENDEA VOURLAND: Night landing of the an equivalent (or nearly so) Metroworks $4,500. space shuttle. Code Warrior project (680x0 or ENDOFEVA3.SIT, PowerPC). HUBBLEOVERDOWN, GTQLIBl.ORl.SIT: AppleScript library. CHICAGO CUBS VIRUS: Your PAYLOADBAYANDAS, JONSCOMMAND.SIT: Jon's Commands PC makes frequent mistakes and ARRAYJETTIS.SIT, 1.0b4; AppleScript library of commands. comes in last in the reviews, but you ARRAYTUMBLE.SIT, PROADKLITE.CPT: 4th Dimension still love it. ASTRONAUTOV.SIT, Development shell MAGNETOMETER CH, QT.MOVIE. TOOLS: QuickTime Movie MUSGRA VECHECKSN, Toolbox with C . ORALROBERTSVIRUS: Claims PHOTOMETERDOORS, SCRIPTTLl.3.SIT: AppleScript Script if PHOTOMETERR.SIT, that you don't send it a million Tools 1.3 dollars, it's programmer will take it back.

April 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 25 Artists on exhibit by Blake Lange

This column will look at the art and artists of Washington Apple Pi and the techniques and tools used to create the art.

Artist Info: Design and Illustra­ tion: Michael David Brown, Presi­ dent, Michael David Brown, Inc., Rockville, Maryland. Art conver­ sion: Blake Lange, Printing Officer, Federal Election Commission. Lay­ out: Michael Lewis, Technical Manuals Writer, Federal Election Commission.

Tools: Macintosh llci, Macintosh Ilsi, flatbed scanner, Adobe Illus­ trator, Aldus PageMaker.

Although many tools exist for cre­ ating original artwork on the Apple Macintosh, more often than not it is used as a tool to efficiently repro­ duce artwork that has been created

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26 Washington Apple Pi Journal April 1994 by less technical means. In this case the original artwork was cre­ ated by the artist using a knife and paper. The basic concept of the design is that one illustration is created for the cover, then pieces of that illustration are enlarged and placed throughout the publication as abstract visual relief to break up the density of the text. Since this design was developed for the Campaign Guide series over 300 dpi), however, the results of ten years ago, before the Mac was doing an auto-trace is not good introduced, the production meth­ enough to reliably reproduce finely ods bridge pre- and post-desktop detailed art. The original scan, used publishing (DTP). The pre-DTP as a template for the drawing pro­ method involved the use of a stat gram, serves as a starting point, camera to create several enlarge­ putting the elements ofthe drawing ments of the original art. The post­ in perspective. DTP method involves scanning the Then through a process of trial image. The paint style image cre­ and error the elements of the draw­ ated by scanning is not flexible · ing are refined until the result looks enough to be enlarged several hun­ just like a photographic reproduc­ dred percent. For that purpose the tion of the original. This process image has to be converted to object can take a couple of days. art that can be resized without limit. Finally, once the illustration has Several programs have the fea­ been converted to a scalable object, ture of automatically tracing the it is used in the layout. It is a simple image. As can be seen from the two matter to scale and crop art in figures of the head of the eagle (one PageMaker. One clicks on and drags scanned at 72 dpi and the other at one of the selection points which are on the sides and corners of the graphic. The graphic is adjusted until one achieves the desired result.

April 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 27 I Introduction to the Macintosh, Part I (Course# M041194) You should go through the Guided Tour Macintosh Tutorials disk that comes with your computer or system upgrade kit before you come to class. You'll learn: how to safely tum your Macintosh on and Volunteers and Instructors off; what the basic dos and don'ts are; You can't have training without teachers. Ifyou have expertise in any how to understand common Macin­ subject useful to Mac or Apple users, please consider teaching. Instructors t.osh terminology found in manuals and have an opportunity to work with students in small groups and informal other documentation; and how the ba­ settings. The teaching process is truly rewarding. Besides the spiritual sic components of your Macintosh sys­ and intellectual, rewards also include compensation; you will be paid. We tem, hardware and software, work. especially need someone who can offer training in Excel. Call me if there You'll also learn why the Macint.osh is a subject that you are qualified to teach. user interface is consistent across all I am very pleased with the response to our requests for volunteers. We applications, andhowthismakeslearn­ have a very bright and enthusiastic group of volunteers working to bring ing and using software easier. you the best possible classes and programs. We encourage and welcome Materials Required: Your Ma­ additional support for the training program. Graphic designers, desktop cintosh, hard disk drive, start-up disk, publishers, and illustrators-we could use your help in promoting our and an unformattedDSDD 800kdisk. program with brochures and fliers. For further information call Beth Date: Mon., April 11, 7-10 pm. Medlin at the Pi office, (301) 654-8060. Introduction to the Macintosh, Macintosh Tutorials Part II (Course# M041894) Part II The Macintosh introductory tutorials are a three-part introductory series will continue the exploration of the designed for beginning users or those desiring to brush up their skills. The basic components of your Macintosh primary focus of these courses will be on the System, Desktop, Icons, system, hardware and software. Windows, and basic concepts in System 7, but System 6 hangers-on are You'lllearn more ofthe dos and don'ts; welcome and encouraged to participate. Their issues and concerns will be the finer points of the Menu Bar, addressed. Please try to take all three parts; this is the most beneficial Error Messages, Dialog Boxes, Icons, arrangement.

~ Some"SpeCiffcs • Class Size: Class size is this is a cancellation due to illness. • Where: Unless -0therwise limited to 6 students per class. . stat.ed, all tutorials sponsored by • Bring my Computer? All Washington Apple Pi are given at classes are taughtseminar-style the office located at 7910 with the instructor using a com­ April Tutoriafs are the Woodmont Avenue, Suite 910, puter and an overhead display. 4 basic ones: B,ethesda, Maryland.; We encourage stµaents whQ .=intro to Mac 1 04/11/94 M041194) •When:Unles&othel'Wisestated, .wfshhands-on traili.ingto bring their computers. -Intro to Mac 2 04/18/94 all tutorials are three hours in (M041894) length and begin at 7:00 PM on •InstructorCancellation: If -Intro to Mac 8 04/25194 the date list.ed. The office buildingis fi class is canceled by the in­ (M042594) secured at6:00PM. To~access, structor, all students will be no­ pjck.µp the t.elephone lOcated by the tified ofthe cancellation. Please -Maint.aining Qle Mac gW!a entry doors and tell the opera­ checkyour homeanswe:ringma­ 04/27/94 (M042794) ror where you are going. chine if you have not given a work number for notification. plus •Fee8:$25.00perclassformem• -Intro to WAP TCS 04/09/ bers and $35.00 per class for non­ • Student Canttllation: A 94 (TCS040994) cancellationmustbereceived by !llembers. Pre-registration and ,.,...Intro to Cal>'Access 04/02' palii;µent must be made to hold a the office 72 hours before a class is sea\. · , scheduled. The only exception t.o 94 CA040294

28 Washington Apple Pi Journal April 1994 I Folders, Keyboard Shortcuts, Scrap­ Materials Required: Your Ma­ WAP members. This is the perfect book, and Clipboard will be discussed. cintosh, harddisk drive, start-up disk, seminar for those of you wanting to You'll learn the basics of installing and an unformattedDSDD 800kdisk. enjoy the many benefits of the WAP software, as well as about the Chooser, Date: Mon., April 25, 7-10 pm TCS. Topics for discussion will peripheral devices, and how they are include how to apply for a password, Maintaining Your Macintosh sign on, configure a user profile, read connected to the Macintosh. (Course # M042794) How to main­ Materials Required: Your Macin­ messages, leave messages, reply to tain and troubleshoot your Mac. Top­ tosh, hard disk drive, start-up disk, messages, upload, download or ics will include: organizing and man­ transfer files and use ofthe Librarian. andan unformattedDSDD 800k disk. aging your hard disk; backing up and Date: Mon., April 18, 7-10 pm. Date: Sat., April 9, 9:00 am-12 noon back-up strategies, archiving, disk formatting, defragmentation and op­ Introduction to the Macintosh, timization; managing start-up re­ Part ill (Course # M042594) Part Other Educational sources (including System 7 exten­ OpportunHles III will follow up the concepts in sions or System 6 INIT's); avoiding Parts I and II. You will learn more conflicts and incompatibilities; virus advanced Macintosh skills and ter­ Desktop Publishing & Graphics protection; memory management; up­ minology; about tutorials are given by the system software grading or replacing the operating and using, installing, and updating Clockface & Creole system; system enhancements; cus­ system files; about managing Communications Inc. tomizing software installation; clean­ memory, hard disk space, fonts, Please contact ing your mouse; and Macintosh sounds, Manolo Almagro at 301-718-0612 and other resources, the ''housekeeping" philosophies. for details. Apple menu, aliases, launching ap­ Date: Wed., April 27, 7-10 pm. plications, inter-application commu­ nications (Publish and Subscribe), Introduction to the Washing-ton and Balloon Help. You'll also learn Apple Pi Telecommunnications about how to buy hardware and soft­ System (TCS) Course #(T040994) ware, how to upgrade, and what kinds This class is designed for of software are available for your telecommunications novices or new Macintosh.

Washington Apple Pi Washington l\pple PI 7910 Woodmont Ave., Su. 910 Tutorial Registration Form Bethesda, Maryland 20814 301-654-8060 Basic Information Course Numbers

Please fill in the course number of Address ______the class(es} that you wish to attend. Cicy/Scace/Zip ______Class#l ______Phone (day) ------(evening)------Class #2 ______Member Number------Non-member ------Class #3 ______Number of Classes --- x Class Fee$ ---- = Total Fee$ --- Class #4______0 Check/Money Order 0 Credit Card Class #5______Card Number ------Class#6 ______Card Expiration ____ Signature ______WAP Form #CL006 (mod. 7 / 90). Mail registration Can you bring your own computer to the class? Yes 0 No 0 and payment to the above address.

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f some is good, more is better. and white images and animation [that's what they said]. Instead ofpaying I This month the special incentive $129.00 retail or even the street price of $89.00, you can get unjagged for program expands with several a mere $59.95. entries from some new companies. If you buy from any of these firms, Here's how to order: please tell them you are from a User's Group. How else am I going Product# Description User Group Price to convince folks that we are a people M2853LUA Performa 430 (w/o fax modem) $699.00 (1) worth courting. M2054LUA Performa 450 (w/o fax modem) 750.00 (1) From Apple: To go with the printer you UGCJAG JAG II purchased last month, Apple has 59.95 (2) two entry level computers for your consideration as part of their April (1) Shipping is $30.00 in Continental US. $85.50 to AK and HI Performa Purchase offerings as well (2) Shipping is $5.00 (no fine print - neat) as a neat piece of software. First is the re-return of the LC Fine print: II with a new badge number. This * Refurbished by Apple - but you already know that. time it is called the Performa 430 ** First come, first served. Last date to order is April 30, 1994 sans fax modem. The central *** 90-day in-home warranty processor is a 16 mhz, 68030. Inside you will find 4 megs of RAM , a 120 Orders will be accepted in one of the following 3 ways: Fax to: 408-461- meg hard drive, and System 7.1P5, 5701; AppleLink: User.Groups; AOL: Apple UGS. Master Card, Visa or while outside you get a mouse, cashier's check payable to: User Group Connection. Send cashier's check standard keyboard and a .39 dot to: User Group Connection, PO Box 67249, Scotts Valley, CA 95067-7249 pitch Apple Basic Color monitor. Price is $699.00. Other Neat Offers: Want more muscle? Interested Hot for games? Inline Software will give you a 50% discount off list in adding a CD-ROM , doing some price for 15 of their popular games or the same off utilities such as HAM, desktop or graphics work or Icon 7, INITPicker 3, Inline Sync, and Redux Deluxe. You can also buy emulating a Ile? Try an LC III PopupFolder for $25.00. A free copy ofAladdin's Stuffit SpaceSaver comes rebadged as the Performa 450 with each order. Call 800-453-7671 and mention code # UG50 when you (without the fax modem). Included order. are 4 megs of RAM, a 120 meg hard Ohio Distinctive Software has a limited-time offer on their nutrition drive, keyboard, mouse and System software (is it edible?). You get three programs: Executive Diet Helper; 7 .1P5 operating software. The eyes Menu Planner; and Weight Loss Planner. They normally sell for a total have it on this one as Apple includes of $218.00 (heavy), but for us they have been dollar reduced to a paltry its .29 dot pitch Color Plus monitor. $8.00. Send $8 plus $3 s/h to Ohio Distinctive Software, 4588 Kenny Rd, Price is $750.00. Columbus, OH 43220. Mention code "VG" when you order. Oh yes, Now for the neat software. Ray satisfaction guaranteed or full refund (including postage!). Dream's Jag II is an image Finally, Dream Maker Software is offering its Cliptues collection of enhancement utility. It removes ESP clip art at $59 per volume. You can purchase the 5 volume collection: jagged edges automatically, business images 1 & 2; sports; world flags; and borders for $249 (plus s/ delivering pixel perfect color or black h). Call 800-876-5665.

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Japanese software production lags behind the United States. Yet, there are other areas where Japanese software has considerable strength The World Software and these conditions combine to make them potentially formidable Industry: software competitors in the future. Europe In Europe, the principal A brief overview competitors in software production are found in Germany and France. by Joseph A. Hasson Europe is impeded, in general, by the greater emphasis on customized over prepackaged software. nformation processing is one of production. Software producing However, this condition will almost the most important and rapidly companies in these countries are certainly be changed in the future. I growing industries in today's entering into joint ventures with The German software industry has world economy. This expansion has larger producers in more developed been experiencing the most rapid been occurring, in part, because of countries as a way of building skill rate of growth-between 18 and 25 the increased power and levels, achieving economies of scale percent per annum. Total revenues productivity ofcomputer hardware. and improving the qualities of their from the sale ofsoftware now exceed But with software as an obviously outputs. These and related moves those from hardware. And, France essential part ofcomputer systems, are expected to reduce production has experienced a greater a rapid growth of software costs, result in lower sales prices penetration ofcomputer usage than engineering can be expected in the and improve competitive positions. anywhere else in Europe. Given future. Different approaches are being overall expenditures for Rand D in The American computer and taken to finance development. Some software and increases in computer software industry has held a national governments, committed services, one can anticipate that preeminent position both to a growth of domestic computer Europe will attain a prominent domestically and internationally. industries, have established position in the world software However, other countries are now consortia with private sector firms. market. exerting considerable efforts to gain National banks are providing long­ a foothold in the production of term credits to assist in the financing Taiwan software. Outside the United States, of research and development of For the Government of Taiwan, those efforts are currently visible in software and computer technology. the information industry is strategic Japan, Germany and France, and Tax credits are being extended to to its economic development plans. the NIE countries -the Newly provide financial incentives. In That is, development ofthe industry Industrialized Economies -which Japan, a long-term project involving is important not only per se but also include Brazil, Taiwan, India, the 130 corporate members has been because it will interact with other Republic ofKorea, Singapore. While undertaken at a cost of$150 million industries and facilitate their some are more successful than for the purpose of increasing growth. The industry embodies others, in all, both public and private productivity in software high-technology and offers high­ resources are being expended in programming. The Japanese have value-added services. The industry developing software for both consistently achieved higher output in Taiwan is comprised of software, domestic use and sale in world per unit of input in lines of code commercial data processing and export industries. compared with more experienced hardware companies. The latter Successful development varies U .S, programmers. In one instance, focus on personal computers. based on resources. Countries are the Japanese have claimed an error It has been estimated that differentiated in the availability of rate of 0.3 bugs per thousand lines Taiwan has more than 300 software skills and personnel required for of code, a factor of 10 below typical producing firms employing over program development and U.S error rates. Nevertheless 4000 workers and with sales ofclose

April 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 31 rr to $200 million per annum. They maintenance and support, the focus with the United States. Indian firms have thriving exports. The growth has been on the Korean domestic are handicapped by a lack of rate of the software industry is in market. However, Korea faces adequate computers for developing excess of 45 percent per year. It constraints that stem from a and testing software, a shortage of emphasizes the production of shortage oftechnical manpower. Of venture capital, both short-term and prepackaged software. As smaller 10,000 persons employed in the long-term, and a need to undertake and medium sized companies information industry, 50 percent are promotional activities overseas. progressively computerize their programmers, 20 percent, Software requires considerable long­ activities, the sales of prepackaged keypunchers and operators, 23 term capital both for its initial software are expected to soar. percent , system analysts and 7 development and for its Taiwan is also moving into "systems percent are professionally trained maintenance and modification to integration". "Systemsintegration" engineers. insure a continued niche in the requires combining hardware market. There is a concerted effort, components with customized or India with commitment and assistance prepackaged software so that the The software industry in India from the Government , to enable two function as a system through a is very small. It is dominated by India to participate in the computer networking arrangement, meeting three firms and has many smaller revolution. Several measures are a the diverse needs ofmany end-users. firms. In total, there are close to 400 part of this effort. They include: A rational system, optimally software firms; about 250 of which (i) a reduction of import tariffs integrated, will achieve the right process data and provide consulting against foreign software economies of scale, deliver services services. Their total revenues are provided it is used by Indian at minimum costs per unit and have close to $200 million, less than one­ software exporters, built-in flexibility. This will permit third originating from exports. (ii) loans at subsidized interest it to respond to the needs of a large Software producing firms are rates for working capital number of users. The units of the growing rapidly in number but lack needs, system may be heterogeneous financial viability. Two American (iii) foreign exchange and export including hardware, software and companies have established insurance to assist in the communications equipment. subsidiaries in India: Texas financing imports. Instruments and Citicorp. TI Sound evaluation of foreign Korea produces semiconductor product efforts to develop software and other The Republic of Korea has a designs; Citicorp produces aspects of the information National Technology Promotion application packages for the banking processing industry is made difficult Congress, established in the early industry. Most software produced by the absence of reliable economic 1980s, and an Institute ·of in India is for mainframes and data. There is, also, an absence of a Electronics Technology. Together, minicomputers; personal computers uniform terminology and unifonn these organizations will facilitate take less than 10 percent ofsoftware. definitions applied across the board the country's movement into high­ This software is used for inventory among different countries. tech activities and its efforts to control, financial accounting, Nevertheless, it is clear that the achieve national R & D goals in computer-aided design, manage­ worldwide software industry is on computers, hardware and software. ment information systems. India the threshold of rapid development In software production, Korea has enters into "management contracts" as the information age spreads and more than 400 firms; some also with foreign firms. These are gains momentum. Once dominated produce hardware. Most are of contracts between employment by the United States, with France relatively small size. Total software agencies operated by Indian and Japan in secondary positions, a production is close to $100 million entrepreneurs who supply foreign number of newly industrialized per annum; domestic demand is software producers with cheap economies are attempting to enter growing at an annual rate of more programmers. Questions have been the race by developing their than 40percent. A national objective raised regarding the ethics of such domestic industries and finding to computerize almost all activities practices! their places in a worldwide will generate a large demand for India is seeking to develop joint competition. The changes to date software. Because of language ventures, R & D projects and have been great, but the industry is difficulties, problems of education and training activities clearly in a state of evolution. If

32 Washington Apple Pi Journal April 1994 rr developments in other industries will bring together hardware and Library. are taken as the norm, one can software expertise into optimally The periodicals di vision of anticipate that a few large firms defined systems. Gelman takes up the third floor of will become market leaders and This is a brief overview of an the building. Close to the elevator suppliers of major volumes. At evolving and dynamic industry with are several terminals giving access present, industry growth is potentially a great impact on how to the"Aladin Database." Aladin is constrained by a shortage of we work, live and interact with one the combined library catalogs ofthe software personnel, a lack of another, withinindividualcountries seven WashingtonResearch Library operating standards, and a need for and in the international economy.• Consortium schools-a "one-stop­ integrated services. These services shop" for all your online bibliographic search needs. You can use Aladin to search for books, naturally. But you can also use Aladin for industrial-strength periodical searches covering popular Gaining Access to magazines, academic journals, and almost every major English language newspaper. Ifthat weren't Computer-Oriented enough, Aladin gives access to"ABI/ Inform," a bibliographic database Academic Journals covering business andmanagement topics. And the "Applied Sciences, Technology, and Biology Index," by Phil Shapiro covers articles specifically in those fields of interest. For researchers who prefer isitors to the nation's capital ofthe WashingtonResearch Library getting the gist of a newspaper are often surprised to hear that Consortium, a group of seven article without getting bogged down few local residents ever use the colleges and universities in the in details, Aladin offers "Newspaper' Library of Congress. Sure, the Washington DC area. The Abstracts." Also, citations from the Library of Congress has a handful Consortium members share library online Reader's Guide to Periodical of good books. And yes, the Library resources, adding even greater Literature contain convenient ofCongress has a passable collection depth to an already deep library abstracts. of periodicals. But getting access to collection. Having sized up the Aladin books and periodicals requires filling I paid a visit to the Gelman terminals, I ambled over to the out request slips. And with the Library last week to investigate periodicals reference desk to catch a library staff usually over-extended, their holdings of periodicals in the glimpse of the list of periodicals the sometimes you're forced to wait more computer and information science library subscribes to. The friendly than an hour to get the books or fields. In my readings I often come periodicals librarian directed me to periodicals you're interested in across references to juicy sounding a telephone-sized book containing reading. articles that invite further inquiry. this list. Few people realize that one of I'm usually an incorrigible devotee Here is an "almost complete" list the best libraries in the Washington ofthe Martin Luther King Memorial ofpublications in the computer and DC metropolitan area is the Gelman Library (the central library in the information science fields at Library at George Washington District of Columbia), but their Gelman: University. Open to the general periodical holdings do not extend Computational Intelligence public, the Gelman Library has far beyond the common fare of many things working in its favor. popular magazines and journals. So Computational Mechanics Along with its deep and rich I wanted to find out if George Computational Statistics Quarterly Compute collection of books, the library Washington University's Gelman Computer subscribes to over 7000 periodicals, Library could provide access to the both popular and academic. publications I was unable to locate Computer Abstracts The Gelman Library is also part at the Martin Luther King Memorial Computer Aided Design

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Computer Aided Engineering Computers and Standards Journal of Educational Computing Journal Computers and Structures Research Computer and Communications Computers and the Humanities Journal of Information Processing Decisions Computers in Banking & Cybernetics Computer and Control Abstracts Computers in Education Journal of Telecommunications Computer Applications in Computers in Healthcare Networks Biosciences Computers in Hospitals Communications Arts Computer Architecture News Computers in Industry Communications Quarterly Computer Communication Review Computers in the Environmental Communications News Computer Contribution Sciences Information Age Computer Decision Computers in Federal Government Information Broker Computer Design Computers in the Schools Information Bulletin Computer Equipment Review Computerworld Information Economics & Policy Computer Fraud and Securities Computing Information Industry Directory Bulletin The Computing Teacher Information Privacy Computer Graphics Design News Information Science Abstracts Computer Graphics and Image Educational Technology Information Service Processing Libraries Information Technology & Libraries Computer Graphics Forum Libraries and Culture Infoworld Computer Graphics World Library Hi Tech News The Computer Journal Library Journal Back issues ofthese publications Computer Languages Library Quarterly can be found either bound in books, Computer Literature Index Library Science Annual on the shelf, or on microfiche and Computer Networks Library Technology Reports microfilm. The Aladin database Computer Programs for Chemistry Library Trends indicates whether a particular Computer Readable Databases Wilson Library Bulletin periodical can be found as a "bound Computer Reseller News Online book" on the open-stack shelves, or Computer Security Journal Technology and Culture whether it can be found on Computer Speech & Language Technology in Society microfiche or microfilm. From the Computer Standards & Interfaces Technology Review looks of it, more than two thirds of Computer Studies in the Technology Week the library's periodicals are stored Humanities Techtrends on microfiche or microfilm. However, Computer Systems Science & Telecom Highlights the periodicals that are stored as Engineering Telecom Factbook "bound books" are housed on open Computer Yearbook Telecommunications Journal shelves, free for browsing. Computers and Automation Telecommunications Abstracts If the particular periodical Computers and Biomedical Telecommunications Policy you're looking for is stored on Research Telecommunications Reports microfiche or microfilm, you can read Computers and Electrical Telecommunications Sourcebook and print copies of these articles in Engineering Telematics & Informatics the microfiche/microfilm reading Computers and Employment Telematics room. This room has about 25 to 30 Computers and Fluids Telephony microfiche/microfilm reading Computers and Geosciences Journal of American Culture machines. (These dual-function Computers and Geotechnics Journal of Business machines display either microfiche Computers and Industrial Communications or microfilm.) Hard copies ofarticles Engineering Journal of Communication can be printed for nine cents a page Computers and Mathematics Journal of Computer-Based using magnetic "copy cards." Copy Computers and Operations Instruction cards can also be used in the library's Research Journal of Computers in photocopying machines. Computers and People Mathematics & What makes the Gelman library Computers and Security Science Teaching microfiche/microfilm reading room Computers and Society Journal of Creative Behavior so splendid is that it is entirely "self-serve." A huge cabinet in the

