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July/August 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 1 Volume 16 July/August 1994 Numbers 7/8 Coming Soon­ Dust Club News Font Leadership: How to Boss Your by Lorin Evans Fonts Around ...... 27 WAP Hotline ...... 35, 38 by Lawrence Charters The Pi has a full-time paid staff of WAP Calendar ...... 36, 37 Troubles ...... 30 one and a couple of part-time posi­ Index to Advertisers ...... 21 by Stuart Bonwit TCS Help Sheet ...... 39 tions to handle our day-to-day op­ Networking Primer-Beyond erations. The rest of our activities Classified Advertisements ...... 71 LocalTalk WAP Membership Form ...... 72 are run by volunteers. Each month by John O'Reilly ...... 31 we produce our award winning Jour­ A Taste of Binaries-[C7.B16] ... 33 nal, in-house tutorials, participate by David Harris in a seminar or two and conduct a SIGs and Slices The Why and How of a Clean monthly meeting. Installation ...... 40 Stock SIG ...... 8 In addition, we just completed by Morris Pelham · by Stephanie Hahn New Macintosh Files on the TCS our large summer garage sale and NewtonSIG ...... 9 are invited [and in some cases ex­ by Andrew Halls · by Lawrence I. Charters ...... 43 Macintosh Tutorials ...... 50, 51 pected] to attend a number of trade Women's SIG ...... 11 shows. The number so far, just this by Nancy Seferian Tutorial Registration Form ...... 52 Mac Music With MIDI ...... 53 summer, is five: MacWorld Wash­ by Randy Landenberger ington and Boston, Multi-media Expo, theNationalApple UserGroup Workshop & Symposium General Interest Apple ///Articles (NAUGSAW) and the Intergalactic New TCS Guide Now Available Conference. Now, finally, we are at by Paul Schlosser ...... 5 Ori theTrail of the Apple /// ...... 56 the end of the five year lease on our May General Meeting ...... 12 by David Ottalini office and need to complete the nego­ by Lawrence Charters tiations so we can move to our new Map to Meeting ...... 14 Disk Libraries home. Swell Summer Software Stuff ... 15 Macintosh Disk Library ...... 58 Ourdesktopisjustsolarge;more compiled by Lorin Evans by Dave Weikert volunteers would help, but are not Get Connected-Cool Sure! ...... 16 Macintosh Disk Order Form ...... 70 as easy to recruit as SIMMS are to by Chad & Cheryll Ward find. We need a few minutes to focus Erasing the miles with e-mail .... 18 our attention on the relocation. Af­ by Lindsay Edmunds ter all, it not something we do very Zap! How your computer can often and once moved, we have to hurt you-and what you live with the decision for a while. can do about it ...... 20 One area where we can acquire by Lawrence Charters some volunteer time is by combining Communication Station ...... 28 by Phil Shapiro the two summer issues of the Jour­ nal, July and August, into a single summer edition and redirect the Macintosh Articles volunteer time that goes into its pro­ duction to other pressing needs. So, All About System Update 3.0 ..... 21 Clean your mouse and trackball 23 weaskforyourunderstanding. Come by Kel Humphries September, we will be back on sched­ Artists on Exhibit ...... 24 ule with more helpful articles on byAnnAiken using your computer, reviews, and commentaries. • The Journal of Washington Apple Pi, Ltd. is an independent publication not affiliated or 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 not intended to be the opinions, statements, positions or views of Apple Computer, Inc.

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July/ August 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 7 rr process in October 1990 doubled or about 10%. Looking back to recent more in price before the 1994 cor­ history, something similar by Morris Pelham rection began. I passed out copies of happened. In 1990 the Dow neared my spreadsheets at our May meet­ an all time high at 3000, then ing, and it looks interesting. Would Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait Submitted for July stocks picked that same way in this and the Dow dropped about 20%. year's correction do as well? I think What ifin 1990 an investor had HIS MONTH SHOWED us it is worth some more research, and used our beating the Dow process to Tthat both our beating the Dow is something to talk about at our pick stocks every month and bought strategy and our Fidelity Select next meetings. more as the prices dropped? Would project are having a rough year, or StockSIGmeets the 2nd Thurs­ it have been profitable? How much? at least a rough beginning of the day of each month at 7 :30 PM at the Well, our investor would have year. WAP office. The office may move purchased shares in seven The good news, or the hopeful this fall. companies in an eight month period news at least, is that we are all during 1990 paying a total of sticking with our investment pro­ $53,062.50 and sold them all in grams so far. No one has sold out in Submitted for August February 1994 after the start of the a panic. No one is afraid the invest­ current correction for $118,142.52. ment world is ending. IN JUNE OUR beating the Dow Our investor would also have So, how bad is it? strategy is profitable again, if only collected $8171.98 in dividends, for Several of us picked several dif­ barely. Our Fidelity Select project a total profit of $73,252 or 138% of ferent beating the Dow portfolios at is improving also, profitable for some the original investment. different times last December and and producing smaller losses for I resurrected my copy of January. So we have slightly differ­ others. Quicken, let it make these ent results now. Mark Pankin's Things are looking up. calculations and reports, and took portfolio is down 3. 7% to April 30, At our June meeting, Mark them to our June meeting. We had while Stan Larsen's is up 2%, both Pankin passed around his update to a lively discussion. I now plan to do not counting the dividends these our beating the Dow strategy so far the same with the 1994 stocks and portfolios pay in either case. this year. It is up 1.0% at the end of hope to have an equally lively Several are now investing real May, after being down more than discussion about them. money with the Fidelity Select 8% in March. The Dow index itself I still don'tlike Quicken. It helps project, but having begun at differ­ is up 0.1% at the end of May. you make mistakes and it doesn't ent times these too have several In our Fidelity Select portfolios, help you find them or fix them. But different results. Mark Pankin says some are down single-digit amounts, it is quick and its reports print his portfolio is about even so far, some are unchanged, and some are pretty. I'll take some to future with no profits and no losses. Sev­ up single-digit amounts. I think we meetings and we'll see what other eral others report losses ranging have seven different portfolios people think. from 7% to 15% so far this year. following this strategy, all begun at StockSIG meets the 2nd We talked about all ofthe above different times and so with different Thursday ofeach month at 7:30 PM at our May meeting, and also wel­ results. Mark says these results at the WAP office. The office may comed back Pete Kasper who ran should converge, become more alike, move this fall. ii the StockSIG before I did, and then as the portfolios are run for longer left the country. I think the two time periods. were not related. Also at our June meeting, I I have a new project-using the passed around the preliminary beating the Dow selection process results of my new project. I called it every month instead of once per the "beating the Dow long-term" year, would it be profitable? I took project. a look at what it would have done in Early this year the Dow neared 1990, the last time the stock market an all time high at 4000, then went down across the board. Four Chairman Greenspan raised of the five stocks selected by this interest rates and the Dow dropped

8 Washington Apple Pi Journal July/August 1994 rr ~~~~,,~:~i~ilfti•f~~iffr~~t~itn~J:!~81~Y,itfj ~:!ss::~ :~0S::i~ ~~:!::: by Andrew Halls used today by NewtonSIGmem­ MAC REPAIR CENTER bers. The Newton becomes most useful when an appropriate ver­ tical application is found. The Submitted for July Day-Timer Meeting and Ex­ ri Dupont pense Pack is one such product. HAT IS NEWTON? It makes keeping up with your I., ~~puten This question wove itself O W expenses easy and completing through the discussions at the May that expense report at the end of meeting of the Newton Special In­ 1761 S Street, NW the trip a snap. The Newton's terest Group. TheNewtonSIGmem­ Washington, DC ability to carry a large quantity bers are clearly captured by the 202-232-6363 of information in a small pack­ promise of the technology. Not only age is also very useful. The have many of us bought a Newton Computers • Monitors • Printers electronic books for the Newton Message Pad, we have also pur­ are easy to access and read. chased the development tools and Several large books can all be MAC REPAIRS are exploring ways to make the stored in a credit card size Newton more useful. An important PCMCIA card. What is really MAC UPGRADES question though, is how useful is exciting is the ability to copy the Newton today. lines directly from a Newton Newton SIG members are find­ MAC PARTS& book and place them into other ing the Newton Message Pad useful ACCESSORIES applications. but with a significant wish list for The wish list for improve­ improvements. The severe limita­ On-Site and In-House Repairs ments and additional applica­ tions encountered last fall have been Service Contracts Available tions is still very long. The built­ fixed by new releases of software in applications are useful to a Special Discounts for W .A.Pi Members and the latest hardware model, the point but have many limita­ Message Pad 110. Resetting the tions. The new Connection Kit system for out of memory failures is greatly improved, but the data are becoming a distant memory for on my desktop is still not integrated high expectation that Apple will be the early adopters. With the MPUO with the data in my hand. If only I announcing a clipboard size New­ battery life consciousness can re~ could download my office correspon­ ton in the fall. Other products con­ cede to a more appropriate place in dence and documents to take with taining Newton intelligence are in our busy lives. The delayed hand­ me on the subway. Handwriting the works. We may be finding New­ writing recognition enhancement recognition is a toy, I don't use it. ton technology in pagers, wall size and updates to the Connection Kit 0 (In contrast, another member finds "w h 1t,, e b oar d s, m . th e control pan- to support the importing of desktop the handwriting recognition suffi­ els of sophisticated equipment or in based data files are very important cient, it even recognized handwrit­ cable TV access boxes. improvements. The most signifi­ ing in situations where others Come join us in the exploration cant sign ofa growing product is the couldn't.) The MPUO display is of a new technology. The Newton availability of over 450 software hard to see-Apple needs to use SIG meets the first Monday of the titles, both commercial and backlit display technology in a fu­ month at the WAP office. Send a shareware. ture model. The list goes on ... message to What is Newton? Newton is an What is Newton? It is more "[email protected]" to active calendar and personal orga­ than the current Message Pad mod­ join us at our electronic meeting nizer that can be taken into any els and available applications . It is place. For more information con­ business setting. Jotting down the a technological foundation on which tact me at 301.990.3725 or many small fragments of informa­ intelligent devices will be built. As [email protected]. tion that we process every day and you read this, Motorola should be not losing them is a major benefit. announcing a mobile phone contain­ Using electronic mail and faxing ing Newton technology. There is a Newton SIG continued page 10

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NewtonSIG continued and StewPot gives you additional Tuesday, September 13th at 7 :30 in capabilities for managing and editing the WAP office. Bob Whitecotton of Submitted for August soups. Thomas showed how he used Apple Computer will be the featured this utility to clean up data from speaker . Bob is the Newton THE NEWTONSIG meeting applications he no longer uses. Integration Manager for the activities expanded in June with our The Second product Northeast Region. He is responsible first Newton software demonstration. demonstrated by Thomas was for putting together technology and We put together a visualizer so that ChessPad. This product is currently developers to build solutions for more than one person could benefit in beta test. With ChessPad you do large corporate clients. He will talk from the presentation. The visualizer not play the Newton in a game of about the success of the Newton in consisted of my video camcorder chess, you use it as a very smart the corporate environment and what connected to one of the old Apple II chess notebook and clock. ChessPad Apple is doing to promote the monitors found in the office. The contains a chess board and a way to integration ofthe Newton into legacy camera was placed on a tripod so that record and play back moves and systems. itfaceddirectlydownon the Newton. commentary. The product includes StewPot is a shareware product This set-up allowed for everyone in many famous games and by MAUi Software and can be found the room to get a feeling for what the instructional chess problems. in the Newton file section of TCS, interface was like, although most of ChessPad is an exciting product that the newton.uiowa.edu ftp site and the text was not legible from the back makes great use of the Newton on the commercial systems. of the room. capabilities and user interface. ChessPad is currently in beta test Thomas Johnston made use of We concluded the meeting with - price and availability has not the visualizer to demonstrate two ourcustomary round table discussion, been announced. Newton products. The first was this time with an emphasis on getting For more information please StewPot-The Soup Inspector. Soups questions about the Newton asked contact, Andrew Halls, at(301) 990- on the Newton are somewhat and hopefully answered. 3725 or at [email protected]. • analogous to files on the Macintosh, The September meeting will be

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10 Washington Apple Pi Journal July/August 1994 TC

Women's SIG Meeting

by Nancy Seferian

HE MAY WOMEN'S SIG Tmeeting featured Jon Thomason, the TCS "Code Warrior," the person who designed and did the programming for our new TCS. Jon brought his new PowerMac to demonstrate some of its new features to us. He showed us the graphing calculator which can switch into Zterm and back to graphing while everything keeps on working. He mentioned that it is great for those of us using graphics programs that traditionally take a lot oftime for screen re­ draws and other functions. For instance, like to bring one fine, if not, just instead of dragging an outline ofa complex system, how to download files, leave come.EveryoneinthePiisinvited object, the object is directly dragged. He messages, send and receive Email, and families included. Ifyo u demonstrated how, using Kai's power tools, are and all the wonders of have any folding chairs you could an add-on for PhotoShop, it is possible to telecommunicating. The presentation bring that would help out a lot. draw spheres with a light source and added will also include an actual demo, so RSVP to Grace's (703) 222-4570 texture in real time.Jon also demonstrated bring your questions and get ready number with your name and how fast it is with QuickTime movies, by to ride the Information Highway. the number in your party. running a great ad called "The Lunchroom" The new Guide to the TCS is out Our July 21st meeting on the PowerMac and then comparing the and that will also be available. couldn't be written up for this time and clarity when the same ad was run We'd love to have you come and Journal, so look for a description on a Centris 610. Jon was a great presenter join us. R.S.V.P to Grace Gallager ofthateventinthenextJournal. and fielded all of our questions with ease. (703) 222-4570 (Metro#, so don't The next regularly scheduled We were very impressed and came away dial 1) if you can join us. And be meetingwill be September 22nd. with lust and envy in our hearts for his sure to bring your recent projects We're going to feature one of the beautiful new machine. and questions and ideas for new TCS (WAP Telecom­ As usual, Grace Gallager catered dinner meetings. If you want to be on the munications) Crew members for us for the astounding fee of $2.00. For mailing list call our Chairperson, who will talk to us about getting dinner Grace fixed barbecued chicken, Ann Aileen (301) 530-1990. • on to the club's bulletin board macaroni salad, jello salad, and an absolutely delicious pie called "Out of This World Pie," and it was, too. Grace mentioned again that there is a surplus in the kitty and that we PROMPT & RELIABLE REPAIR should decide how we want to spend it. We've decided to have a picnic On August • Authorized for Apple, HP, NEC, Radius, & more 20th at Grace's house from 12:00 noon until ??. Everyone in the Pi is invited. • CPUs/ Monitors I LaserPrinters I PowerBooks Come prepared to play volleyball, ping • On-site I Walk-in I AppleCare contracts pong, Frisbees and swim. Stream exploration is available in the stream • PowerMac Upgrades that runs through the property, so bring old sneakers to check out the tadpoles, Special Discounts for W.A.Pi members Authorized AASPPlus•• crayfish and assorted flora and have -.eftl lt'l...... l I r'l't'_._.,.. l'Vl'Tr'l-. W•I-••••• 11' something dry to change into. Barbecue RC I II 1-WllWI .LW ·-·II·-· II :..:~:.: Service Provider and beverages will be provided. You're 10565 Lee Hwy---···---., Fairfax, VA • (703) 385-2758 on your own for desserts. If you would

July/August 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 11 rr If you don't happen to know what x-height, oblique, tracking, and other font terms mean, that isn't really a problem. A preview May General Meeting window shows you immediately what you are doing, allowing you to modify fonts almost endlessly with­ by Lawrence I. Charters out, literally, having the slightest idea what you are doing. Even more astonishing is the AY21, 1994WASan conflicts with Memorial Day. We ability to blend fonts to create en­ interesting day in the thought the changes were ad­ tirely new fonts. You can blend two M Washington metropolitan equately publicized, but obviously entire font families, merging Bembo region. It was the first genuinely we were wrong. with News Gothic, say, to any de­ warm, dry day all year, and hun­ So we had our smallest turnout gree you want, or merge just parts dreds ofthousands of people flooded of the year (71 people), and one of of characters. For example, say you all the roads heading somewhere, the exhibitors got confused by the like the Q in New Century School­ anywhere, as long as it was outside. date shuffie and arrived a week book, and wish there were one just Somewhere between a quarter and later. "I thought the parking lot like it in Times. Blend the two fonts a halfmillion ofthese people headed looked a little too empty," is how he together, with emphasis on the Q, for Andrews Air Force Base and the put it. and you'll have a new, completely annual Armed Forces Day Open original font. House, with the U.S. Navy's Blue FontChameleon FontChameleon can also read Angels flight squadron showing Despite the problems, Ares Soft­ font metric files. If you are using their sister services what real flying ware did a splendid job of making one flavor of Bodoni, and someone was all about. Arlington National the meeting a success. Rob gives you a file that contains an­ Cemetery attracted a huge crowd of Friedman, Chairman and General other flavor of Badoni, people for no particular reason at Manager of Ares' OEM division, FontChameleon can read the font all, apparently in anticipation of demonstrated an astonishing new metric of the other Bodoni and cre­ the Monday funeral of Jacqueline package, FontChameleon, that has ate a font to match. Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. some explosive possibilities. Retail­ There are, ofcourse, limitations. And at the Pi's monthly Gen­ ing for under $200, this single pack­ Right now FontChameleon does not eralMeeting, hardly anyone showed age has the ability to produce scal­ know how to handle true italics, or up. Even one of the exhibitors was able fonts, in either PostScript Type script fonts, or calligraphic fonts. absent. 1 or TrueType flavors, that look and But it has no trouble at all with serif While it is tempting to blame it act like some 220 of the most popu­ and sans-serif fonts, plain, bold, all on the sunny weather, a more lar commercial fonts. oblique, and bold oblique fonts, con­ likely cause would be "too many While this alone would be note­ densed fonts, expanded fonts, and variables." Like most organizations, worthy, FontChameleon's real endless combinations of these and the Pi does best when meeting times, power comes through the ability to other characteristics. dates and locations don't change. So customize the fonts. Do you really Aside from the inexpensive confusion was expected in March like Garamond Condensed, but wish price, the other big surprise was the when we moved the location, for two the x-height was a bit shorter, to size: the entire package, including months, from N orthem Virginia present an Art Deco kind of look? metrics for 220 fonts, tutorials, the Community College (NOVA) to FontChameleon can create such a application itself, and the obliga­ Burning Tree Elementary School, variation by just moving a slider tory "Read Me" file, takes up less an entire state away. bar. Want a very thin (or very bold) than two megabytes of disk space, In May, we did an even better version of Trump Mediaeval? Move and runs comfortably in System 7 job: we moved the meeting back to another slider bar. Would you like a with just one and a half megabytes NOVA, crossing the Potomac once version ofAvant Garde that sweeps of RAM. more. And we also changed the meet­ backward, say to indicate speed? It is a shame the turnout was so ing day, from the fourth Saturday to Not a problem - another slider bar light; FontChameleonis a genuinely the third Saturday, in order to avoid can take care of that. original concept. Friedman was also