34 Washington Apple Pi Journal April 1994 TC middle of the room houses a ga­ morning, for instance), but you can George Washington Uni­ gillion microfiche cards, all nicely capture the results of your searches versity's Gelman Library is organized by index number. A to your hard drive. Once on your located at 2130 H St, NW, within similar cabinet at the far side of the hard drive, your bibliographic three blocks of the Foggy Bottom room houses a mega-million information can be edited, compiled, subway station. The Periodicals microfilm rolls, with back issues of or otherwise massaged in your word Desk is open: M-Thu. 9 AM to 9:45 27 major English language processor. (And also sent via modem PM. Fri. 9 AM to 7:45 PM., Sat. 11 newspapers. to your colleagues across town, or AM to 7 :45 PM, Sun. 11 AM to 8:45 If you know the particular across the country.) PM. The Gelman Library itself is periodical you're looking for, and if As it happens, one ofthe persons open longer hours. For further info you know the general layout ofthese who shares my house happens to be about Gelman Library, call the microfiche/microfilm cabinets, you a graduate student at George library's information desk: (202) could zero in right on what you Washington University, so I may, 994-6558.• needed within a minute or two. (The perchance, be able to use his online Library of Congress periodical account when the weather is too [Phil Shapiro can be reached on reading room, by contrast, requires unseasonable for me to make a trip America Online at: pshapiro; on that you fill out periodical request to the Gelman library. Doing online Internet at: [email protected]] forms, and then wait about an hour research in pajamas beats out the for someone to the deliver the Library of Congress any day, don't periodicals to your desk. The you think? periodical holdings at the Library of Congress may be far more exhaustive, but the process of accessing them is far more exhausting.) Teaching A New Trick To A Having easy access to the many periodicals at the Gelman library Venerable Computer would be one thing, but unless you have easy access to the electronic (teaching an old Apple ///+ to databases for searching these talk to a new printer). periodicals, the perio.dicals are of merely passing interest. Interestingly, the exhaustive Aladin nce upon a time, we wanted a on the typical slow serial side. We databases that can be searched at Olaserprinter. Wewantedalaser did have to add 2 megs ofmemory to terminals in the library can also be printer that would work with our the //IP so it could handle graphics accessed by dial-in modem from collection oforphaned Apple /Is, Ills from the GS. home. (Note: While the library itself as well as the Macs we use and or Parallel operation was is open for public use, dial-in use of hope to own when we are rich. After frustrating! We tried the standard Aladin is reserved for George lots of thought and consideration, .printer and .parallel drivers Washington University students we decided to adopt another orphan without luck. We tried assorted and faculty.) The computer center -a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet //IP. cables including a neat parallel card at George Washington University We knew it would work with to 25 pin connector from Tom makes available a Macintosh everything we have (eventually). Linders. Disillusionment had set telecommunications program ThellIP supports parallel and serial in with our new toy. named "TinCan" which allows connections as well as AppleTalk as Notes to the TCS and Apple-3 students and faculty to call the an optional expense. list-serv offered hope. Paul university's mainframe. Getting the serial connection to Campbell (ofthe Detroit Campbells) The advantages of being able to work was a relative snap. Get the rode (well, uploaded) to our rescue. access Aladin from home are many. Laserjet Driver off of the Ill SIG Using the fabulous Disk Archival/ Not only can you do database Drivers disk we bought years ago, Retrieval program from On Three's searches in your pajamas, at the futz with the cables, baud rate, etc. Bob Consorti, he uploaded not one, most convenient time of day (late and success. Perfect copies, albeit but two, laser drivers and

April 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 35 instructions about how to use them (and fix the problem we created when we edited out some of the Screen Blank.ers we loaded to the new /// -BOS Notes from the (Bob's Operating System) which is really slick and has already been Apple II Vice President the subject of various rave reviews. Both drivers work with the //IP. by Joan Jernigan One is for the older style cable that works with the II family. The other with the more sophisticated ehadanactivegroupatour Centronics printer style of cable. Wallo (new and improved version), February meeting. First Paul will be glad to release these to Carlos Perez, and Matt Storm we had an excellent the WAPtrhree's Company systems W (pens). and we might even get them added presentation from Gerry Wright who The next meeting will feature a showed us her Filecard.Bldr to the WAP Disketeria. colleague of mine from the Eastern program written in Applesoft for We thank Paul (and his growing Shore who has created 3-D models the 8-bit world. There was a lot of family) and are glad we showed our of some Virginia landmarks using interest from the audience and support for the Ill by buying BOS paint and drawing programs. several of us took a copy of the disk from WAP, paying our shareware Several others may bring a 20-30 with us either to use ourselves or to fee to Bob Consorti for DAR and ... minute demo of interest to others. share with a colleague who Just remember-a Ill will still Ifyou have anythingthat you would programs. outnumber crunch a 486! Apple like to share, please don't hesitate Seth Mize then shared a built a great computer, still do­ to bring it. There is usually time for collection ofhyperstudio stacks from lousy marketing... impromptu sharing. The next two Columbia Slice and made copies Prepared on our Apple ///+, meetings will be held in the Pi office. available. A question and answer uploaded via our //GS using our April brings us Bill Geiger with period followed. Sample copies of 14,400 USR Sportster Modem. (We his GS sound machine. We are Apple periodicals such as II Alive, had to find a double density 3.5 disk hoping that Gary Hayman will be Shareware Solutions, Enhance, etc. because the Ill has the SuperDrive, able to participate in one of the were passed around and discussed. not the GS). • upcoming months. He seems to be Door Prizes went to George traveling, skiing, cruising, and Griffin and Seth Mize (a book on Dave & Joan Jernigan enjoying many other pursuits to the getting your affairs in order), Gerry [email protected] (maybe) envy of us all. • Wright(aMac Optimizer), andAndy [email protected] (hopefully) davejernigan. [email protected] (really) [email protected] (really) j oan .j ernigan. tcs. w ap. org Beginner's Corner: (hopefully) [email protected] (by the time you read this) Polishing Green Apples

by Steve Weyhrich

Hooked on Storage (Part 1) their users are created equally. Therefore, with this Polishing Green Preamble Apples article I will begin a discussion We hold these truths to be self about hard disks, which can level the evident; that not all computers or playing field somewhat between our

36 Washington Apple Pi Journal April 1994 favorite computer and those Big Blue Additionally, just keeping track of (.14 and .7S meg, respectively), a and Big Mac things out there. I plan your library of programs can become hard disk holds anywhere from 5 to address their internal workings difficult when they are spread over meg to over 1000 meg of data. A (the basics), what they can be used some 30 to 50 (for some users, over hard disk is not usually as portable for, their cost, how to use them to the 200) different disks. as a floppy disk, since it is built fullest, and anything else of interest As in an earlier article, let's begin directly into the mechanism that that I can come up with. with some pertinent definitions. For reads and writes the data. However, Consume Mass a general review on how disks work a company known as Syquest has Quantities! at their most basic level, I suggest created a series of hard disks that When talkingabouttheresources you obtain the February 1993 are removable, with capacities of 44 of your computer (memory, storage, GEnieLamp A2, which carried part 9 meg, SS meg, and 105 meg. and speed), most newer applications of my Applell History. (Either file Magneto-opticaldrive These for the Apple II and Ilgs tend to do #107Sor#l075fromGEnie'sDigiPub drives are currently significantly just that: Consume libraries.) In thatsegmentI explained more expensive than other mass mass quantities. Okay, so you in detail the concept of interleave, storage drives available. However, probably don't absolutely NEED a and how it affects the speed at which their storage capacity is quite high, hard drive in order to make use of data can be read from or written to and the disks are NOT sensitive to your computer. You CAN continue to disks, which is applicable to hard stray magnetic fields as are most use floppy disks, either 5.25 inch disks as well as the older floppy disks. other disks used in computers. The (which hold 143K)or3.5inch(holding term "magneto-optical" means that SOOK). You do NOT need to take Definitions this type of disk uses both magnetic advantage of any of those ads that (for disk drives) AND optical technologyinitfunction. recently have Disk A storage device, usually An optical disk is much like a appeared for low cost hard disks or made up of a plastic film coated with CD or CD-ROM, except that it can "fl.optical" drives ... magnetic particles (much like the be written to. When reading, a laser ... and you don't really NEED power tapeusedinaudiocassettes).Aligning is aimed at the disk surface, and the steering, power brakes, fuel these tiny magnetic specks one way direction that the light is deflected injection, AM/FM Cassette, or air represents a binary "O", and in determines whether it was a "1" bit bags in your new car... another direction as a binary "l". or "O" bit. When writing, a higher­ But... Floppy disk A flexible disk poweredlaser heats the disk surface ... those items can sure make within a protective envelope offirmer to the point where its previous "1" or things easierfor you as a driver. And plastic. It has most commonly come "O" is erased, and while it cools, a in the same way, a hard disk can in 51/4 (or 5.25) inch size in the past, magnetic field is used to determine make things significantly more (and S inches also, but that size never the NEW bit that is written there. convenient for you as a computer penetrated very far in the Apple II Because it is more complicated, user, whether you consider yourselfa world). However, the newer 3 1/2 (or the currently magneto-optical drives "power" user or not. In fact, using an 3.5) inch size has been popularized are slower than standard hard Apple Ilgs WITHOUT a hard drive is over the past ten years by the drives, but the resistance ofthe disks getting downright frustrating these Macintosh and other newer to accidental erasure make them days. Some newer applications generation computers. Strictly more reliable for long-term storage. require so much disk swapping(even speaking, the 3.5 disks are still This is currently as close to a re­ with TWO ofthe 3.5 drives) that they considered to be "floppy", even though writable CD-ROM that we have can become more the flexible part ofthe disk is encased gotten. hassle than they are worth. in a hard plastic shell with a metal Floptical This is a Let's face it, the "good ol' days" sliding window to afford greater trademarked term, which means when a program AND its data files protection to the surface of the disk. "floppy drive, optically tracked". It wouldfitcomfortablyona 143Kfloppy Hard disk Also known as a is made by only a few companies disk are long gone. Programs are "fixed disk", this device is significant that have joined together to create larger(becauseusershavedemanded forits much greater storage capacity. and market these drives as a mass more and better features), and the Where the Apple II standard storage alternative to the traditional data files that they create and use 5.25 disk typically holds about 143K fixed or hard drive. The disks look have also become larger. of data, and a 3.5 disk holds SOOK just like a standard 3.5 floppy disk,

April 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 37 but is very different in the amount of for our computer. However, the new to write part of the hard disk files to data it can hold, currently either 20 discQuest software from Sequential several smaller capacity disks, or or 40 megs. This type of a storage Systems makes it possible to utilize perhaps to a tape. When you load device is similar to older drives in the the proprietary coded data on many files back onto your hard disk from way which data is stored on the disk of the popular CD-ROMs that are the backup disks, this is called surface, using a magnetic read/write available, opening up the CD-ROM "restoring" the files. head. However, other types of disk world to the Apple II. Sector A term describing a drives use a stepper motor or a Tape drive The original tape certain number of bytes that are mechanicalscrewtoposition the read/ drive for the Apple II was a standard stored as a group on the disk surface. write head over the disk surface; a cassette recorder using audio tapes. In DOS 3.3, data was read from or magneto-optical drive uses an optical It was slow and not very easy to use. written to thediskin256-byte sectors. sensor to determine where on the Modem tape drives are capable of This was felt to be the best disk surface the head should be higher density for data storage, and compromise between the limited placed. With this method, higher faster access. However, because of memory available on older Apple !Is densities of data storage can be the way that a tape works- in a (requiring smaller sector sizes) and obtained, 1245 tracks per inch, linear fashion - tape access will the speed of disk access (which could compared to the more typical 135 never be as fast as disk access. (This be improved with larger sector sizes). tracks per inch on a standard floppy is for the same reason that it is faster With the small disk capacities disk. However, it also requires a disk to jump between songs on a record available with the older Apple II medium that has been specially album or a CD in random order than operating systems (143K for DOS created to containing the tracking to rewind and fast-forward a cassette 3.3, and 112Kfor DOS 3.2), a smaller marks that the optical sensor uses to to do the same thing.) These are used sector size made more sense. This is place the read/write head, and so primarily for backing up data from a because even ifa file consisted ofonly each disk is significantly more hard disk. 50 bytes of data, 256 bytes was still expensive than a standard 3.5 floppy. RAM disk Acts just like a disk the minimum size that could be used Another advantage of the drive with moving parts, but is in as a holding space for that data on the Floptical drives are their ability to reality just a bank ofRAM chips with disk. Theother206bytes were wasted ALSO handle the standard (in the software that designates where data space. A larger sector size would just MS-DOS world) 720K and 1.44 meg is stored in the bank. The advantage have the potential for wasting more 3.5 inch floppy disks. So with this is speed (no moving parts to wait for), space ifmany small files were stored disk drive you can have the but the disadvantage is data stored on the disk. An older operating advantages of a large removable on a RAM disk disappears when the system, CP/M, used 128-byte sectors. storage device, plus the ability to power is turned off. However, as a file gets larger and manage older types of disks. Backup/restore Because the larger, it requires more overhead in CD-ROM drive An audio CD law that states"Anything that can go the directory to store the map that uses a laser to read the digitized wrong, will go wrong" definitely tells the disk system where the sectors musical "data" from the disk and applies to computers, it is necessary that make up the file can be found. A relay that to other circuitry, which to ensure that if something goes larger sector size makes for smaller turns it into sound. A CD-ROM does wrong with your large storage device file maps. the same thing, but uses it simply as you have a protection from loss of Block The Sophisticated data which COULD be sound, but important data files. Think of it as Operating System (SOS) designed also can be programs, pictures, and "safe computing". In this case, it does for the Apple III redesigned the data more. These drives are getting to a not involve a condom, but rather structure for disk access so 512-byte critical mass in the computer making a duplicate copy ofyour vital chucks of data were used. These marketplace, and more CD-ROM files and keeping the copy in a safe were called "blocks", and allowed data disks are becoming available all the place. With floppy disks, it may be as to be read a bit faster with each disk time. simple as duplicating the entire disk, operation; reading 256 bytes twice Although SCSI CD-ROM drives and then putting the duplicate away. was slower than reading 512 bytes meant for the Macintosh have been For ahard disk, it is unlikely that you once. ProDOS was designed as a usable on the Apple II and Ilgs for justhappen to have ANOTHER hard subset of SOS, and so used exactly some time, there have not been many disk sitting around to use for backing the same disk format. ofthe CD-ROM disks that were useful it up. In that case, you need to be able (continued page 43)

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42 Washington Apple Pi Journal April 1994 (continued from page 38) by DOS 3.1, 3.2, and 3.2.1, but they concerned, if the software that are little more than historical controls a disk device responds to Track Data stored on the surface of curiosities now.) It is limited certain types of commands in the a disk are arranged as concentric primarilyto5.25 disks, although with right way, it does not care whether circles, one within another. These some patches it can be made to work that device is a 5.25 disk, 3.5 disk, circles ofdata are called tracks. Each on hard disks or 3.5 disks. This disk hard disk, RAM disk, or tape drive. If type of disk device has its own operating system is quite liberal in the right controlling software was peculiarities as to how many tracks the types of characters allowed in designed, you could even attach a can be utilized on the disk surface, namingfiles. Afilenameunder DOS computerviaa phone line and modem and how many sectors or blocks can 3.3 can be nearly ANY character in to a large disk storage device be placed on a single track. The older the ASCII set, even ifthat character elsewhere, and data could be saved 5.25 disks used on the Apple II have would not display on the screen; and loaded from that remote device a standard of 16 sectors per track, however,itmaynothandlelowercase just as if it was right there on the and 35 tracks per disk (DOS 3.2 could characters well, since it was designed desk next to the computer. In fact, an only handle 13 sectors per track). to work with the Apple II Plus, which AppleTalknetwork works very much The 3.5 disks use a varying number of did not have lowercase. A filename like that example (minus the phone sectors per track, with fewer as you must start with a printable letter (A­ line and modem, of course). go from the outer rim of the disk Z), but after that, anything goes. GS/OS A true chameleon of an toward the center. Since the tracks Examples include "APPLE­ operating system. Its earlier are smaller in diameter at the inner VISION", "AREALLY#$%@FILE", incarnation, ProDOS 16, was shipped part of the disk, there is less disk or"THISFILE IS __". The length with the original Apple IIgs, and in media available for packing data into of the filenames was limited to 30 that form ONLY handled disk input blocks(fewerinchesofdiskpass under characters or less. and output, and actually made use of the read/write head until the track ProDOS Known now as the older 8-bit code in ProDOS 8 for starts over), and so some disk devices ProDOS 8, it stands for''Professional most of what it did. When GS/OS have fewer blocks per track on the Disk Operating System", and is more came out, it was designed to deal inner tracks. flexible than DOS 3.3 in the types of with nearly everything that the Interleave Refers to the way in disk devices it will support, and how computer did, in addition to disk which groups of data are written to a much capacity on each disk is functions. disk to achieve the best throughput allowed. A filename under ProDOS Directory A list of files on a and speed for the device being used. must start with a letter, is limited to disk, usually including other A fast disk drive might be able to use only 15 characters, and those information about the file's size, the a 1:1 interleave, where the physical characters can only be letters, date it was created or modified, and number of a disk sector corresponds numbers, or a period. the kind ofinformation the file holds. to the logical number of the data Examples include Catalog Thesameasadirectory, sector being written to it. A slower "BASIC.SYSTEM", "Bl.2.3.WOW", but an older name used with DOS 3.3 drive or slower controlling software "B ..... C ... D". The largest size disk or earlier operating systems. may need to use a 2:1 or higher device supported under ProDOS is Subdirectory Just like a interleave, to allow the drive to read 32 meg, and so a hard disk that is directory, but at a "deeper" level than a sector, and while it is processing it, larger than 32 megs must be the main or root directory on a disk. have one or more disk sectors pass partitioned into multiple volumes Makes it possible to organize files in beneath the read/write head that are that are 32 megs or smaller. different groups. ignored. If the interleave is set One of the other advances that Partition This refers to a correctly, the disk should be at the came about with ProDOS 8 was method of taking a disk device and right position when the software is device independence. That is, "breaking it up" into two or more ready for the next sector of data to be ProDOS was not tied down to a smallersizeddisks. OnaPHYSICAL immediately read. specific type of disk hardware, as basis, this does not mean that the DOS 3.3 (NOT the "DOS 3.3" DOS 3.3 was (which was designed to disk is actually changed. On a that was released by Microsoft for the work only with 5.25 disks, although LOGICAL basis, the disk device may IBM PC a few years ago.) This oldest it was patched many different ways either have a storage capacity that disk operating system for the Apple to allow it to use other types of disk exceeds what the operating system is II still in use. (DOS 3.3 was preceded devices). As far as ProDOS is able to handle, or it may need to be

April 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 43 divided up for the convenience of the SCSI tape drive to the SCSI controller endary Apple II and IIgs computers, user. card plugged into a computer. and writes a monthly column called A disk drive that has been Generally speaking, connecting a the "A2 News Digest" for A2-Central partitioned into two or more smaller SCSI device to a computer is no more disk magazine. He is also the author devices may APPEAR to the computer complicated than turning off the of the "Apple II History", available on fine bulletin and its disk operating system as if power, plugging it in, and turning it boards everywhere. Weyhrich can be thereweremorethanonePHYSICAL back on. In reality, however, this reached on GEnie at: s. weyhrich, and device attached. For example, the sometimes requires a bit more to be via the Internet at: maximum size disk volume that done to make it function properly. s. [email protected]] ProDOS can handle is 32 megs. Ifa 40 meg hard disk is attached to a Concluding (c) Copyright 1994 T/TalkNET computer running the ProDOS Statements Online Publishing and GEnie. To operating system, only 32 megs of it We'll stop here for now, and let join GEnie, set your modem to 2400 will be usable, and 8 megs would be you chew on that for a while. Next baud (or less) and half duplex Qocal unavailable and therefore wasted. time I will begin to get into some echo). Have the modem dial 1-800- Partitioning that disk into different suggestions on how to organize your 638-8369. When you get a sized volumes (20/20 or 30/10 or 32/8) hard disk to get the best use out ofit. CONNECT message, type HHH. At allows ALL ofit to be used for storage. In the meantime, keep your eyes on the U#= prompt, type: With the older DOS 3.3 operating those sale prices - hard disks are XTX99014,DIGIPUB and hit the system, in which a 143K disk size getting more affordable all the time! [return] key. The system will then was standard, hard drives used at ask you for your information. Call that time were logically divided up [Steve Weyhrich is a family physician (voice) 1-800-638-9636 for a free into multiple 143K volumes. In this from Omaha, Nebraska. He has been pamphlet about GEnie. case, there was still a particular slot using Apple II computers since 1981, and drive that was assigned to the and writing about them since 1990. He follows closely the events that con­ disk controller card, but any tinue to shape the destiny of the leg- particular 143K "disk" on that hard disk was accessed via a "V" parameter ("V" for volume) in DOS 3.3 disk commands. A catalog command wo uld then be issued as "CATALOG , S5 , Dl,Vl ", "CATALOG,S5,Dl,V2", and so on. Little-Known Utilities For SCSI Stands for "Small Computer Systems Interface", and is The System Utilities usually pronounced "scuzzy". Itrefers to a set ofcommands that are used to By Hal Edelstein control storage devices of various (with some additions types. The SCSI protocol even allows by Dave Ottalini) the use of devices such as modems and printers, butlhaven'tseenmuch of this penetrate into personal cause the Apple Ill manual or the volume name or the computers as a whole, and none have was ·not the world's best, subdirectory pathname, then hit the appeared for any computer in the Bseveral convenient techniques up-arrow key. A slash and an equal Apple II line. which are available in the System sign (/=) now appear after your When the term "SCSI" is used Utilities oft.en go unnoticed. For entry. A list of the files within that with the name of another piece of example: directory will appear in the upper hardware, it means that that device 1. You don't ever have to type right of the screen. Move the cursor is intended to be used on a chain of the names of existing files that are to the desired file name, and hit the devices that all communicate with to be copied, deleted, etc. When the right-arrow key. More than one file one another via the SCSI command file name is requested in the lower may be selected at a time in this set. Therefore, a SCSI cable is used to left corner, type the drive (say .D2) way. If you change your mind, hit connect a SCSI hard drive and a

44 Washington Apple Pi Journal April 1994 the left-arrow key while the cursor is on the file name. A right-arrow alongside the file name indicates those that have been selected; the arrow The Apple /// disappears when you rm-select it. When you're through selecting, press Return. Ifyou're copying files, Internal RAM Test a default name will appear on the next prompt line. If that has to be by Rod Whitten changed, make sure that'/=' follows the pathname. If '.D2/=', etc. appears as a default on the first line, don't press or those All/ owners with a 12 Return unless you wantall the files volt, 128K machine who are DIAGONISTIC RAM in the directory. Instead type in or F having problems with their B9 BS B7 B6 B5 B4 B3 B2 edit the directory name without the Alls memory, it has an internal Bl7 Bl6 Bl5 Bl4 B13 Bl2 equal character (the end slash is diagonistic to test the RAM. To Bll BlO optional), and hit the up-arrow as check if you have a 12V machine, B9 BS B7 B6 B5 B4 B3 B2 described above. not a 5V, check your serial number. Bl7 Bl6 Bl5 Bl4 Bl3 Bl2 If you are working with If it is greater than 100,000, it is Bll BlO subdirectories on the disk and wish probably 5V. To run the test, one Cl7 Cl6 Cl5 Cl4 Cl3 Cl2 to get a listing of those files, select must remove all the peripheral en c10 the subdirectory with the right cards, especially Grappler and D9 DB D7 D6 D5 D4 D3 D2 arrow key, then hit ENTER instead Profile, and go into Monitor by Dl7 D16 Dl5 Dl4 Dl3 Dl2 of Return. This will now become holding down CONTROL and OPEN Dll DlO your pathname at the prompt line. APPLE, thenhitRESET. An arrow C9 CS C7 C6 C5 C4 C3 C2 Press the up arrow key to see all the and a flashing underline should files under that subdirectory in the appear in the upper left-hand corner If replacing the chip does not window. If you want to select all the of the screen. Type F6E6G and the solve the problem, then it could be files, hit Return. Otherwise, choose screen will fill with "garbage" for a the memory board itself. Other error the individual files as described moment and about every 20 seconds messages could show up, if so give above and then press Return. the following will appear on the me a call and will look it up in my 2. There is a character insert/ screen. Apple Ill Service Reference Manual. delete feature built in to the System With regards to this manual, if you Utilities and available for most (but DIAGONISTIC RAM wish to copy it, see me and we can not all) activities in the Utilities! make arrangements. However, it is This is handy for editing long about 200 pages long and it would pathnames, etc. be loaned with the understanding To enter the Insert mode, press that you would do the same for OpenApple-I. A vertical bar will someone else. appear between two characters. This Ifyou have a 256K///, which has bar is a cursor indicating where different memory locations, you can characters will be inserted iftyped. It go into monitor and run the same can be moved with the left-and right­ test; however, you must use another arrows, and toggled off and on with Run for about 20 minutes, longer if procedure to determine the problem the same OpenApple-I command. it normally takes that long for the chip,ifaninverse lshowsup. Ifyou To delete a character under the error to show up. If the dots keep have this problem, let me know and cursor, press Open Apple-Right Arrow. appearing, then everything is I can get you the procedure. • To delete one to the left of the cursor, normal, but if an inverse 1 shows press Open Apple-Left Arrow. • up, you probably have a bad RAM Reprinted from Reprinted from the chip at that location. The code to June1985 ATUNC Newsletter where on the memory board the bad ATUNC Newsletter April 1985 chip is as follows:

April 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 45 Instrument and Wave Form files. These files are normally housed in the SEQ.AND.INSTR folder (previously mentioned). In my The Music Goes collection there are 5 pairs. The PIANO.BNKandPIANO.WAV, the Round and Round DEMO.BNK and DEMO.WAY, the COMBO.BNK and COMBO.WAY, by Gary Hayman the ORCH.BNK and ORCH.WAV and the SYNTH.BNK and SYNTH.WAV. [XXX.BNKfiles are You push the first KEY down and the of the INS file type ($D6), while XXX. WAV files are of the SND file music goes round and round Oh oh oh oh, oh type ($D8)]. Each music file [MUS oh and it comes out here. file type ($D5)] depends upon one of the file pairs, but which pair is not he Attack of the Synth Music. this music - in a jukebox mode. obvious. You could place all of the T No it is not a Sci-Fi film but it The jukebox mode will play selection five pairs on a 3.5" disk prior to is what is presently going on if you after selection, even in the placing the music, but that would are following the InterNet USENET background, while you are take up some 365K of disk space. newsgroup feed of concurrently using many 16 bit As a suggestion, place only one comp.binaries.apple2 these days. applications (not 8 bit). pair on each of five formatted 3.5" Some individuals have been able Two ofmy favorite jukebox-type disks. You will only be using up 73K to produce a multitude of Excellent players are MINSTREL which of disk space. Label the disk as Synth Music [Synthesized Music] comes from Softdisk[GS] Magazine appropriate, such as Synth Music - through the use of new programs and is a NDA (New Desk Accessory) Piano, Synth Music - Orch, etc. and MIDI Translators. You can and SYNTH MUSIC PLAYER Now you are ready to place the listen to the music if you have an which is a CDA (Classic Desk appropriate music on the disks. But Apple IIGS and use the SYNTHLAB Accessory). My favorite, at the which piece belongs on which disk. programthatcomeswiththecurrent moment (for there may be others), Here is a little hint that will identify GS/OS disk sets. is SYNTH MUSIC PLAYER. With which selection goes where. I use Whether you like Bach, either, you can mark a multitude of ProSel-16 or Copy II+ to 'type to Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart or would selections to be played and you will screen' or 'view file', the ASCII of like.to listen to arenditionofJohnny­ hear continuous and excellent music the music file. This won't work with B-Good, the music is now becoming - till you deactivate it. I like to a normal text reader because the available to you at a fast and furious initiate the music, go back to my music file is not a text file. I use pace. Besides the BINSCII [Binary ProSel.16 Spec Screen and let the Copy II+ because it operates faster Encoded ASCII] files on Kinetic Art screen play with the for me. On the first line, you_will comp.binaries. a pple2, electronic multiple piece synth music in the find an indication ofwhat:XXX.BNK bulletin boards and on-line services background. is necessary to play the file. Then it (GEnie, for example) are placing A major problem is that, as you is just a matter of copying the file to them in their file libraries for your start collecting these various the appropriate disk of the five downloading pleasure. musical compositions and placing prepaired as above. Ifyou put these music files into them on your Hard Drive, they will You will be surprised at the your */SYNTHLAB/ multiply and take over,just as fonts, amount of music that you can place SEQ.AND.INSTR folder[*= root or graphics and rabbits seem to do. An on the disks now. When in a jukebox top level directory] they can be alternative, would be to place them mode, the delay between selections played with the SYNTHLAB on 3.5" disks. can hardly be noticed and is probably program in the */SYNTHLAB folder. A couple ofcomments and hints no different that the delay that a There are also other 'player' are now needed. In order for the CD music disk offers you. programs available, both for free or music pieces to be played, not only Remember, you can't mix types for fee. But wait, there are some must you have the music file but unless multiple BNKIWAV files are more interesting ways of playing you must have MATCHING

46 Washington Apple Pi Journal April 1994 on the disk. there and runs. I AM NOW A Start collecting the music now BACKER UPPER of "all" things! I and take advantage ofthe excellent use the modified, date & time for up sound system that the IIGS offers. I dates as I go along. have two Yamaha amplified I think I have learned a major speakers connected through a Y plug lesson about backing up. I hope this to the mini-plug connection on the little story will help someone else back of my IIGS. This system really that thinks they don't need to B/U belts out the music with volume and "everything". • clarity. So when I push that key down, my music goes round and round from one selection to another-and it comes out here. • '.Ta.~e,!:Advao.tage'J)f :;. WAP.~~··Di•keteria .selections·: .,\~~:

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avid has been after me for two the D#%& Thing, nothing seemed us~dtin,"o~o~~ ~tj~utJ D years to write an article for The to help. I was starting to worry. I mil are either from fb.e Journal, I made this one ofthe things thought maybe I'll put my other ' Macintosh "AniffiaI "'.9.~ I said I would do for the new year. Profile on line and see ifl can load it(I At just about the same time I know it is messed up). When I crawled messed up and down I went, I lost my under the desk (to make a long story Profile with all my software in it. No short) I found the plug loose. No problem, I got "GO BACK///". There problem, I got it ''backed up". .S~,,p,g~~·5sr78 is only one small problem with this, I got the backup disks (28) out fot.:d~~cripti6ns you only get out what you "got" in. and started, the first thing I found · ·aria;oraer£orms., . Here's the .way it went. I started out was, I had not backed up this noticing that something was wrong drive in 6 months, the restore went with .Profile in the middle of the well only, boy it's slow (maybe Bob night. Now anytime something goes can fix it so we can turn the monitor bump in the night we should get up, off!) I lost 125 files that I had formed go to bed and think about it the next in the last few months-files that day,ldidn't.lsaid, OKihaveeverything had things I had made special and backed up, I can just reload and get were one-of-a-kind. going. I checked a few things, I backup my files every week or remembered a few bad commands I more often if I do a lot of work on had given in the last hour or so and them. The reason my mind didn't assumed I had messed up. want to backup the Profile (all I couldn't get the drive to do much software) was that, nothing every that I wanted it to do, I evenfomatted happens to this drive - it just sits

April 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 47 the Intepreter. This file is an assembly language program which contains the language you are using The Apple /// System such as BASIC or PASCAL, or the actual application program you are using such as 3EZ Pieces or Configuration Program Applewriter. Hence you choose the interpreter when you choose the (SCP) program. This also means that SOS.INTERP files are not freely interchangeable. The BASIC by Joe Dombrowolski interpreter will not allow you to run (with some updating Pascal programs even though it will by Dave Ottalini) boot. Ifyou are building a boot disk, be sure you have copied the correct interpreter for what you want to do. ne of the most important orders (booting). More exactly, it is The one you can really things any /II user must looking for a file called manipulate to your advantage is 0 understand is how to use the SOS.KERNAL which contains the SOS.DRIVER and you don't even System Configuration Program fundamental instructions the need to know a thing about (SCP) and how to build a machine needs to function programming. SOS.DRIVER is SOS.DRIVER file. Only you, the internally. Without these instruc­ actually the directory name of the user, know your system's tions the /// can do nothing. file which contains the individual configuration and how you'll be Next the/// looks to the same device drivers. A device driver is using any piece of software. With drive for the file SOS.INTERP just an assembly language program this in mind we bring our first (interpreter) which contains the that tells the computer how to read tutorial, one on SOS.DRIVER instructions for interfacing with you, from and/or write to the device. building. the user. Using the System Configuration Finally, it looks on the disk in Program (which is only a fancy file RAM, ROM and the internal drive for a file called mover) on the Utilities disk you can Turning It On SOS.DRIVER which contains the add device drivers to the file as you Between the time you turn your instructions for the machine to add devices. YOU CAN ALSO computer on and the time you can manage all its other devices such as DELETE THEM. Why would you do something useful with it, an awful the console, printers, hard disk, etc. delete drivers? Usable memory. lot of things happen - if everything This file also must be present and When you boot your system you goes well. This discussion concerns must contain at least the read all the individual drivers in what should, or might, go on. CONSOLE.DRIVER. As you may SOS.DRIVER into your RAM The first thing that occurs when have learned, the absence of any of memory. (See table of contents for your II I is turned on is that it checks these files prevents a successful boot list of drivers and their its own hardware based on the and you get an error message telling appproximate memory instructions (diagnostics) in the you what is missing. These errors requirements in K bytes.) Read Only Memory (ROM) chip. If (pg 114-115), for the most part, do Thus SOS.DRIVER with several any of these tests are failed you get not indicate anything wrong with drivers could take up 40Kor more of one of the error messages listed on your machine, rather there is memory. That is 40K you cannont pages 113-114oftheOwner'sGuide. usually something wrong with the use for a VisiCalc template or an These indicate very serious disk you attempted to boot and the Applewriter document; and, problems which will require message tries to tell you what. particularly if you have only 128K, servicing, so quit right there if you While the 3 SOS files must be you will probably miss it sometimes. get one. there, you do have some control over The secret is, AFTER MAKING A If these tests are passed, the 2 of them. (The one you can't control COMPLETE BACKUP COPY OF machine then looks to the internal is SOS.KERNEL which is the same THE COMPLETE SOS.DRIVER disk drive to read its next set of for all boot disks.) You actually select FILE, to reconfigure the system

48 Washington Apple Pi Journal April 1994 using only those drivers you really (SOS.INTERP), and the Drivers • using SCP we build a need. (SOS.DRIVER) into memory from SOS.DRIVER file by loading an Ifyou don't have an older QUME the top down. In downloading the existing file (normally a or Silentype printer you don't need drivers the system WILL NOT SOS.DRIVER, however in our case those drivers and pick up BK. You SPLIT ADRIVERBETWEENTWO individual files) which contain only need .FMTDX on your Utilities 32K REGIONS OF MEMORY. If .CONSOLE driver 5K and disk (GoBack Ill, 3 EZ pieces etc.) the driver to be loaded will not fit in .PROFILE driver 3K since it is used only for formatting. the current 32K bank the loader • then add a 24K print spooler, Very few application packages use skips the rest ofthat bank and loads let's use D.A. Datasystems .PPRINT .GRAFIX, etc. A word of caution: into the next lower 32K segment. (a parallel printer spooler) in our Read the configuration section ofan That skipped space is NOT available example. application program carefully to to any application and is wasted. • Since .PPRINT is added last it determine the drivers it requires. With larger configurations of will be loaded before .CONSOLE For example, VisiCalc Advanced drivers like print spoolers, it or.PROFILE. Version requires the .AUDIO driver. becomes more likely that this will • NowsavethenewSOS.DRIVER Still, the SOS.DRIVER that comes occur. Witha256Kor512Kmachine on our new boot disk and boot it... with it needs about 20K. If you use you can probably chalk this up to it with just a second floppy drive overhead, but on a 128K machine Let's discuss what this means and a printer, you can cut that to you will probably wish to optimize (the technical stuft): about 14K by deleting .PROFILE the situation, if possible, and • SOS.KERNAL loads from FFF (unless you need it) and .QUME. experiment with progressively to 8800 of the topmost reserved If you are wondering about the larger configurations. System Bank leaving 14K free in disk drive driver, don't. It is included The reason we can't give you firm that bank (8000-B7FF). in SOS.KERNAL because every Ill guidelines on which drivers to load SOS.INTERP loads below that has a disk drive. Admittedly there in what order is that it depends extending down llK into the top are some more things that may primarily upon factors which vary User Bank, leaving 21Kfree in that automatically happen when you boot completely from system to system, bank. The24K.PPRINTWILLNOT a disk. The interpreter program, user to user and application to FIT in this remaining space so it is e.g. VisiCalc, may automatically application. See the next section for skipped and .PPRINT followed by start. Also, your HELLO (BASIC) a review. the 8Kof.CONSOLE and .PROFILE or System.Startup (Pascal) program load into the next lower bank. The may automatically start (Turnkey Technical Note on net result is 21K wasted space. disk) or you may get a message System Loading of Drivers telling you to insert another disk The three variable system How to Maximize Memory: (Two-stage boot). However, these parameters which affect the loading 1. Select the minumum number of events are not necessary for anApple of any particular driver file, and drivers necessary to utilize your III to get started. The sequence of thus the 32K(more or less depending application in themanneryou wish. SOS.KERNAL, SOS.INTERP and on revision) boundary problem are: 2. Group drivers in near 32Kgroups SOS.DRIVER is necessary and • the size of the Interpreter (on a separate piece of paper). under those exact file names on the loading below SOS, but above the 3. Load driver, first the smallest same boot disk. This is true even if drivers. group, then the larger (one nearest you are using a "Hard Disk Boot" •the number and size of each 32K-not over). such as BOS3, Selector or Catalyst driver configured, and, 4. Edit driver if necessary. or if you have PMOVed Pascal to • the order ofthose drivers in your 5. Set the System Parameters. your Profile or other hard disk. SOS.DRIVER file (which, by the 6. Generate the new system. • way is the opposite of the order the What Happens When You Boot SCP list them in). (Originally published in the News Your Disk? and Views Newsletter, November When you boot up an Apple Ill One example should get you on the 1985) application, the system loads the track..... Operating System (SOS.KERNAL), • start with a SOS.INTERP that the Interpreter or application is 25Klong

April 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 49 . • C.. o~ Apple II History • ·,1n' Compiled and written by Steven Weyhrich © Copyright 1991, Zonker Software . . (continued from February 1994 Journal)

' . ; .·. ·M.... ~·.· .·. :··.·····•a· ..,u .. · ... '...• ..··.:'' (PART IV) computers looked like they had been assembled at home (and many of The Apple II: Other them were). The Apple had no Design Features visible screws or bolts (the ten Since Steve Wozniak was the screws attached at the bottom). It designer ofthe and II, exactly had the appearance of some what contribution did Steve Jobs variation of a typewriter, but still make to the effort? Unlike Wozniak, looked futuristic enough to be a who would not think much of extra computer. The friendliness of the wires hanging out of a computer design even extended to the lid, that worked properly, Jobs had an which popped off easily to allow eye for the appearance of the final access to the expansion slots, almost ·+ ,·"· ·,, ''···. product. He wanted the Apple II to inviting the user to look inside be a product that people outside the (unlike most electronic devices that ·· Jf!1J~fJ~§J!r1~ate , . Homebrew Computer Club would held the warning "CAUTION! NO want to own: USER SERVICEABLE PARTS t'iRt,e; ..:,;;to:.'i::V.@·te;:;·:::. · "Jobs thought the cigar boxes INSIDE"). 2 Other aesthetics to [housing the home-made computers] which Jobs paid attention were the that sat on the ... desk tops during color ofthe keyboard, vents for heat Homebrewmeetings were as elegant dissipation (avoiding the need for a as fly traps. The angular, blue and noisy fan), and a shape and color black sheet-metal case that housed that would blend in with other items Processor Technology's Sol struck in a home or on a desk. He also IVl&e.WOfld. him as clumsy and industrial ... A hired an engineer who was good plastic case was generally with analogcircuitry(not Wozniak's .... ·~,~iRP 'tL considered a needless expense area ofinterest) to design a reliable, compared to the cheaper and more lightweight power supply that • pliable sheet metal. Hobbyists, so would stay cool. The engineer, Rod ln the arguments went, didn't care as Holt, was working at Atari at the . . much for appearance as they did for time, but was convinced to help \\fash.i!ngten, ·· substance. Jobs wanted to model Jobs and Wozniak. He developed a the case for the Apple after those new approach (for microcomputers) Hewlett-Packard used for its by taking household current and a·c calculators. He admired their sleek, switching it on and off rapidly, fresh lines, their hardy finish, and producing a steady current that the way they looked at home on a was safe for the expensive memory table or desk."1 chips. The final design of this The final case design made the switchingpowersupplywas smaller Apple II look quite different from than a quart carton ofmilk and was most oftheir competition. The other quite reliable. Holt also helped

50 Washington Apple Pi Journal April 1994 d design the television interface for for a microcomputer for use with Jobs was meticulous about the style the Apple II.a The new company video display, and Holt was given and appearance of the logo ... When was racing to have the Apple II Patent #4, 130,862 for direct current J anov suggested that the six colors ready for the First West Coast power supply. But behind them all be separated by thin strips to make Computer Fair in April of 1977. Jobs was poking, prodding, and the reproduction easier, Jobs Some last minute bugs had to be pushing and it was he, with his refused."5 eliminated; because of a static seemingly inexhaustible supply of For the Faire, Markkula had electricity problem affecting a energy, who became the chiefarbiter ordered a smoky, backlit, sensitive chip, the keyboards went and rejector... [Finally,] the illuminated plexiglas sign with the dead every twenty minutes. Chris combination of [Mike] Markkula new logo. Although Apple had a Espinosa and Randy Wigginton, two [Apple's first president], Jobs, and smaller booth than other companies high school students who were early theMcKennaAgencyturnedApple's displaying their products at the employees of Apple, had written public bow [at the West Coast Faire, and some of the other programs to demonstrate the Computer Faire] into a coup. "4 microcomputer makers (Processor computer's color and sound. They Technology, IMSAI, and Cromemco) were hurriedly working to duplicate The Apple II: Product had beenin business longer, Apple's these programs on cassette. People Introduction booth looked far more professional, at Apple were working to fix As they prepared forthe display thanks to Markkula's sign. Some of blemishes in the computer cases at the First West Coast Faire, it was the other participants, companies that had returned from the plastics decided to create a new corporate larger than Apple, had done no more moldingcompany. Thenameforthis logo. The original one, used in sales than use card tables with signs new computer was also finalized as of the Apple I, was a picture oflsaac written in black markers. "Apple II", following the example of Newton sitting under an apple tree, Because they had been one of Digital Equipment Company, who with a phrase from Wordsworth: the first to commit themselves to had given each newer version of its "Newton ... ' A Mind Forever displaying at the Faire, Apple's PDP series a higher number (PDP- Voyaging Through Strange Seas of booth was near the entrance and 1, PDP-6, etc.). They stylized the Thought... Alone.'" Jobs had been was visible to everybody entering "II" in the product name by using concerned that the logo had part of the convention center. They right and left brackets, and the slow sales ofthe Apple I, and the demonstrated a kaleidoscopic video displaying it on the case as "][". The Regis McKenna Agency was hired graphics program (possibly an early final product bore the mark of each to help in the design of a new one. version of"BRIAN'S THEME") on a person at Apple: "RobJanov, ayoungartdirector, huge Advent display monitor, "The computer the appeared at was assigned to the Apple account catching everybody's attention. But, the West Coast Computer Faire was and set about designing a corporate after the Faire its organizer Jim not one person's machine. It was the logo. Armed with the idea that the Warren (Homebrew club member product ofcollaboration and blended computers would be sold to and editor of DR. DOBB'S contributions in digital logic design, consumers and that their machine JOURNAL) didn't think that Apple analog engineering, and aesthetic was one of the few to offer color, was a strong exhibitor. Byte appeal. The color, the slots, the way Janov set about drawing still lifes magazine, in their report of the in which the memory could be from a bowl of apples .... He gouged a show, failed to even mention Apple. expanded from 4K to 48K bytes, the rounded chunk from one side of the Despite these early opinions by control of the keyboard and hookup Apple, seeing this as a playful influential people, over the next few to the cassette recorder, and the comment on the world of bits and months Apple received about three BASIC that was stored in the ROM bytes but also as a novel design. To hundred orders for the Apple II, chip-in effect the motherboard­ J anov the missing portion over a hundred more than the total was Wozniak's contribution. Holt 'prevented the apple from looking number of Apple I's sold. 6 had contributed the extremely like a cherry tomato.' He ran six significant power supply, and Jerry colorful stripes across the Apple, Mannock the case. The engineering starting with ajaunty sprig ofgreen, The Apple II: Cost advances were officially recognized and the mixture had a slightly Prebuilt systems were also sold when, some months later, Wozniak psychedelic tint. The overall result by Commodore (the 6502-based was awarded U.S. Patent#4,136,359 was enticing and warm ... " "[Steve] PET, for $595), and Radio Shack