12 Washington Apple Pi Journal July/August 1994 rr a great presenter, low-key and de­ you'll also get an opportunity to sit Ares FontChameleon (Ares): liberately non-technical, but with a down - a treat after walking miles Ann Aiken keen appreciation of the package and miles through two exhibition and the potential it has for revolu­ halls. Credits tionizing not only desktop publish­ The General Meeting on Au­ Apple Macintosh Ilci: donated by ing but "electronic distribution" of gust 27 will be hosted by the Games Falcon Microsystems documents. SIG (Special Interest Group). Tra­ Microsoft PowerPoint 3.0: Friedman, incidentally, was one ditionally, this meeting is not lim­ donated by Microsoft of the founders of Bitstream, the ited to just Macs; expect to see Apple Corporation pioneering electronic font foundry. II, Ilgs, and maybe even MS-DOS/ Bernoulli 150 drive: loan courtesy He obviously hasn't given up the Windows games. There is also a Iomega Corporation pioneering spirit. chance we'll have a surprise presen­ Proxima Ovation projection system: tation that has nothing to do with loan courtesy Proxima June 1994 games at all. Corporation By the time this is printed, the Lounging TCS penguin: Washington Apple Pi Semi-Annual September 1994 artwork by Nancy Seferian Computer Garage Sale (Summer Washington Apple Pi will be Silver Spring Metro penguins: Release, June 11, 1994)will be over. moving in September. If you have a photography by Dennis Dimick Thousands of pieces of computer big truck, a strong back, and some Dr. Fun cartoons: from the Internet hardware and software, plus other packing boxes, or any combination via Jon Hardis and the TCS items having nothing to do with of these, we can save Big Bucks by Setup and worrying: Lorin Evans, computers, will have changed moving ourselves. We are moving to Beth Medlin, Bill Wydro hands. Just as much activity hav­ save money on rent, and every dime Novice Comer, Question & ing nothing to do with hardware or we spend on renovating our new Answer Help: Tom Witte • software will have taken place, too, quarters and moving the office will ranging from membership sales to help save even more money. Since Send meeting comments to: an all-day question and answer ses­ no computer expertise is required, [email protected] sion. At least half a dozen people it would be Real Nice if we saw will complain "all this stuff' won't something other than the usual band fit in their car, and ask for help. The of volunteers. garage sale volunteers will hold their One thing that is not moving is annual debate: shall we have pizza, the General Meeting which, like the or Chinese? May, July and August meetings, is at Northern Virginia Community July 1994 College in Annandale. Provided they Global Village is scheduled for finish writing it in time, Microsoft the July 23 General Meeting, show­ will be on hand to show offMicrosoft ing off their new telecommunica­ Word 6.0 and Microsoft Excel 5.0. tions products. Joining them will be Power Macintosh owners, in par­ Microsoft's Home division, demon­ ticular, are keeping their fingers strating their latest consumer of­ crossed, but both these applications ferings (CD-ROMs, games and ap­ have been long, long anticipated. plications). Drawing Winners August 1994 Maze Wars (Callisto): Bill Wydro MacWorld Boston will be held BMUG PD-ROM (BMUG): August 2 to 5. This gigantic trade Ken Clare show has a number of attractions: BMUG PD-ROM (BMUG): great bargains, the chance to see Thomas R. Reynders new products, and the chance to BMUG PD-ROM (BMUG): sample Boston's history and restau­ Charles Stancil rants. If you volunteer to work at Ares FontMonger (Ares): the Washington Apple Pi booth, Robert Pagelsen

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If you act now, we will include two bonus programs at no additional charge [they are already on the disk]. Call (301) 654-8060 and ask for Beth; Get Connected-Cool Sure! she even accepts mail orders. Hehe, isn't that us? • "An essay about accessibility"

by Chad & Cheryll Ward

© Chad & Cheryll Ward. 1994

YNAMEISChadWard talk. Usually, teachers do not allow We service and I go to Timberline people to carry on long conversa­ Macintosh M High School in Lacey, tions during class. I rarely leave my c Washington. I am a 16 year old house because it takes a lot of plan­ Computers coping with muscular dystrophy. I ning and time. Transportation is 0 want to share how I am able to not always easy to obtain and many M overcome some ofmy places are inacces­ p limitations by trav­ sible to a motor­ eling through "My computer ized wheelchair. u 24 "cyberspace" via a As a result, meet­ modem connected to allows me to ing people is labo­ T HOURS the world. I cur­ rious and time E rently use the experience the consuming. But ON America Online net­ when I journey R CALL work system. same stuff t h r o u g h I Cool, Sure. cyberspace, I am I really don't like ambulatory able to connect s to go out much in with people and T T~I public, where I am people do-with make friends by often greeted by simply typing on stares. I get very em­ a minimum of my keyboard and barrassed when moving my people are uncomfort­ effort." mouse. I can talk (703) 569-5584 able; I sometimes feel to friends, city A COMPUTERIST, LTD like an alien visitor. wide, nation wide, Meeting face-to-face is really diffi­ world wide, all over the place! I cult because as I said, people be­ don't have to face stares or feel inad­ come awkward and seem tongue equate. And, the people I meet and tied when they see my highly mecha­ talk to don't have to feel embar­ nized wheelchair. They see the hard­ rassed. They talk with the "REAL ware and my disability, instead of ME". me and my abilities. I am a real You may take many things for person, with real feelings. As a re­ granted-that I don't, like using the sult, meeting people and making phone book, calling movie theaters friends is hard for me. While people or restaurants, researching two-ton often don't know what to say to me encyclopedia sets. Ifyou have a dis­ in person-that is not the case when ease in which your body doesn't re­ I connect with folks online. spond in a normal fashion, it's not so When I am at school, there is easy to just pick up the phone and not enough time between classes to get information. My computer al-

16 Washington Apple Pi Journal July/August 1994 rr lows me to experience the same stuff a mouse, modem, and computer. Maintaining the quality of my ambulatory people do-with a mini­ Soon I realized that working one life is important. I think being able mum of effort. hour a week was not enough, so we to do the things you like to do is a I can search the encyclopedia set about the task of finding a low need all of us have. Today, I can do pages online with the flick of a but­ cost Macintosh for home. Working just about anything anyone else can, ton. I can cruise the online movie at home would also mean that I thanks to this machine and AOL. I reviews and find out what's worth could access the system during my make new friends all the time, I can seeing. It's easy to check out menus peak energy times. interact without any embarrass­ ofrestaurants I haven't been to yet. An anonymous donor left a book ment. It is an "EASY" way to have (I must admit MacDonalds is my "Mac for Dummies" in Mr. K's school fun, and I forget about the limited favorite, though I haven't found their mailbox. Mr. "K" went online and use in my hands and wrists. menu online yet.) I also enjoy down­ asked his friends for donations. All Being online has helped to loading games from the shareware kinds offolks in the Electronic School re-define the word "accessibility." department and printing out Houses (ESH) responded with of­ But, you don't have to have a dis­ weather maps or cartoons. Because fers of Apple He's, but Mr. K said a ability to enjoy and profit from this I am a true and devoted SPORTS Macintosh would probably be easier system. In fact, I wish every kid at NUT, I always head for my favorite to use. (Many of the people I met in Timberline could share my online area-the "SPORTS LINK" forum. this manner would later become pen experience. I can locate up-to-the-minute sports pal friends.) My mom liked that While not everyone will have a scores, find out all about my favor­ idea. A large computer catalogue chance to go online, most people will ite athletes, and attend sporting company, MacWarehouse in New experience a disabling condition at events without fighting traffic and Jersey, kicked in a modem for our some time or another. Perhaps, you fans. The field is only limited by home, and got our search off to a will someday be confined to a wheel­ how fast I can move my mouse or great start. A second anonymous chair due to an auto or home acci­ trackball. donor in the North Thurston School dent, a sports injury, or simply as a I LOVE THIS SYSTEM !!!! District central office donated a Mac product of getting older. Suddenly, Since I have had America Online SE computer and keyboard! you'll find yourself cut off from all (AOL) I have met a whole bunch of My mom contacted AOL about that is comfortable and familiar to new people. But, I should tell you extending our account through the you. The world can become an aw­ how this magic came to be. First, my summer and found out I had a 7/24 fully lonely place when this hap­ vocational education friend, Mr. account (this means unlimited use). pens. If that does happen, I say, Martin Ki.meldorf, contacted cus­ Being able to try out the online stuff "Get Connected-Cool, Sure!" • tomer service at AOL and requested at home really increased my knowl­ time for me to learn the system. edge about the network. I used to AOL representative, "AmyA" re­ find summer a lonely time, now I'm Acknowledgement: The authors sponded with a free monthly ac­ counting the days until school is out. would like to acknowledge the edi­ count. Then Mr. Ki.meldorfboughta I have met many wonderful folks torial assistance rendered by Pam modem out of his vocational funds on the AOL network. A special Mortillaro and Paul Smallwood (for me to use at school). Next, he cyber-pal, AFC Paul, donated a contacted Susan Rickards at mega box (over 25 pounds) of soft­ All rights reserved. The materials in Seafirst Bank and they arranged to ware. The box that arrived was full this document may not be used, dis­ open a no-fee checking account. The ofgreat games and educational stuff. tributed, copied, faxed, reprinted, du­ vice-principal Mr. Rae, donated Now I have to find a bigger hard plicated, or transmitted electronically some money to open this checking drive. Anothercyber-palin Whittier, without the written permission of the account. My school counselor, Mr. California, AFC Leni, game me ad­ Author. For permission contact the Grosso, donated his office and time vance news flashes about the earth­ Ward's at 5701 30th Ave SE #K-1, on his Macintosh computer so my quake before it was on the news. Lacey, WA 98503. Or contact _the mom and I could have a place to Never before had I felt so connected, Ward's via America Online at: meet on campus to study the online so much on top of my world! I have MADMAX718; or via the Internet at: world with Mr. Ki.meldorf. We met the opportunity to explore the [email protected]. once a week with Mr. "K" (Ki.meldorf) world-all on my own time, and at and explored what you could do with home!

July/August 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 17 TC longer messages sent hours (or min­ utes) earlier. I often send these post­ scripts because I often think ofsome­ thing else to say. However, I cannot Erasing the miles with e-mail imagine writing postscript messages using paper mail. I would feel silly by Lindsay Edmunds © 1994 mailing a second one- or two-sentence letter a few hours af­ ter I mailed the first one. Paper mail is delivered to my "I really like having an e-mail connection to you. It's so home Monday through Saturday much better than the phone, in lots of ways." around 2 p.m. E-mail is delivered within minutes or hours of the time -D it is sent, and it can be picked up anytime. One of the pleasures of"e" Paper mail is to e-mail what the Y BROTHER David is logging onto a service at odd times typewriter is to the personal com­ sent that note to me via (6 a.m. on a Monday, for example) puter. Apart from being slow, it is M the Internet last October. and finding a good message waiting encumbered by envelopes, stamps, We had exchanged some "e" earlier to be read. I also check e-mail as a and various problems of physical in the day on a now-forgotten topic. way to take fast vacations from my transportation. These small barri­ David is three years younger work. Because the entire process ers are irritating after you realize than I am. Though we had our share takes only a few minutes, it makes that they are unnecessary. True, it of sibling frictions, we were close a good break. still costs only 29¢ to send an ordi­ when we were growing up in Pitts­ E-mail also feels more special nary first-class letter (if you don't burgh, Pennsylvania. However, our than paper mail. When unsolicited mind a long transit time). However, adult lives quickly diverged. He is a ads for everything start showing up the fastest paper mail service, over­ programmer; I am a writer and edi­ in my e-mailbox, I'll change my mind night mail, manages to be both cum­ tor. He is married and the father of about this feeling of specialness, bersome and expensive. two daughters; I am single. For the but for the moment it is true. A E-mail, on the other hand, races last ten years we have lived 3000 letter in my e-mailbox shines like a across the phone lines like a pan­ miles apart, in northern California beacon. A letter in my home mail­ ther. It can be sent instantly 24 and suburban Maryland, respec­ box takes a certain amount of dig­ hours a day, seven days a week, tively. ging even to find amid the half-ton always at the same low cost and at This could be a sad story of of ads, mail-order catalogues, and the same resounding speed. Ifelec­ distance and separation eroding a pleas for money. tronic mail ever took so long as brother-sister relationship. Butjust Ofcourse, there is the telephone. overnight to get between my brother the opposite is true. Today, David The long-distance phone companies and me, it would be a sign that the and I are as close as we have ever all assure us that racking up huge system had broken down. been. Once or twice a week, we find bills on long-distance calls is the Because e-mail is easier to send the time to chat about books and best way to overcome physical sepa­ than paper mail, I write it more about day-to-day events in our lives, ration from friends and family. often. Many times I have typed a have some serious discussions, and These companies loudly promise quick sentence or two and sent it off share a few good laughs. "savings," while at the same time just because I wanted to share some­ No, we don't spend hundreds of sending the not-too-subtle message thing, or ask a question. All e-mail hours and hundreds of dollars talk­ that the money spent on users do this. For example, this week ing on the telephone. In fact, last long-distance calls to friends and my brother sent a brief message year we talked long distance maybe family is well spent. I disagree. The asking for my fax number so that he four or five times. We do not ever time spent communicating with the could fax me an article about Vernor write ordinary letters. people you care about is well spent. Vinge, a science-fiction author we Our bridge across the miles is e­ But time does not have to translate both like. mail. For us, "e" has the advantages into money. This is another revolu­ The pleasures of writing e-mail of both telephoning and paper mail, tion that e-mail has brought. extend to sending postscripts to with the disadvantages of neither. With a long-distance call, the

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caller (or recipient of the call) pays advantage over the phone: it for every minute of the conversa­ waits until you are ready to read tion. Different rates for different it. It does not summon you with times of day, elaborate savings a shrill, ringing bell, as if you plans, "teaser" discounts, calling were a servant. E-mail, like pa­ circles, and perks such as frequent per mail, is absolutely silent. flyer miles cannot obscure that ba­ sic truth-no matter how hard they The nonintrusive aspect of try. With e-mail, however, both e-mail is especially valuable sender and recipient can do all their when both parties have busy communicatingoffiine. For example, lives. My brother, in particular, I might spend a half-hour "talking" has little free time. Phone calls to my brother when I compose an e­ are likely to drag him away from mail message offiine with America something he has to be doing (or Online's text editor. But I can log would rather be doing). But "e" onto AOL and send this half-hour's is patient. worth oftalk in a few seconds. Simi­ E-mail is faster and easier larly, my brother can download the than paper mail. It is cheaper message, "listen" to it offiine, and and less intrusive than Desktop Publishing write a response. long-distance telephoning. 6} In the world of long-distance These are objective advantages. phone service, the meter is always But my brother and I have found Graphic Design running. In a subjective advantage the world of as well: we have great Greencastle Graphics e-mail, the "The nonintrusive conversations in "e." Nancy Seferian meter only In e-mail, for example, runs when aspect of email wetalkalotaboutwhat (202) 333-5244 you are actu­ we're reading. David 1425 Foxhall Road, NW, Washington, DC 20007 ally logged is especially reads by listening to Re­ onto the sys­ valuable when corded Books while tem; you can commuting to and from read and both parties have work. I mostly read at phone conversation.) compose your night. For both of us, this Everyone who communicates via messages for busy lives." reading time is a place of e-mail has conversations they would free. peace in a maelstrom of not be having otherwise-at least My pri- busyness. E-mail-where not in exactly the same way. In the mary connection to the Internet is we share our enthusiasm for books­ case of my brother and me, e-mail is through America Online. A flat is another such place of peace. the means by which we sustain a monthly fee of$9.95 buys five hours E-mail has other infra-family strong friendship despite barriers of of unrestricted online time on AOL, uses. For example, parents who use distance and time. including an e-mail gateway to the e-mail to communicate with their David tells me that his Internet community. Additional college-age child can always stay in three-year-old daughter likes the time costs $3.50 an hour. In other touch, without "intruding." Their Bailey's Book House software I sent words, I can keep in touch with as college kid, being of the computer for her birthday last December. many folks as I want, as often as I generation, will probably be very ("Bailey's Book House is the place to want, for $9.95 a month (assuming comfortable with e-mail and may be start a passion for reading.") She that my connect time does not ex­ impressed that they want to use it, enjoys playing with the family com­ ceed five hours-not a problem when too. Both parents and children may puter. She dislikes the telephone. I I read and compose messages find that "e" encourages better lis­ take it as a sign. • offiine). I also can use AOL's other tening and allows time for more Lindsay Edmunds is a self-employed services, such as forums and re­ thoughtful responses. They even can writer and editor. She can be reached search databases. print out paper copies of the e-mail via Internet e-mail at E-mail offers another, subtler they want to save! (Try that with a [email protected].

July/August 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 19 rr erly. The book is peppered with brand-names, and a "Where Else To Turn" chapter has company Zap! How your computer names and addresses, alternate sources of information, the names and addresses of organizations in­ can hurt you - and what terested in the topics covered, and even the phone numbers ofregional you can do about it and national occupational health and safety agencies. © 1994 Lawrence I. Charters I have but two "complaints" about the book, both relatively mi­ nor. First, the index is weak. It is a decent index, compared to the com­ OOK REVIEWS ARE Seller's approach in his book, Zap! petition, but let's face it: most com­ supposed to be impersonal How Your computer can hurt you­ puter hooks have terrible indices. Band objective, but by necessity and what you can do about it. This This book, in particular, could use a this one will be personal, and with slender, heavily illustrated volume more fully annotated index. luck, objectivity will not suffer. This covers everything from eyestrain to The second complaint is one I is not so much a promise, however, headaches to pregnancy to muscle share with roughly seven percent of as a hope: they don't call them "per­ and skeletal strains. It also covers all humanity: I did not see any sonal" computers for nothin'. things which have nothing to do specific mention of the needs of the But first, a story. Once upon a with computers directly, such as left-handed. While Apple's mouse time, while serving as president of a the quality of office air and how to is delightfully ambidextrous, many, West Coast user group, I was ac­ spell periods of work with sched­ if not most, manufacturers have costed before a meeting by a woman uled breaks. right-hand-only mice and weighing roughly 300 pounds and Sellers is careful to present the trackballs. Furniture manufactur­ standing just a bit over five feet tall. controversial as well as the accepted. ers have similar biases; there are a She had a complex network of bro­ It is well accepted, for example, that numherof"computerworkstations" ken blood vessels in her face, and you shouldn't put your monitor in that are all but useless to the yellowed eyes, so the alcohol on her front of a window (the glare from left-handed. Because of their ex­ breath suggested a chronic prob­ the window will make the screen ceptional flexibility (not to mention lem. She also stank of tobacco. She look dim and hard to see), or have a intelligence and, of course, mod­ had a demand: window directly behind you (the esty), most left-handed computer "When are you going to let me glare on the monitor will, again, users learn to adapt. But they don't talk about how computers can hurt make the screen look dim and hard like it. people? Make them blind? Wreck to read). Should you get this hook? I can their bones? Ruin their health? All Less accepted is the claim that almost guarantee that the way your because of radiation." extremely low frequency (ELF) elec­ computer is set up at home violates She had been requesting, for tromagnetic radiation may be harm­ many, ifnot most, of the guidelines months, "an hour or two" at a ful. Sellers mentions the concern given in the book. Your computer at monthly meeting to talk about her without any bias at all, noting sim­ work is probably set up a bit better, self-published book on the subject ply that the topic is "controversial." but there is an almost virtual cer­ ofhealth and computers. I instantly Note, however, that most ofhis book tainty that things could be im­ decided on a high-level, presiden­ is devoted to the known, rather than proved. tial response to her request: I said bogged down in the unproven. Consider this book an invest­ "excuse me" and darted around her. There are a wealth of specific ment in yourself. If you are the One of the other user group vol­ suggestions concerning how to set boss, consider it an investment in unteers, witnessing this, suggested up your desk, what to look for in a your employees. Ifyou are the owner she might have a point: ''With all chair, the pros and cons of different of a business, consider it a means her other risk factors, why take kinds of monitors, what kind of ex­ for cutting down on occupational chances on radiation?". ercises to do when having a break health claims. Which might well describe Don from work, and even how to sit prop- And for those of you who might

20 Washington Apple Pi Journal July/August 1994 have been wondering, no, I never did allow the woman to pitch her book to the user group. But if she'd written this book, I would have been far more interested. All About Don Sellers, Zap! How your com­ System Update 3.0 puter can hurt you-and what you can do about it. PeachpitPress, 1994. 150 pp. $12.95. ISBN 1-56609-021-0 ARE FOR SOME bug for the 1.44 MB version or $4.00 for Peachpit Press has a generous user fixes, as well as performance the BOOk version to the office. For group discount program, and even a and reliability enhance­ non-members, see the disk order one book order qualifies for a dis­ C ments for your System 7.1 operat­ form in the back of this Journal. count. To take advantage of this, ing software, then get yourself a For those who like lots of de­ call Peachpit at B00-2B3-9444, credit copy of the just released System tails, read on. card in hand, and identify yourself Update 3.0. You want this update if as a member of Washington Apple you use system software version System Update 3.0 introduces the Pi. Overseas callers should call 7.1, 7.1.1 (System 7 Pro), or 7.1.2 following enhancements: 510-54B-4393. • (for Power Macintosh). You do not • Corrects a problem that caused need this update if you use system some programs to quit unexpect­ softwareversion6.0.X, 7.0, 7.0.1,or edlyorcaused the computer to freeze any of the Performa operating sys­ when you attempted to open pro­ tems. grams over the network. This in­ System Update 3.0 includes all cludes/replaces all of the function­ of the enhancements of System Up­ ality of Network Launch Fix (and date 2.0.1, Hardware System Up­ the Installer will delete it). dates 1.0 and 2.0, plus provides ad­ •Corrects a problem that poten­ A Computerist ...... 16 ditional functionality and fixes prob­ lems that the earlier updates did tially allowed the system to become Adobe ...... 1, 7 not address. Ifyou bought System corrupted during a power failure or a 7.1 after May, 1994, these updates crash. This corruption would pre­ AllNet Service Center ...... 71 are already in your disk set. vent the Macintosh from restarting. Arminius ...... 32 • Prevents a PowerBook from try­ System Updater 3.0 comes in a ing to spin up its hard drive when Clinton Computer ...... 6 1.44MB (2 disks) or 800k (1 disk) the system needs to warn the user version. Ifyou use a Macintosh with that there are only 10 seconds of Dupont Computers ...... 9 an BOOk drive (Mac II, early model battery power remaining. FC Business Systems ...... 11 SE, or a Plus), you need the System • Fixes a problem that prevented Update 3.0 that comes on an BOOK the Macintosh Plus from using any Greencastle Graphics ...... 19 disk. The BOOK package is a special system software newer than 7.1. version of System Update 3.0, in­ HyperGlot Software Co ...... 29 Users wishing to upgrade to a newer cluding only the files needed for system must also delete the Finder Impact Reprographics ...... 27 those three models of Macintosh. If Preferences file from the Preferences your computer has been upgraded folder and restart. MacWorld .. ;...... C2 with a 1.44 MB disk drive or came with one as original equipment, then •Fixes the"About This Macintosh" MacU pgrades ...... C4 you want the version that comes on box so the memory usage line does not get drawn outside of the box's Publishers Service Bureau .. C3 high-density disks. Either version is available at bounds. TCS ...... 5, 10 the office for $6.00 or $3.00 respec­ • Prevents the potential file/media tively. For mail orders, send $B.OO corruption that can happen when

July/August 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 21 working with a file that is on a active when the PowerBook or Por­ the PC is in the foreground. If you remote volume and the connection table went to sleep. Also, Easy Ac­ are experiencing an interference to that volume is lost. Now, when cess now remembers whether sticky problem, make sure the "Fade the remote volume is lost, its icon keys, mouse keys, and slow keys Screen" option is selected in the will remain dimmed on the desktop were on or off between restarts. updated PC Setup control panel. (similar to what happens to the icon • Replaces TeachText with With this option selected, switching for a manually ejected floppy disk). SimpleText version 1.0. Among to the Macintosh will be slightly All attempts to open items on other improvements, SimpleText slower but the video interference the lost volume will result in an allows multiple documents to be will disappear. access privilege error. Ifyou need to open simultaneously, and allows •Updates System Enabler: save your work on the open file, you users to easily use a variety offonts, -003 to ver 1.1 for the LC III. will need to use "Save As ... " (or the font sizes, and font styles. equivalent) to save it to a different -040 to ver 1.1 for the Quadra volume. In order to re-connect with • Includes Apple HD SC Setup 610, 650, and 800 and Centris the lost volume, you will first need version 7.3.1,. Thisnewversionfixes 610 and 650. to close the file you were working a crash problem version 7 .3 has - 065 to ver 1.2 for the Quadra with, then drag the lost volume's when run on Macintosh models that 605, LC475, and LC575. do not support virtual memory. dimmed icon to the Trash. - 088 to ver 1.2 for the Quadra • Increases reliability for remote • Updates the Memory control 840AV and 660AV. Adds sup­ file saving when the client is run­ panel to version 7 .3. This prevents a port for the 660AV and LW ning System 7 .1 or greater and the potential crash during boot if the Select 310. RAM disk was set too large. Also, server is running a pre-7.0 system -401 to ver 1.0.5 for the Color this control panel now opens with and using pre-3.0 AppleShare. Classic to fix erratic mouse 32-bit addressing on. • Fixes a problem with throwing movement away folders that are on an •Updates the PowerBook control -403 to ver 1.0.2 for the Color AppleShare volume. Sometimes panel to version 7.3.1, the PowerBook Classic II, LC520, and LC550. Setup control panel to version 7.3.1, when attempting to empty the -PowerBook Duo Enabler to Trash, the Finder would warn that and the Display control panel to ver­ sion 1.1. This package ofrelated con­ ver 1.0 for all PowerBook the folder contained items in use Duos. This new version al­ and could not be deleted. The Finder trol panels reorganizes and simpli­ fies several controls. lows the use of type II batter­ will now properly delete such folders. ies. The Duo 270c does not • Fixes a problem where a Power •Updates the Battery desk acces­ need it. sory to version 7 .1.1. This new ver­ Macintosh, Quadra 840AV, or -PowerPC Enablertover 1.0.1 sion provides better support for the 660AV may hang if a CD-ROM disk forthePowerMac6100, 7100, Duo 230. is inserted when file sharing is on and 8100. and a large file is being transferred. • Updates the TV Setup control -PowerPC Upgrade Card panel to version 1.0.1. This new Enabler to ver 1.0.1 for System Update 3.0 includes the version supports HRC cable sys­ Centris 610 and 650 and the following updates: tems. This version also fixes a prob­ Quadra 610, 650, 700, 800, lem that would sometimes cause 900, and 950. • •Updates the Standard File pack­ the screen to darken after return­ age to include many fixes and en­ ing from TV mode. hancements. The most significant Our thanks to Apple for their help in fix corrects a crash problem when •Updates the Screen control panel preparing this article. Update 3.0 more than 20 volumes are mounted. to version 1.0.4. This new version descriptors are derived from file The most significant enhancement corrects a problem on the LC 575. notes that are© 1994, Apple Com­ is the use of color icons. • Updates the PC Setup control puter, Inc. • Updates the Easy Access control panel to version 1.0.2. This version panel to version 7.2. This new ver­ provides a fix for users of the sion allows Sticky Keys to remain Macintosh DOS Compatibility Card active after waking up if it was that are experiencing interference when using a single 14" display and

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your mouse pad or desktop. Folks, this is an amazingly caustic substance! Ifyour mouse has metal rollers, you can expect them to get corroded and pitted over time. Clean your mouse This is a real problem with the Kensington trackballs, whose rollers are a lot bigger than those in a mouse. and trackball Make it a regular practice to clean your work area. The spongy fabric pads clean up well with soapy water and a scrub brush. by Kel Humphreys Don't forget to clean the trackball itself. No special precautions are necessary,just don't drop it and lose it. PowerBook trackballs have a peculiar problem FYOURMOUSE or trackball is operating that's related to the small size of its internal compo­ erratically, twist open the retaining ring and pluck nents. The blue rollers that contact the trackball are a I out the ball. The ball rides on two rollers that very soft, spongy plastic that's skewered onto a thin determine its position, and either an idler roller or a metal shaft. If, despite a thorough cleaning, your post or a set of fixed supports. trackball refuses to move the cursor smoothly, look at the position ofthese roll­ ers. They are supposed r to ride in a gap in the plastic support struc­ ture. It's a common prob­ lem for them to slide along their shaft until they bind or drag on the plastic on either side of the gap. (Usually I cause this problem myself, dur­ ingthe cleaning process.) Just slide the roller along its shaft until it's approxi­ mately centered, and not binding on the side. Some mice use a snap-in retaining ring. Special note to Move it in direction of molded-in arrow. Kensington trackball owners: you may be cov­ PowerBook trackballs have two soft rollers and three bearing points. ered by a free, unan­ The PB I 00 has three bare plastic posts. Other models use red jeweled nounced warranty ex­ bearing points. tension on your Series III trackball. Ifyours has quit on you, or if you've In normal use, these parts pick up a lot of crud. pitched it in the corner, resurrect it and invest in a toll Mouse rollers can be black, white, or shiny. The surface call to Kensington. Most accomodating folks, they are. should be flat, not rounded, ridged or pitted. Ifyou see Ifthis offer is still in effect, they'll give you instructions a mounded ridge, break it loose with a pointed object - on mailing back the trackball base (less trackball), and pen or pencil point, a bent paper clip. Shake out the after a suitable waiting period you'll get a new base. • flakes. You'll probably have to keep the roller from turning away from you as you pick, poke and pry, by Kel Humphreys is Senior Macintosh Technician at FC wedging the shaft with another pencil. When you've Business Systems. He has used Macs in a corporate environ­ gotten most of the crud loose, finish the cleaning job by ment, sold Macs, and headed a Mac service operation. He swabbing everything with cheap isopropyl rubbing continually ponders the inequities ofMac power node distri­ alcohol until it's clean. Rotate the roller to be sure there bution in the DC area, wondering at the vacuum in Mont­ aren't any mounds left. gomery County. Now pay attention to your "mousing surface". Your normal skin oil is the biggest culprit in contaminating

July/August 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 23 byAnnAiken

Artist Info: Stuart Armstrong has been an illustrator in the Washington area since 1979. He works out of his studio in Silver Spring for various clients ranging from magazines to ad agencies. His work is often seen in the Washington Post. He began his career drawing illustrations for the " Diamondback," the student newspa­ per at the University of Maryland, where he learned about both deadlines and making art that would reproduce well on newsprint, no matter what size it was printed at. Stuart considers himself a craftsman rather than an artist. "In addition to being well drawn, artwork has to be suitable to the assignment, and reproduce well."

Tools: Mac Quadra 800, Wacom tablet, Illustrator, PhotoShop, Mirror 600 Scanner

The Cook was initially hand cut in rubyIi th for an article on cooks that use headsets to receive instructions in noisy kitchens. Rubylith is a cuttable plastic film used in preparing artwork for si lk-screening or offset printing. Most artists have run across it at some point. The rubylith was too glossy to scan well , so a xerox was made, and scanned into PhotoShop at 300 dpi. After cleaning it up, brilliant colors were added with the airbrush tool. The black outlines are strong enough to contain the color. "I look at the Mac as a tool for editing artwork, rather than creating it. It's difficult to draw on the computer. But the computer really lets me play with color in ways I never could before."

The Strawberry is a promotional piece. It was done in Adobe Illustrator 5 .0, and saved as a 3,0 file. The 3.0 file was opened up in PhotoShop and retouched. The radial lines focus the eye on the strawberry. The irregular shape adds interest. Highlights give dimension and pop the strawberry out of the lighter background.

24 Washington Apple Pi Journal July/August 1994 The Lobster was done as a promotional piece as well as for fun . A sketch was scanned into PhotoShop. Outlines were created, as if they were 'cut ' from rubylith. Color was added with the airbrush or paint bucket. The texture of the seaweed beneath the lobster was created by drawing and selecting irregular shapes with the lasso tool, and then using the burn tool to darken them. "To work at this level of detail, I had to magnify the art a lot. The drawback to this is that you can't see the artwork as a whole when you work on it. That is one difference between a complex illustration, and a spot drawing. This is why I sketch larger art off the computer."

"The Spinal Cord was used on the title slide for a slide show on spinal cord injury, presented by NIH. Artwork of 60 or 70 slides was prepared in Adobe Illustrator, then imported into Power Point, in a slide format. Text was added, and the slides were output. Complex organic shapes. such as vertebra, can be constructed to look three-dimensional, using gradients. "Illustrator is less flexible as a rendering tool than PhotoShop, but it' s stiffness gives it a graphic strength, and a characteristic style." The shapes were first hand drawn, then scanned for use as tem­ plates and auto traced in Illustrator. Colored fills were added. For the soft circular highlight, a radial gradient that went from red to the background color was used.

July/August 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 25 The Icons were done for newspapers and magazines. They had to be graphic enough to be seen at a small size. The sharp angles give them an energetic texture, maki ng them more visible as well . Because they are made of simple shapes, they were often drawn directly on the computer without sketches scanned in for reference. They were done in Adobe fllustrator. A Wacom tablet was used instead of a mouse. The strokes on the body of the airplane were all formed from one original stroke made with the variable brush tool, then duplicated and spaced using the blend tool. They effect is similar to a woodcut. The radiating strokes coming from the microphone were copied and rotated from one original stroke , con­ structed with the pen tool. The effect is more mechanical than strokes made with the brush tool. "Illustrator is a great program for this type of drafting. I can do spot art like this very quickly."

The Circus is a fragment of a hand drawn picture, done as black line art. "As much as possible, I want my art to have an organic feel, as if it had not been done on the computer." The art was scanned and edited in PhotoShop. Then all the black lines were selected with the magic wand tool. The inverse of the lines was then selected, effecti vely masking the lines. Color was then added with the airbrush tool.

26 Washington Apple Pi Journal July/ August 1994 rr understand why she has a chapter on Fontographer, an expensive pro­ gram for creating and editing fonts. Yet her suggestions are very clearly Font Leadership: How to sensible, and now Fontographer doesn't seem nearly as exotic any­ more. Wait till you see how she Boss Your Fonts Around changes the gender of a character with Fontographer ... © 1994 Lawrence I. Charters Closing the book is a superb illustrated glossary of font and ty­ pographic terminology, and an in­ dex! Even better, a good index! There FEW MONTHS AGO listened to the Question and An­ must be a special place in heaven the Journal published an in­ swer session at a Pi General Meet­ awaiting authors courteous enough Aterview discussing font man­ ing, virtually every font question to insist on a good index. agement. The article received lots ever asked is answered in this one How to Boss Your Fonts Around of favorable comment. But all that slim book. is highly recommended, for novices is passe, now: Robin Williams has Not surprisingly, the emphasis and experts alike. Finding the book published the ultimate font guide, is on scalable fonts (TrueType and in stores should be easy. Just look How to Boss Your Fonts Around. PostScript), and on things specific to for a font book with an ugly neon Aside from the cover, which System 7. While the Mac's original pink, yellow and green cover. should be in the running for "most claim to fame was the staggering wretched cover ever made," the book wealthofbit-mappedfonts, such fonts Robin Williams, How to Boss Your is (ahem) letter perfect. Created with hold little or no interest to a user in Fonts Around. PeachpitPress, 1994. Williams' usual exquisite sense of 1994. Why have blocky bitmaps when 152 pp. $12.95. ISBN 1-56609-102-0. design, it is a masterpiece of page you can have smooth scalable fonts, layout, and a showcase for intelli­ on screen and on paper? Peachpit Press has a generous user gent typography - a good thing, Similarly, the breadth of font group discount program, and even a considering the topic. (And no, she options in System 7 makes it both one book order qualifies for a dis­ didn't design the cover. It is so bad easier and, at the same time, more count. To take advantage of this, I had to check.) complex when it comes to fonts. The call Peachpit at 800-283-9444, credit Don't know the difference be­ options are limitless, and so are the card in hand, and identify yourself tween a bitmapped font and a opportunities for confusion. as a member of Washington Apple downloadable font? Williams ex­ Some of the information may Pi. Overseas callers should try plains all, an expose that covers, seem a bit exotic. I couldn't quite 510-548-4393. • clearly and concisely, screen fonts, TrueType fonts, PostScript fonts, and virtually all the ways in which We can turn your graphic files into they interact. Her legendary spare text is, as always, illustrated with screen shots, sample printouts, icons and other graphics designed to illu­ Color Posters minate the subject rather than pointlessly prettify. that demand attention. Topics covered range from the general (how to download fonts to a PostScript printer) to the specific: im1!.~!I what are Adobe Type Manager, ALEXANDRIA, VA 703-971-5295 Suitcase, Master Juggler, etc., and •Business Graphic; •Backdrops •G:>urtroom Exhibirs •G:>mps, Sroryboank •Exhibits •Ma~ •Murals how and why should you use these & Fme An •Point of Pun::hase •Po.m:rs •Presentations •Produce Phocos •Retail Displays •Scientific Graphic; programs. If any of you have ever •Signs & Logo.s •Trade Show Displays •Training Aids

July/August 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 27 rr three rooms: a small photocopying room, a cozy "collating" room, and the main office space-a ten foot by twenty foot computer workstation Communication Station: area. Three Mac Performas are set up for public use. (Two Performa Bringing the Macintosh to 400s and one Performa 405.) Each Mac has 8 megs of RAM and runs Ordinary Folks in Downtown DC System 7 .1 p. Attached to the Macs are: a by Phil Shapiro Hewlett Packard LaserJet 4ML, an HP DeskWriter C color inkjet printer, and an OmniScan hand Business beginnings organizers, freelance writers and scanner. A fax machine and two ACINTOSH COM­ artists, and others with a need to 2400 baud modems round out the M PUTERS have proven produce professional-looking hard hardware available for public use. their usefulness for many years copy. And it's becoming known as a now. But for some people, the cost useful place to "go to get things What do customers do there? of buying a Mac is beyond their done." The staff will either assist In chatting with Lucy Malian I financial reach. For others who need customers at no extra charge, or learned that the store regularly gets to use a Mac only rarely, it is hard take over the desktop publishing quite busy. The most frequent users to Justify the cost. Still others can task for a fee. ofthe public access Macs are persons benefit from trying a Macintosh Last week, I stopped by who want to update their resumes. before deciding to buy one. Communication Station for a visit. A copy of MacLink Plus file Enter Lucy Malian, a long-time I walked away from the visit translation software helps to member of Washington Apple Pi, convinced that the business transfer resumes from DOS disks to who envisioned a Macintosh continues to have tremendous the Macs. business two years ago. Last fall, potential. But I'm equally convinced The business also has a steady she opened her business, called that the business cannot remain stream of people coming in to use Communication Station, in the viable as a one person operation. their two photocopiers. A paper recently revitalized "U Street" cutter in the collating room gets a lot neighborhood. Many new How to get there of use, too. Apparently other local ·entrepreneurial ventures are The business is located at 1514 businesses have found springing up around this U Street, NW -about two blocks Communication Station a useful neighborhood. And business lease from the U Street/Cardozo subway resource for creating menus and rates remain rather affordable. stop (on the Green Line). You walk brochures and for photocopying their Lucy calls Communication up a flight ofstairs, past a bookstore, business records. Station a "community-oriented, to reach Communication Station. budget-priced" Macintosh service America Online access bureau for the downtown Quick tour To help give people access to the Washington DC area. The store is Here is what I found at Information Superhighway, a small place where ordinary folks Communication Station. The decor Communication Station opened an can use Macintosh computers, laser of Communication Station is most account on the America Online printers, and desktop publishing definitely Mac-like in style: light information service. The main software, all for a reasonable price. and airy- clean and cool. Smooth purpose of this account is to help Lucy also provides fax and beige carpeting complements the train people in basic telecom skills. photocopying services. Scandinavian-style desks. Even (Although the AOL account could be Her business serves people from though the store is small, you still useful if someone needed to quickly all walks oflife in the Dupont Circle/ get a sense of spaciousness. download a specific public domain U St. Corridor neighborhoods - Communication Station could make or shareware Macintosh file. AOL recent college graduates, members for a nice venue for small group Mac has over 25,000 such files in their of area churches and neighborhood classes, come to think of it. Macintosh file libraries.) organizations, community The business is composed of Considering that basic telecom