April1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 51 (the Z80-based TRS-80, for $600). controls on a radio) and a tiny black users to run their computer on their This was quite a bit less than the button on the side. These boxes were color TV's, some other enterprising Apple II's premium price of $1,298 attached via a narrow cable to a hackers designed their own versions for a 4K computer, a pair of game plug that looked (and was) fragile; ofmodulators. One used by an early paddles, and an audio cassette with this plug also went into a small member of an Apple user group in demo programs. This price did not socket in the motherboard. Lastly, Washington State (Apple include a cassette recorder or you attached your data storage Pugetsound Program Library monitor (which both the PET and device (the cassette recorder) to the Exchange, or A.P.P.L.E.) was TRS-80 did include). The hardware input and output jacks in the back somewhat better shielded than the limitations and lack ofexpandability of the computer. "Sup'r Mod". It had its own power of those machines, however, offset After turning on the Apple II, supply and plugged into the video some of the price difference. Also, the first thing to greet you was a outputjack on the back ofthe Apple. one other hardware introduction for screen full of random alphabetic The "Sup'r Mod" was by far the the Apple II that happened in mid- characters and symbols, and biggest seller, however.9 At first, 1978 set it well ahead of its possibly some colored blocks Clo-res there were no interface cards forthe immediate competitors; we'll get to graphics mode might be turned on). any of Woz's eight slots. With the that shortly. Here you had to press the RESET limited funds that computer key in the upper right hand side of purchasers had then (and now) there the keyboard, which, after releasing was not much they could afford after The Apple II: Experiences Of the key, would cause a "beep!" and shelling out anywhere from $1200 Early Users an asterisk to appear in the bottom to $1800 just to get their own Apple The original manual for the left-hand corner of the screen. (If II. But they were innovative, and Apple II was sparse. It consisted of the lo-res graphics mode had been like many other hardware hackers thirty photocopied pages, including on, it would now be ofl). Next to the ofthe day managed to make do with some handwritten notes from Woz. asterisk (which was a prompt to old or surplus parts. Some people, The cover stated, "simplicity is the show that you were in the Monitor) for instance, had gotten their hands ultimate sophistication: introducing was a flashing box, the cursor. To on used teletype printers, such as Apple][, thepersonalcomputer."In get into BASIC, you had to press the the ASR-33 (called "battleships" early 1978 these original "Ctrl" key and the "B" key because they were so rugged and photocopied manuals were replaced simultaneously. Now you would see heavy). Since there weren't any with the new· "Apple II Technical a different prompt, one that looked printer interface cards to plug into Reference Manual" (also known as like a">". the slots to allow the computer to the "Red Book"), and copies were At this point, you could either communicate with the teletype, they mailed to previous customers. Steve begin entering a BASIC program, used a trick they learned from Woz Jobs realized that people often or try to load one from cassette. To himself. The Apple Ilhadfoursingle­ viewed the quality of a product by load from cassette was not always bi t output pins on the game the quality of its documentation, easy; it took time to get the right controller socket that could be used and so he took pains to get manuals volume and tone settings on the for various purposes. A schematic that were easy to read and had a tape player in order to avoid getting floated through the various user professional appearance. 7 Setting the "ERR" or "8 SYNTAX ERR" groups that showed how to connect up an early Apple II was fairly message. (And if you didn't have the teletype to an annunciator pin; simple. The lid popped off easily, much memory, you might get a"*** along with it was a machine and one ofthe first things you would MEM FULL ERR" message!) When language program that re-directed attach was the Sup'r Mod (RF you got it properly loaded, you could output from the screen to that one­ modulator). This was plugged onto type RUN and see what happened. bit port, and on to the printer.10 two pins sticking up from the back Beyond that, it was more or less up rear of the motherboard, near the to you to actually find something to NOTES video output jack (assuming that DO with your new toy. 8 1 Michael Moritz, THE LITTLE you did not also buy a REAL KINGDOM, p. 186. computer monitor). The game The Apple II: Early Hardware 2 Steven Levy, HACKERS: paddles were two small black boxes, Add-Ons HEROES OF THE COMPUTER with a knob on the top attached to a Aside from the M&R "Sup'r REVOLUTION, pp. potentiometer (similar to volume Mod" that allowed early Apple II

52 Washington Apple Pi Journal April 1994 263-264. others was cost (both the TRS-80 [earlier] conceived a circuit that 3 Moritz, p. 189. and the PET sold for around $600, would do much of what the Shugart 4 Moritz, pp. 190-191. half the price of the Apple II). manual said was needed to control a 5 Moritz, p. 188. By late 1977, Apple had disk drive. Woz didn't know how 6 Moritz, pp. 192-193. introduced a some enhancements to computers actually controlled 7 Philip Chien, "The First Ten Years: the II, including their first version drives, but his method had seemed A Look Back", THE APPLE II of a floating point BASIC (called to him particularly simple and REVIEW, Fall/Winter 1986, p. 12. "Applesoft") on cassette, and a clever. When Markkula challenged 8 --, APPLE II BASIC printer interface card to plug into him to put a disk drive on the Apple, PROGRAMMING MANUAL, 1978, one of the slots on the motherboard. he recalled that circuit and began 1979,1980, 1981,pp. 1-19. But the Apple II still needed considering its feasibility. He looked 9 __, "A.P.P.L.E. Co-op Celebrates something to make it more attractive at the way other computer A Decade of Service", CALL­ to buyers, to stand out above the companies-including IBM­ A.P.P.L.E., Feb 1988, pp. 12-27. TRS-80 and the PET. One area that controlled drives. He also began to 10 Val J. Golding, "Applesoft From needed improvement was its examine disk drives-particularly Bottom To Top", CALL-A.P.P.L.E. program and data storage and North Star's. After reading the IN DEPTH #1, 1981, p. 8. retrieval system on cassette; it was North Star manual, Woz knew that a continued source offrustration for his circuit would do what theirs did many users. The cassette system and more. He knew he really had a (PART 5 -THE DISK II) [vl.O :: used on the TRS-80 was more clever design. "2 21Sep91] sophisticated than that ofthe Apple Other issues that Wozniak had II, allowing named files and easier to deal with involved a way to storage offiles and data on the same properly time the reading and The Disk II tape. On the Apple II it took VERY writing of information to the disk. Let's put some more trash into careful adjustment of the volume IBM used a complex hardware­ Mr. Fusion to fuel the next leg ofour and tone controls on the cassette based circuit to achieve this trip. How about one of those KIM-1 recorder to get programs or data to synchronization. Wozniak, after computers over there in the comer successfully load. The Apple cassette studying how IBM's drive worked, of the Computer Faire auditorium? system also needed careful attention realized that ifthe data was written We might have to break it up a bit to to the location on the tape where a to the disk in a different fashion, all make it fit ... Okay, now we'll just program was stored, and was no that circuitry was unneeded. Many make a small jump, to December of more accurate than the number on floppy disks sold at that time were 1977. By this time the Apple II had the recorder's mechanical tape "hard sectored", meaning that they been generally available for about counter (if it had one). had a hole punched in the disk near six months. Most customers used Apple president Mike Markkula the center ring. This hole was used their television as an inexpensive was one Apple II user that was by the disk drive hardware to color monitor, and used a cassette dissatisfied with cassette tape identify what section of the disk recorder to store and retrieve their storage. He had a favorite checkbook was passing under the read/write programs and data. Apple's major program, but it took two minutes to head at any particular time. competitors were the TRS-80 and read in the program from the tape, Wozniak's technique would allow the Commodore PET. The products and another two minutes to read in the drive to do self-synchronization made by these two companies, the check files.1 Consequently, at ("soft sectoring"), not have to deal together with Apple, could be the executive board meeting held in with that little timing hole, and considered as the second generation December 1977 he made a list of save on hardware. of microcomputers; they all came company goals. At the top of the list Wozniak asked Randy fully assembled and ready to use was "floppy disk". Although Wigginton for help in writing some out of the box, with a keyboard and Wozniak didn't know much about software to control the disk drive. cassette interface. The TRS-80 and how floppy disks worked, he had During their week of Christmas the PET even came with a monitors once looked through a manual from vacation in 1977 they worked day and cassette recorders. The strength Shugart (a Silicon Valley disk drive and night creating a rudimentary of the Apple was expandability and manufacturer): disk operating system, working hard graphics, while the strength of the "As an experiment Woz had to get the drive ready to demonstrate

April 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 53 at the Consumer Electronics Show version of DOS, 3.1. It had an 5 Freiberger and Swaine, (Part Two), in the first week of 1978. Their introductory price of$495 (including p. 46. system was to allow entry of single the controller card) if you ordered 6 __' "AP.P.L.E. Co-op Celebrates letter commands to read files from them before Apple had themin stock; A Decade of Service", CALL­ fixed locations on the disk. However, otherwise, the price would be $595. A.P.P.L.E., Feb 1988, pp. 12-27. even this simple system was not Even at that price, however, it was 7 __' "Apple and Apple II History", working when Wozniak and the least expensive floppy disk drive THE APPLE II GUIDE, Fall 1990, Wigginton left for the show. ever sold by a computer company. pp. 9-16. When they got to Las Vegas Early production at Apple was 8 Frank Rose, WEST OF EDEN: they helped to set up the booth, and handled by only two people, and THE END OF INNOCENCE AT then returned to working on the they produced about thirty drives a APPLE COMPUTER, 1989, pp. 62. disk drive. They stayed up all night, day. 6, 7 Apple bought the drives to and by six in the morning they had sell with Woz's disk controller from a functioning demonstration disk. Shugart, right there in Silicon (PART6-THEAPPLEIIPLUS) Randy suggested making a copy of Valley. To cut costs, however, they [vl.O :: 21 Sep 91] the disk, so they would have a decided. to go to Alps Electric backup if something went wrong. Company of Japan and ask them to THE APPLE II PLUS: HARDWARE They copied the disk, track by track. design a less expensive clone. When they were done, they found According to Frank Rose, in his book We now go cruising ahead in that they had copied the blank disk "West Of Eden": time about one year, toJuneof1979. on top of their working demo! By "The resulting product, the Disk Applesoft BASIC had been in heavy 7:30 am they had recovered the lost II, was almost obscenely profitable: demand since the introduction in information and went on to display For about $140 in parts ($80 after late 1978 of an improved version. It the new disk drive at the show.3,4 the shift to Alps) [not counting labor was needed by those wanting to Following the Consumer Electronics costs], Apple could package a disk write and use applications that Show, Wozniak set out to complete drive and a disk controller in a single needed the capability of floating­ the design of the Disk II. For two box that sold at retail for upwards of point math. Because of this, Apple weeks, he worked late each night to $495. Better yet was the impact the engineers had begun working in make a satisfactory design. When Disk II had on computer sales, for it 1978 on the Apple II Plus, a modest he was finished, he found that if he suddenly transformed the Apple II enhancement to the Apple II. The moved a connector he could cut down from a gadget only hard-core main attraction ofthis newer Apple on feedthroughs, making the board hobbyists would want to something would be Applesoft in ROM, more reliable. To make that move, all sorts of people could use. Few available immediately without however, he had to start over in his outsiders realized it, but in strategic having to load it from cassette or design. This time it only took twenty terms, Woz's invention of the disk disk. Also, having it in ROM would hours. He then saw another controller was as important to the move it out of the part of memory feedthrough that could be company as his invention of the where RAM Applesoft conflicted eliminated, and again started over computer itself. 8 with hi-res graphics (after all, on his design. "The final design was Applesoft had commands generally recognized by computer NOTES specifically written into it for engineers as brilliant and was by 1 Gregg Williams and Rob Moore, manipulating those graphics, engineering aesthetics beautiful. "The Apple Story, Part 2: More somethingthatlnteger BASIC could Woz later said, 'It's something you History And The Apple III", BYTE, only do via special CALLs to the can ONLY do ifyou're the engineer Jan 1985, pp. 167-168. routines in the Programmer's Aid and the PC board layout person 2 Paul Freiberger and Michael #1 chip). yourself. That was an artistic layout. Swaine, "Fire In The Valley, Part With the decision made to The board has virtually no Two (Book Excerpt)", A+ upgrade the Apple II, other changes feedthroughs."'5 MAGAZINE, Jan 1985, p. 45. were made to make it more 3 Williams and Moore, "Part II", p. attractive to new computer buyers. THE DISK II: COST 168. The cost of RAM chips had dropped The Disk II was finally available 4 Freiberger and Swaine, (Part Two), considerably, so most new II Plus in July 1978 with the first full p. 45. systems came standard with a full

54 Washington Apple Pi Journal April 1994 d 48K of RAM. Since the disk those systems a hardware bug instead to the start of BASIC operating system consumed about caused the BK ofmemory from $4000 (instead of leaving the user in the lOK of memory, having the full to $5FFF to be duplicated in the Monitor, as in the old ROM). This complement ofavailable RAM made next BK of memory, from $6000 to "Autostart ROM", as it was called, it easier to use the Disk II with $7FFF, whether there was RAM made it possible to have a system either version ofBASIC. Since users present at those locations or not. that started up a program on the would not need to add the smaller This made a 20K Apple appear to disk with little action needed by the 4K memory chips, the strapping have 24K, and a 24K Apple appear user. blocks that had made it possible to to have 36K. The Revision 1 The RESET code was more use either 4K or 16K RAM chips on motherboard fixed this problem as intelligent in the Autostart ROM the original Apple II were removed. well.1 Revision 1 boards also thanin the Old Monitor ROM. There Small changes had already been modified the cassette input circuit was now a "Cold Start" RESET made to the product since it first to respond with more accuracy to a (which functioned as described began distribution. Most of these weak input signal, making it easier above), and a "Warm Start"RESET. changes were made primarily to to load data and programs from A Warm Start RESET could occur simplify it and decrease costs of cassette. Also, one "feature" of the without re-booting the Disk II (if it manufacturing. First of all, the original Apple II was that any sound was present); in fact, it ensured original Apple II motherboard, generated by the internal speaker that the disk operating system designated as "Revision O" I, was also appeared as a signal on the remained "connected" after RESET changed to make it possible to cassette output connector; this was was pressed. This feature was display two more colors in hi-res fixed in the new motherboards. implemented by setting three bytes graphics. The Revision 0 board had Lastly, the RESET cycle was made at the end of page $03 in memory. only four colors (green, violet, black, part of the power-up circuitry, Two ofthe bytes were the address of white), but Wozniak had learned eliminating the requirement that the place in memory to which the that by making a simple alteration the RESET key be pressed after Apple should jump if RESET was he could get two more colors (blue turning on the computer. 2,3 pressed. The third byte was a and orange) and two more varieties specially coded byte created from of black and white. The Revision 1 THE APPLE II PLUS: FIRMWARE half of the address byte. When and later boards were capable of More important than the minor RESET was pressed, this special displaying all eight colors. The hardware changes, however, were "power-up" byte was checked with means of making this modification the changes in the ROM code. The the address byte. If they didn't to Revision 0 Apples was described new ROM replaced the original properly match, the Monitor by Wozniak in his reply to an article Monitor with one that, among other assumed that the power had just by Allen Watson III about hi-res things, better supported the new been turned on, and it executed a graphics (in the June 1979 issue of Disk II drive. Since RESET was Cold Start RESET. This feature Byte magazine). With that change, now automatically activated when was extensively used by writers of people who were not afraid of doing the power was turned on, the new copy protected software, so users a little electrical work on their ROM code had the computer could not modify or copy the code in computers had some of the benefits automatically do a few things. It memory simply by pressing the of an updated Apple II. cleared the screen (displaying RESET key. Hardware bugs that Apple "APPLE][" at the top), and began a The other major change, engineers fixed included one that scan down the slots, starting at slot mentioned earlier, was the BASIC caused text characters to be 7 down to slot 1. It examined the that was supplied in ROM. Gone displayed with green and violet first few bytes of code in each card's was Steve Wozniak's hand­ fringing, whether in graphics mode ROM for a specific sequence that assembled Integer BASIC, in favor or text mode. The "color killer" circuit identified it as a Disk II controller of the newer Applesoft. Since these they added fixed things so that non­ card. If one was found, control was ROM versions of BASIC used the graphics text would display in black passed to that card, causing the same memory locations, they could and white only. Another problem disk drive to startup and begin not be used simultaneously. With involved RAM configurations of loading the disk operating system the introduction ofthe II Plus, Apple either 20Kor 24K(a 16KRAM chip into memory. If no disk controller also released the Applesoft plus one or two 4K RAM chips). In was found, the ROM code jumped Firmware card. This card, which

April 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 55 plugged into slot 0, made it possible to edit rather than retype the entire Not only was it cumbersome, but for previous Apple II owners to have line). To edit this line, you would the layout of the keyboard made it some of the benefits of the II Plus have to move the cursor up to the "1" difficult to remember the correct without having to buy an entirely of"lOO" and begin pressing the right letters used for cursor movement; new computer. Even with that card, arrow key. When you got to the "L" although "D" (up) was above "C" however, you could not use features of "LIKE" you would have to move (down), it seemed that "D" should of one BASIC while the other was the cursor above or below the line, stand for "Down". Also confusing active, and switching from one type the word "REALLY" followed was that "A" was to the left of "B", BASIC to the other erased any by a space, then move the cursor but their functions were the opposite program that was being used at the back to the "L" of "LIKE", and of their position! time. The two BASICs could be told continue copying with the right The new Autostart ROM apart by the prompt they used; arrow key. After editing a line, the improved this screen editing process Integer BASIC used the ">" screen might look like this: just a bit. Now, pressing "ESC" character, but Applesoft used the turned on a special editing mode. "]" character. 100 FOR I = 1 TO 100: PRINT "I Repeated presses of"I" (up), "J" (left), Another change made to the LIKE MY APPLE": NEXT : END "K" (right), and "M" (down) Monitor ROM made screen editing REALLY continued to move the cursor until a easier. The original Apple II's key other than ESC was pressed. procedure for editing a line typed in (lnthisexample,lmovedthecursor On the keyboard these letters were BASIC or in the Monitor was tedious down one line, typed "REALLY", arranged in a sort of "directional at best. To change a line of text in and then moved it back to the start keypad" or diamond, which made BASIC, you had to list the line, of the word "LIKE"). If you didn't remembering the moves a little move the cursor up to the start of make any mistakes it would read easier. The previous ESC editing the line, and then use the right­ like this: codes were still supported, but still arrow key to "copy" text from the with their previous limitations. screen into the input buffer. If you ]LIST 100 Unfortunately, however, you still wanted to skip part of the line, you couldn't tell whether you were in had to move the cursor past the text 100 FOR I = 1 TO 100: PRINT "I the regular text entry mode or in that you wanted to eliminate REALLY LIKE MY APPLE": NEXT the ESC editing mode, and often WITHOUT using the arrow keys. If :END attempts at changing a line took you wanted to INSERT something several tries to get it right. 4,5 Other into the line, you had to move the However, ifyou didn't take care features added in the new Autostart cursor off the line (above it or below toskipovertheextraspacesinserted ROM included the ability to pause a it), type the additional text, and in front of the word "LIKE" by the listing by pressing Ctrl-S (VERY then move the cursor back into the Applesoft LIST command, it could helpful when trying to scan through line to finish copying the original appear this way: a long program!) As mentioned part of the line. above, pressing RESET would For example, suppose you had 100 FOR I= 1TO100: PRINT "I return control through the soft-entry typed this line in Applesoft and REALLY LIKE MY APPLE": NEXT vectors on memory page $03. This displayed it on the 40-column screen: :END would allow a user to exit from a runaway BASIC program by ]LIST 100 The big problem with these pressing RESET, and still keep cursor moves for editing under the program and variables intact in 100 FOR I = 1 TO 100: PRINT "I Old Monitor was that each move memory (which could not be LIKE MY APPLE": NEXT : END required two keypresses. To move guaranteed with the old Monitor the cursor up, you had to press "ESC" ROM). 6 JohnArkley at Apple wrote To change that line so the and then "D" EACH TIME you the changes to the original Monitor PRINT statement read "I REALLY wanted to move the cursor up. "ESC ROM and created the Autostart LIKE MY APPLE" meant either A" moved right, "ESC B" moved left, ROM in November 1978 (he's the retyping the entire line, or using the and "ESC C" moved the cursor down. "John A" mentioned in the source edit feature. (If the line was With a long line that needed much code listingfoundin the 1981 edition particularly long, it was preferable editing, this would get old real fast. of the APPLE II REFERENCE

56 Washington Apple Pi Journal April 1994 MANUAL). After he had done the room for the new features. Missing work and the ROMs had been from the Apple II Plus ROMs were APPLE II PLUS created, Apple wanted to publish a Integer BASIC, the miniassembler, new version ofthe Reference Manual and Woz's SWEET 16 interpreter PACKING LIST to cover the Apple II Plus. The older (that entire space now being used Reference Manual (affectionately by Applesoft). Missing from the This package should contain the known as the "Red Book") had Monitor were the assembly following items: included an assembly language language STEP and TRACE source code listing of the Monitor features, and a set of sixteen-bit item no. part number description ROM. They wanted to include the multiply and divide routines. 8 ------source for BOTH versions of the Monitor, but a problem came up. THE APPLE II PLUS: COST 1 1 600-2023 cassette tape: LITTLE While developing the Monitor, Apple The new Apple II Plus, at$1,195, BRICKOUT, COLOR DEMOSOFT had used a local mainframe sold for over $100 less than the 2 1 600-2024 cassette tape: computer dial-up service known as original Apple II, although it came RENUMBER/APPEND, "Call Computer." They used a cross­ with more memory and had ALIGNMENT TEST TONE 3 1 assembler on that computer, Applesoft (previously an added 600-2025 cassette tape: FINANCE assembled the code, and then used expense item) in ROM. I, PENNY ARCADE 4 1 600-2026 the resulting object code to create cassette tape: LEMONADE, the ROM. (A cross-assembler is an THE APPLE II PLUS: BELL & HOPALONG CASSIDY 5 1 600- assembler that creates object code HOWELL 2027 cassette tape: BRIAN'S for a processor other than the one Apple made a deal early on with THEME, PHONE LIST 6 1 030- the cross-assembler runs on. For Bell & Howell to let them sell the 2057 manual: Introductory example, if you can write 8080 Apple II Plus with a Bell & Howell Programs for the Apple II Plus 7 1 machine code with an assembler name plate on it for use in schools. 030-0044 manual: The Applesoft running on a 6502-based computer, These Apples were black colored Tutorial 8 1 030-0013 manual: you are using a cross-assembler). (instead of the standard beige), and Applesoft II BASIC Programming Unfortunately, Call Computer had had screws on the back to keep the Reference Manual 9 1 030-0004 accidentally done a system backup lids on (apparently to keep students' manual: Apple II Reference Manual with the source and destination hands out). These Apples 10 1 030-0035 publication: Apple disks reversed, erasing all the files (sometimes called "Darth Vader" Magazine 11 1 600-0033 1 pair of containing the source code for the Apples) also had the "shift-key mod" game controls 12 1 590-0002 cable: Apple II Monitors. There were no (see below) applied. Since Bell & to hook up a cassette recorder 13 1 disk or cassette copies of the source Howell was a major supplier of 590-0003 cable: power cord for the code for the Autostart ROM back at school equipment, this was a means Apple II Plus 14 1 030-0001 Apple Apple. Working from the source for Apple to get a foothold in the Warranty Card 15 1 600-0816 listing in the Red Book, John school environment. 9 Bell & Howell Apple II Plus System 16K or 600- recreated the source file for the also had electronics correspondence 0832 Apple II Plus System 32K or original Monitor, and then courses, and used the black Apple II 600-0848 Apple II Plus System 48K disassembled his own modifications Plus for one of their courses. They (LITTLE BRICKOUT was an for the II Plus and re-created his offered a one year warranty, instead abbreviated Applesoft version of Autostart ROM source file. Those of the ninety-day warranty offered Woz's Integer BASIC Breakout reconstructed listings are what by Apple.10, 11 game (the reason he designed the appeared in the 1981 edition of the Apple II in the first place). BRIAN'S Apple II Reference Manual.7 Not THE APPLE II PLUS: EARLY THEME was a hi-res graphics everyone was pleased with the USER EXPERIENCES program that drew lines on the modifications made in the Autostart An Apple II veteran on GEnie, screen in various patterns. ROMs, however. Some ofthe authors Dennis Ulm, kindly provided me HOPALONG CASSIDY was a of the magazine CALL-A.P.P.L.E. with the following reproduction of "guess who" program that also used liked to refer to the new computer his ORIGINAL Apple II Plus the hi-res screen).12 13 as the"Apple II Minus", sinceArkley packing list. It gives a little picture had to remove some oftheir beloved of what early non-disk users had to Apple II History routines from the ROMs to make work with: (to be continued next month)

April 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 57 of the disks for a total of $40.