28 Washington Apple Pi Journal July/August 1994 TC skills will be vital to just about the business has a huge amount to LucyMallan every information age job, it's useful offer the local community. In some Communication Station to have a place where people can ways the business serves in the 1514 U Street, NW learn telecom skills in an informal, capacity as a not-for-profit tech­ Washington DC 20009 relaxed setting. An added bonus is nology access center. Yet at the (202) 332-8811 that people who use Commun­ same time the business needs to (202) 332-8804 (fax) ication Station do not need to open broaden its revenue stream to be able America Online: LucyMa their own accounts on AOL to learn to continue doing what it's doing. Internet: [email protected] how to use this information service. Getting Involved Operating hours: Mon.-Fri. What does it cost? It seems pretty clear to me that lOAMto 7 PM. People who come in to use the Communication Station could really Saturdays: 12-noon to 6PM • hardware are charged $10 an hour. use one or more persons to join in on Unlike the public-use Macs at the venture. Perhaps one or more [The author takes a keen interest in Kinko's, though, the $10 hourly fee freelance Mac consultants could join computer equity issues. He can be includes help and assistance, as in to make use of the existing reached at: (202) 686-5465, or via needed. Hard copy output is billed premises. Perhaps WAPitselfmight Internet e-mail at: at 50 cents per page. (Kinko's use the facilities to conduct some of [email protected]] charges $1.25 per page.) No price its tutorials. distinction is made between the On the other hand, perhaps output from the laser printer and there might be a role for Apple that from the color inkjet. Computer or Hewlett Packard to help support this entre­ Serving the community preneurial venture. Commun- As I chatted with Lucy, I ication Station evangelizes the learned more about her plans to Mac/HP platform six days a l~~~N ~ +O~~IGN l~NGU~G~! bring neighborhood high school week. Is it too much to expect students to Communication Station Apple or HP to lend a modicum It's EASY with Software from HyperGlot! for writing workshops. Her son of support to such a venture? The most complete line of foreign language Tom, a pioneer U Street Even small steps, such as offering software for the Macintosh available entrepreneur with his own store, to help cover the cost of toner anywhere. Our products are used has been doing some exciting pro cartridges, would be a big help. extensively in universities and by bono work holding drama and Perhaps Communication Station Individuals throughout the world! writing workshops for area high could register itself as an official school students. Performa training center, and Lucy also mentioned that there thereby get further corporate might be ways of opening support. Communication Station on Sundays or weekday evenings, ifindependent Summary entrepeneurs wanted to make use of I left Communication the facilities. I can think of a whole Station buoyed with the hope host of possible uses of that the business itself SPJI H!Ul-U~!HC!l-Ji PJI H!S!-Gt~ffii H Communication Station as a small represents. Yet to remain computer learning lab: as an adult economically viable, the .AUH I~ H-lrn LI~ H-tHGLIHl-C.UIHUt literacy learning lab, as a writing business needs continued To Order, or to receive a workshop lab, as a page-layout growth. WAP members free catalog, call instruction lab, as a student enrich­ interested in supporting this 1-800-800-8270 ment computer lab. Community promising venture can contact or write: residents of all ages could benefit Lucy Mallan at the address P.O. Box 10746 from access to the computers at below. Mac enthusiasts are Communication Station. always welcome to stop by for a The overall impression I got visit, Lucy says. from Communication Station is that

July/August 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 29 noise. So I went there. Surprise! No rep? I called the distributor with my one was there. Locked up tight. The tail between my legs and face a bright sign on the door said the office is crimson, and told them to cancel my Troubles closed on meeting days (no meeting repair request. today) and holidays. Oops! Panic! It's Back to animation. by Stuart Bonwit Saturday and the office won't be open Sunday afternoon the brightidea until Tuesday after the holiday suddenly occurred to me: call 1-800- weekend, and then the gurus won't SOS-APPL, the Apple support line. ROUBLES.RIGHThere be there. (To some people, these things come in River City. What is the Back to animation. Then, pow! slowly!) I got connected, plowed T worst thing that can happen The screen suddenly went black and through the voice mail hierarchy, when you're having a big problem on the power light on the monitor went and got the discouraging message your Mac? 111 tell you what can out. Panic! My five month old monitor that, due to the popularity ofthe new happen. You can't call up the already dead? Now, I'm really out of PowerPCs, there might _be as much Washington Apple Pi TCS to get help. business. I pulled the monitor power as a 30 minute wait. I finally got a On Thursday evening before the cableoutofthecomputer and checked human being. He said, "You might Memorial holiday weekend, I the terminals for continuity with an try the Apple Phone to see ifyou can suddenly discovered that ZTerm ohmmeter. Wide open! dial." Ofcourse, with only one phone would not dial any numbers. The So I called the place where I line in my home, I could not try it dialog box said, "Sending Dial bought the Mac, and told them the while he was on the line. So I hung Command," then "Waiting for problems. They beeped the service up, tried the Apple Phone, and it Answer." Instead of showing the rep, who called me. He said he could worked! Hurray; at least the GeoPort number being dialed, it showed the not come till tomorrow (Sunday), and was working. middle characters of the Pre-Dial he would bring a new monitor, but he I called SOS-APPL again, waited initialization string. And it would sit couldn't help me with the GeoPort again, and this time emphasized that there and nothing would happen. I (modem). Note: the GeoPort appears there were two problems: ZTerm tried all sorts ofirrational ''fixes," but to be molded shut with no intention dialing and printing. He said to go to nothing changed. of letting anyone service it! The the Chooser under the Apple Menu I figured, "The h- with it; I'll monitor is an AV14 that weighs 40 and select StyleWriter (my printer; wait till Saturday and call the Pi . pounds. In my condition (old and not StyleWriter II). Then he asked, office, and I'll go on with my decrepit) I was not about to carry it "Under the 'Select a port' box, which animation." The animation anywhere. item is shaded, the modem or the application worked fine, so I was in Did I say that not being able to printer port?" Oops! I said, "The no hurry. call the TCS when you have a Mac modem port." (Don't ask how it got Well, Friday afternoon I tried to problem is the worst thing than can thatway; I don't know, probably when print something from WordPerfect, happen to you? Well, I was wrong. I tried re-installing with the CD­ and it told me the printer was not For a retiree, the worst thing that can ROM.) He said, "Click on the printer connected! I checked the connections happen to you is to lose your main port. Your printer can't print through and everything looked fine; the time-occupying diversion. For me, the modem port because the printer printer was up and running, ready to that's computer playing. is not connected there. And the go. Panic! I went back to ZTerm; So by Sunday morning I was modem can't dial because the modem same old stuff, even on manual reduced to twiddling my thumbs. I port is otherwise occupied." dialing. tried starting up the computer a Well, needless to say, this story Back to animation. couple of times. I could hear the hard had a happy ending. I'm back in Saturday morning I called the Pi drive going through its usual routine, business (retirement hobby business, office and got no answer. Well, so that seemed OK But no monitor. that is) and deliriously happy that everybody must be real busy helping So I poked around the back, pushing the Mac is its old self again. clods like me get over their simple­ connectors toward their connections, I'll be talking to you on the TCS.• minded problems. Or maybe they and Pow! The monitor came to life! can't hear the phone ring for all the Holy caroly! What will I tell the service

30 Washington Apple Pi Journal July/August 1994 after the popular Farallon brand name which popularized this method. The LocalTalkavenueis significantly Networking Primer­ less expensive, as the phone wires are common and easy to obtain in various lengths without going to a Beyond LocalTalk computer dealer. Either of these methods will pro­ by John O'Reilly vide a small network (fewer than 6 nodes) with ample speed (unless you're moving huge files) for print­ FYOUHAVEMOREthan There's not much the average ing, passing files, and e-mail. one Mac, or even just a Mac and user needs to do to take advantage of LocalTalk connectors can be pur­ I a printer, you have to face the AppleTalk. The trick is to connect chased for under $20, and the phone most basic of networking problems. your nodes in such a way to move wires are dirt cheap, especially ifyou Although a simple Mac network is your data as fast as possible. Choos­ go to an electronics supply store. Five reliable, easy to install, and fast ing the proper wiring configuration Macs and a printer can be connected enough to keep you occupied, techno­ is essential to your short- and long­ for under $125, without any extra logical advances demand we exam­ term networking success. software being purchased or installed ine options. on your machine. You can even link If you work with a number of (with certain limitations) Macs of Macs and printers (collectively called different era (System 6 and 7, for "nodes" when they're hooked up to Ifyou work with a example) without having to up­ one another), then this article is for grade the older machines. All you you. (Ifyou work in a cross-platform number of Macs have to do is click the "AppleTalk (Mac-DOS-Windows-UNIX) environ­ On" radio button in the Chooser of ment, then stay tuned for a later and printers each machine and restart-you're installment!) ready to go. One advantage Apple built in to (collectively called Macintosh from the very beginning, File Sharing way back when Reagan was Presi­ "nodes" when With System 7, Apple built file dent, is that Macs have always known sharing, the ability to send and how to talk to one another. The built­ they're hooked up receive files from other nodes on in networking protocol, AppleTalk, your network, into the system soft­ was in the original 128KMac, as well to one another), ware. Although this destroyed the as the original LaserWriter (the ma­ market for vendors who special­ chine many believe legitimized Mac then this article ized in software accomplishing in the marketplace). All Macs come the same feat, it served to enhance with two serial ports for communica­ is for you. the Mac package for small busi­ tions-one of those (the one with the ness setups. For such a low startup printer icon) is also equipped with cost, System 7 File Sharing elimi­ AppleTalk. LocalTalk nated the SneakerNet (walking files AppleTalkis the protocol, or stan­ There are two "normal" ways to around the office on floppy disks) for dard, that controls how information connect your Macs-AppleTalk ca­ many. flows in and out of your Mac. Your bling, which is thick, shielded ca­ Once you have a machine suc­ Mac's built-inAppleTalk controls will bling like an Imagewritercable, which cessfully sharing folders on your net­ direct the flow of data, breaking up can be split in to a daisy chain, and work, other machines may access your data into packets, which get loopfromnodetonode, andLocalTalk those through the chooser. Choose sent to a destination (either a Mac or cabling, where each node has a small "AppleShare"from the Chooser, and a printer); each packet is confirmed connector hanging from the printer the names of the available sharing upon receipt, and a confirmation is port, and standard phone wires con­ systems on your system will appear sent back to the host, very much like nect each box. This is commonly (like laser printers would). a modem transfer (only faster). known as PhoneNet connectors too, To activate file sharing on your

July/August 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 31 System 7 Mac, select "Sharing Setup" from the Control Panels folder, give yourself a user name and password (see below) and select "Start" under the File Sharing header. (If this feature is missing from your machine, it can be ! !REPAIRS!! reinstalled easily from your system disks; dig them out, put in the installer disk, choose "Customize" in the installer, and Apple/Mac/I*M Motherboard Repairs choose just "File Sharing Software" from the list of options from $45.00 + S&H that follows. That will install the proper software to get you Apple/Mac/I*M Power Supply Repairs from $45.00 + S&H to the above step.) Apple/Mac/I*M Drive Repairs Once you have the "File Sharing s on" message in from $45.00 + S&H Sharing Setup, you now have the power to designate folders Apple/Mac/l*M Monitor Repairs on your hard drive to be shared with the other users on your from $60.00 + S&H network. Choose a folder in the finder and choose "Sharing... " Apple/Mac/l*M Keyboard Repairs from the File menu. from $12.50 + S&H Apple/Mac/I*M Upgrades Strategies for Sharing Available! One common error users make in their sharing setup is Used Apple/Mac/I*M CPUs, to share the entire contents of a hard drive. Although this Disk Drives, Monitors, may seem to be a straightforward solution, this causes your Keyboards available for resale Mac to spend a great deal of effort publish- Warranties to one year on most repairs! ingthestuffon "One common the drive, Same day turnaround on most repairs! most of which other us- Arminius ers wouldn't error users want (like 8519 Orchard Avenue Merchantville NJ 08109 ~:~~e~Y~~:i: make in their ~~~~~ (609) 662-3420 entirevolume, shann·g setup 1·s y 0 u '11 have better per for- mance on the to share the host ma- chine if you publish onlythefolder entire contents or folders other users need ac- cess to. For of a hard drive." example, designate a "Shared Folder" on your drive into which you put documents other users in your group can use. Depending on the size of your group, and the nature of your work, you may want to assign passwords or limit access to read-only for certain users. To allow anyone on your network to access your shared folders anytime, you should enable guest access. Choose "Users and Groups" from your control panels, and double-click on the "Guest" icon. Click the "Allow guests to connect" radio button. If you wish to designate different access levels for different users, choose new (cmd-N) in "Users & Groups" and name the user to match the user name on the computer that wants to connect to your machine. The Apple System reference that came with your computer details this information. •

Next month: EtherNet vs. LocalTalk

32 Washington Apple Pi Journal July/August 1994 A Taste of Binaries - [C7.B16]

by David L. Harris

ACINTOSH PROGRAMS AND other files are composed of'bits', or Os and ls (or ons and offs, or whatever) combined into bytes. In other words, in binary (two's) code. It is possible, however, to M change a binary code into some other kind of coding scheme, in particular, into a scheme using ASCII text symbols. These are the kind that can be sent from one computer to another in Usenet messages. Board 16 of Conference 7 ofthe TCS, called comp.binaries.mac, is devoted to just this type ofmessage: Macintosh files that have been encoded so they can be sent to users as Usenet messages. Once they are received they can be converted back to Macintosh files. Since there is a limit to their length , a file is usually broken up into several messages. Here are some examples of message titles on [C7.B16]: Msg # 768 Subject: JPEG Convert 1. 0 for PowerPC (part 1 of 4) Msg # 769 Subject: Color Fractal Generator 2.12 (part 14 of 14) Msg # 770 Subject: JPEG Convert 1. 0 for PowerPC (part 4 of 4) Msg # 771 Subject: GraphicConverter 1.7.8/11 (part 01 of 14) Msg # 772 Subject: GraphicConverter 1.7.8/11 (part 07 of 14) Msg # 773 Subject: GraphicConverter 1.7.8/11 (part 02 of 14) Msg # 774 Subject: GraphicConverter 1.7.8/11 (part 08 of 14) Msg # 775 Subject: GraphicConverter 1.7.8/11 (part 03 of 14) Msg # 776 Subject: JPEG Convert 1. 0 for PowerPC (part 3 of 4) Msg # 777 Subject: GraphicConverter 1.7.8/11 (part 04 of 14) Msg # 778 Subject: GraphicConverter 1.7.8/11 (part 09 of 14) Msg # 779 Subject: GraphicConverter 1.7.8/11 (part 05 of 14) Msg # 780 Subject: GraphicConverter 1.7.8/11 (part 10 of 14) Msg # 781 Subject: GraphicConverter 1.7.8/11 (part 11 of 14) Msg # 782 Subject: Animorpher 1. 0 (part 1 of 5) Msg # 783 Subject: GraphicConverter 1.7.8/11 (part 12 of 14) Msg # 784 Subject: Animorpher 1. 0 (part 2 of 5) Msg # 785 Subject: Animorpher 1. 0 (part 3 of 5) Msg # 786 Subject: Animorpher 1. 0 (part 5 of 5) Msg # 787 Subject: GraphicConverter 1.7.8/11 (part 06 of 14) Msg # 788 Subject: FaxSTF 2. 6. 1 Updater (part 10 of 13) Msg # 789 Subject: GraphicConverter 1.7.8/11 (part 13 of 14) Msg # 790 Subject: Animorpher 1. 0 (part 4 of 5) Msg # 791 Subject: FaxSTF 2. 6. 1 Updater (part 11 of 13) Msg # 792 Subject: Photoshop Dither Filter Package 1.0bO

As you can see, files may be split up into many messages, and they do not all arrive at the TCS in consecutive order. More about this later. Here is an example of what a message actually looks like (after slight editing to shorten it): CS-ID: #684.c7b16/msgs@pro-applepi, 44449 chars Date: 6 May 1994 10:01:51 -0400 From: Guenther Blaschek Subject: PopChar 2.7.1 Control Panel (part 1 of 2) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.mac Message-ID: Lines: 686

July/August 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 33 [PopChar 2.7.1 Control Panel - part 1 of 2)

For those who do not know what PopChar is for: PopChar is a control panel that simplifies typing of unusual characters. Click the PopChar icon in the menu bar, select the character you want, and PopChar automatically inserts it in the current document as if you had typed the proper key combination on the keyboard.

PopChar is FREE.

{This file must be converted with BinHex 4.0)

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Each line of the code is exactly 64 characters long. Pressing the spacebar (or changing a setting in your TCS User Profile) will continue the 'message.' With the communications program that you use to connect to the TCS, it would be possible to save each message as it is read, in a text file, and then combine the text files into one before conversion. The TCS also has a transfer function which enables you to download a series of messages as a text file to your computer in the same way that you would download, or transfer, a file from the TCS File Transfer section. Just above the start of the code, the message above says that you must use a utility called BinHex 4.0 to convert the file back to binary form. In fact, the various versions of Stuftlt and Compact Pro, which are normally used to expand compressed files, will do the same thing. You really do not have to know the details of how these applications work to use them. All that is necessary is to arrange the pieces in the correct order into one text file. Usually you do not even have to remove the descriptive text from the messages; Stuftlt and Compact Pro will ignore that and just decode the 'BinHexed' part. The result of the decoding is a true Macintosh file, usually a Stuftlt archive (to save space, transmission time, etc.). This in turn must be 'uncompressed.' Either Stuftlt or Compact Pro can do that job also. The final result is a document, extension, or application that can be used (after checking for viruses, of course!) on your Mac. The types ofitems usually found on comp.binaries.mac are newly developed programs or utilities, upgrades and bug fixes to them and to virus checkers, which need fast and wide distribution. comp.binaries.mac is a 'moderated' newsgroup; if you send a 'message' to it a moderator will review it before posting it for distribution over Usenet. Since these files are expressed solely in ASCII text symbols, they can also be sent by e-mail over the Internet, which cannot directly transfer binary files. That is another subject, however .... On Conference 6 of the TCS is another board used for encoded binary files used by Apple II computers. Not being an Apple user, I can't tell you much about them, but they are there for your use if you prefer the Apple II platform. They are on [C6.B8], comp.binaries.apple2. Just another way the Washington Apple Pi TCS is there to serve you. :-> •

34 Washington Apple Pi Journal July/August 1994 The Hotline service is only for members of the WAP. Please do not call after 9:30 pm or before 8:00 am.

Pascal Leon Raesly (5 •m-5pm) (30 1) 868-9554 . · . ·A le 111111 · Michael Hartman (30 1) 445-1583 Deluxe Paint II C and TML Pascal Rich Sanders (703) 450-4371 Apple 11 • Harry Erwin (befo re 10 pm) (703) 758-9660 GS BASIC GENERAL Barry Fox (717) 566-6709 Dave Harvey (days only) (703) 578-4621 OPERATING SYSTEMS Multiscribe GS Leon Raesly ld•ys. l •m-lpml (30 I) 868-9554 ProDOS 8 and 16 RaySmlc (301) 647-9192 Ken De Vito (703) 960-0786 Barry Fox (717) 566-6709 Dan White (30 I) 449-3322 TELECOMMUNICATIONS (MAC & APPLE) ACCOUNTING PACKAGES Print Shop Dale Smith (30 1) 762-5158 BPI Programs Thomas O'Hagan (30 1) 593-9683 Allan Levy (30 1) 340-7839 Jaxon Brown (301) 350-3283 Bob Sherman (305) 944-2111 BPI & Howarclsoft (Tax) SPREADSHEETS TCS Help Otis Greever (615) 638-1525 General Dale Smith (30 1) 762-5158 Dollars & Sense Walt Francis (202) 966-5742 Nancy Seferian (202) 333-0126 Barry Fox (7 17) 566-6709 MagicCaldSuperCalc2.0 Paul Schlosser (30 1) 831-9166 Home Accountant MouseTa lk Leon Raesly (5 am -5pm) (301) 868-9554 Leon R.1esly ,..,,..,I •m·lrml (30 I) 868-9554 Dale Smith (30 1) 762-5158 Telecommunications Quicken Ray Sccrle (30 1) 647-9192 Dale Smith (301) 762-5158 Gary Hayman (30 I ) 345-3230 T imeOut Series & Utilities: ProSel Allan Levy (301) 340-7839 Apple SSC Ray Senlc (301) 647-9192 Ken De Vito (703) 960-0786 Bernie Benson (30 1) 95 1-5294 Barry Fox (717) 566-6709 AppleWorks Dan White (301) 449-3322 8 16 PaintlWrit'rs Ch.El Ken DeVito (703) 960-0786 TimeOut Series Andy Gavin (703) 734-3049 Ray Settle (30 1) 647-9192 Morgan Jopling 1(301) 721-7874 Apple II Hardware Epson printers, hard drives, Utilitics:ProSel Harry Erwin (before 10 pm) (703) 758-9660 Guy Durant (202) 363-0366 Gary Hayman (30 I ) 345-3230 Barry Fox (7 17) 566-6709 Apple II laser printing Leon Raeslyt.i.,.: s •m·S,.., (30 I ) 868-9554 Bob Sherman 1(305) 944-2111 Bill Campbell (30 1) 498-6380 CROSS-PLATFORM TRANSLATION Allan Griff (30 1) 654-1515 MS/DOS-Apple-Mac Transfers Apple Ill' AppleWorks Database Ken De Vito (703) 960-0786 General Roger Burr (30 1) 424-6927 Pa ul Campbell (313) 255-6497 Morgan Jopling I (30 1) 721-7874 WORD PROCESSORS Dave Ortalini (9-10:30 pm) (301) 681-6136 Milt Goldsamt (30 1) 649-2768 General 3 Easy Pieces Dan White (301) 449-3322 Wale Francis (202) 966-5742 Robert Howe (916) 626-8198 Allan Griff (30 1) 654-1515 Apple Writer 2 David/Joan Jernigan (before 9 pm) (703) 822-5137 Ron Evry (703) 490-1534 Steve Truax (304) 267-6429 COMMUNICATIONS Dianne Lorenz (301) 530-7881 Word Juggler ProTerm Leon Raesly (5 •m-5pm) (30 I) 868-9554 Tom Linders (408) 741-1001 Allan Levy (30 1) 340-7839 AppleWorks GS J. Carey McGlcish (<>': s •m·Spml (301) 868-9554 Arr Wilson Ray Serrl e (Annapolis) (301) 647-9192 Sider Score Galbraith (Frederick) (30 I) 865-3035 Apple llGS• Oris Greever (615) 638-1525 W. T . Cook (Columbi>) (301) 995-0352 (703) 691-1360 Neil Laubenthal Gary Hayman (Gr«nbeh) (30 I) 345-3230 A.O. (Bill) Geiger LANGUAGES (703) 237-3614 Lee Racsly (Adelphi) (30 I) 599-7530 GeneraJ General Dan White (30 I) 449-3322 Barry Fox (7 17) 566-67Q9 Dan White (301) 449-3322 Don Avery (ll<1hc>d:a/DCI (202) 362-1783 Ile Upgrade AppleSoft Morgan Jopling (301) 721-7874 VIRGINIA Louis Biggie (301) 967-3977 APW Kenneth De Viro (Alcundri>) (703) 960-0786 Peter Combes (30 I) 25 1-6369 Andy Gavin (703) 734-3049 Neil Laubenrhal (703) 691-1360 Leon Raesly (5 am-5p!") (301) 868-9554

July I August 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 35 August 1994 Sunday IL Monday Tuesday J Wednesday Thursday J Friday Saturday 1.., .:L I l!:I c Mac World - Boston ) 6 MacPr~ram- mers SI PI SIG TeleComm SIG Game SIG DTP SIG ll It r- ''"""'' f 8 ~ 9.... 10 11 12 13"" DB SIG Annapolis Slice t Newton SIG WAPBoD Stock SIG Frederick Slice 1 ~ Wriln'i lK.Jl1M 14 15" 16 17 18 19 20 Intro to the Mac-Part 1 Excel SIG 11 W lil. It I ~ ..;;, I[ >="""" ~~ -~· EJi10r i DwiliM 2 l 22, 23"'1 25.., 26'1 NoVa, mnCol 27"" 24 WAP Intro to the Maintaining A.General t: Mac-Part2 r1 Your Mac It H Meeting --~ '\ ~ ~ 28 29"' 30 31 Intro to the Mac-Part3 .loo. 1:1. ll It Note: The WAP office will be moving in late August or early September, and this will affect meetings scheduled there. At press time we do nor have a new address or moving dare to announce. Check with the September 1994 TCS or the office (654-8060)jor latest news. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday 1 ~ Thursdq Friday Saturday l 'rc~ I '· ~ / "' ~ ltl 1 2' s' Columbia Slice TeleComm SIG Game SIG I I ~

IAborDay 5'1 10., 4 OJT•u Clostd 6 Mac 7 It s' 9" sf~rammers Annapolis Slice Stock SIG Frederick Slice I' DTP SIG i'~ 1r 12' 13.., lf 15 16i F 17'1 11' j DB SIG Newton SIG WAPBoD PI SIG It It ~ O==c~ ~.. Wrir,.ri Dt1'J};,,,. a"' 19., 20"' 21 If 22 23., NoVa, omCol 24 WAP Excel SIG Women's SIG A.General Meeting lt 111 l ... ~ ~ Uilor\ O,oJ/int 2 ...... 5 26"' 27..... 28" 29'1 --""""' 30 ll 1 J, Ill It m

36 Washington Apple Pi Journal July/August 1994 Unless otherwise noted, call the SIG chairs or Slice officers for meeting information. A list ofthe SIG and Slice chairs is on page 4 ofevery Journal Calendar events in italics are tutorials, workshops, or seminars. Annapolis Slice Game SIG 2nd Saturday; 9:30 AM; Severna Park Library on McKinsey 1st Thursday; 7:30 PM; CallJeff (703) 979-8249 for Rd (off Rt 2), Severna Park, MD. meeting location. Answering Machine: (410) 761-4260 CrabApple BBS: (41 O) 315-8532 HyperTalk SIG Call SIG chair for information. Apple IIGS SIG Meetings at various locations an don various dates. Looking Mac Programmers' SIG for new chairperson. Call Gary Hayman (301) 345-3230, for 1st Wednesday; 7:30 PM; WAP office. details. Apple III SIG Newton SIG 1st Monday, 7:30 PM; WAP Office. Quarterly on 2nd Saturday; 10:00 AM; WAP Office. AppleWorks SIG NoVa Education (Ed) SIG Last Wednesday; 7:30 PM; Walnut Hill Ctr., 7423 Camp Meetings at various locations and on various dates. Call Gary Alger Ave., Falls Church, VA. Hayman (301) 345-3230, for details.

CAD SIG Programmers' Interface (PI) SIG Meetings are announced on the Announcements Board of Call SIG chair. the TCS. Call Gerry Wright at (301) 422-4286 for details. Columbia Slice 1st Thurday; 7 :00 PM. Call for location. QuickTime SIG Quarterly; 7:30 PM; WAP Office. BBS (410) 964-3706. DataBases (Mac) SIG Stock SIG 2nd Thursday; 7:30 PM; WAP office. 2nd Wednesday; 7: 15 PM; FHWA R&D Labs, near McLean, VA-from GW Parkway, exit at the interchange Telecomm SIG marked CIA HQs, then make a right turn to the FHWA 1st Tuesday; 7:00 PM; WAP office. gate, and check in with the guard. UltraMacros SIG DeskTop Publishing (DTP) SIG Meetings at various locations and on various dates. Call Gary 1st Wednesday; 7:30 PM; PEPCO Auditorium, 1900 Hayman (301) 345-3230, for details. Pennsylvania Ave. Nw, DC. For further details, we encourage you to attend the monthly DTP meeting. WAP Garage Sale Information can be found elsewhere in the Journal. (See June and December. page 5 this month.) WAP General Meeting Excel SIG 4th Saturday; 9:00 AM; Northern Virginia Community 3rd Wednesday; 7:30 PM; WAP office. College, Annandale Campus, Community Cultural Center Auditorium. Frederick Slice Women's SIG General meeting time, 2nd Saturday; I 0:00 AM; United Usually held every quarter on the fourth Thursday of the Methodist Church; 22 Main Street in Walkersville. month at the Pi Office at 7:30 PM. Call SIG Chair, Ann Aiken (301) 5 30-1990 for details.

Notice: Plans change! Anyone with calendar information please call the Calendar Editor, Bill Wydro (301) 299-5267 or Beth Medlin at the WAP office (301) 654-8060.

July I August 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 37 The Hotline service is only for members of the WAP. Please do not call after 9:30 p.m. or before 8:00 a.m.

Fortran Curt Harpold (202) 547-8272 Harry Erwin •hrf--•oi-• (703) 758-9660 MISCELLANEOUS Inside Mac GENERAL lie Card for the LC Jon Hardis (301) 330-1422 Bernie Benson Tom Wine (703) 683-5871 (30 I ) 951-5294 John Love (703) 569-2294 MacProject Jon Harclis (30 I) 330- 1422 Pascal Jay Lucas (703) 75 1-3332 Dan White (30 1) 449-3322 Harry Erwin (before 10 pm) (703) 758-9660 Norbert Pink (703) 759-9243 Art & Video Michael Hartman (30 1) 445-1583 Nancy Scfcrian (202) 333-0126 SMALLTALK-80 HypcrCard Rick Chapman (30 I) 989-9708 Borland Products Harry Envin (before 10 pm) (703) 758-9660 Doug Ferris daytime only (800) 826-4768 Tom Wine (703) 683-5871 SPREADSHEETS & CHARTS HyperTalk DATABASE PROGRAMS General John O'Reilly (703) 204-9332 Fourth Dimension David Morganscein (301) 972-4263 Tom Wine (703) 683-5871 Bob Pulgino (301) 474-0634 Bob Pulgino (30 1) 474-0634 File Transfer Pccer Yarcd (30 I) 564-1560 Tom Cavanaugh (30 I) 627-8889 Mort Greene (703) 522-8743 FilcMaker Pro Excel Backfax Mort Greene Tom Parrish (301) 654-8784 David Morganscein (30 I ) 972-4263 (703) 522-8743 More Greene (703) 522-8743 Mark Pankin (703) 524-0937 HyperCard Scripting Jim Hoyt Jamie Kirschenbaum (evening,) (703) 437-3921 Jim Graham (703) 75 1-4386 Richard Kozloski (703) 352- 1523 (304) 947-7936 Dick Byrd (703) 978-3440 Fox base SoundEdit Bob Pulgino (30 1) 474-0634 Jamie Kirschenbaumcc,·•ning

38 Washington Apple Pi Journal July I August 1994 ..... Write File to Temporary File .... Upload Mode Toggle TCS Help Sheet (No Reply Mode) .... View Temporary File .... Exchange a String TCS Phone Numbers: ... Welcome Bulletin within line (#) -301-986-8085 .... Xfer All New Msgs <'> ...... Modify Reply Mode (for 300, 1200, 2400 bps) ..... Zelect Boards of Characters -301-986-0706 Interest (for 9600, 14400 bps) File Transfer Menu Bulletin Board Menu .... Adjust Pointers Main Menu .... Alter/Edit an Existing .... Global Read New .... Bulletin Boards Message Descs .... Change Conferences .... Blind Reply to a Msg ..... List All Available ..... File Transfer by Number Areas ..... General Library .... Change Boards .... New File Descriptions .... Membership Search .... Delete Msg From or <0> .... Off the System .... Now On System To You .... Quit to Main Menu <0> .... Off the System .... Enter a Message .... Read All New Descs

..... Public Library .... Find Message by ..... Zelect File Areas ..... Time and Date Keyword .... User Preferences .... Library for this Board File Area Menu ... Read Welcome <0> .... Off - Quit the System .... Alphabetical List Bulletin .... Quit to Main Menu .... Batch Functions .... eXamine Weather .... Read a Msg or Msgs .... Change File Area Forecast <8> ..... Scan Message .... Download a File Headers ..... Find File Descriptions Change Conference Menu .... Title Scan Msg .... Help With File <1-8> .. Choose Conference Headers Transfer Number ... Welcome Bulletin for ..... Info on File Contents ..... List Conferences Board ..... List All Files Available .... Xfer (Download) a .... Mark Files for .... Quit to Main Menu MsgorMsgs Downloading <1> ..... General Conference <0> .... Off the System <2> ..... Apple II Conference Editor Menu .... Quit to Main Menu <3> ..... Macintosh Conference .... Add to File .... Read File <4> ..... Classified Conference .... Clear File in Memory Descriptions <5> ..... Global General .... Delete a line from File ..... TitleScan Conference (#) Descriptions <6> ..... Global Apple II .... Edit a Line (#) .... Upload a File or Files Conference .... Find a String ... Welcome Bulletin <7> ..... Global Macintosh .... Global Search & Conference Replace User Preferences <8> ..... Global Miscellany ..... Insert Lines into File .... Alter Password Conference (#) .... Emulation Mode .... List the File (#) ..... File Transfer Protocol Conference Menu .... Toggle Reply Mode

..... Prompt Character .... Adjust Pointers .... Line Numbering .... Quit to Main Menu .... Change Conference Mode On/Off .... Reply Mode Prefix .... Global Read All New

.... Purge Temporary File .... Video Length Msgs .... Quit - Clear File & .... Expert/Novice ..... List All Available Exit Prompts Boards .... Read back from .... Your Current Status <0> .... Off the System Temporary File .... Quit to Main Menu <8> ..... Save File and Exit • .... Read All New Msgs Editor

July I August 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 39 Ifyour Macintosh functions properly after holding down the Shift key, then a clean install should be your next step. If holding down the Shift key doesn't help, you might still have a corrupted system component, and need to cleanly install in any case. The Why and How of How To Do a Clean Install

a Clean Installation • Step 1 • Restart with Disk Tools Shut down your Macintosh, insert Disk Tools in by Stephanie Hahn the floppy drive, and turn on the computer. At the (7.1 clean install steps from the desktop, the Disk Tools floppy disk's icon should be in Technical Information Library) the upper-right comer of your screen with your hard disk's icon below it. If the computer ejects the Disk Tools disk, make Why Do a Clean Install? sure you have an Apple SuperDrive (formerly FDHD) Most Macintosh computers come from the factory with that reads high-density disks. Ifyour computer doesn't the system software installed on the hard drive, and on have a SuperDrive, you need System Software version the floppy disks, which can be thought of as a "clean" 7.1 on SOOK disks. To get the 7.0 to 7.1 upgrade, call version of the system software. That is, the extensions, 1-800-769-2775. (See your dealer for the upgrade from control panels, fonts, System, Finder-in essence, the other versions.) entire contents of the System Folder- come solely If you have a Macintosh computer that requires a from Apple, and have not been modified in any way. System Enabler, you should use the Install Me First Because the Macintosh is easily customized, most disk that came with your computer. The standard 7.1 users like to add Finder enhancements, fonts, exten­ Install disk doesn't contain the Enabler, and won't sions and such to their system to make it more tailored start up a Macintosh that requires one. for their own personal style. Sometimes these addi­ tions can cause incompatibilities, either with another • Step 2 • Run Disk First Aid extension, or with that particular version of system Run Disk First Aid to detect and repair problems software. These incompatibilities can cause the with a hard disk: Macintosh to hang, generate errors, or crash unexpect­ edly. Another potential problem that may cause such STEP ACTION behavior might be actual corruption of a key system 1 Open the Disk Tools disk, and double-click on component, such as the System, Finder or an extension the Disk First Aid icon. In the window that or font. appears, be sure the main hard drive is se- The most common incompatibilities occur when lected. If it isn't, click the Drive button to users upgrade from an older version of System Soft­ select the main hard drive. ware to a newer version. Many times the extensions or control panels that are already installed in the System 2 Click once on Open and then once on Start. Folder need to be upgraded to work with the newer Disk First Aid checks your hard disk for any version. Installing "over" an existing System does not potential problems. If it finds problems, you remove or disable any incompatible System Folder should let the software repair them. components. The Installer simply installs over the existing System Folder, updating only the Apple soft­ 3 Repeat this procedure for each hard disk ware; it leaves any third party additions alone. attached to the system. A "clean" installation is a key trouble-shooting step whenever your Macintosh is hanging, crashing, or 4 When you're finished verifying the hard disks, behaving "unusually'. To test for a potential extension choose Quit from the File menu to return to or control panel conflict [in System 7 only] is to restart the desktop. the Macintosh while holding down the Shift key. This disables ALL extensions and any control panels that If Disk First Aid can't repair your hard disk, back load as a system extension. up the hard disk and re-initialize it using the appropri-

40 Washington Apple Pi Journal July/August 1994 ate formatting utility for that drive. For Apple drives, hard disk where you plan to install the system soft­ use Apple HD SC Setup. ware. Open the hard disk's window. Open the Views control panel and select Show disk info in header. The • Step 3 - Update Hard Disk Drivers amount of available disk space appears in the If you don't have an Apple hard drive, or you use upper-right comer of any open window. third-party software to format your hard disk, don't use If there's less than 5MB available, you need to the Apple HD SC Setup utility. However, you should delete unnecessary files by moving them to the Trash. contact your hard drive vendor to verify that your Choose Empty Trash from the Special menu, to get formatting software is compatible with system soft­ more available disk space. (You can copy files onto ware version 7 .1. floppy disks or other media before moving them to the Ifyou have an Apple hard drive, update the drivers Trash.) with the version of Apple HD SC Setup that's on the Disk Tools disk: • Step 5 - Disable the System Folder Disable the System Folder by moving the Finder STEP ACTION and renaming the System Folder: 1 Double-click on the HD SC Setup icon on STEP ACTION the Disk Tools disk to open it. 1 Open your hard disk's icon and locate 2 Click on the Update button the System Folder.