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April 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 59 AY Pat.ches 1.0 f.sit: By Steve Kiene. AV System 6 or later. Shareware-$10. Blaschek. Keeps Mac clock accurate Resource Manager Tuner completely Blood 2 O f sit- By Alessandro Levi by adjusting its value at each reboot removes all _FlushFile calls from the Montalcini. A useless control panel and switching back and forth between Resource Manager in the SuperMario that puts up to 16 drops of blood on daylight savings and standard time as ROMs. This makes the Resource Man­ your screen - on top of anything. necessary. ClockAdjust doc is in ager work like it did in the pre­ Essentially, you'll have red holes in Write format. SuperMario days. AVTurboROMcop­ your screen. Blood 2.0 note is in text Color7 2.0 f.sit: By Michael Landis. Per­ ies the ROM down into RAM. This format. mits you to change the colors of high­ speeds up things because the CPU can Bomb Shelter 1.01 f.sit: By Andrew lighted text, windows, buttons, and access RAM much faster than ROM. Welch. A tiny extension that enables menus. It also lets you save color sets AV Resource Manager Tuner text the 'Resume' button in all crash dia­ for later use, and to see your color and AV Turbo ROM Text are the logs that most applications don't have changes on the fly. READ ME FIRST documentation. For Mac 660AV and enabled. Bomb Shelter 1.01 Notes is and System 7.0 Notes are in text 840AV series. in text format. format. Shareware -$10. AY Serial Extension 1 O f.sit: By Apple CacheOutTM 1.1 f sit: By F. Hollander. ColorKey 4.0.1 f.sit- By Mike Pinkerton. Computer, Inc. Fixes for (a) difficul­ Automatically tum off the '040 cache Cycle through preselected screen ties when printing with the with programs that can't handle it. depths so you pick the desired one LaserWriter Select 310 printer; (b) a Just tell it what applications you have without going to the Monitors Control possible system error when both the that don't work with the '040, and it Panel. ColorKey4.0.l Docs is in Word serial port and an AppleTalk network turns off the '040 cache when you format. For color or gray scale Macs connection are being used heavily; and launch them. For Macs with 68040 with System 7.0andlater.Shareware (c) a possible system crash when si­ CPUs and System 7.0 and later. -$10. multaneouslyreceivingafaxand tran$­ ColorSwitch 2 2 0 f sit- By Andrew ferringfiles over a network.AV Serial Carpetbae-1 4 f sit: ByJamesL. Walker. Carpetbag permits you to keep DAs, Welch. Permits you to easily switch Extension (1.0) is in text format. For between color modes on one or more Mac 660AV and 840AV series. fonts, keyboard layouts, sounds and FKeys outside your System file much attached monitors. For color capable AY Speedup 1.0 Pat.ch £.sit: By Matt asSuitcasellorMasterJuggler.Ancil­ Macs running System 6.0.5 with Color Gough and Brian Stroud. A patch to lary files CarpUnmount, Laser QuickDraw and later systems. work around the ChangedResource Path, Outboard Keyboard, Out­ ColorSwitch 2.2.0 Notes is in text and AddResource slow downs on the board Sound ·and Universal Suit­ format. Shareware -$10. AV Macs. AV patch READ ME is in case are also included. Contents is in Color$ync 1 0.3 f.sit: By Apple Com­ text format. For Mac660AV and840AV TeachText format. Shareware -$5. puter, Inc. Provides color synchroniza­ series. Chuuzr 1.3 f sit: By Mark J. Romano. tion profiles for Apple 12, 13, 16 and 21 Bail 2.0bl f.sit: By Christopher Evans. Allows you to quickly mount server inch and Performa, Performa Plus Permits you to 'bail out' of a program volumes using a hierarchical menu monitors and Classic, LC 520, PB 165C you inadvertently launch without wait­ fromtheChoosermenuitemorapopup and PB 180C displays. ing for it to completely load so you may menu in standard file dialogs. Chuuzr Crooked Mouse 1.0 £.sit: By Mark Pil­ use the Quit command. 1.30 Release Notes is in text format. grim. Causes your mouse to move at Disk #9 .08C I/C 8 Shareware-$10. an angle 45 degrees counterclockwise Extensions (INITs & cdevs) Clickthereitis! 1.0.1 f.sit:ByRichardC. from the angle it should be moving. Unstuffit.sea: See description on Disk Cardona. Permits you to open/save a From the author is in text format. #9.0lC. document into a place where the Finder Cursor Animator 2 0 1 f.sit: By Wilhelm Belch! 2.0 f sit: By Andrew Welch. An already has a window opened for it. M. Plotz and Alexander Falk. Allows obnoxious prolonged belch during You can also make any visible window you to choose from a list of animated startup and at unpredictable times in the Finder your current folder by cursors which will be used instead of thereafter. This is quite out of charac­ clicking on it. Release Notes is in the standard "spinning watch" cursor ter with Andrew's usually genteel TeachTextformat. For System 7.0 and displayed when the Mac is busy. Cw:: works (Maelstom, Palencia font, later. Shareware -$5. soc Collection includes a wide variety FlashWrite }[, etc.). I guarantee you ClicSleep 1.2 f sit: By Benjamin of animated cursors. CA • Read Me won't keep this one in your System Herrenschmidt. Click to put Macs with 2.0.1 ('IT) is in TeachText format. Folder for long. Belch 2.0 Notes and the Power Manager (i.e., Macintosh Postcardware. Belch! License are in text format. Portable and ) to sleep. It Daylight! y.4 01 f sit· By Mark Malson. Big Cheese Key 1.2.1 f sit: By Andrew will put your machine to sleep when Automatically makes the time changes Welch. Provides a 'hot key'to initiate a you click in one of the screen's comers for Daylight Saving Time for you. Sys­ phony Mac window that hides all of and you can choose which comer. tem 6 and 7 compatible. the Mac desktop; use it to hide per­ About ClicSleep 1.2 is in text for­ DaylightREAD ME is in TeachText sonal work or a game when a visitor or mat. format. the boss pops into your office. Requires Clock Adjust 1 2 f sit: By Gunther Decor 11.2 f sit: By Frant;rois Pottier.

60 Washington Apple Pi Journal April1994 Replace the standard desktop pattern tem 7 and later. install this patch. This patch is being with a PICT or StartupScreen picture DiskPrint 2 1 f sit: By John Young. A rolled into future versions of Duo of your choice. You can specify a par­ Print2Pict extension that permits you enablers. When the next version ofthe ticular file to display or have one cho­ to create your own standalone docu­ PowerBook Duo Enabler is released, sen at random from a pre-selected ments. Unlike the Postcard extension users can feel free to remove this patch folder. Programmer info and Re­ that comes with Print2Pict, DiskPrint from their system. Duo Battery lease Notes 1.1.2 are in text format. also saves the bitmaps offonts used in Patch ReadMe is in TeachText for­ For System 7 .0 and later and 32 bit the documents so you do not have to mat. QuickDraw. Shareware -$6. depend on the user to have your fonts DuoMouse0ctane 1.0.0 f.sit: By Bill DepthKey 2 O f.sit: By Tom Thompson. installed. DiskPrint-Read Me is in Cerniuk.Makeyour Duo Dock's mouse Displays and changes the screen depth double clickable Print2Pict DiskPrint act like a normal mouse in terms of ofMac monitors. It eliminates the trek format. Shareware -$6. maximum speed and acceleration. In to the Monitors cdev when you need to Dockemaut 1 3 f sit: By Steve Martin. addition, Mouse2, SuperRat!, and other change a monitor's screen depth. Re­ Keep multiple configuration files for Mouse acceleration utilities should quires color or gray scale Macintosh. your Duo' dependingupon whether it's work as they do on any other Mac. Read Me is in TeachText format. docked or not and what monitor it may DuoMouseOctane ReadMe is in Shareware -$6. be connected to. Dockernaut TeachText format. DepthMaster 1.0 £.sit: By Victor Tan. ReadMe is in TeachText format. For Eclipse 2.0 f sit By Andrew Welch. Watches which applications are Duo Macs only. Shareware-$16. Automatically dims your screen after launched and which application is cur­ Downer 1 5 f sit- By Roman Software. a specified amount of inactivity. rently active and sets the monitors bit Automatically turns offyour computer Eclipse Notes is in text format. For depth and sound level you specify. ifyou do not move the mouse or type a System 6 and later. Shareware-$10. DepthMaster.ttxt is in text format. key for a specified amount of time. ExtensionMana&"er2 01 f sit: By Ricardo For System 7 .0 and later and color or Downer CDEV ReadMe is in text Batista, Apple Computer, Inc. Per­ gray scale Macs. Shareware - format. Shareware -$6. mits you to enable or disable loading of Aus$20. DrmWi.YWindow3 Of sit' By Alessandro system extensions at startup much Disk #9.09C I/C 9 Levi Montalcini. Allows you to easily like Init Picker and other commercial Extensions (INITs & cdevs) move any kind of window, including utilities do. Notes for Extensions Unstuffit.sea: See description on Disk dialogs, alerts, standard "Open" and Mgr is in text format. Requires Sys­ #9.0lC. "Save" dialogs, game windows and tem 4.1 or later although written with Default Folder 2.42 £.sit: (formerly other non-movable windows. System 7 in mind. DFaultD) By Jon Gotow. Lets you as­ DragAnyWindow 3.0 note is in text Felix l.OB f.sit: By Fran~ois Pottier. Al­ sign, for each application you run, a format. Shareware -$6. lows you, when double-clicking on a default folder in which to store docu­ Du-UH! 1 0 f sit- By Bill Monk. Patches document, to choose which application ments. The idea is that you shouldn't out the "You have changed your you want to use to open it. Double­ have to navigate throughout your disk printer" alert after you've changed click me is in TeachText format. For the first time you try to save a docu­ printers in theChooser.Du-UB!Read System 7 .0 and later. This is a Beta ment after starting up an application. Me is in TeachText format. version; use it at your own risk. Default Folder Docs is in double Shareware-"Four-StepGuilt-Free FileSharingim,provPoohick f.sit: By Jim clickable Print2Pict Postcard format. Plan". Luther, Apple Computer, Inc. Shareware -$20. Dumpster 11 b f sit· By Donald AppleShareSetup control panel lets DeskPict 11 f.sit: By Clay Meackel. Al­ Perreault. Replace your trash can icon you set or disable various options sup­ lows you to use a startupscreen file or with one of about 20 colorful substi­ ported by the AppleShare Chooser any PICT file as a Finder background. tutes. Read Me First is in double extension. Remote Control and DeskPict info.TXT is in text format clickable DOCMaker format. Regis­ Server Controller, allow you to start and includes an excellent description tration gets you over 90 pairs of re­ or stop the file server running on your of creating startup screens. placement icons. Shareware - $20 Macintosh using another Macintosh Dialog View 1.0 8 f sit: By James W. for registered verswn. at another location on the network. Walker. (Previously List Font.)Allows Duo Battezy Pat.ch 1.0 £.sit: By Apple Unmountlt lets you easily unmount you to change the font and size used in Computer, Inc. Resolves a problem and eject sharable volumes when directory dialog file lists, and display discovered with PowerBook Duo 210/ Macintosh File Sharing is in use. the real icons of files in such lists. 230/250s using version 1.0 of the AppleShareSetup Read Me and recent changes is in text format. PowerBook Duo Enabler. Apple rec­ other documentation are in TeachText Requires System 7.0 and later. ommends that all Duo users upgrade format. For AppleShare 3.0, to version 1.0 of the PowerBook Duo AppleShare 7.1, and future Discolour 1.02 f.sit: By Andrew Welch. AppleShare Chooser extensions un­ Displays tloppydiskiconsincolorwhen Enabler. Users of210's, 230's, or 250's der both System 6 and System 7. in 16 color mode or greater. Discolour should also install the Duo Battery 1.02 Notes is in text format. For Sys- Patch. Users of270c's do not need to Finder Fixer f.sit: By Mayson G.

April1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 61 Lancaster. Lets you allocate the lete the character to the right of the Monitors a folder and reports when it amount ofmemory you want to devote insertion point cursor. Forward De­ contains anything. Highly useful when to the Finder and Finder operations. lete docs is in TeachText format. using a folder as an 'in-box' to receive Why you may want to do this is left as Ghost mouse 1.0 f.sit" By Mark Pilgrim. files or mail across the network.About 110 an exercise for the student. For Sys­ Causes your mouse to disappear as "In Box Notify ' is in TeachText tem 7.0 and later. soon as you stop moving it. Great gag format. For System 7.0 and later. Finder Sounds 1.3.1 f.sit: ByGregSmith. for somebody else's Mac. Ghost notes Shareware -$10. With System Software version 6.0.4 or is in text format. INIT-ScoJ>e21 f.sit:ByDavidP.Sumner. later, the Finder can play sounds cor­ Grayity Mouse 1.0 f.sit: By Mark Pil­ Monitors the startup process and logs responding to various events. The grim. Causes your mouse to occasion­ information concerning what is hap­ Finder Sounds Configcdev permits ally be overcome by gravity. If you pening to your computer during the you to select sounds for these events have to ask why this is useful, you critical phase. Permits you to skip load­ include opening and closing windows, don't need it. Grave notes is in text ing particular INITs during startup. creating and deleting files, and even format. This powerful tool is most useful to modifying windows. Finder Sounds Greg's Browser 1.1 f.sit: By Gregory D. programmers and advanced users but READ ME is in text format. Requires Landweber. Allows you to easily move may be informative to others as well. System 6.0.4 through 6.0.8; not for up and down the folder hierarchy to System 6 and 7 compatible. INIT­ System 7.0 and later. select one or more files or folders. Cre­ Scope Docs(WORD) is in Word for­ FinderEars 1.0 f sit: By Stan Logan. ate 'bookmarks'forfrequently accessed mat. Shareware -$16. Just speak the name of an item in the files or folders. Browser Docs is in INSTANT Area Code f sit: By Adam front most window of the Finder, and TeachTextformat. For System 7.0 and Stein. An easy to use area code utility; it will open for you. Ears Docs is in later and Color QuickDraw. accessible via the hot key ofyour choice. text format. For AV Macs only. Shareware-$10. INSTANTArea Code Read Me is in Shareware-$6. Greg's Buttons 3 13 f.sit- By Greg text format. Shareware -$9.96. FinderXtender 1 7 f sit: By Kim, Landweber. Replace the standard Interrupt Button 3 O f.sit: By Geoffrey SungJong. Directly open specific folder black and white push buttons, check Fink. Supposed to allow you to return or System related folders without open­ boxes, and radio buttons with shaded, to the Finder from a System Error ing multiple windows. Its universal color 3-D ones. The new buttons are (bomb) or minor system freeze. It does launcher can open any kind of Appli­ designed to match the windows and not always work. READ ME - Inter­ cation, Desk Accessory, Control Panel scroll bars under System 7 and sup­ rupt Button! is in double clickable and Documents. FinderXtender port the color tinges that you can select DOCMak.er format. Requires System Manual is in text format. For System in the System 7 Color Control Panel. 4 or later. 7.0 and later. Greg's Buttons Docs and Registra­ Keyboard PLUS 1.0 f.sit: By Berrie Forker 1 3 f sit: By J. S. Howlett. De­ tion Form are in TeachText format. Kremers. Permits you to use a stan­ signed to fool ResEdit so that it per­ For System 7.0 and later. Shareware dard or PowerBook/Duo keyboard and mits editing data forks offiles in addi­ -$16. access most ofthe keys available in the tion to resource forks. READ ME - ldleCPU cdev 1 0 f sit: By George D. extended keyboard. AboutKeyboard Forker 1.3 is in text format. Cantrell. Keeps the CPU of PLUS is in text format. Requires Sys­ Disk #9.lOC I/C 10 PowerBooks, Duos and Portables from tem 6.0.4 or later. Shareware -$16. Extensions (INITs & cdevs) going into idle mode (slowing down to Keyboard Switcher 1 O f.sit: By Mike Unstuffit.sea: See description on Disk save power). This permits PB use with Samuels. Enables you to view a list of #9.0lC. MIDI devices and other applications all active applications or switch to any FolderWatcher2.0 2 f sit· ByJoeZobkiw. requiring full speed operation at all activeapplicationusingkeyboardcom­ Monitors an unlimitednumberoffold­ times. ReadMe is in text format. mands only (i.e. no mouse selection is ers on your Macintosh, or a remote iDSEgpress 1 0 f sit: This nifty little required). READ MEI is in text for­ Macintosh or server and responds if hack fools HD SC Set-up into thinking mat. Shareware-$10. the contents of any of these folders a third party hard disk is actually an KeyClicks 1 0 f.sit: By Alessandro Levi ever change. Response may include Apple brand drive. To use it, you'll Montalcini. A memory based utility showing an alert, playing a system have to make a startup floppy (or have that plays some very short sounds beep or a custom sound, writing to a a second boot HD), and have when you press a key. Useful for people logfile, executinganAppleScriptscript, iDSExpress installed as an active ex­ with the PowerBooks and Duos whose or any combination of these. Folder tension; i.e. copy it to your Extensions keyboards have little feedback, mak.­ Watcher 2.0.2 • Read Me is in text folder and restart. It won't allow a ingit difficult to tell whether a key was format. For System 7.0 and later. complete HD set-up, but just a simple pressed. KeyClicks 1.0 docs is in text Shareware-$20. restart will force the Mac OS to finish format. Postcardware. Forward De}et.e 1 0.1 f.sit: By Fabrizio the format & initialize procedure. Not LetterHeader 1.3 f sit: By Tim Herzog. Oddone. Lets you use the forward de­ recommended for the novice! Allows you to add a letterhead or other lete key on extended keyboards to de- In Box Notify 1 0 f sit: By Dana Basken. graphic to a printed (or faxed) docu-

62 Washington Apple Pi Journal April 1994 mentatprinttilne.Savesstoragespace ters. Then you link the sequence to a menu font. MFZoom INIT 2.0 Doc is in since your saved docU1J1ents do not special keystroke (or key combination text format. need to include the letterhead graphic. with shift, option, command, ... ). Mtire 4 01 f: By John Lim. A color M~ire LetterHeader Docu/ReadMe is in MK.doc.English.MSW is in Word screensaverwitha built-in menu clock. text format. Shareware -$20. format. Includes a variety of user selectable Lil' BeepSay 1 0.0 f.sit: By Siren Enter­ MacTCPNetswitch 1 Ob2 f.sit: By David shapes, colors, lengths and speeds as prises. Lets your Mac speak a Walton. For Macs accessing TCP/IP well as sleep and wake position selec­ configurable phrase in the selected from multiple locations. Automatically tion. Shareware -$10. voice using the Speech Manager. swaps in the correct version of the Monitor Expander 1.0 f.sit: By Men & • • ReadMeforSrc!! is in text format. MacTCP Prep file when your Mice. Allows you to enlarge your desk­ Requires Speech Manager. Macintosh starts up. MacTCP top area by "eating away" at the bor­ Madness - RAGEi UR 1.5 f.sit: By Me Netswitch Guide is in Word format. ders that surround the usable portion and John. For those of you who have MacTCP Netswitch Guide.MWII of your monitor or by scrolling around wanted to destroy your Mac without is in MacWrite II format. Requires a virtual desktop that is bigger than adverse financial impact, Madness lets System 6.0.1 or later and AppleTalk the usable portion of your monitor, or you shoot it with a variety of high version 53 or later. both. For System 7.0 and later. Re­ powered guns. Madness • RAGE! MaxA,ppleZoom 1 44 f sit: By Naoto quires Apple Macintosh II video card 1.0.3 Docs is in double clickable Horii. Reprograms Apple's standard (a.k.a. Toby card) or the Apple High DOCMaker application forlllat. For Mac II video card so that it displays a Resolution Video Card (a.k.a. HRVC System 6 and 7. Shareware -$21. 704 by 512 pixel screen instead of the card). Shareware -$26. Disk #9.llC I/C 11 normal 640 by 480. Most applications MoonlT 1.1 f.sit: By Eiji Nitasaka. Dis­ Extensions (INITs & cdevs) will gain more usefulness and comfort plays the current moon phase at the Unstuffit.sea: See description on Disk thanks to this larger display area! bottom of your screen during startup #9.0lC. MaxAppleZoom Doc is in MacWrite (watch for it during INIT loading). format. Shareware -$26. Locks f.sit- By MoonIT vl.l Read Me is in text Roy Wood. Locks the System Folder MenuBall 2 0 f.sit: By Alessandro Levi format. and the Control Panels Folder to pre­ Montalcini. Puts a bouncing ball in Mousebroken 1.0.1 f.sit: By Mark Pil­ vent unauthorized access. Useful to your menu bar. MenuBall 2.0 note is grim. A gag utility to achieve less con­ control your Macs in a multi-userenvi­ in text format. trol over your mouse (or someone rolllJlent. Locks Info is in text format. MenuChoice 1.9 f.sit: By Kerry else's). Mouse Modules contains the Shareware -$6, $10. Clendinning. Enables hierarchical different mouse types. From the au· MacLifelnsurance f.sit: By Adain Stein. menus under the Apple menu. Every thor is in TeachText format. Protectyourworkfromsystemcrashes, folder stored in your "Apple Menu Narrow21 vl O f.sit: By David Suggs. accidental deletions, power outs, cor­ Items" folder will show up as a sub­ Makes the display from your built-in rupted files, and other Macintosh di­ menu under the Apple menu. ReadMe video appear narrower at the normal sasters with two levels of protection. is in TeachText format. For System 7 Macintosh 21-inch resolution of 1152 FileSaver protects you at the file level, and later. Shareware-$16. by 870 pixels. Read Me is in text by automatically saving your files. MenuPro:gper 7 1b8a f.sit: By David format. Works on the Centris and KeySaverprotects you at the keystroke Winterburn. Allows the you drag Icons Quadra families of computers and level, saving every key you type. from the Finder and 'drop' them onto should workonanyfutureMacintoshes MacLifelnsurance-Documenta· items inside various system menus. with similar built-in video hardware. tion is in TeachText format. For Sys­ MenuDropper Instructions is in Shareware -$10. tem 7.0 and later. Shareware-$9.96 TeachTextformat. For System 7.0 and Network Launch Fix 1.0 f.sit: By Apple each; $14.96 for lJoth. later. Computer, Inc. Corrects a problem that macppp 1.1.3 f.sit: By Merit Network, MenuMail 1 0 6 f sit· By Jan caused some programs to quit unex­ Inc. A Macintosh implementation of Bruyndonckx. An unobtrusive paging pectedly or caused the computer to PPP, the Point-to-Point Protocol, and conferencing system for the Mac. freeze when you attempted to open which allows you to use TCP/IP(Trans­ It includes 4 user keys absolutely free, programs over the network. For mission Control Protocol/Internet Pro­ so you can test it out as much as you Macintosh computers with a 68040 tocol) over asynchronous serial lines. like. Manual is in Word format. Read microprocessor. Network Launch macppp.txtis in text format. Requires me first ! is in TeachText format. Fix (1.0).bbe is in text format. MacTCP 1.1 or higher, Macintosh Sys­ Shareware-$30 for6 keys, $300 for Disk #9.12C I/C 12 tem 6.0.5 or higher, and a Hayes-com­ unlimited site license. Extensions (INITs & cdevs) patible modem for dial-in connections. MFZoom INIT 2.0 f sit: By Narayan Unstufiit.sea: See description on Disk Macro.Key 11 f sit- By Alain Birtz. A Sainaney. Increase the menu and win­ #9.0lC. text tool to write (and repeat) a word or dow title font size to 14 points. Useful Network Time 2.0 f.sit: By Pete Resnick. a sentence with a single key stroke. for big screen monitor users and those Sets the clock on your Mac to the You record any sequence of charac- who have to squint to see the normal correct time of day by contacting a