3 When finished, click Quit to return to the 2 Open the System Folder and locate desktop. the Finder.

Sometimes HD SC Setup can't update the hard 3 Create a new folder and name it disk driver (indicated by a "dimmed" Update button). Old Finder. Here are some possible causes and solutions: 4 Move the Finder into this new folder. • If a third-party utility formatted your hard disk, you should obtain the latest version of the utility to 5 Close the System Folder's window update your hard drive. and rename the System Folder Storage. • Ifa version ofApple HD SC Setup more recent than the version on the Disk Tools disk formatted your 6 Close any open windows on your desktop. hard drive, don't update the hard disk drivers. • If an earlier System 6 version of Apple HD SC • Step 6 - Restart Your Computer Setup formatted the drive, it may not have left Choose Restart from the Special menu. The sys­ enough room for the updated driver. You don't have tem automatically ejects the Disk Tools disk, and after to update the hard disk drivers. However, if you a few seconds you should see a picture of a disk with a intend to use file sharing or have a Macintosh that flashing question mark. can use virtual memory, then you need to back up If your Macintosh starts up from the hard drive, the disk and re-initialize it with HD SC Setup. This you have an extra System Folder on the hard disk. erases the disk, so be certain you back up the hard Delete or disable it, then restart. disk first. When you see the flashing question mark on your screen, you can continue. If you still don't see this on • If the driver is corrupt, the Macintosh doesn't recognize the drive (that is, the drive doesn't show your screen, and you're installing the system software on the desktop when you start from a floppy disk). on the internal hard disk, turn off your Macintosh and all attached peripherals. Then disconnect the SCSI You may wish to re-initialize it with HD SC Setup. cable from the back of the Macintosh. Start your This erases the disk, so be certain you back up the hard disk first. Macintosh again. • Step 7 - Install System 7 .1 • Step 4 - Check Available Hard Disk Space Install system software version 7 .1: Be sure you have at least 5MB available on the

July/August 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 41 STEP ACTION STEP ACTION 1 When you see the flashing question mark, 1 Be sure the Caps Lock key is off. insert the Install ! or Install Me First disk 2 Restart. After the smiling computer into the Macintosh. The computer starts displays, hold down the Shift key. up with the system files on the Install disk. 3 Release the Shift key when the Welcome 2 Once the Welcome to the Apple Installer to Macintosh, Extensions Off message message appears, click on OK. appears. 3 Click on Install. 4 When the Macintosh is ready, try to 4 Insert the other disks when the Installer recreate the erratic behavior. asks you to. If the problem no longer occurs, you have a conflicting • Step 8 • Verify Problem Resolution extension or control panel. Continue with Step 12. After performing a clean installation, verify that you resolved the problem before adding anything to the • Step 12 • Remove and Replace INITs in Sys­ new System Folder. tem Folder

• Step 9 - Install Non-Standard Items STEP ACTION You can now reinstall the non-standard items from 1 Create a new folder on the desktop. the old System Folder (which you named Storage in Step 5) such as fonts, screen savers, device drivers, and 2 Open the System Folder, Extentions so on. (If possible, reinstall these items from their folder, and Control Panels folder, and choose original disks.) by Kind from the View menu. Move all items Ifthe original disks aren't available, you may move of Kind "system extentions" or "control panel~ the non-standard items from the Storage folder to the to this new folder. new System Folder. Be careful not to replace anything 3 Close the System Folder, and restart that's already in the new System Folder. Only move the Macintosh. items that aren't already in the new System Folder: 4 Attempt to recreate the problem. STEP ACTION 5 Move one item from the new folder on the desktop to the closed System Folder 1 Open each corresponding folder within and restart the Macintosh the System Folder and the Storage folder and the contents. 6 Attempt to recreate the orginal problem. 2 Move anything that isn't already in the new System Folder and its subfolders Repeat Steps 5 and 6 for each item in the new folder on from the Storage Folder and its subfolders. the desktop until the problem recurs. The last item returned to the System Folder is probably the cause of 3 Restart your Macintosh. the problem.

• Step 10 ·Troubleshooting Extension Conflicts • Step 13 • Final Steps Ifyou've installed any system extensions or control Verify that your applications are performing nor­ panels, you'll probably see their icons line up across the mally. If not, refer to the application manual or contact bottom of the screen when you restart. They load into the vendor. memory at start-up time and modify the standard When the Macintosh behaves as expected, and you behavior of the operating system. are sure you have removed any necessary items from the Storage folder, move the Storage folder to the • Step 11 - Verify Extension (INIT) Conflict Trash, and choose Empty Trash from the Special If the Macintosh fails to restart or behaves errati­ menu. • cally, you probably have an incompatible or conflicting system extensionor control panel. Verify this problem: Our thanks to the folks at Apple Computer, Inc., Sup­ port Information Services for providing this informa­ tion to us. (c) 1994, The Information Alley, Apple Computer, Inc.

42 Washington Apple Pi Journal July/August 1994 tivity drop during first-run broad­ casts ofStar Trek: The Next Genera­ tion; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; New Macintosh Files and Babylon-5? An important ontheTCS reminder, repeated Read the long file descriptions. by [email protected] There are thousands of files on the TCS, all of them divided up accord­ ing to machine type and general classifications within machine type. Jon was "bored." Adding Internet Boredom as incentive Additionally, each file has a short electronic mail happened when Jon li\THEN I WAS A child, I re­ file description that appears on the was "bored." The whole idea of us­ VV member someone saying that same line as the file name, but it ing a Macintosh-based AppleShare progress is made by lazy people. also has a longer file description, server wedded to a constellation of Great advances, so the theory goes, and this longer description often Apple II modem servers was the were made by innovative people too includes important details on com­ result of an extended period of bore­ lazy to do it the old, harder way. patibility, installation and other key dom. I've never fully accepted this as issues. Over halfthe questions asked Guess what? Boredom is not an explanation, but admit it does about files on the TCS could be limited just to TCS Sysops. One have some validity. My pet theory is answered ifpeople would read these evening while I was, ahem, bored, I that progress is made by those who longer descriptions. downloaded the TCSFILES. TXT are bored. Jon Thomason, the "code New, improved fine print: a re­ file, which is a tab-delimited listing warrior" who wrote virtually all the cent decision of the Washington of all the files on the TCS (check custom software used by the TCS, Apple Pi Board of Directors has Area 2, TCS Help Files). As of May often announces new features to his opened the TCS to all Pi members. 15, 1994, there were 5,808 files avail­ fellow Sysops with the statement, "I But if you want to download some­ able. was bored." Sysops (System Opera­ thing, or have E-mail (electronic I then sorted the files by time of tors, the volunteers who keep the mail), you must have a TCS sub­ upload, and discovered: progress is bulletin board in working order) tend scription. Call the Pi Office at made by bored people. During "nor­ to be a bit conservative; "I know it 301-654-8060 for information on mal working hours," arbitrarily de­ shouldn't do that, but at least it is how to fully participate in the Wash­ fined as 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., 1,910 files working, so leave it alone!" Under ington Apple Pi Telecommunica­ were uploaded. During"come to bed, the circumstances, you can imagine tions System, the Pi's "24 hour a day dear, you have to work tomorrow" the mixed feelings that greet Jon's General Meeting." sunny announcements ... hours, defined as midnight to 6 a.m., Progress may be a Good Thing, 1,364 files were uploaded, or 71 % as many files in only half as many Area 3: Apple System Software but there are limits. When you con­ PM6100.SIT: Technical summary of sider the age and history of most of hours. By far the vast majority of all files, 3,898, were uploaded between Power Mac 6100; PostScript the TCS equipment, it isn't so much document (must be printed on a 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. a case of "don't fix what isn't bro­ ~ostScript printer with something ken" as "it isn't broken that badly And no, the boycott of daylight hke SendPS or the LaserWriter ' , so d on t you dare touch it." Supersti- uploads is not due just to conflicts Utility) prepared by Apple listing tion even plays a role: "we got it to with work. In the words of almost the specifications of the Power work last time after Pengie (our any political office seeker, "I tend to Macintosh 6100. mascot, a toy stuff penguin) fell on blame television." Bored with broad­ PM7100.SIT: Technical summary of cast TV, Information Age computer Power Mac 7100; PostScript it, so maybe we should whack it document (must be printed on a with Pengie again?" [Attention owners tend to pay more attention to programs by Microsoft, Aladdin, ~ostScript printer with something Stuffed Toy Rights Activists! We hke SendPS or the LaserWriter didn't actually try this.] and Claris than programs by CBS, Utility) prepared by Apple listing Adding the Usenet News Con­ NBC and ABC. the specifications of the Power ferences on the TCS happened when My next project: does TCS ac- Macintosh 7100.

July/August 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 43 PM8100.SIT: Technical summary of searches. intelligent explanation. Power Mac 8100; PostScript INTNETBKSIT: list of books about SURFINGONTHEGOP: actual document (must be printed on a the Internet. Includes author, unretouched illustration of the PostScript printer with something publisher, price, ISBN and a short famed world-spanning Gopher like SendPS or the LaserWriter description of the book. riding the crest of the Information Utility) prepared by Apple listing MACEDONIA.SIT: politically ori­ Wave. Acquired from a computer the specifications of the Power ented PageMaker (Mac) document in Australia, which got it from a Macintosh 8100. regarding the Macedonian issue. computer in Japan, which got it QT.1.62.SIT: version 1.6.2 of Apple's RECLM.YOUR.SELF: "a manual for from a computer in Holland, which QuickTime video extension: uses the survivors of sexual victimiza­ got it... less memory when idle (22k) and a tion," is a self-help document from THESEAGOPHER.GI: cute mascot of host of other tweaks. an experienced social worker. SeaGopher, an Internet Gopher SYSTEMUPDAT.SEA: Apple's WOMENSWIRE.INFO: gives informa­ server in Seattle. System Update for Macs running tion about the new Women's Wire VICTORIASSE.GIF: Victoria's Secret; System 7.1with1.44 drives only. information service. equal time rule Mandatory if you're using System 7.1: corrects both hardware and Area 7: GIF Graphics Area 8: JPEG Graphics software deficiencies plus adds BBINSID2.GIF: parody by a local CLEMINSIGN.JPG: glorious, large, Disk First Aid 7 .2, HDSC Setup artist on the Intel Inside commer­ color insignia of the Naval Re­ 3.0 and SimpleText, Apple's cial. search Laboratory's "Little replacement for TeachText. CHASTITY.GIF: Unusually frank Spacecraft That Could," SYSTEMUPDAT.SIT: System Update photo of a chastity belt Clementine, a $70 million marvel. 3.0 (800k only); for Macs running ElEAGLE. GIF: the misty forest This insignia is a brilliant tribute System 7.1with800k floppies background looks like either the to history, science and culture, only. Mandatory if you're using Pacific Northwest or Alaska. with warm humor thrown in, too. 7.1: corrects both hardware and EAR.THMO.GIF: nice view of the CLEMLOGO.JPG: not nearly as software deficiencies. Adds Disk Earth and Luna, our companion entertaining as the spacecraft First Aid 7.2, HDSC Setup 3.0, planet. insignia, but much smaller. and SimpleText (Apple's replace­ PM7100.GIF: color photo of the Power DR. Fun, the Internet daily cartoon in ment for TeachText, now support­ Macintosh 7100 with a big moni­ 24-bit color: The Right to Keep and ing styled text.) tor. (Sigh) Arm Bears; Trauma Center; You THREADMANAG.SIT: Thread POWERLOGO.GIF: Apple Power Are (not supposed to be) Here; Manager 2.01; add Macintosh logo. Wrong Tum in the Carwash; multi-threading capabilities to POWERMACS.GIF: looooong color Scene from "Benji the Tax System 7. Also includes technical image showing the entire Power Evader;" The Painful and Annoy­ documentation and coding ex­ Mac lineup. ing Skeetersquirrel; Dog Sports; amples, and also adds cooperative POWERPC.GIF: actual-size photo of a Snake Fads; Future Results of threading to Power Macs. PowerPC chip. If you can't afford Genetic Engineering; We Gotta the real thing, you might as well Make This Look Like An Accident; Area 5: Pi Documents have a photo so you can tell Squirrel Dating; Snow White will WAP.BYLAWS.9404: Bylaws of everyone "I've got a PowerPC chip take them home; World's Worst Washington Apple Pi, Ltd., as of on my Mac." Jobs; Whale Show-Offs; Medusa's April 13, 1994. PPC601.GIF: color photo of the Older Brother at the Beach; This is Motorola PowerPC chip with Not Good; Uncle Bob's Miniature Area 6: Misc. Documents banks of Macs in the background. Horse Farm; More Short-Lived CRACKDOWN12.SIT: electronic REVOLVER3D.GIF: Rendered 3D Hobbies; I was a snake ... so I bit (text) copy of The Hacker Crack­ image of a revolver him.; More Gym Tips; How much down by Bruce Sterling. RUNES.GIF: page of Celtic runes. On is that doggie in the window?; The DICTIONAR.YH. TXT: run this file the left a semi-illuminated Natural History of Suburbia; through your plain-Jane spell drawing, and on the right half a Drug-Sniffing Fruit Bats; The checker and expand its conscious­ dozen individual characters. Search for the Elephantino; ness to include states, countries, SLUGS940429.GIF: one of the editors Jonathan Edward's Obedience abbreviations, contractions, proper of Tidbits will soon have a new School; ... and stop picking at it; names, weights & measures, and book out on the Internet, illus­ That Candy may be Cursed more. trated with cartoons featuring FTPMAIL.SIT: Word document giving slugs. This is a sample. Slugs, for Area 12: PowerPC instructions on how to use E-mail the uninitiated, are a Pacific (Note: many native PowerPC files are to do anonymous ftp and archie Northwest phenomenon that defies also in the regular Mac file areas)

44 Washington Apple Pi Journal July/August 1994 JPEG.CONVERT.10: native PowerPC Timer, designed for use in a duplication for 400K, 720K, SOOK, version of JPEG Convert 1.0. It is research laboratory. OR 1440K floppies. Unused sectors identical in function to the current US.DEBT.5.3: estimates the current may be skipped for faster duplica­ 680x0 versions of JPEG Convert, US National debt, your share, the tion. Automatically creates disk only it runs a wee bit faster. This US Population, World Population, labels, disk images may be port was done by Aaron Giles, with etc. You've all seen the billboards mounted, verifies copy against the the permission of the original which have this message. Now, original to assure full data author, Jim Brunner. This is NOT you can bring your politics to your integrity, and many other features. a JPEG viewer. It converts JPEG desktop, too. (Of course, you could ENSCRIPTOR.3.01: prints TEXT files files to/from GIF, PPM, & TARGA, always send a shareware fee to in a multi-column format that and supports quantization, The Bureau of the Public Debt if looks nice and is very presentable. dithering, smoothing, and you were so inclined.) Its main purpose is for printing grayscale. source code files but will work with KPTDEMO.EXl.CPT: for those Area 23: Mac Utilities any TEXT file. without Power Macs but with ABOUTTHAT20.SIT: place the EXPANDNOW.SEA: latest version of imagination, here are three simple background-only application in the Now Software's Now Compress 8-bit screen captures from the KPI' Extensions folder of one Mac, and expansion utility. Now Compress PPC Spheroids demo, viewable in use the viewer application on the is a commercial product, and this TeachText or your graphics other Mac to display performance is the free "expand-only" utility for program. and memory use of the first Mac decompressing files. KPTPPCSPHRD.CPT: one promise of using Program Linking. Poten­ FARADAY: simple application for the PowerPC processor is that not tially useful net admin tool. monitoring the status of your only will our existing tools work ACID.JAZZ.1.2Vl: Apple Event based PowerBook battery. much faster, but we'll start using phone dialer for use with FILE.BUDDY.2. lR: Bug Fix for File new kinds of tools that were never FileMaker Pro, HyperCard, Buddy 2.1 before possible. This demo of Kai's QuicKeys, or any other applica­ FILE.BUDDY.21: has four main areas Power Tools' PowerPC version is tions that has the ability to send of functionality: Get Info, file an amazing display of how the custom events or the standard "Do finding, file manipulation (moving, product's user interface has Script" event. Acid Jazz can also copying, and deleting), and disk revolutionized into real time. If be used with Apple Script. It is cleaning. you're a graphics professional and both scriptable and recordable. FRONT.DOOR.116: substitute for the this demo doesn't sell you a Power ALIAS.Z00.204: utility for finding, standard way of logging on a Mac, then nothing will. renaming, deleting, testing, and server. Just enter your UserName re-connecting aliases on your Mac. & Password, then FrontDoor will Area 22: Mac Applications BATTERY.MINDER: small applica­ mount all available volumes on MOTHERSDAY.SIT: electronic tion for conserving and monitoring one or more preselected servers. Mother's Day card. battery life on PowerBooks. For FrontDoor is faster than using the NEWLOANER.SIT: nice program for example, when placed in the Chooser, because it mounts all figuring loans, written by Pi Startup folder, it turns AppleTalk volumes at once. member. off. This allows you to turn JCONV.DD.1.7.0: drag& drop OSCILLOSCOPE: Digital Oscillo­ AppleTalk back on only when you application which performs a scope, v 1.1.1, enables you to use need it, without rebooting. Another conversion between JIS, SJIS and your Macintosh as an function times minutes since the EUC files, which is relevant to you audio-frequency oscilloscope. PB was unplugged. if you work with Japanese text. PLANET. C5.1: a program for comput­ CALCULATORII125: pleasant LOODLE.SIT: creates labels for ing the locations of the visible looking multi-function calculator floppies when disk is inserted. planets for any time and any place that runs as an application under LPDAEMON.CPT: allows you to send on earth. It contains a sophisti­ system 6.x (w/ Multifinder) or a PostScript print job to a UNIX cated interface for eclipse compu­ System 7. It improves on Apple's print spooler. tations. original calculator by adding LPRl.2.CPT: lpr 1.2 allows you to SPECTRE.NOTES: v 2.0, is a functions for trigonometry, send a PostScript print job to a replacement for the Note Pad DA. logarithms, exponentials, base UNIX print spooler. Not quite the It has 30 scrollable pages, as well conversion, percent increase/ same as Ip daemon. Note: there is as advanced features not found on decrease, and memory. a utility with this same exact the Note Pad, like printing, saving DEEP.DISCHARl 10: discharges name by a Japanese programmer to a text file, entry in any style, NiCad batteries on PowerBooks to that does something entirely size, or font. help avoid "memory effect." different. THREE.CHAN.TIME: 3-Channel DISKDUPV2.5.SIT: Performs sector MAC.ERRORS: small application that

July/August 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 45 shows you the result code and draws animated, fractal clouds. on the File menu; any application description for all of the Macintosh AD.CYBER.1.1: After Dark module. or folder in the Apple menu, system errors. AD.FLAME.1.0: generates "recursive including those accessible via a MACALOAN3.3.CPT: simple and cosmic fractal flames" as an After third-party hierarchical menu friendly amortization program that Dark screen saver. utility; or any currently running has proven itself popular and bullet AD. TORGO: Torgo, The Module of application. proof. Compatible from system 4.8 Fate. Here is an After Dark module GREGSB'ITNS.SIT: control panel that through 7.1. Print features work for all you Mystery Science Theater let's you replace the standard flat bl with dot matrix or LaserWriter 3000 fans ... Watch Torgo stagger w push buttons, check boxes, and printers. across the screen as the haunting radio buttons with 3-D color ones. POWER.STRIP.3.1: reports the 'Torgo Theme' plays in the back­ HEADLINES2.SIT: version 2 of After current state of affairs. PowerStrip ground. Dark module Headlines; generates can display: current time, current AD. WRAPPER: After Dark module random National Enquirer-style date, free RAM, free disk space, which scrolls the image on your headlines on your computer's whether AppleTalk is on or off, the screen around in a random way. screen as it idles. currently selected printer, mouse ADCIRCLESO.SIT: After Dark module MENUCHOICE.2.0: control panel coordinates; and for PowerBook draws circles on the screen. which e11ables hierarchical menus users: CPU speed, whether modem ALIASMENU: control panel which lets under the Apple menu. is on or off, elapsed charging time you add up to nine new menu items NEWFACES.SIT: souped up version of or elapsed battery time, battery to the Finder menu. the "SR Monitor" extension which voltage. AUDIO.INTERFACE: control panel houses the on-screen personas of S.TOOL.1.2: keyboard wedge that which uses Apple's PlainTalk the speech recognition characters allows data from the serial ports to text-to-speech extension to speak on AV Macs. This extension enter directly into any open the contents of menus and dialog replaces the existing feedback application as if it were typed. boxes. characters with several new faces SPEED04.SIT: can run Native on AUTOMENUSPR.SIT: control panel including: Cindy Crawford, Homer Power Macs and report benchmark that makes menu use much easier. Simpson, the author's (Mark Gray), info relative to regular It can be set so that menus will his friend Stosh, and a couple of Macintoshes. New Machine Record drop down when the cursor is cartoon faces. format normalizes performance to placed in the menu heading or or it NO.DESKTP.CLEAN: control panel Quadra 605's (which is a ridiculous can be set to drop down a menu that lets you add a confirmation choice). after a click of the mouse. dialog to any menu item in any TA'ITLETECH2.SIT: comprehensive BELCH2.0.0.CPT: Extension that application. The name comes from update, replacement, etc. for causes your Mac to have a case of the original task it was written for: TattleTale. Among other improve­ indigestion: it lets out a nasty belch disabling the annoying "Clean Up ments, it no longer hangs your every once in a while. Desktop" and "Clean Up All" menu machine if you don't have special­ CRON.1.00: program scheduling items in the Finder, which often ized files located in special places utility similar to the UNIX cron make one's life miserable by (yeah!), it doesn't need a special utility. It is really two things: moving all the icons on the desktop desk accessory (yeah!) and it checks Crond, which is a faceless back­ away from their carefully chosen more things. ground app, and CronMgr, which is locations. THRESHOLD.104: lets you acljust a Control Panel. They automati­ OSAMENU.101.SIT: iconic system when low battery warnings occur cally launches applications or menu (like the Help menu) that on Power- Books. documents at times you specify. appears on the right side of the DEFAULTFOLD.CPT: control panel menu bar. Its menu items are Area 24: Mac Extensions that lets you assign, for each scripts: choose an item from the AD.BLUR. TWIST: Twist is an After application you run, a default folder menu and the script will run. Dark module which warps, rotates, in which to store documents. PATI'ERNS.4. US: collection of 77 skews, and twists all over the FORCE.PRAM.INIT: designed for ppats for enhancing (or at least screen any PICT that you give it. If public access Macintoshes, where changing) the standard "Macintosh you don't give it one, it will use its there can be little tolerance for gray" desktop, using Wallpaper, own default PICT. Blur is an After users changing PRAM settings. FunPictures, Under- ware, Before Dark module which, like the name GLIDEL.2.4.2: extends Finder's Dark, Desk Patter, Desktop implies, blurs your screen. Your drag-and-drop abilities within Textures, or ResEdit (instructions screen will become more and more System 7. You can select any visible included). blurry over time until it drives you icon and drag it to: the Open, Print, POPCHA2.7.1.SIT: control panel for completely mad. Get Info, Sharing... , Duplicate, accessing special/higher ASCII AD.CLOUDSl.1: After Dark module Make Alias, and Put Away options characters from within any

46 Washington Apple Pi Journal July/August 1994 application. Point the mouse to a WRITE. THROUGH: INIT causes the BIJOUPLAY12.CPT: yet another 'hot spot,' drag 'til you're at the data in the Mac cache to be written player for QuickTime movies, only character you warit and release the continually to disk. this one takes advantage of the mouse. The character is then Power Mac where applicable. It inserted in your document at the Area 25: Mac Fonts supports AppleEvents, and on the insertion point. MORSE.CODE: font replaces all the AV model Macs it accepts voice PREVERSION.111: control panel that letters of the alphabet with their commands. forces the Mac to keep old versions morse code equivalent. MOOVUTILS.SIT: Flatten Movies of documents as new versions are TREKBAT: font chock full of Trek 'flattens' movies (duh) to enable saved, within user-specified limits. logos, diagrams, graphics, emblems, them to run on PC QuickTime. PTRPATROLlO.SIT: extension does etc., from the standard Star Fleet Movie Analyzer tells you every­ nothing but display a dialog to communicator-type emblems, to thing you could possibly conceive of warn you if you're about to print to Federation, Borg, Klingon, and (and more) about your movies. a printer that's not listed among Romulan insignia, phaser pictures, MovieShop lets you alter movies, specified preferred printers. a Klingon assault knife, all the i.e., set a different frame rates, PWRSWITCHER.112: switch between enterprises (orig, A, B, C, and D), crop, change sound track, etc. active programs with your runabouts, Klingon D-7's, Mondo cool. power-on or escape key, instead of Warbirds, Reliants, Cubes, etc. NIHIMG 1.55F.SIT, with the mouse or Finder's applica­ TURKISH: PostScript (Type 1) and NIHIMG155NF.SIT, tion menu. TrueType fonts for the Turkish NIHIMAGEDOC.SIT: NIH Image SAD.SIT: collection of sound-activated language from The Summer 1.55, the National Institutes of (maybe sound-reactive?) After Dark Institute of Linguistics (SIL). Health's image editor and ana­ modules. Untested, but presumably lyzer. Highly recommended-and will not work with hearing im­ free. FPU and non-FPU versions paired Macs. Area 26: Mac Sound plus documentation . SCREEN.REFRESHR: redraws DX7.LIBRARJAN. 7: application which PICT2PPAT.CPT: create desktop everything on the screen. allows you to make a library of patterns (aka 'ppat') from any SCSI.PROBE.3.5: identifies and voice data for the Yamaha DX7. PICT file for use with a desktop mounts any SCSI devices connected EAR. TRAIN.CPT: requires Deluxe pattern applying program. to your Mac. It shows the devices' Music Construction Set 2.5 (or POWXPLOR101.SIT: sports a SCSI IDs, types, vendors, names, earlier) to play the ear training files minimal and clumsy user inter­ and versions. created. Will sound best with MIDI. face, but boy does it draw fractals SHUTDOWN.FX.1.5: fun little INIT JUNO.LIBRARIAN: application which quickly on the Power Macintosh. which will clear your screen with a allows you to make a library of QUICK.EDITOR.15: allows you to cool graphic effect whenever you voice data for the JUNO 106. edit QuickTime movies. Its user restart or shut down your NATIONALANT.SIT: five national interface is like a VCR. Macintosh. anthems (France, Great Britain, SCULPTOR.1.0 31: free-form 3D SLEEP.DEPRIV.11: INIT that clears Canada, USSR, USA) as System 7 modeling program. It generates the screen with a cool graphic effect beep sounds with custom flag icons. DXF model files that are readable every time you put your Mac to POWERMACSTASIT: stick this in by virtually every commercial 3D sleep. your System 7 Startup folder program. SPEAKALERT.SIT: uses the speech (inside the System Folder) and save STARTSCRMGR.SIT: lets you choose manager to recite the text which your money - you won't have to more than one startup screen to be appears in alert boxes. buy a Power Mac to hear this displayed, a different one each SPEED.FNDR.159D: control panel sound. time you start up your Mac. which customizes several settings SOUND.BUILDER.2: records, edits TIMECODECAL.SIT: if you've ever in System 7 versions of the Finder. and saves sounds in SND, AIFF, had to add times together or Color floppy icons, faster delete and AIFC, WAV and VOC format files, calculate the length of something, copy operations, better file type and in SoundBuilder's native you'll especially appreciate this matching, etc. Now supports Power format. calculator. Enter times in the form Macs! of HH:MM:SS:FF (ff=frames) and TOPTENLIST.SIT: screen saver data Area 27: Mac Graphic Images then add or subtract times in file, which, when used with the POWERMAC.SCREEN: standard calculator fashion.] After Dark screen saver module StartupScreen for Power Macs, "Headlines 2.0", generates random with 16" monitors. It's rendered Area29: Mac Letterman-style Top Ten Lists on and anti-aliased in Infini-D. Telecommunications your computer's screen while it idles. BLUESKIES.SIT: specialized Gopher Area 28: Mac Graphic Utilities application which calls up a

July/ August 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 47 particular computer on the gram for the Macintosh. It com­ CWARRIOR2Pl.SIT: Patch Internet and comes back with all bines complete word processing MetroWerks Code Warrior DR/2 to kinds of weather information, with script formatting intelligence: pl including current weather, fore­ scene headings, action, dialog, FAlB.112.UPDATE: Updates F/A-18 casts, QuickTime movies of the character names, MORE's and Hornet 1.1.x -> 1.1.2 weather over the past day, CONTINUED's and scene num­ FA18.113BETA2: Updates F/A-18 QuickTime movies of famous bers. It contains production­ Hornet 1.1.2 -> 1.1.3b2 weather events, pictures of storms oriented features such as revision FAXSTF3.0PA.SIT: Patches to update - great stuff! marks and A & B pages, vital when FaxSTF v.3.0 BLUESKIESPM.CPT: Weather gopher rewrites inevitably occur. HELLCATS104. UDT: Update Hellcats client, Power Mac version HERITAGE.1.0: tracks family histo­ 1.0.3 -> 1.0.4 FAXSTATE30.SIT: turns on/off ries. You can incorporate textual LEYTEGULF. UDT: Update Leyte Gulf FaxSTF 3.0 software from any­ information for each individual, as 1.0x-> 1.02 where, without having to call up well as their photographs, and MACEKG.207.UPDT: MacEKG the control panel or Fax Manager. determine the exact relationship version 2.0.7 Prerelease Updater HTMLEDITll.SIT: assists in the between any two. Included is a MACEKG.ACCESS13: MacEKG creation of structured text docu­ sample genealogy for the Tudor Access Utility, v 1.3 ments in the HTML format, Kings and Queens of England, MSWRD6.SEA: lets Microsoft Word particularly those destined for which demonstrates the program's 5.x for the Mac read and write to HTI'P. features. Word 6 for Windoz. NCSATEL26.SIT: NCSA Mac Telnet HS.PREVEIW.SIT: "HyperStudio MW.DEBUG.Al.P.1: pre-DR3 release 2.6, for telnet and FTP; requires a Preveiw Disk," demo of of the Metrowerks Debugger for direct connection to the Internet. HyperStudio for the Macintosh "A Power Macintosh. SERVERREMOT.SIT: pair of applica­ really cool color multi-media MYST.1.0.1.UDT: Update Myst 1.0-> tions to control a server across a program!" 1.0.1 network, potentially valuable if you MACLANVIEW.SIT: demo of Mac PS.PRINT.PATCH: PS Printing Patch use System 7's Personal LanView, a packet analysis utility. (3.3) for QuarkXPress 3.3. AppleShare a lot. Includes a complete fake LAN to QUARK3.3.SEA: Quark XPress 3.3 UUPREPARE.SIT: helps with analyze, in case you don't have a Updater uuencoded files from Internet real one to play with. RD102UPD.SEA: Updates RAM newsgroups via America Online. MUSICAL.SET.COM: Musical Set Doubler to 1.0.2 Complete assists composers who STF2.6.1.IM.SIT: Update FaxSTF Area 30: Mac Product Demos work with set-classes. Dialogs 2.2.x->2.6.l (March '94) BANNERMANIA.SIT: great Banner enabled are Abstract Inclusion, THINGAMABOB.SIT: general purpose program that is easy to use and Simple Tables, Simple TTO's, and Quark XPress Xtension to add very flexible - you can do just about Other Operations: MNF, Comple­ several nice features to the pro­ anything you want if its a banner ment, and Permute. gram. you'd like to do. PATHSDEM020.CPT: a live-action TRIBESTAR.20.1: TribeStar 20.1 BBEDIT.255.DEMO: If a text editors maze game where you look down Update is a tool, BBEdit is a power tool. It hallways, shoot strange creatures VDAUPDATE3A.SIT: VendorDA 1.43 includes integrated support for and search bodies. Has smooth updater -> 1.43a many programming and other rotation, texture-mapped walls, environments, disk and glossary active panning stereo sound - very Area 32: Mac Games browsers, multi-file search and impressive. ANGBANJ).2.0.2: ASCII-graphic replace, a built-in compare utility, VISTA.PR0.1.0: 3D landscape simula­ dungeon-adventure game in the and pattern ("grep") searching. tion program. Using data from the tradition of Rogue and Moria, with BIOFLIX.1.0: multimedia educational USGS and NASA, you can recreate many new features and monsters. tool designed by two graduate and explore real-world landscapes. ASTERAX: single- or multi-player students to help teach complex Hard-coded into this demo is a map arcade game for Macintosh comput­ biochemical processes. It uses of the El Capitan area of Yosemite ers, growing out of the classic QuickTime animation, text, and Valley. arcade game Asteroids, but with graphics (including 3D renderings) new strategic elements. to help students visualize reaction Area 31: Mac Product Support CHESS.PLUS.PLUS: program written pathways. BBEDIT.255. UPDT: Update BBEdit in Symantec C++trCL 1.1.3 which, CRUSADERDEM.SEA: first of a set of 2.5.x -> 2.5.5 as you might guess, plays chess. games designed by AtomicGames CALMACRO.SIT: Improves CHIRAL.1.0.0: fusion between the (who did the V4V set) for the new WordPerfect calendar macro scientific concept of atomic bonding Avalon Hill World at War game. CETOOLBOXl .. SIT: Update and the addictive game play of FINAL.DRAFT: screenwriting pro- CEToolbox to 1.7.2 Tetris. Points are scored by

48 Washington Apple Pi Journal July/August 1994 positioning atoms on the screen, Games-Jan '94 issue. Tetris type game building molecules out of the atoms IMG.MAR94.SEA: Inside Mac SUSAN.PACKAGE: quick and subtle provided. Games-March '94 issue. board game for two players. It CN.EDITOR: Alters the course of IRAQATTACKl.SIT: relive those features an intelligent computer Civilization. (CivEditor is a program golden days of yesteryear with this opponent that uses a simulated which patches the commercial game 285k history lesson. Take off a neural-network to actually learn by Civilization to change its behavior.) aircraft carrier in you helicopter and playing. COLORINGBOOK201: electronic shoot things up for a while. THREE.D.PADDLE: unusual 3d coloring book in which children color LOST.CRYSTAL: intended to be the version of Pong. areas of pictures by selecting a color sequel of one of the first adventure TRIST: board game in which you move from the color palette and clicking games on the Macintosh: Enchanted stones around a board and try to on the various items. Hidden within Scepters. By the time the project land on a square with either 2 or 3 the pages are many surprising was done (3 years ago), Silicon stones in it, thus capturing the animations and enjoyable sounds. Beach Software was out of the stones and making points. CYCLONE.SIT: knockoff of the old gaming market, and no one else WORDFINDl.O.SIT: in spite of the arcade game Starcastle. would publish it. So, after two more small size, this word search program DESERT. TREK 102: you try to cross years of tweeking ... here it is. works quite well: type in a list of the great Gobi Desert. Be careful, MACBRICKOUT.204: rendition of the words, and the program will rapidly though, since hungry cannibals are classic arcade game, Breakout. produce a word search puzzle. Great chasing you. (The author is in MACMINES.2.0.4: can you locate all way to torment your grade school serious need of a geography lesson.) the mines on the playing field? children. FINAL.IMPACT: space shoot-em-up MAELSTROM.1.4: deadly meteors fly similar in concept to Sky Shadow. at you from all sides, indestructible Area 33: Mac Education FLOWER.PUZZLE, IRIS.PUZZLE, balls try to drain your shields, and EAGLEGRADEBK17: helps school LIGHTHSE.PUZZLE: three graphic just when you thought escape was in teachers track their students. The puzzles programmed using reach the deadly Shenobi fighter program records assignments and Macromedia Director 4.0. will take you on, one-on-one. grades, computes grades, and GALACTIC.EMPIRE: You are asked to MAELSTROM.SIMPS: replace the produces reports. A spreadsheet that unite the twenty planets of the Maelstrom Sounds file with one that looks like a typical grade book is galaxy, by force, before civilization contains sounds from The Simpsons. used as the method of entering and decays. MISSION.RELIANT: arcade adventure maintaining data. There are over a GALACTIC. TRADER: Your great game that bears some resemblance dozen different reports available. grandfather united the twenty to "STTNG: Rescue" and "NetTrek," Different grading and averaging planets, but the current Emperor is but has a personality all its own. systems are available. strangling it for his benefit. You MOSAICON.1.0.2: HyperCard-based TESTER.1.0lDEMO: helps teachers must raise one billion credits in Drawing Game compose tests for students to take. order to finance a revolution to save PEGGED.2.1.3: classic game of Peg Type in the questions, add pictures the crumbling Empire. Solitaire, but more. where necessary, then print multiple GOLD.PUSHER: game with a mixture POKER2.0.SIT: Pocket-sized rendition copies of the test, with each copy of puzzles, strategy, and action. It is of video poker having a different question ordering, inspired by the commercial game POLY.DOL.1.0: board game on hexago­ and with an answer key for each Leprechaun, however it has nal or square grid. The object of the copy. different rules;graphics, and game is to match the pieces on the TGP.II.104.DEMO: Teacher's Grading features. board as given shape. Program II, v 1.04 demo, manages GUNSHY.SIT: Ultimate Gunshy POLY.PEG.1.0.2: classic board game on students' grades. Everything is collection. Three different versions various hexagonal or square boards, organized into 3 simple worksheets. of Gunshy 2.0: the original, with built-in or custom made. It is easy to color Mac icons; a Simpsons version learn, but hard to master. Area 34: Mac Hypermedia (note how many of the characters RESCUE.2.0: latest version of the look like Bill Gates); and Gunshy multi-window, color-capable action HYPER. TABLE.1.2: Periodic Table of Women, featuring photos of women. adventure inspired by the Star Trek: the Elements BONUS: are you frustrated by The Next Generation universe. SOLV2.0.SIT: Satellite of Love Version games that have no solution? RETURNTOTHE.SIT: funny arcade 2, an updated HyperCard-based Included are 50 games that HAVE game - but still a good game. Yes, encyclopedia of Mystery Science solutions, so play with confidence it is G-rated. Theater 3000. that there IS a way to win. SPACEBATTLE.101: shoot 'em up IMG.APR94.SEA: Inside Mac space arcade for play against Area 35: Mac Multimedia/ Games-April '94 issue. another human or your Mac. QuickTime IMG.JAN94.SEA: Inside Macintosh SUPER.COLUMNS: Super Columns; a BEAUTY.SEA: cool 4-window