April 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 63 time server using the Apple MacTCP PB Sleeper 2.0 f sit: By Kristofer H. bility. Quick Install•• .READ NOW!! network software to get the correct Cruz. Control how, when and why is in TeachText format. Shareware­ time of day. Documentation folder in­ your PB should sleep with more op­ $26. cludes TeachText and MacWrite II tions than Apple's control panel. PB PowerClick 1 0 1 f sit· By Daniel A. Segel. formats. Network Time-Read Me is in Sleeper 2.0 init README is in text Allows you to independently set the TeachText format. Shareware -$6. format. function of the two trackball buttons NiceStopShutDown f sit- By Eugene Pe@ing Tom 1.2 f.sit: By Bret Olmsted. onaPowerBookDuo(andmaybeother Cohen. Restarts the computer when Track the amount of time you use PowerBooks as well). You can set 'Shutdown' is chosen from the 'Special' particular programs and how much *each* button to be either: nothing, menu. Meant for school computer process time they grab. Saves data to single click, double click, or click lock. labs, where the computers have nu­ a log file. READ ME is in TeachText PowerClick README is in text for­ merous users during the day. How­ format. For System 7.0 and later. mat. ever, if the option key is down, the Shareware -$5. Practical Jokes f.sit: By David Peck. computer will shut down gracefully Disk #9.13C l/C 13 Three extensions, all based upon the and thehard disk's head will be parked. Extensions (INITs & cdevs) same theme-ejecting a disk as soon NiceStopShutDown READ:MEI is Unstuffit.sea: See description on Disk as it is inserted. One just ejects the in TeachText format. Shareware - #9.0lC. disk, another ejects it and appears to $5. PeeWee 1.0.1 f.sit: By Mark Maxham. melt the screen and the last ejects it NTP Client 1.0 f sit: By John Dundas. Like the bitonPee Wee'sPlayhouse,it with a vocal message. READ ME is in The client portion ofthe NTP software picks a secret word, and ifyou type the TeachText format. system that lets you synchronize the word (in any application, including Preview 3 0 f sit- By Software by Design. system clock of the Macintosh with the Finder), your Mac will yell at you. Gives a print preview even in applica­ other computers in a network. Pee Wee READ ME is in TeachText tions that don't specifically have such README is in TeachText format. format. a feature. Also includes an FKEY to Requires System 6.0.5 or later. toggle your 'real' driver and this one. Shareware -$25. PlayOn! 1.0.1 f.sit: By John Brewer. Lets you play the sound coming in Preview 3.0 Docs is in Word format. Open-wide 3.5.7 f.sit: By James W. through your Mac's microphone jack Print to QuickTime 2.0 f.sit: By Nigel Walker. Widens the Open and Save out through the speaker. This play Perry.AnextensionforPrint2Pict(fol­ dialogs so that you can see long file through feature is part of all Macs lowing) that permits printing to names. Very useful when the only dif­ with built-in sound input, but has been QuickTime. Requires Print2Pict 3.x ferences in a file name is near the end difficult to get at - until now. PlayOn! and QuickTime 1.5 or greater. Print of a long name. recent changes is in Docs is in TeachText format. For Sys­ to QuickTime..,. ReadMe.qt is in TeachText format. Postcardware. tem 7.0 and later. Shareware-$6. QuickTimemovieformatandReadMe Oracle 2.1 0 f sit: By Andrew Welch. Plug Alert f sit· By Sean Hummel. Puts (Text) is in text format. Presents you with a thoughtful re­ up a message telling you that the plug Postcardware. mark each time you boot your com­ has been taken out when you unplug PrintChoice 1.0 f .sit: By Kerry puteroronceaday. Oracle2.1.0Notes the PowerBook. Plug Alert ReadMe Clendinning. Provides a quick way to is in text format. Shareware-$10. is in text form.at. Requires System rechoose a printer without going back OSA Menu 1.0 f.sit: By Leonard 6.0.5 or later. For Portable, PowerBook into the Apple Chooser. Asubmenu in Rosenthol. Provides a menu (applica­ and Duo Macs. yourApple Menu will let you maintain tion specific and general) for launch­ PopChar 2.6.2 f sit: By Gunther a list ofyour frequently used printers. ing OBA-compliant scripts. Exceed­ Blaschek. Enables you to generate ReadMe is in TeachText format. ingly useful for those applications that every possible character that is avail­ Shareware -$14. don't have direct ~cript-running sup­ able in the current font without hav­ PwrSwitcher 1.1.1 f.sit: By David B. port such as SITcomm. OSAMenu 1.0 ing to remember keyboard combina­ Lamkins. Lets you change from one Docs is in text form.at. tions or to resort to Key Caps. It's all activeapplicationtoanotherusingyour OtherMenu 1.3.1 f.sit: By James W. done with the mouse. PopChar Docs keyboard instead ofthe Finder's appli­ Walker. Creates a system-wide hier­ is in TeachText format. System 6 and cation menu. Also lets you 'mark' an archical menu (up to 5 levels deep), 7 compatible. application so you can toggle back and somewhat similar to the Apple menu. PowerBar 11 f.sit: By Scott A. Johnson. forth between two applications ofyour It can be used for launching applica­ Launch applications or open files or choice that aren't next to each other. tions and documents, restart and shut folders; creating buttons to do this is a PwrSwitcher Instructions is in down, various file management func­ drag-&-drop snap. Also has optional TeachTextformat. For System 7.0 and tions, and executing FKEYs. status pads which take up very little later. OtherMenuManualandotherdocu­ space while giving you time, date, OuickNotes 1 Qb6 f sit- By Joe Zobkiw. ments are in TeachText form.at. For memory usage, disk space left(orused), Allows you to quickly and easily jot System 7.0 and later. Shareware - and Chooser status/access. Offers pro­ down notes on your Macintosh saving $10. grammers a modular extensible capa- them for later perusal with the

64 Washington Apple Pi Journal April1994 TeachText application or any text edi­ randomization, backdrops and tiling. So!twareFPU 2.45 f.sit: By John Neil. tor. Read Me is in TeachText format. Read Me First! is in text format. Allows most programs expecting an Quit It! 1 O f sit- By Berrie Kremers. Requires System 6.0 or later. FPU to work properly on theMacint.osh Whenever the last window ofan appli­ Shareware -$20. Classic II, Color Classic, LC series and cation is closed using the close box, SF Windows 1 0 f.sit: By Damon Hsi and some models of PowerBook, this Control Panel will quit the appli­ Cokenias. Adds a popup menu to Centris andPerforma series which are cation. Options permit excluding se­ "Open" and "Save As ... " dialogs. This not configured with an FPU. An FPU lected applications and overriding nor­ menu contains the names of all the (Floating Point Unit) is a hardware mal close functions. About Quit It is open windows in the Finder. When chip that performs certain types of in TeachText format. Shareware - you select one ofthe windows from th~ mathematical operations quickly. An $15. menu, you will "Jump" to that folder. FPU is also known as a floating point RAM Disk Helper 1 3 f.sit: By David SFWindowsReadMeisinTeachText co-processor or a math co-processor. Riggle. Allows you to configure and format. For System 7.1 only. AboutSoftwareFPU andProgram­ create a Ram Disk, and will even auto­ Shareware -$7. mer Info are in Word format; Re­ matically copy files and switch finder $hhh! f sit: By Patrick C. Beard. Dis­ lease Notes is in TeachText format. operations to your new disk. Includes ables the software that make the PB For System 6 and later. Shareware­ periodic copyback to your hard disk of go 'click' whenever sound is used. $10. revised files. RAM Disk Helper Info Shhh! Readme is in text format. Sound Manager 3 0 f.sit: By Apple Com­ is in text format. For System 7 .0 and Shifl'rash 2.01 f.sit: By Kas Thomas. puter, Inc. Allows any application to later and a 68020 CPU or higher. When you want to delete a file, hold play and record sounds using the built­ RamDisk+ 3.22 f sit- By Roger D. Bates. the Shift key down when you drag it to insoundhardware foundonMacintosh A RAM Disk program designed to run the Trash, and POOF! The file (or computers. This version adds support automatically on startup. It copies any folder,orlasso'dgroupofgarbagefiles) for 16-bit CD-quality audio, redirec­ selected files and folders to the RAM vanishes. ShifTrash 2.01 Readme tion of sound to third-party hardware disk and optionally installs a crash Notes is in text format. For System 7 .0 cards, and plug-in audio compression/ saver to recover from system bombs. and later. Shareware-$5. decompression software (codecs). This program is considered by many to Sound Manager Read Me is in ShrinkDown 1.0 f.sit: By Scott Fenton. I TeachText format. be the best of the shareware RAM am not sure what this extension does disks. Read Me - BamDisk+ is in as there was no documentation. Sounder 1.2 f.sit' By Andy Barbolla. Permits you to change the sound vol­ TeachText format. System 6 and 7 Shutdown Fade 1.0 £.sit· By Mark Pil­ compatible. Shareware -$35. ume from the keyboard. Not saved to grim. Causes your Macintosh to fade Parameter RAM so your original vol­ REO 1 0 1 £.sit: By Jonathon Summers. all attached screens to black every Allows you to remap the buttons in the ume is restored each time you reboot. time it shuts down. Requires color or Sounder Docs is in TeachText for­ Standard File's 'Replace Existing... ' gray scale capable Mac. From the alert (presented when a file of the mat. For System 7.0 and later (may author is in TeachText format. work on earlier systems but not tested). same name exists) to change their Shutdown FX 1.2 f.sit: By Mark Pilgrim. behavior so that the 'Replace' button is SoundMaster 1.7.4 f.sit: By Bruce Clears your screen with a cool graphic Tomlin. Specify startup, beep, disk the default. Replace-Existing Op­ effect whenever you shut down your tions is in text format. Requires Sys­ insert, disk eject, bad disk, restart, Macintosh. From the author is in shutdown and key click sounds, rates tem 6.0.4 or later. Postcardware. text format. sAYetheDiskl.3.1 f.sit:ByToddOuzts. and volumes from folders inside your Disk #9.14C l/C 14 System folders. Use System 6.0.4 or Alleviate the excessive disk drive hits Extensions (INITs & cdevs) experienced by owners of AV Macs. higher. System 6 and 7 compatible. Note that the extension AV Speedup Unstuffit.sea: See description on Disk SoundMaster.doc and 1.0 addresses only the first set ofprob­ #9.0lC. SoundMaster changes are in text lems. AV Resource Manager Tuner ShutPowner 1.0.1 f.sit: By William format. Sha-rewa-re -$15. and AV Cache Tuner improve the Re­ Uther. Holding down the 'end' key on Speecb Manager 1 1 1 £.sit: By Apple source Manager and the disk cache an extended keyboard during startup Computer, Inc. Change the voices spo­ respectively. Their functionality has will cause your Mac to shut-down im­ ken by your Mac. Not sure what sys­ been integrated into sAVe the Disk, mediately. For those occasions when tem or Macs this is for as there was no which adds a solution for the sound you need to rectify a spastic selection documentation. related disk trashing, too. Read Me is of Reset rather than Shutdown. SpeedyFinder7 1 5 9h £.sit: By Victor in text format. For AV Macs only. README is in text format. Tan. Speed up the Mac Finder when ScreenChooser 2 2 f.sit: By Marcio Luis Sharewa-re - what it is worth. copying files, opening or closing win­ Teixeira. A fully featured CP that per­ Snap-To 2.0 f.sit: By Trevden Sherzell. dows, changing file name and empty­ mits selection of startup screens and Snaps the "pointer" to the default box ing the trash. It also has some other sounds and permits you to use pic­ in an open dialogue. Snap-To features such as adding additional com­ tures as desktop patterns. Includes ReadMe is in TeachText format. mand key shortcuts and optionally Sha-rewa-re -$5. removingBalloonHelpfrom the menu.

April 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 65 SpeedyFinder7 doc and Release mat. resets the clock for the beginning and vl.5.4 notes are in Word format. For TimeServer 1 0 2 f sit· By John end ofDaylight Savings Time and per­ System 7.0 and later. Shareware - Raymonde, Jr. A Time Server and cli­ mits any change ofthe location ofyour Aus$20. ent package that permits all clients to computer to automatically adjust the Stack6000 f.sit: By Chuck Pliske. Ex­ update their system time at startup. clock. WorldTime Manual is in pand Stack space on 68000 portables Requires System 6.0 or later. Read Me TeachText format. Requires System (Plus, SE, PBlOO, etc.) to ensure that is in text format. Postcardware. 4.1 or newer. For Mac Plus and later. you don't get the ID=28 (stack over­ 'JY.peit4Me 4.0 f.sit: By Riccardo Ettore. Shareware -a jUir price. flow) errors when running large appli­ Provides a pop-up menu accessed to WrapScreen 1.2 f.sit: By Eric Aubourg. cations. Stack6000.doc is in text for­ the left of the Apple menu from which Allows your mouse to wrap across your mat. you can select pre-stored phrases. screen and come out the other side. Startup Screen Picker 1.0 f.sit: By Mark Typelt4Me User Manual is in double You can choose to wrap horizontally, Pilgrim. Letyouhavearandomstartup clickable DOCMaker format. Requires vertically or both. WrapScreen screen, displayed when you start up System 4.1 or later. Shareware-$30 README is in TeachText format. your Macintosh while system exten­ for disk with latest version plus Shareware - what you think it is sions are loading. Just read it is in other free and shareware pro­ worth. TeachText format. gmms. Xmas Lights 11 f sit: By Tiger Tech­ STD File Saver 1 1 f sit: By Eric Simenel, useKBD.led 2 0 f sit: By Alain Birtz. nologies. Places flashing Christmas Apple Computer, Inc. Allows you to Configure the LEDs on extended key­ tree lights under the Menu bar ofyour print any file to disk as either a PICT boards to inform you of floppy disk Mac as if someone had strung them or TEXT. Including FileMaker Field drive and SCSI drive activity. from the top ofyour screen. Select any and Script Definitions. READ ME Led.doc.English and of a number oflight patterns. DAMN ITLtxt is in text format. Led.doc.francais are in Word for­ YesNoCancel 11 f.sit: By Xan Gregg. SwapKey 1.1 f.sit- By Nagatoshi Nawa. mat. Use the keyboard to select dialog box Permits you to swap the functional VizBeep 1.0 f.sit: By Eric Hustvedt. Al­ normal, check and radio buttons, text meaning ofpairs of keyboard keys; for lows you to play a movie for your fields, etc. example-swap the control and caps System Beep. Read Me • VizBeep ZapTCP 1.2 f.sit: By Steve Falkenburg, lock key functions. README is a real Version 1.0 is in text format. Re­ Apple Computer, Inc. This little hack challenge. quires System 7 or greater and for MacTCPProgrammers shuts down Disk #9.15C I/C 15 QuickTime. Shareware -$5. MacTCP and all ofits processes after a Extensions (INITs & cdevs) WeekdaySoundl.O f.sit:ByOlaMontan. system crash. About ZapTCP is in Unstuffit.sea: See description on Disk Plays a sound when the Macintosh is text format. For System 7.0 and later. #9.0lC. started. You can specify a different Zipple 1 8 f sit: By Christopher Suley. Symbionts 2.3.3 f.sit: By B. Kevin sound file for each day of the week. Adds an animated image ofyour choice Hardman. Manage the loading of Ex­ Read me ifyou want is in TeachText over the title of the Apple, Balloon tensions. Also monitors the startup format. For System 7.0 and later. Help or Application menu. Zipple 1.8 process and displays the name of, and Who's Tbere f.sit: By Kevin W. Ramer. Manual is in TeachText format. For bytes of memory used by each system Lists all the people, machines, print­ System 7.0 and later. Shareware - extension. The name and number ap­ ers, processes on your network. Neat $10. pear beneath the extension's icon, and and useful. README is in text for­ ZoomBar 2 2 f.sit: By Brian Westley. also in the menu bar. Symbionts mat. Shrink windows to just a title bar. You Readme is in TeachText format. WindowFinder 1.4 f.sit: By Edward can now have many windows avail­ Shareware -$20. Agoff. A most useful utility. Just Com­ able on the screen and still see them all Talking Clock Pro 2.QbO f.sit: By Jon mand click in the menu bar at anytime without having to move them to un­ Watte. Speaks the time every hour on to pop up a menu that lets you select cover hidden ones. Don't use with the hour. Talking Clock Prom In· any open window and bring it to the Microsoft applications. zoom docs in structions is in TeachText format. front. WindowFinder Info is in text text format refers to an earlier version Requires the Speech Manager format. (1. 7). Shareware -$5. (MacinTalk II or MacinTalk Pro). WithAView for 7 f.sit: By David P. Window 1.02 f.sit: By Hyo E. Ahn. TeFix 1.0 f.sit: By Scott Bronson. Fixes Sumner. Allows the user to change the Provides keyboard shortcuts for things a bug in TextEdit that may impact view in a Finder window from 'by icon' that normally have to be done using other programs that use the routines. to 'byname'byclickingin an appropri­ the mouse. This includes application About TEFix is in text format. ate part ofthe window. To go the other switching, window selection, hiding, zooming, moving and resizing, closing Timelord 1.4 f.sit: By The University of way, hold down the option key while clicking. WithAView for 7 Docs is in and some other functions. Read Me is Melbourne. Allows the Macintosh time in TeachText format. Shareware. to be set over an AppleTalk network Word format. For System 7.0 and later. from a Macintosh or UNIX/CAP based Wor}dTime 1.5.1 £.sit: By J. David Sex­ Disk #9.16C I/C 16 time server. README is in text for- ton. Tells you the time in other cities, Extensions (INITs & cdevs)

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April 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 67 • BREWSKEY.Ml8 Mean 18 Brewskey ParkG.C. BUTLER.MIS Butler National for Mean 18 CAJUILES.MlS Campo de Cajuiles Apple Disk Library course for Mean l S

by John B. Ruffatto GSGM·Ol B • Mean 18 Golf Courses 1 This disk contains additional Mean 18 Golf courses for use with the game Mean 18. Follow the instructions included with your Welcome to the Apple Disk Library section ofthe Journal, as you can see there game for using extra course disks. An ASCII is always room for improvement. In this issue there are now Disk Order Forms text file named Mean.18.Info is included. for the Apple Il, Apple IIGS, and the Apple ill. The librarians would like to This file provides further information on Mean receive comments pro and con tothenewset-upversus theoldlistingformat. Direct 18 golf courses. Also included on this disk is an ASCII text file named Mean IS.Hint This yourcommentstomevia theWashingt.onApplePioffi.ceandI will trytorespondthem. file contains a chart showing the yardage I would also desire your comments in regard to Public Domain software you ratings for your clubs at various powerlevels. would like to see included in our Disk Libraries. Since we no longer publish the The Mean lS Golf courses on this disk titlesofthedisksinthelibrary, itisadvisabletoordertheDiskLibraryCatalogDisks have been compressed into self-extracting for the machine you are using. archive files. This allows me to include more Eachmonthwewillendeavortoprovideinformationonnewadditionstothe Mean 18 Golf courses than I would normally libraries or feature disks currently in the libraries. Some of the disks in the be able to fit onto a single disk. Apple Disk libraries containSHAREWARE. Ifyou use anyShareware program, please send the shareware fee to the author. By submitting the fee we encourage The file "Courses.01.SEA" contains the fol­ the author(s) to develop more software. lowing Mean lS golf courses: Special Note: All Apple II, Apple ill, and Apple Ilgs Catalog Disks may be ABYSS.MIS Abyss C.C. for Mean exchanged for most current edition of the Disk Catalog series- free of charge 18 - ifexc hanged at the office. For exchanges by mail, please be certain to include ACHAFALA.Ml8 The Atchafalaya for your old disks and $1.00 per disk to cover shipping and handling. Mean 18 ACHILLES.M18 Achilles Hills course Thank you. forMean IS ALW.MlS All Around Worst course GAMES forMean lS forMean IS ALW.MlS All Around Worst course AMAZON.MIS Mean IS in the GSGM..01 B - Mean 18 Golf Courses 1 forMean IS Amazon basin! This disk contains additional Mean l S Golf AMAZON.MIS Mean 18 in the Amazon courses for use with the game Mean lS. Fol­ basin! The file "Courses.02.SEA" contains the fol­ low the instructions included with your game lowing Mean lS golf courses: for using extra course disks. An ASCII text The file "Courses.02.SEA" contains the fol­ AMERICAS.Ml8 America's Best lS file named Mean. IS.Info is included. This file lowing Mean 18 golf courses: course for Mean 18 provides further information on Mean 1 S golf AMERICAS.Ml& America's Best 18 APACHE.MIS ApacheWellsG.C.for courses. Also included on this disk is an course for Mean lS Mean 18 ASCII text file named Mean l S.Hint. This file APACHE.Ml& Apache Wells G.C. for AQUAPHOB.MlS Aquaphobia C.C. contains a chart showing the yardage ratings Mean 18 for Mean IS for your clubs at various power levels. AQUAPHOB.MlS Aquaphobia C.C. for BAIN.MIS Bain's Pros course for The Mean 1S Golf courses on this disk have Mean 18 Mean lS been compressed into self-extracting archive BAIN.MIS Bain's Pros course for BALLBUST.Ml8 Ballbustercoursefor files. This allows me to include more Mean l S Mean lS Mean lS Golf courses than I would normally be able to BALLBUST.MlS Ballbustercourse for fit onto a single disk. Mean 18 The file "Courses.03.SEA" contains the fol­ lowing Mean 18 golf courses: The file "Courses.01.SEA" contains the fol­ The file "Courses.03.SEA" contains the fol­ lowing Mean lS golf courses: lowing Mean IS golf courses: BEIJING.Ml& Beijing C.C. for Mean ABYSS.MIS AbyssC.C.forMean IS BEIJING.MIS Beijing C.C. for Mean lS ACHAFALA.M 1S The Atchafalaya for 18 BRANDY.MIS Brandywine C.C. for Mean IS BRANDY.MIS Brandywine C.C. for Mean lS ACHILLES.MIS Achilles Hills course Mean lS BREWSKEY.MlS Mean IS Brewskey

68 Washington Apple Pi Journal April1994 ParlcG.C. DOCUMENT ATION.M. These files explain by a dozen or so extra lines of code. Hope­ BUl'LER.M18 Butler National for how to use the construction set module and fully, Sierra On-Line will fix this (feel free to Mean 18 includes instructions on how to play this game. send them a complaint), but in the meantime CAJUll.ES.Ml8 Campo de Cajuiles DOCUMENT ATION.M contains the infor­ those of you who prefer to leave Keyboard course for Mean 18 mation found in DOCUMENTATION and Buffering turned on can use PreThex. includes a note describing an incompatibility It temporarily disables buffering and then IlGS.GM.03 to IlGS.GM.05 • BOUNC­ with GS/OS v5.0. runs Thexder. The effect lasts until the com­ ING BLUSTER Several files may be deleted from this disk puter is turned off or you access the Classic Bouncing Bluster is a variation on the if you do not wish to use the WINDOWS Desk Accessory Menu by pressing traditional Breakout game. You must de­ utility. These files are: READ.ME, WIN­ Control-Apple-Escape. This means that you stroy a wall ofbricks with a racket and a ball. DOWS, DOGPAW, BASIC.SYSTEM, cannot access the Control Panel during the This game includes advanced features: ran­ DOCUMENTATION, game: if you need to adjust the volume or domly moving monsters; a construction set DOCUMENTATION .M, PRO DOS and some other option, do so before running module; six types of bricks (Normal, Rain­ STARTUP. Please, do not make changes to PreThex. bow, Invisible, Teleport, Steel and the original disk. Don't take any risks, use a Come-Back); bricks that resist several times; copy of this disk! In the /Shovelt/ folder: and bricks that release a capsule. Touching This game is similiar to Sokaban. The the capsule with your racket will produce a Disk: /BBCSET/ - Construction Set Mod· game-screen consists of a "maze" which con­ variety of good or bad effects. ule tains a number of packets and storage loca­ This game is contained on a three disk set The disk /BBCSET/ contains the construc­ tions. The player must push the packets into The disk /B.BLUSTER/ contains the game tion set module. This disk is not required to the storage spaces. The problem is that these Bouncing Bluster. The disk /BB.DATA/ play this game. Boot this disk if you wish to packets can only be pushed from behind, and contains the game's data files and documen­ use the construction set module. The applica­ only one at a time. Sometimes it will be tation. Thedisk/BBCSET/ contains the con­ tion BBCSET allows you to create new boards necessary to actually push a packet away from struction set module. for the Bouncing Bluster game. This disk also the storage area so that others may be pushed includes GS/OS v4.0. instead. It is really quite complex and addic­ Disk: /B.BLUSTER/ • Boot Disk tive. This disk contains the Bounging Bluster GSGM-06 A • Games 1 game. Boot this disk if you wish to play the In the I Ark.II.Levels/ folder: In the /Worm.Runner/ folder: game. This disk is configured to bypass the This folder contains the file The game begins with the worm poised and Finder. Bouncing Bluster will load auto­ ARKIILEVELS, which is a "game" for ready to seek out a nice, juicy mushroom matically when this disk is booted. This disk Arkanoid II: Revenge of DOH. ( 'mushies') to satisfy his palette. Pressing the contains GS/OS v4.0becauseBouncingBlus­ 'I' key will start the game with the worm ter is not compatible with newer versions of In the /DHW.Arch. l/ folder: travelling to the top of the screen. Try to guide GS/OS. Two complete "games" for Arkanoid II: him to the mushroom by moving the worm to The /B.BLUSTER/ disk may be config­ Revenge of DOH. One is "Crashanoid" (in­ the left or right and up or down. ured to load the Finder rather than booting side joke) which is about as tough as "Arklf'. The worm is very sensitive and one wrong directly into the game. To do this, you must "Artanoid" is easier, and everything in that move will cause it to 'crash into the wall and rename the file START.FINDER which is one looks like something. By David Wood. lose a life' time. There are three lives to start, located in the SYSTEM folder on this disk. and a bonus life will be awarded after 1000 Change the name to START. Double click In the /DHW.Arch.2/ folder: points. on the icon named B.BLUSTER.SYS16 to Three complete "games" for Arkanoid II: After 5 'mushies' have been eaten in a launch this game from the Finder. Revenge of DOH. CRUEL.BASTARDS is a level, it is up to you to get the worm safely out collection of screens which have no right ofone ofthe opened up passageways. He must Disk: /BB.DATA/ -Data Disk (with Docu­ existing. RHAPSODY.IN.RED and get through to wiggle over to the next level. mentation) THE.BLUES are two obvious theme boards This game is shareware, $5.00 fee. By Jim The disk /BB.DATAl contains data files with some tricks. By David Wood. Van Hassel. needed by the B.BLUSTER program. This disk should be online when you boot the In the /PreThex/ folder: In the IYahtzee/ folder: B.BLUSTER program. You may have some PreThex 1.0 by Jason Harper. Thexder is a This is the familiar dice game for the Apple problems if you have only one 3.5 inch disk great game for the IIgs, but it has one annoy­ IIgs. The game itself is easy to use and play, drive. ing problem: you absolutely must turn off and the instructions are. included within it. This disk also contains a utility, named Keyboard Buffering in your Control Panel Requires System Disk 3.2 or latter. Includes a WINDOWS, that will display or print the settings to be able to control the game. This Yahtzee Finder icon file. By David W. Buell. documentation that is located on this disk. can only be attributed to lack of knowledge Boot this disk ifyou wish to view or print the about the ADB (Apple Desktop Bus) Toolset GSGM-07 A ·Games 2 documentation. Included on this disk are 2 by the programmers who did the IIgs version, Apple Works Classic word processing files, since the problem could have been eliminated In the /BB.Triva/ folder: DOCUMENTATION and Baseball Triva v4.2 by Russ Eagle and

Aprll1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 69 TinaSoft. Baseball Triva is a two player game. In the /IIGS.GAMES.08/GAMES/CARDS/ In the /IIGS.GAMES.08/GAMES/CARDS/ You must correctly enter the answers to a folder: SO LIT AIRFJ folder: series ofBaseball Trivaquestions. Shareware, This folder contains a variety of card decks A set ofcards that can be used with Solitaire $10fee. for use with any of the great Wood and Davies or any of the great Wood and Davies GS GS Solitaire Games. This includes Pyramid Solitaire Games. In the /Fl .Racer/ folder: and Solitaire2.0 which can be found on this A graphic's based Formula I race-game disk, and MonteCarlo and Poker which can be In the /IIGS.GAMES.08/GAMES/CARDS/ written by Joel A. Quejahda. In this game, you found on the next disk in this series: GSGM-09 SUMMER/ folder: will be racing against the clock. You must - Games 4. The following 8 folders can be New cards for Solitaire GS, Poker GS, travel a set minimum distance within a set found in the CARDS folder: AppleLink, MonteCarlo GS, or Pyramid GS. Summer time before you can move on to the next leg of Batman, Bears, Converter, Pyramid, Rummy, Time edition. Includes a tribute to all of the the race. You will have to avoid hitting the Solitaire, Summer. author's special Alink friends! By Doug other race cars on the track. You start the race Davies. with five cars at your disposal and a full tank In the /IIGS.GAMES.08/GAMES/CARDS/ of gas. Depending on how fast you are run­ APPLELINK/ folder: In the /IIGS.GAMES.08/GAMES/PYRA­ ning, you will soon run out of gas. Every now This is a great AppleLink Logo card set. MID/ folder: and then, a "Gas Pump" will appear on the The backs ofthe cards in this deck displays the This is the new shareware version of Pyra­ road and you will be able to stop and fill up. AppleLink logo. By Doug, Todd, changes by mid Solitaire. Neat SHR graphics and nearly You get an extra car for each leg that you Bob. impossible to beat. The object of the game is finish. Requires at least S 12k RAM. This to remove all the cards in the pyramid. You software is Shareware, $15 fee. In the /IIGS.GAMES.08/GAMES/CARDS/ can only remove 2 cards at a time, and they BATMAN/ folder: must add up to 13. You can look at the next In the /Match.Game/ folder: A new card set featuring all your favorites card on the deck by clicking on the deck. The Matching Game by Matt Wachowski. This from Batman stories. By Andy Francis. cards on the deck do not need to be completely game was written using Super BASIC. Super diposed of to win, but they will help in remov­ BASIC expands Applesoft by giving it com­ In the /IIGS.GAMES.08/GAMES/CARDS/ ing cards in the pyramid. mands that deal with super high resolution BEARS/ folder: graphics, animation, and sound. In this game Here's a new set of cards for any of the In the /IIGS.GAMES.08/GAMES/SOLI­ you are given a set of cards, face down, on the Wood and Davies GS Solitaire Games. For TAIRE2.0/ folder: screen. Each player selects any 2 of these those who love teddy bears this will be a fun This is the new shareware version of Soli­ cards with the mouse. When a card is selected card set! By Douglas Leland Davies. taire, aSHRgamefromApplelink. Nice graph­ it turns over and reveals it's identity. If the ics, hard to beat. cards do not match then they flip back over In the /IIGS.GAMES.08/GAMES/CARDS/ and it is the next players tum. If they DO CONVERTER/ folder: GSGM-09 A ·Games 4 match then they disappear and the same player Card Convert Utility by Todd J Wood. In the /Eucre.2.'11 folder: scores a point and gets to try again. When all Now you can make your own cards for Soli­ In Euchre v2.2, you and your computer of the cards are gone the game is over and the taire, Pyramid, Poker, or Monte Carlo. This partner play against two computer opponents. scores are shown on the screen. utility allows you to convert standard $C 1 Your partner has been programmed to play super-hires pictures into card sets. This utility very intelligently. However, so have your GSGM-08 • IIGS.GAMES.08 ·Games 3 provides 4 templates for each card suit. You opponents. This software is Shareware, $10 In the /IIGS.GAMES.08/GAMES/ folder: can modify these templates in the paint pro­ fee. By Bill Hamshire. This folder contains a variety ofllgs games. gram of your choice (as long as you save it as Euchre is a card game in which the team The following 4 folders can be found in the a standard $C 1 picture) and then run this that calls trump must get three out of five GAMES folder: BlackJack, Cards, Pyramid, convert utility on them, to generate the cards! tricks. Therefore, to start each hand, all four Solitaire2.0. players start with five cards. Your partner is In the /IIGS.GAMES.08/GAMES/CARDS/ the player opposite you making the players to In the /IIGS.GAMES.08/GAMES/BLACK­ PYRAMID/ folder: the left and right your opponents. This game is JACK/ folder: A set ofcards that can be used with Pyramid played with only the cards numbered 9 up Black Jack GS ·version 1.0 by Bob or any of the great Wood and Davies GS through Ace, leaving four cards for the blind. Moragues. BlackJack GS is a single player Solitaire Games. The blind is the group of cards left out of each game of BlackJack for the Apple //GS. One hand. In Euchre, when trump is decided, the player plays against the dealer. The house In the /IIGS.GAMES.08/GAMES/CARDS/ jack of that suit is the highest trump, com­ rules for this program are modeled after the RUMMY/ folder: monly called the right bower. The jack of the casinos in Lake Tahoe. This program is mouse Rummy cards designed to be as close to the same color suit is the second highest. This is controlled and uses pull down menus and real thing! Just replace the old card files with the left bower. The rest of the trump and the Apple key equivalents. Requires at least S 12K. this set This was done using the Card Conver­ other three suits are ranked ace high. The This program requires many of the toolsets torGS forthe Solitaire games, by Todd Woods dealer turns up the top card of the blind. The found on the system disk. & Doug Davies. By Lendal&Judy Derreberry. suit of that card is the first one up for bidding.

70 Washington Apple Pi Journal Aprll 1994 Play begins with the player to the left of the and are available through an online Help but­ In Euchre v2.2, you and your computer dealer leading. Each player must, in turn, play ton. PowerPlay is FREEW ARE. partner play against two computer opponents. one card from their hand. Ifthey have cards of Your partner has been programmed to play the suit that was lead, they must play one of In the /Return. Woz/ folder: very intelligently. However, so have your them, this is called following suit. Otherwise, In this simple but challenging game, you opponents. This software is Shareware, $10 the player can play any card in his hand. The control a helicopter with a man hanging from fee. By Bill Hamshire. trick is won by the player who played the the landing gear. The man will fall off and you Euchre is a card game in which the team highest trump card, or, if none where played, must help him land in a hay wagon. By Parik that calls trump must get three out of five the highest card in the suit that was lead. This Rao and Scott Pease. tricks. Therefore, to start each hand, all four player collects the four cards and turns them players start with five cards. Your partner is face down in front of him. He then continues In the /Sheepshead/ folder: the player opposite you making the players to play by leading the next trick. Sheepshead version 1.1 SHR 640-mode the left and right your opponents. This game is card game by Bill Hamshire. This software is played with only the cards numbered 9 up In the /Monte.Carlo/ folder: Shareware, $10 fee. You against 3 computer through Ace, leaving four cards for the blind. Monte Carlo-style Solitaire card game. The opponents. By the creator ofGS Eucre. Sheep­ The blind is the group of cards left out of each Latest and Greatest card game from Todd shead is the rough translation of Schafskopf, hand. In Euchre, when trump is decided, the Wood. It's also winnable! The object of the original German name. There are many jack of that suit is the highest trump, com­ MonteCarlo is to gid rid of all the cards. When variations of this game. There are 32 cards in monly called $e right bower. The jack of the the game starts 20 cards are layed down in a the dee~ 7 up to Ace. Each card has a rank. same color suit is the second highest. This is 5x4 grid on the table. You remove adjacent The object of the game is to get the most the left bower. The rest of the trump and the cards of the same type. Then you click the points, not tricks or cards. other three suits are ranked ace high. The DEAL button and the cards will snake-up and Each of the five players get six cards and dealer turns up the top card of the blind. The new ones will be pulled out of the deck. You the last two are put face down in the middle. suit of that card is the first one up fotbidding. continue this, until you can no longer remove Starting with the left ofthe dealer, each player Play begins with the player to the left of the any cards or you win the game. Instructions gets to decide if he wants to "pick." Picking dealer leading. Each player must, in turn, play are provided. By Todd J Wood. involes adding the two cards in the middle to one card from their band. Ifthey have cards of The previous disk in this series, GSGM-08 your hand and discarding two that you don't the suit that was lead, they must play one of - Games 3, contains additional card decks want. them, this is called following suit. Otherwise, which may be used with this game and two The partner is the player with the Jack of the player can play any card in his band. The additional Todd Wood and I)oug Davies soli­ Diamonds. No one except the player with the trick is won by the player who played the taire games: Pyramid and Solitaire. Jack of Diamonds knows who is on their side highest trump card, or, if none where played, until the Jack is played. As opponents, your the highest card in the suit that was lead. This In the /Poker/ folder: team is trying to get 60 points to set the picker. player collects the four cards and turns them Video Poker version 1.0 is a Casino-type Once the picker has been determined. Play face down in front of him. He then continues Draw Poker game. From the card freaks who starts with the player to the left of the dealer play by leading the next trick. brought you Solitaire in all its permutations, leading. As usual, you must follow suit and Todd Wood and Doug Davies. Shareware, when everyone has played a card, the highest In the /Monte.Carlo/ folder: $10fee. card takes the trick and that player leads the Monte Carlo-style Solitaire card game. The The previous disk in this series, GSGM-08 next trick. The high point cards are called Latest and Greatest card game from Todd - Games 3, contains additional card decks schmear or schmear cards. If someone on Wood. It's also winnable! The object of which may be used with this game and two your team has the trick already you would MonteCarlo is to gid rid of all the cards. When additional Todd Wood and Doug Davies soli­ want to schmear the trick so that your team the game starts 20 cards are layed down in a taire games: Pyramid and Solitaire. takes as many points as possible. 5x4 grid on the table. You remove adjacent There is no real end to the "game" Sheeps­ cards of the same type. Then you click the In the /PowerPlay.vl.l/ folder: head. It is just a series of hands that usually DEAL button and the cards will snake-up and PowerPlay version 1.1 by P. Brinkley. An ends when someone is out of chips or money. new ones will be pulled out of the deck. You earlier version (1.0) is not system 6 compat­ continue this, until you can no longer remove ible. PowerPlay is a GS program containing 4 In the lfetrotrix/ folder: any cards or you win the game. Instructions different games. The 4 games are: Tetrotrix version I. I by Pierre Abel. This is are provided. By Todd J Wood. Tron-A 2-player light-cycle race game. a ''Tetris" clone. Groups of blocks fall from The previous disk in this series, GSGM-08 FourPlay- A brain-twisting Tetris- like the top of the screen. You must move and - Games 3, contains additional card decks game. rotate the blocks into a position where they which may be used with this game and two GridLock- A puzzle with ever-increasing will match the blocks at the bottom of the additional Todd Wood and Doug Davies soli­ complexity. screen. High scores are saved to disk. This is taire games: Pyramid and Solitaire. PIGnBULL- A number matching game, Shareware, $IS fee. By Pierre Abel. similar to Mastermind. In the /Poker/ folder: GSGM-09 A ·Games 4 Video Poker version 1.0 is a Casino-type Instructions for these games are built-in In the /Eucre.2.2/ folder: Draw Poker game. From the card freaks who

April 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 71 brought you Solitaire in all its pennutations, when everyone has played a card, the highest student at the local fighter's guild. After much Todd Wood and Doug Davies. Shareware, card takes the trick and that player leads the practice and sweat you have finally· com­ $10fee. next trick. The high point cards are called pleted your training and are ready to embark The previous disk in this series, GSGM-08 schmear or schmear cards. If someone on upon a perilous adventure. As a test of your - Games 3, contains additional card decks your team has the trick already you would skills, the local guildmasters have sent you which may be used with this game and two want to schmear the trick so that your team into the Dungeons of Doom. Your goal is to additional Todd Wood and Doug Davies soli­ takes as many points as possible. grab as much treasure as you can, find the taire games: Pyramid and Solitaire. There is no real end to the "game" Sheeps­ Amulet of Yendor, and get out of the Dun­ head. It is just a series of hands that usually geons of Doom alive. In the /PowerPlay. v 1.1/ folder: ends when someone is out of chips or money. PowerPlay version 1.1 by P. Brinkley. An GSGM·ll • DGS.GAMES.11 ·Games 6 earlier version (1.0) is not system 6 compat­ In the /fetrotrix/ folder: In the /IIGS.GAMES.11/GAMES/ folder: . ible. PowerPlay is a.GS program containing 4 Tetrotrix version 1.1 by Pierre Abel. This different games. The 4 games are: is a ''Tetris" clone. Groups of blocks fall from This folder contains a variety ofllgs games. Tron- A 2-player light-cycle race game. the top of the screen. You must move and The following 3 folders can be found in the FourPlay- A brain-twisting Tetris- like rotate the blocks into a position where they GAMES folder: Golem, MAG, Moria. game. will match the blocks at the bottom of the GridLock- A puzzle with ever-increasing screen. High scores are saved to disk. This is In the /IIGS.GAMES.11/GAMES/GOLEM/ complexity. Shareware, $15 fee. By Pierre Abel. folder: PIGnBULL- A number matching game, This is a IIGS tank game with 30+ levels of similar to Mastermind. GSGM-10 • DGS.GAMES.10 • Games 5 play. Written by Jason L Smart (Travelling Instructions for these games are built-in In the /IIGS.GAMES.10/GAMES/ folder: Faire Software.) A Golem is a powerful, com­ and are available through an online Help but­ This folder contains a variety ofllgs games. pact tank, designed for efficient movement ton. PowerPlay is FREEWARE. The following 2 folders can be found in the through small, narrow passages and caves. GAMES folder: Orbizone, Rogue. Golem contains an unlimited number of shots In the /Return. Wo'li folder: and 5 missiles. It also has a powerful cloaking In this simple but challenging game, you In the /llGS.GAMES.10/GAMES/ shield which effectively prevents detection. control a helicopter with a man hanging from ORBIZONE/ folder: The moon XG4 had been a peaceful, settled the landing gear. The man will fall off and you By the authors of Xenocide. Orbizone is place for decades. Its small colony mined the must help him land in a hay wagon. By Parik similar to the classic game Asteroids. You moon for krymite, a red rock that stored in­ Rao and Scott Pease. pilot a spaceship as it hurtles through space credible amounts of energy. In the year 2132, while blasting asteriod like objects before an intergalactic terrorist force took over the In the /Sheepshead/ folder: they crash into your spaceship. Requires a small moon XG4 and threatened to kill every Sheepshead version 1.1 SHR 640-mode joystick. You can create and use your own colonist if the Alliance attempted a rescue. card game by Bill Hamshire. This software is asteriod like shapes in the game. Includes a Alliance officials explored their options and Shareware, $10 fee. You against 3 computer ''template" that you will draw your custom agreeded on a plan. If they could safely land opponents. By the creator ofGS Eucre. Sheep­ shapes onto. Use Paintworks Gold to create one tank by an entrance to the mines, it could shead is the rough translation of Schafskopf, your own shapes and put them into the tem­ move safely inside the moon without attract­ the original Gennan name. There are many plate. You can have up to 10 levels in your ing any attention. The tank would then deto­ variations of this game. There are 32 cards in custom game. Orbizone was designed specifi­ nate a bomb in the mines directly below the the deck, 7 up to Ace. Each card has a rank. cally for use with stereo output. Written by terrorist headquarters, which would set of a The object of the game is to get the most Brian Greenstone. Artwork by Dave Triplett. chain reaction destroying the terrorists. Just as points, not tricks or cards. This game is Shareware, $5 fee. (C) 1989 the tank was laying the bomb a strange crea­ Each of the five players get six cards and Pangea Software. ture appeared and destroyed the tank, leaving the last two are put face down in the middle. the bomb untouched. The plan was then re­ Starting with the left ofthe dealer, each player In the /IIGS.GAMES.10/GAMES/ROGUFJ vised: infiltrate the mines, find the bomb, and gets to decide if he wants to ''pick." Picking folder: detonate it. This program is Shareware, $10 involes adding the two cards in the middle to This is a game called Rogue. The original fee. your hand and discarding two that you don't game was written by Ken Arnold and Michael want. Toy for Unix. Tim Stoehr wrote a clone of the In the /IIGS.GAMES.11/GAMES/MAG/ The partner is the player with the Jack of game which I have ported to the Ilgs. This is folder: Diamonds. No one except the player with the a plain-vanilla version of rogue (5.3). This Moria Adventurer's Guild, Version 1.1. Jack of Diamonds knows who is on their side game is fairly true to the original. It uses the MAG has been designed to work with Moria. until the Jack is played. As opponents, your text screen and the nonnal set of VI keys (hjkl) Moria was originally developed on Unix, and team is trying to get 60 points to set the picker. for movement. 1/0 has been severely hacked Jason Harper was kind enough to port it to the Once the picker has been determined. Play for speed. Apple Ilgs. While Moria is an excellent game, starts with the player to the left of the dealer Rogue(the Dungeons of Doom) is a fantasy you can only have one character and there is leading. As usual, you must follow suit and game. You have just finished your years as a no support for creating and playing multiple

72 Washington Apple Pi Journal April 1994 characters. And when you die, you're dead! color in the available color box. When all GAMES folder: AsTheLinkTurns, Backgam­ There's no starting over at the last saved positions are filled, the guess is scored. mon, Beast, Four.In.A.Row, Four.Play, position. MAG addresses these shortcomings. The computer will tell you how many dots Romulans, Spell.Binder.GS, TicTacToe. MAG is freeware. Copyright 1990, Zak En­ are of the correct color AND in the right terprises. All Rights Reserved. By Bryan position. It will also tell you how many dots In the /IIGS.GAMES.13/GAMES/ Pietrzak. are of the correct color BUT in the wrong ASTHELINKTURNS/ folder: position. A color dot will never be counted Welcome to the most sophisticated, graph­ In the /IIGS.GAMES.11/GAMES/MORIA/ twice, if it is scored "correct position & color,, ics oriented, public domain program for the folder: then it will not be included in the correct color Applellgs. Programming and Layout by Parik Mines of Moria version 4.83. Moria is a score. Rao. Sound and Graphics by Scott Pease. The dungeon exploration game originally written object is to destroy as many creatures in the for VAXNMS computer systems, and now In the /Senseless.2/ folder: given time as possible. Merely position your available for a wide variety of computers. The Senseless Violence 2 (c) 1990 Pangea Soft­ cross-hairs over any of the flying bugs, and Ilgs version was ported from an IBM PC ware. By the authors of Xenocide. Senseless press the fire button or spacebar. You need to translation ofthe Unix conversion of the VMS Violence 2: You Use, You Die, is a game kill at least 50 to frighten them all away. You original. By Jason Harper. which is meant as a teaching tool about some have only 2 minutes, 15 seconds to accom­ The game of Moria is a single player dun­ of todaf s most pressing problems: Smoking, plish your mission. Can you do it? geon simulation. A player may choose from a Drug use, and Racism. The game requires a There are many easter eggs in this program! number of races and classes when creating joystick, and at least System Disk 5.0. Try typing in things, one thing is the name of their character, and then 'run' that character In the game, you have to guide yourself thru a information service (abbrieviated) at the over a period of days, weeks, even months; a wormhole and avoid objects which repre­ game screen, it will bring up something inter­ attempting to win the game by defeating the sent smoking, drugs, and racism. When you esting. Balrog which lurks in the deeper levels. exit one wormhole, you will be thrown into This game includes a joystick calibrator, its The player will begin his adventure on the another even harder one. You start the game a graphic representation, and allows you to set town level where he may acquire supplies, with only 200 lasers, so use them sparingly. your joystick to the exact center of the graph­ weapons, armor, and magical devices by bar­ Each time you hit an object in the wormhole, ics screen. This program will not quit back to tering with various shop owners. After pre­ it will affect one of your 3 shield status meters. the Finder. When you're finished, you will paring for his adventure, the player can de­ When a meter runs out then the game is over. have to reboot your computer. This game is scend into the dungeons of Moria where fan­ The music in this game was designed spe­ freeware. By ParikRaoand Scott Pease, Rogue tastic adventures await his coming! cifically for stereo use. Written by Brian Green­ Systems. stone, music and advice by Gene Koh. This GSGM-12 A ·Games 7 game is shareware,$5 fee. In the /IIGS.GAMES.13/GAMES/BACK­ In the /BattleShip.GS/ folder: GAMMON/ folder: This game is based on the traditional Battle­ In the !Tank.GS/ folder: GS Backgammon Version 1.1. Version 1.1 ship game. Requires two players. You must GSTanks by Ian House. An attempt to of GS Backgammon includes an improved wait until the end of the game before you can make an artificialy intellegent supertank, has computer opponent and all known bugs in quit back to the Finder. Includes nice graphics gone horribly wrong. Someone accidentaly version 1.0 have been fixed. The computer and sound effects. By Chad Faragher. switched the tanks cd-rom memory with an player will give you a hard time if you think Elvis cd and the tank went bezerk, it began you can win. In the /Daleks/ and /GS.Daleks/ folder: blowing people away while doing its imper­ Select "Help ... " from the "Game" menu to Your object is to kill all the Daleks by sonation of Elvis' dancing. You, out fitted see the game instructions. These instructions making them crash into each other. Daleks with an inferior tank must destroy this evil provide details on the play of GS Backgam­ will move straight towards you, ignoring each menace which threatens to polute the world mon (how to move etc.) and assume the player other so they crash quite easily. Once per level with its terrible music. already knows the rules of backgammon. If you may use the Sonic Screwdriver. The Sonic you need help on the rules, refer to "Hoyle" or screwdriver destroys all the Daleks in a one In the ll'esseract/ folder: any standard game reference. By Phil Doto. move radius of your guy. You may also Tesseract version 2.0p by David Lo. The game runs under GS/OS. Teleport to a random place on the screen, Freeware. A IIGS text for the watch out you can teleport right onto a Dalek. geometrically inclined. This game has the In the /IIGS.GAMES.13/GAMES/BEAST/ Last Stand makes your guy stand still until he standard text adventure game command parser folder: dies or all the Daleks are dead. (200 word vocabulary.) You type two-word Move the blocks around and trap the beasts! 'Verb Noun' commands, such as 'use stack' By Justin Legakis. Complete instructions for In the /Mystery .Color/ folder: or 'get all'. Type 'quit' to quit the game. playing this game are included in the pro­ Mystery Colors by Warren Stone. The ob­ gram. Don't let it's small size size fool you, ject of the game is to decipher a color code GSGM-13 • IIGS.GAMES.13 • Games 8 this is a fun game! Freeware, author encour­ created by the computer. You alter the diffi­ In the /IIGS.GAMES.13/GAMES/ folder: ages donations. culty by picking the number of positions and This folder contains a variety of IIgs games. available colors. You guess by clicking on a The following 8 folders can be found in the

April1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 73 • In the /llGS.GAMES.13/GAMES/ spellbook. This game is Shareware, $10 fee. is over. An extra robot is built for every FOUR.IN.A.ROW/ folder: By Dave Word $5,000. To activate your magnetic field, hold Four In A Row is a strategy game played on down the mouse button, joystick button, or a vertical rack of eight columns. Each column GSGM-14 - IIGS.GAMES.14 - Games 9 Apple key. can hold eight playing pieces. To play you In the illGS.GAMES.14/GAMES/ folder: drop one of your pieces in the column of your This folder contains a variety ofllgs games. In the /IIGS.GAMES.14/GAMES/ choice. The piece slides down to the lowest The following 5 folders can be found in the COPY.KILLERS/ folder: position in the column (the bottom, or to the GAMES folder: Ballistics.GS, Chips, A PacMan-like Arcade Game. Git The Soft­ top ofother pieces in that column). Ifa column Copy.Killers,Dungeon.Master,Music.Game. ware Pirates Before They Destroy The Apple is full it cannot be used for new moves. The II Software Industry. By Brian Greenstone object of the game is to have get four of your In the /llGS.GAMES.14/GAMES/ and Dave Triplett. Online help is available by pieces in a row before the computer does. BALLISTICS.GS/ folder: pressing the"?" key. Freeware. There is an optional game called GiveAway. In this two player game, you and your In GiveAway you try to force the computer to opponent must fire your cannon at each other. In the /llGS.GAMES.14/GAMES/ get four in a row BEFORE you do. This The first player to score a hit on his opponent's DUNGEON.MASTER/ folder: program is in the public domain. By Bill cannon wins the game. You control the eleva­ This folder contains Dungeon Master maps Fortenberry. tion with the up and down arrow keys and and hint files. There are maps for levels 1 control the range with the left and right arrow through 13. They can be viewed and printed In the /llGS.GAMES.13/GAMES/ keys. Press return to fire. Online help is avail­ by any paint program that can load APF (Apple FOUR.PLAYI folder: able, but the game appeared to freeze on me Preferred Format) graphic files. There are A variation on Tetris. Elegantly pro­ when I selected the help option. By R. M. three ASCII text hint files. These files can be grammed. Has a help file which is accessible Yost. loaded into your word processor or they can within program. The squares drifting down be printed by the program "WINDOWS" must match the adjacent colors of the neigh­ In the /IIGS.GAMES.14/GAMES/CHIPS/ which is included on this disk. "OM.SPELLS" bors when they land, otherwise they turn grey. folder: is a list of the various spells found in Dungeon Grey and Black match any color. A completed Chips & DIPS by James W. Winter. Chips Master. Compiled By David Adams. row (and any grey squares below it) disap­ & DIPS is an arcade style game. All of the "DMADVLSDT" contains a list of the adven­ pears. The game is lost if the pile reaches the instructions for the game are available from turers that can be played. "HINTS" includes top. Version 1.0, By P. Brinkley. This soft­ within the game by pressing the? key after the many helpful hints. ware is Freeware, and is in the Public Domain. game screen comes up. Includes an icon file for Chips & DIPS which should be placed in In the /IIGS.GAMES.14/GAMES/ In the /llGS.GAMES.13/GAMES/ the Icons folder on your system disk. If you MUSIC.GAME/ folder: ROMULANS/ folder: have the Chips & DIPS Designer (sent to all This is a musical guessing game. The com­ Fight an invisible ship ala Star Trek. Re­ registered owners), you can design new levels puter will play a random sequence of notes. member the classic (weren't they all!) episode for the game. Chips & DIPS is Shareware, The object of the game is to remember and of Star Trek where the Enterprise was fighting $10.00 fee. play the same notes. Online help is available an invisible Romulan warship and they only In the year 2009, it was discovered that the under the Apple menu. Version 1.2, by PC way that they could kill it was by plotting the world wide RAM chip shortage of the past 2 Doto. vectors. Well, this is an SHR GS recreation of decades was caused by industry insiders who thatfightanditis hard! But fun! Included is an were hoarding chips in order to keep prices In the /llGS.GAMES. 13/GAMES/ icon to place in your Icons folder of the system high. One of these insiders, Dr. Albert TICTACTOE/ folder: disk. The game was developed under system Manschaft, even built a special warehouse to A desktop based, mouse controlled, Tic disk 4.0 and it seems to work fine on 5.0 as store the chips in and built security robots to Tac Toe game. Play against another player or well. Live long and prosper! By Kevin Brad­ protect the chips. the computer. This software is Shareware, $2 ley. You have been hired to penetrate the ware­ fee. By David M. Good. house and recover as many chips as you can, In the /llGS.GAMES.13/GAMES/ for which you will be paid well. Because GSGM-15 • IIGS.GAMES.15 • Games 10 SPELL.BINDER.GS/ folder: human contact with the DIPS is frequently In the illGS.GAMES.15/GAMES/ folder: This is a brand-new text adventure game fatal, you have built 4 robots which you can This folder contains a variety ofllgs games. with a twist. It totally follows the standard control within the warehouse. For every $5,000 The following 5 folders can be found in the ][GS interface and is mouse-driven. Requires in chips you recover, you are able to build 1 GAMES folder: Adventure, Lunar.Lander, min. of 768k of memory. In this game you are more robot, up to the maximum of 8 robots. MageMaze, Medieval.War, Quadronome. a novice spell caster on a desparate mission to You start the game with 4 robots. Move defeat your former master. All of the spells your robot around the screen picking up chips. that you know must be written in your Each chip is worth $100. It costs money to spellbook. Other spells can be found on scrolls operate the robo~ so your money will de­ Games will be continued in April and cast directly from there or you can tran­ crease over time. If at any time, you have no scribe these spells from a scroll to your more robots or your money runs out, the game issue starting with Games 15.

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April 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 75 + ~:::.:::~2;17:~.:'..P:!~~;:•:·: _ GSDM-28 _ GSFf-14 _ GSGM-18A _ GSGX-19 _ GSDM-29 _ GSFf-15 _ GSGM-19A _ GSGX-20 System Software _ GSDM-30 _ GSFf-16 _ GSGM-20 _ GSGX-21C _ GSfT-17 _ GSGM-21 _G~l (*l) _ GSDM-31 _ GSGX-228 _ GSGM-22 _GS~2 (*2) _ GSDM-32 _ GSfT-18 _ GSGX-23 _ GSfT-19 _ GSGM-23A _G~3 (*3) _ GSDM-33 _ GSGX-24 _ GSFf-20 _ GSGM-24B -G~ (*4) _ GSDM-34 _ GSGX-25 _ GSDM-35 _ GSFf-21 _ GSGM-25B _ GSGX-26 Communications _ GSFf-22 _ GSGM-26A _ GSGX-27 _ GSfT-23 _ GSGM-27 ---7 disk set- $21 Developer _ GSGX-28A _ GSCM-OlE _ 20 disk set - $60 _ GSfT-24 _ GSGM-28 _ GSGX-29 _ GSfT-25 _ GSGM-29 - GSCM-02C _ GSDV-01 _ GSGX-30 _ GSCM-038 _ GSDV-02 _ GSfT-26 _ GSGM-30 _ GSGX-31A _ GSCM-04C _ GSDV-03 _ GSfT-27 _ GSGM-31 _ GSGX-32A _ GSCM-05B _ GSDV-04 _ GSGM-32 _ GSGX-33 _ GSCM-06 _ GSDV-05A Fonts - TrueType _ GSGM-33 _ GSGX-34 _ GSCM-07 _ GSDV-06A _ 30 disk set - $90 _ GSGM-34 _ GSGX-35 _ GSDV-07 _ GSIT-01 _ GSGM-35A _ GSGX-36 _ GSDV-08A _ GSIT-02 _ GSGM-36 _ GSGX-37 DAS, CDevs, FExts, _ GSGM-37A Dvrs, and Inlts _ GSDV-09 _ GSIT-03 _ GSGX-38 _ 16diskset-S48 _ GSDV-lOA _ GSIT-04 _ GSGM-38 _ GSGX-39 _ GSDA-OtC _ GSDV-llA _ GSIT-05 _ GSGM-39 - GSGX-40 _ GSDA-020 _ GSDV-12A _ GSIT-06 _ GSGM-40 _ GSGX-41 _ GSDA-03E _ GSDV-13 _ GSIT-07 _ GSGM-41 _ GSGX-42 _ GSDA-04C _ GSDV-14A _ GSIT-08 _ GSGM-42A _ GSGX-43 _ GSDA-OSC _ GSDV-lSA _ GSIT-09 _ GSGM-43 _ GSGX-44 _ GSDA-06B _ GSDV-16 _ GSIT-10 _ GSGM-44 _ GSGX-45 _ GSDA-07C _ GSDV-17A _ GSIT-11 _ GSGM-45 _ GSGX-46 _ GSDA-08B _ GSDV-18 _ GSIT-12 _ GSGM-46 _ GSGX-47 _ GSDA-09A _ GSDV-19 _ GSIT-13 _ GSGM-47 _ GSGX-48 _ GSDA-lOA _ GSDV-20 _ GSIT-14 _ GSGM-48 _ GSGX-49 _ GSDA-llA _ GSIT-15 _ GSGM-49 _ GSGX-50 _ GSDA-12A Disk Catalog _ GSIT-16 _ GSGM-50 _ GSGX-51 _ GSDA-13A _ 3 diskset-$6 _ GSIT-17 _ GSGM-51 _ GSGX-52 _ GSDA-14A GSOC-OlJ _ GSIT-18 _ GSGM-52 _ GSGX-53 _ GSDA-15B GSOC-02J _ GSIT-19 _ GSGM-53 _ GSGX-54 _ GSDA-16B GSOC-03J _ GSIT-20 _ GSGM-54 _ GSGX-55 _ GSIT-21 _ GSGM-55 _ GSGX-56 _ GSGM-56 Demos Education _ GSIT-22 _ GSGX-57 _ 10 disk set - $30 _ GSIT-23 _ GSGM-57 _ GSGX-58 _ 35 disk set - $35 _ GSGM-58 or $1 per disk 7 disk set• $21 _ GSIT-24 _ GSGX-59 _ GSDM-01 (*S) _ GSIT-25 _ GSGM-59A _ GSGX-60 _ GSDM-02 _ GSED-OlA (*5) _ GSIT-26 _ GSGM-60 _ GSGX-61 _ GSDM-03 - GSED-02A (*S) _ GSIT-27 _ GSGM-61 _ GSGX-62 _ GSDM-04 _ GSED-03A (*S) _ GSIT-28 _ GSGM-62 _ GSGX-63 _ GSDM-05 _ GSED-04A (*5) _ GSIT-29 _ GSGM-63 _ GSGX-64 _ GSDM-06 _ GSED-OSA (*5) _ GSIT-30 _ GSGX-65 _ GSDM-07 _ GSED-06A (*5) Graphics _ GSGX-66 _ GSDM-08 _ GSED-07A (*S) Games _ 68 disk set - _ GSGX-67 _ GSDM-09 _ GSED-OSA _ 63 disk set - $204 _ GSGX-68 _ GSDM-10 _ GSED-09 $189 - GSGX-01 _ GSDM-11 _ GSED-10 _ GSGM-OlB _ GSGX-02 HyperCard _ GSDM-12 _ GSGM-02B _ GSGX-03 _ 6 disk set - $18 _ GSDM-13A Fonts - 81tMapped _ GSGM-03 _ GSGX-04 _ GSHC-01 _ GSDM-14 _ 27 disk set - $81 _ GSGM-04 _ GSGX-05 _ GSHC-02 _ GSDM-15 _ GSFf-01 _ GSGM-05 _ GSGX-06 _ GSHC-03 _ GSDM-16 _ GSfT-02 _ GSGM-06A - GSGX-07A _ GSHC-04 _ GSDM-17A _ GSfT-03 _ GSGM-07A _ GSGX-08A _ GSHC-05 _ GSDM-18 _ GSfT-04 _ GSGM-08 _ GSGX-09B _ GSHC-06 _ GSDM-19 _ GSfT-05 _ GSGM-09A _ GSGX-lOA _ GSDM-20A _ GSfT-06 _ GSGM-10 _ GSGX-11 HyperStudlo _ GSDM-21A _ GSfT-07 _ GSGM-11 _ GSGX-12 _ DemoVer.(1-10) _ GSDM-22 _ GSFf-08 _ GSGM-12A _ GSGX-13A -s10 _ GSDM-23 _ GSfT-09 _ GSGM-13 _ GSGX-14 _ GSHS-01 _ GSDM-24 _ GSfT-10 _ GSGM-14 _ GSGX-15 _ GSHS-02 _ GSDM-25 _ GSfT-11 _ GSGM-15 _ GSGX-16 _ GSHS-03 _ GSDM-26 _ GSFf-12 _ GSGM-16 _ GSGX-17 _ GSHS-04 _ GSDM-27 _ GSfT-13 _ GSGM-17A _ GSGX-18 _ GSHS-05

76 Washington Apple Pi Journal April1994 ,.',., ~-,~- · .. -.~:;:...... ~~~~~~~i:::tm·~%:*::~=~~~:=:::fill~~=~~~·===~:::~~~:&=~~ . « =-=~ .• ...... :-:.. : ·•··· .•...... -;...... ,...... !'o"ii ~l=:~t~~°#lmt:::.~~=t~~~~u,; .... • ,... • • • .· + - GSHS-06 _ GSHS-71 _ GSMU-37A _GSSN-38 Best of _ GSl-5-07 _ GSHS-72 _ GSMU-38A _GSSN-39 Bit-Mapped Fonts _ GSHS-08 _ GSHS-73 _ GSMU-39A _ 2dlskset• - GSHS-09 _ GSHS-74 _ GSMU-40A SOUNDS - CDEV $5.00 _ GSHS-10 _ GSHS-75 _ GSMU-41A rSOUNDS _ GSHS-76 _ GSMU-42 - 20 Disk Set - $60 Best of Games - 66diskset _ GSMU-43A _GSSN-17A _ 5dlskset• (11-76)- $198 Icons _ GSMU-44A _GSSN-18 $12.50 _ GSHS-11 _ 12 disk set - $36 _ GSMU-45 _ GSSN-19 _ GSHS-12 _ GSIC-OlB _ GSMU-46 _ GSSN-20 Best of Graphics _ GSHS-13 _ GSIC-028 _ GSMU-47 _ GSSN-21 _ 2dlskset• _ GSHS-14 _ GSIC-038 _ GSMU-48 _GSSN-22 $5.00 _ GSHS-15 _ GSIC-048 _ GSMU-49 _ GSSN-23 _ GSHS-16 _ GSIC-058 _ GSMU-50 _ GSSN-24 Best of Icons _ GSHS-17 _ GSIC-068 _ GSMU-51 _ GSSN-25 (Finder) _ GSHS-18 _ GSIC-078 _ GSMU-52A _ GSSN-26 _ 1 disk set• 2.SO _ GSHS-19 _ GSIC-OSA _ GSMU-53A _ GSSN-27 _ GSHS-20 _ GSIC-09A _ GSMU-54A _ GSSN-28 Best of Music _ GSHS-21A _ GSIC-lOA _ GSMU-55A _ GSSN-29 _ 4dlskset• _ GSHS-22 _ GSIC-llA _ GSMU-56A _ GSSN-30 $10.00 _ GSHS-23 _ GSIC-12A _ GSMU-57A _ GSSN-31 _ GSHS-24 _ GSMU-58A _ GSSN-32 Best of Sounds _ GSHS-25 Membership _ GSMU-59 _ GSSN-33 - 2dlskset- _ GSHS-26 Directory _ GSMU-60 _ GSSN-34 $5.00 _ GSHS-27 - GSMD-01 _ GSMU-61 _ GSSN-35 _ GSHS-28 _ GSMU-62 _ GSSN-40 Best of True _ GSHS-29 Miscellaneous _ GSMU-63A Type Fonts _ GSHS-30 _ GSMS-OlA _ GSMU-64 Utllltles _ 5dlskset• _ GSHS-31 _ GSMU-65 _ 18 disk set• $54 $12.50 _ GSHS-32 Music _ GSMU-66 _ GSUf-OlC _ GSHS-33 _ 83 disk set - _ GSMU-67 _ GSUf-02 Best of Utllltles _ GSHS-34 $249 _ GSMU-68 _ GSUf-03C _ 2dlskset• _ GSHS-35 _ GSMU-OlC _ GSMU-69 _ GSUf-048 $5.00 _ GSHS-36 _ GSMU-02 _ GSMU-70 _ GSUf-05C _ GSHS-37 _ GSMU-03 _ GSMU-71 _ GSUf-06A The Best of the Apple _ GSHS-38 _ GSMU-04 _ GSMU-72 _ GSUf-078 IIGs may be pur- _ GSHS-39 _ GSMU-05 _ GSMU-73 _ GSUT-08D chased as a 25 disk _ GSHS-40 _ GSMU-06 _ GSMU-74 _ GSUf-098 set or as lndlvldual _ GSHS-41 _ GSMU-07 _ GSMU-75A _ GSUf-108 sets as listed above. _ GSHS-42 _ GSMU-08 _ GSMU-76 _ GSUf-118 _ GSHS-43 _ GSMU-09 _ GSMU-77 _ GSUf-12 (*1) System 5.0.4 - 2 - GSHS-44 _ GSMU-10 _ GSMU-78 _ GSlTf-138 Disk Set - $6.00 _ GSHS-45 _ GSMU-11 _ GSMU-79 _ GSUf-14 (*2) Hyper Mover _ GSHS-46 _ GSMU-12 _ GSMU-80 _ GSlTf-158 vl.1 - 2 Disk Set • _ GSHS-47 _ GSMU-13C _ GSMU-81 _ GSlTf-16 $6.00 _ GSHS-48 _ GSMU-14 _ GSMU-82 _ GSUf-17 (*3) GS Bug & Debug _ GSHS-49 _ GSMU-15 _ GSMU-83 _ GSUf-18 Tools vl.6 • $3.00 _ GSHS-50 _ GSMU-16A (*4) System 6.0.1 - 6 _ GSHS-51 _ GSMU-17 Sounds Best of The Apple Disk Set - $18.00 _ GSHS-52 _ GSMU-18A _ 20 disk set - $60 llGS (*5) Astronomer-7 _ GSHS-53 _ GSMU-19A _ GSSN-OlA _ 25 disk set• disk set (GSED-01 to _ GSHS-54 _ GSMU-20A _ GSSN-02A $56.25 GSED-07) $21.00 _ GSHS-55 _ GSMU-21A _ GSSN-03 (save $6.25 - _ GSH£.56 _ GSMU-22 _ GSSN-04 normally $62.50) Note: Somedlsksmay _ GSHS-57 _ GSMU-23A _ GSSN-05 contain Shareware. _ GSH£.58 _ GSMU-24A _ GSSN-06 Best of The Apple Please send the re- _ GSH£.59 _ GSMU-25A _ GSSN-07 IIGS Disk Catalog _ GSHS-60 quested remittance to _ GSMU-26A _ GSSN-08 _ 1 disk set - $2.00 the author If you use _ GSHS-61 _ GSMU-27A _ GSSN-09 the program. Most of _ GSHS-62 _ GSMU-28A _ GSSN-10 Best of Communl- the programs on these _ GSHS-63 _ GSMU-29A _ GSSN-11 cations library disks may re- _ GSHS-64 _ GSMU-30A _ GSSN-12 _ 1 disk set - $2.50 qulreaIIGSwithaminl- _ GSHS-65 _ GSMU-31A _ GSSN-13 mum of 1.25 megs of _ GSHS-66 _ GSMU-32A _ GSSN-14 Best of DA's. memory. _ GSHS-67 _ GSMU-33A _ GSSN-15 Cdevs, FExts. _ GSHS-68 _ GSMU-34A _ GSSN-16 Dvrs. & Inlts _ GSHS-69 _ GSMU-35A _ GSSN-36 _ 1 disk set - $2.50 _ GSH£.70 _ GSMU-36A _ GSSN-37

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