July/August 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 49 QuickTime movie of how Beauty or rumored. Includes a list of and the Beast was made, i.e., the configurations, system versions, four stages of animation. and Speedometer tests. TACOMANAR.RO.SIT: an oscillating MACUPDT940409CW, Other Tutorial cycle on a grand scale: a clip from MACUPDT940409ET, the movie that every science MACUPDT940409TX: Mac Information student of the past 3 generations Updates 4/9/94 in ClarisWorks has seen of the Tacoma Narrows format, Setex format, and "Weekly Telecom Training bridge start oscillating because the tab-delimited format. A huge Classes" wind activated its natural fre­ amount of information regarding The Washington Post recently quency. Mondo cool. Macintosh software updates from ran a story projecting the growth of MACMOVIEQT.SIT: Clips from a Apple. Although not complete, the the national information services videotape spoof of personal database covers most software (America Online, GEnie, computing with a heavy, and since System 6.0. 7. Included are CompuServe, etc.) from the current deliberate, Mac bias, called such things as which Mac models "MacMovie." the update applies to, what level of 4.5 million subscribes to 35 BPPl.SIT: logo with the words versions the update supersedes million subscribers, by the year 1998. "Bonwit Productions Presents" and is superseded by, what the To help meet the training needs of leaning back at 45 deg. The new functions are, what the fixes the burgeoning numbers of new animation was created with only are, and when it was released. telecom users, Washington Apple Pi two key frames: the first and last. TidBITS #222 (18 April 1994) to will be starting up weekly telecom SHATTERMOOV.SIT: clip showing a TidBITS #225 (09 May 1994): the training tutorials. face that disintegrates into a pile famed on-line weekly magazine Classes will be held Friday of chips. (and one of the most popular evenings, from 7 PM to 10 PM, at the SKULLROSE.M.SIT: A skull turns features on the TCS). WAP office. The classes will be into a rose. informal in structure, notfocusingon TAKOMALOOPS.CPT: contains Area 37: Mac Programming references to a copy of the Tacoma any particular information service or EXTENSION.SHELL: library of bulletin board. Rather, these classes Narrows Bridge newsreel. Con­ source code for writing System 7 tains three movies which pull will show a sampling of different Extensions. Full source code is information services, both smoothly-looping excerpts from the provided, as well as six sample larger file, with the sound down. Extensions demonstrating how to commercial and non-profit. (And the name of the city is write Extensions with Extension Arrangements have been made Tacoma, with a C, not a K.) Shell in Think C. with CapAccess, the new Washington PERMUTE.SET.C: c module (no DC community information service Area 36: Mac Information source code) which consists of a (analogous in operation to "freenets" AVGENERALFA.SIT: AV Frequently non-recursive permutation routine in other cities around the country), to Asked Questions list, dated 5/8/94 which can permute from one to have a special phone line on EASTEREGGS.SIT: Extensive list of twelve elements. CapAccess that WAP can use for these Mac Easter Eggs; features, gags, MACWRITEPRO.SIT: AppleScript training classes. Time permitting, or credits hidden by the program­ dictionary from Mac Write Pro 1.5x classes will also show the rich mer, and activated by certain (not 1.0x). procedures or key combinations MODERNMMOSA.SIT: AppleScript information fare on Montgomery described herein. osax that checks to see if the County Library's Public Access INFOALLEYl.SEA: new on-line mag Power Mac's Modem Memory Catalog. from Apple called Info Alley. A Manager is active. To sign up for one of the Weekly sample of this volume's titles are: FMPR02.1ASS.SIT: many examples Telecom Tutorials, send $25 to the Text to Speech on AV Systems; from Claris of how to automate club'soffice.(Thefeefornon-members Using the SIMM Stack; From DOS FileMaker Pro 2.x with is $35.) Class size is limited to six to Mac and Back; Getting the Most AppleScript. persons, to ensure that everyone has Out of Your StyleWriter Pro; a chance to engage in hands-on Looking For Something?; System Area 38: Mac Technical training. Software - The Why and How of a CRYSTALSPEE.SJT: want to in­ Also covered in this class will be Clean Install; VRAM Amounts and crease the speed of your Centris Color Choices; Power Macintosh - how to pack and unpack compressed 650 to 40 MHz, your 660av to 35 files using Shrinklt (Apple II) and LAN Software Compatibility. MHz, you Hsi to 25 MHz .... All for MACFACTS940422: list of all Apple Stuffit(Mac). The classes themselves less than $20.00? Just do it. Here's will be taught on the club's Mac IIci. Macintosh Models: past, present, how. •

50 Washington Apple Pi Journal July/August 1994 Materials required: Your Macintosh, hard disk drive, start­ up disk, and an unformatted DSDD Macintosh Tutorials 800k disk. Date: Mon. Aug. 8, 7-10 pm.

OLUNTEERS AND INSTRUCTORS-You can't have Introduction to the Macintosh, Part raining without teachers. If you have expertise in any subject II (Course #M081594) Part II will V:useful to Mac or Apple users, please consider teaching. Instructors continue the exploration of the ba­ have an opportunity to work with students in small groups and informal sic components of your Macintosh settings. The teaching process is truly rewarding. Besides the spiritual system, hardware and software. and intellectual, rewards also include compensation; you will be paid. We You'll learn more of the dos and especially need someone who can offer training in Excel. Call me if there don'ts; the finer points of the Menu is a subject that you are qualified to teach. Bar, Error Messages, Dialog Boxes, I am very pleased with the response to our requests for volunteers. We Icons, Folders, Keyboard Shortcuts, have a very bright and enthusiastic group of volunteers working to bring Scrapbook and Clipboard will be you the best possible classes and programs. We encourage and welcome discussed. You'll learn the basics of additional support for the training program. Graphic designers, desktop installing software, as well as about publishers and illustrators-we could use your help in promoting our the Chooser, peripheral devices, and programs with brochures and fliers. For further information call Beth how they are connected to the Medlin at the Pi office, (301) 654-8060. Macintosh. Materials required: Your Macintosh Tutorials-The Macintosh introductory tutorials are a three­ Macintosh, hard disk drive, start­ part introductory series designed for beginning users or those desiring to up disk, and an unformatted DSDD brush up on their skills. The primary focus ofthese courses will be on the 800kdisk. System, Desktop, Icons, Windows, and basic concepts in System 7, b~t Date: Mon., Aug. 15, 7-10 p.m. System 6 hangers-on are welcome and encouraged to participate. Their issues and concerns will be addressed. Please try to take all three parts; Introduction to the Macintosh, Part this is the most beneficial arrangement. Ill (Course #M082294) Part III will follow up the concepts in Parts I -Introduction to Macintosh, Part 1 (Course #M080894) You should go and II. You will learn more ad­ through the Guided Tour disk that comes with your computer or system vanced Macintosh skills and termi­ upgrade kit before you come to class. You'll learn: how to safely turn your nology about the system software Macintosh on and off; what the basic dos and don'ts are; how to understand and using, installing, and updating common Macintosh terminology found in manuals and other documenta­ system files; about managing tion· and how the basic components of your Macintosh system, hardware memory, hard disk space, fonts, and 'software work. You'll also learn why the Macintosh user interface is sounds and other resources, the consistent across all applications, and how this makes learning and using Apple menu, aliases, launching software easier. applications, inter-application com­ munications (Publish and Sub­ Weekly Telecom Training Classes (continued) scribe), and Balloon Help. You'll also learn about how to buy hard­ Apple II telecom questions will be Phil has written on ware and software, how to upgrade, entertained, time permitting. telecommunications topics for several and what kinds ofsoftware are avail­ Toaccommodatetheneedsofboth national publications, and has done able for your Macintosh. novice and experienced telecom users, independent consulting work on Materials required: Your the first two Fridays each month will telecom for Apple Computer. Macintosh, hard disk drive, start­ be geared more towards the telecom These Weekly Telecom Tutorials up disk, and an unformatted DSDD will be starting the first week of novice. The latter two (or three) 800k disk. August. To register in advance for Fridays each month will be geared Date: Mon. Aug. 22, 7-10 p.m. more towards experienced telecom any class, send a brief note telling which class you'd like to sign up for, users. Maintaining Your Macintosh along with the class fee, to the WAP The instructor for these classes (Course #M082494) How to main­ is Phil Shapiro. For questions about Office. Please include a daytime tain and troubleshoot your Mac. these classes, please call Phil at: (202) phone number when registering for Topics will include: organizing and 686-5465 (home/office), orcont.acthim WAP classes, in case you need to be via Internet e-mail at: reached in the event a particular managing your hard disk; backing [email protected] class is cancelled. up and back-up strategies,

July/August 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 51 Maintaining Your Macintosh (cont.) Other Educational Opportunities archiving, disk formatting, -Desktop Publishing & Graphics Herndon Parkway, Suite 900, defragmentation and optimization; tutorials are given by Clockface & Herndon, VA 22070. Call 703- managing start-up resources (in­ Creole Communications Inc. 471-6842. cluding System 7 extensions or Sys­ Please contact Manolo Almagro at tem 6 INITs); avoiding conflicts and 301-718-0612 for details. -Berkeley Computer Training, incompatibilities; virus protection; 1800 Diagonal Rd., Ste. 240, Al­ memory management; upgrading or -Prince George's Community exandria, VA 22314. Call 703- replacing the operating system; sys­ College Center for Business Train­ 548-9471. tem enhancements; customizing ing, 301 Largo Rd., Largo, MD software installation; cleaning your 20772-2199. Call 301-322-0726. -Micro Center Training, 3089 mouse; and Macintosh "housekeep­ Nutley Street, Fairfax, VA 22031. ing" philosophies. -Greentalt Systems Inc., 610 Call 703-204-8409. Date: Wed., Aug. 24, 7-10 p.m.

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52 Washington Apple Pi Journal July/August 1994 was developed to standardize the way in which musicians connect their electrified musical instru­ Mac Music With MIDI ments to each other and to comput­ ers. It spells out the type of wires by Randy Landenberger and connectors, as well as com­ SIGNAL Magazine of the Hawaii mands and software protocols; in "Macintosh & Apple Users' Society -April 1994 other words -networking. MIDI, in fact, does not record sound at all; MIDI creates and manipulates data. Just as Postscript describes a letter's font, size, style, stroke, fill and posi­ Wow! What amazing stuffthe Mac can do tion on the page, MIDI describes notes. MIDI data defines a note's in the world of music! The combination of name (A, A#, B flat, etc.), it's octave, and it's duration {1/16, 1/8, 1/4 beat, Mac and MIDI (Musical Instrument Digi- etc.). This basic raw data can then be manipulated in countless ways. Wendell Au explained that a major tal Interface) has truly revolutionized the difference between MIDI data and acoustically recorded music is size. music and recording industry. Acoustically recorded sound eats up lOMB per stereo minute. The MIDI data for a seven minute piece he TALKED WITH two lead­ a standard tape deck, except that composed containing at least seven ers in the Oahu electronic mus­ you are recording on your Hard instruments occupies only 150K of I ic scene: Alan Kaneda, lecturer Drive. All ofthe differences between disk space. in the Electronic Music Program for Acoustic andMIDirecordingwould Every Mac, since the very first the University of Hawaii at Manoa provide enough material for another "128", has had the capability to & Aiea High School Learning Cen­ article. For now, suffice it to say handle MIDI data, though they still ter, who has also provided music for that Acoustic records sound, and need the proper connector or "Inter­ KITV's production "In a League of MIDI records performance data face" to the printer or modem port. Their Own," hosted by Cynthia Yip, (pitch, duration, velocity, etc.). The Many instruments are made spe- and Wendell Au, who is with CPU strength of Inc., a local VAR (value added Acoustic re­ reseller for Apple products) consult­ cording is ing firm, and is owner of his own that it cap­ music production business, WAU! tures the Productions. Along with demos of "feel" of the truly beautiful music, they each gave live perfor­ me a basic primer on composing and mance with playing music with the Mac. Trying digital accu­ to explain the role of the Mac in racy. electronic music is like trying to MIDI is explain the printing/publishing in­ best de­ dustry -overwhelming in all ofit's scribed as a intricacies, and similar in many as­ language or pects. protocol, The Mac handles sound in two much like different ways, either Acoustically what Post­ Alan Kaneda, lecturer in the Electronic Music Pro­ or thru MIDI. Acoustically is most script is to gram for the University ofHawaii at Manoa & Aiea similar to recording as you would on printing. It High School Learning Center

JulyiAugust 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 53 cifically as MIDI With MIDI, it matters not which in­ vehicles (the strument you use to input the music· Keyboard Syn­ you d on' t even need an instrument' t hesizer, Elec­ the standard typing keyboard can b~ tronic drums), used. The magic comes in the fact that but almost any you are able to output the music on instrument can any instrument for which you have a be retrofitted to sample. .. even a bag pipe. produce and re­ ceive MIDI data. MIDI data has many forms. One of these is note data -which keys were pressed (or strin~s plucked) and for how long. Velocity-sensitive keyboards also register how hard each key was pressed. The sound is reduced to the simplest basic data, for example: an A# minor chord held for 1/4 beat being "bent" up to a C# minor chord and the intensity with which it was ~layed. (Think of B. B. King bend­ mg up those bottom two strings in a mournful wail.) Chop that action into enough little pieces over a set school system, all that is needed is time period, assign each moment a time and patience. With MIDI you musical value, and tra-la ...... digital have the ability to use a full orches­ data! Now forget that it was played tra, everything from violins to oboes on a guitar, it's just raw data that triangles to trumpets, harps to pie~ describes the attributes of the note. colos. At this point the data can either be instrument to change sounds mak­ ing your piccolo sound like a 'kettle Most MIDI instruments come sent to another instrument on the with a variety of sounds; a synthe­ drum. With MIDI, it matters not network or straight into the com­ sizer keyboard typically has over which instrument you use to input puter. Either way, the magic starts 200 samples. You can use the basic the music; you don't even need an here with the ability to open t hree guitar sounds and within that inst rument, the standard typing or more different time line views of choose from classical, distorted rock keyboard can be used. The magic the same piece at once. Similar to or wa-wa, country twang, steel and comes in the fact that you are able to the way a QuickTime application on. There's also instrument spe­ output the music on any instru­ s? may lay out time and frames, the cific data which defines manufac­ ment for which you have a sample. sequencer lays out bars or mea­ turer and model. Do you want that Collecting samples is like collecting sures oftim e/music. One view might r ock guitar to sound like a fo~ts. What this means is that any be that of standard sheet music Stratocaster, Les Paul, 12 string with a 5 line staff in any meter (44: cntter, whether it be guitar, Mac, synthesizer or electric accordion can Ovation, Martin D-36, or Gretsch? 68, 38, etc.). The next view could be You can record or input the basic waves or squiggles showing volume. be used to synthetically play any other instrument. For example, I notes on that cheapie Sears guitar A third view may show notes in a at home with a MIDI pickup, then list form, with the ones being played ~ay be able to play the saxophone like Rashan Roland Kirk but need a t~e your hard drive into a profes­ blocked in. All this is possible with sional studio and have it played a direct-to-hard-drive sequencing guitar sound like Django Rhinehart. Even though I play guitar at the back thru realistic samples of a program like Digital Performer or Strat, Les Paul or $20,000 Takamine Studio Vision. same level ofproficiency with which our Governor has improved the classical. You can control the tim­ The Mac can also instruct an ing with a clock or sync track, espe-

54 Washington Apple Pi Journal July/August 1994 cially useful if recording multiple it over and over, to get it perfect. training. Since there's just one MIDI tracks to tape. You can also speed Had he needed to hire musicians station, the class is limited to ten up the tempo without changing the and a studio for every change he students and fills up quickly. The pitch, something that can't be done wanted to try, the project would station is a mixture of old and older on tape; lay down a few bars of the never have happened. Even with equipment. They use one Yamaha bass track and loop it over and over; unlimited funds for salary and stu­ DX7 and TX 816, a Yamaha RXll or take the bass or melody from an dio time, just getting the musicians drum machine, an Ensonic EPS 16+ existing song, loop it, change the together in the studio could easily sampler and a Macintosh Quadra timing or remove every second, third have taken a week to make even one 700 with 4MB RAM. If there are or whatever beat and experiment set ofchanges. This often blocks the any University benefactors out with variations on a theme. With a flow of creative juices which is the there, this would be a good place to little imagination, you can make artist's life blood. The ability to try earmark a donation. the theme from "Ina-Godda-da­ something, decide you don't like it, Do you want to pretend you're Vida", sound like a Christmas carol and immediately undo or try again Lawrence Welk directing the Bos­ or hot Bluegrass. is a key strength of MIDI. ton Pops with guest stars Buddy Most MIDI/Computer players This brings up another impor­ Rich, Zamphir and Frank Zappa? If use software that acts as a Se­ tant point: As flexible as MIDI is, as you're a budding music composer quencer. Although it looks like a great as it sounds, it will never with a Mac, it's a great time to be tape deck, acts like a tape deck, replace real humans behind the in­ alive! You can pick up instructional sounds like a tape deck -a tape struments for two reasons: 1) A note videos from Harry's Music in deck it's not! Again, it's important (data instruction) played from or Kaimuki, or sign on for lessons from to note that a sequencer stores data thru a MIDI instrument may be a the most capable Wendell Au. • not sounds. By looking at the tracks perfect note, but that's it-one per­ on your monitor, you can see which fect, clean, note. When a note is instrument is playing at any given played on a real guitar or piano, moment. You can then adjust or there are other strings also vibrat­ eliminate any one or series of notes ing, called overtones which, how­ or instruments covering any ex­ ever slight, add to the richness of panse of time, or assign the notes to live music, (unfortunately these a different instrument. overtones are missing from sampled Both Wendell and Alan agree sounds mentioned earlier); 2) There that MIDI is a great composer's is "something'' special that a hu­ tool. Its instant access to full or­ man being expresses on his chosen chestral instrumentation is invalu­ instrument, that can only be pro­ able. Practically speaking, an artist duced by a "real" guitarist, pianist, may have a masterpiece in his head, violinist, drummer or sax player. and no way to hire the musicians Maybe it's a slight vibrato on the and studio time to record it. But, if string, a special thump to the strum, he has the time, he can lay it out, the oomph in the breath behind a play it, tweak it, and then hand it to wind instrument, or that indescrib­ a producer on disk, DAT or CD as a able, yet tangible feel of ecstatic demo or finished product. As a per­ energy from a musician being car­ fect example, in 1990, Wendell com­ ried away by his or her performance. posed eight songs for the CBS Surf Most of Alan Kaneda's Univer­ Special-"Goin' Surfing." He put in sity students share the common an average of four hours a day over theme of seeking to compose with a month's time for this project. Be­ MIDI rather than hunting down cause he could easily transfer his performers, which is always a diffi­ work to standard cassettes, and then cult task. The class is given only listen to it in the car, on his home during the Spring semester and only stereo and on the beach while watch­ to those fulfilling the two year pre­ ing real surfers, he was able to tweak requisite in music theory and aural

July/August 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 55 Apple][ emulator, that might actu­ ally be useful. But an Apple/// emu­ lator, now that'd be art for art's On the Trail of sake"... Kevin has been given Bob Consorti's e-mail and regular ad­ the Apple I I I dress and phone number. Bob is our best source of knowledge for any­ by David Ottalini thing SOS related with the Ill at this Apple/// SIG Co-Chairman point. I'm also trying to find out if this program would be Freeware, Shareware or ?? and will pass that along as I find out more information. WOW! and a little code to handle the new HE APPLE I I I Community videomodes. It could all probably be WOW2! continues to amaze me-even done in a week or two ... ah, to have a T On another front, I am happy to after all these years ofworking away week or two. Kevin Lund report that we have begun the pro­ with our beloved SARA. The ([email protected]) cess to begin work on our next Soft­ latestWOW! came from al//er named As you might imagine, the re­ ware Development Project. As dis­ Kevin Lund, who literally appeared sponse was rather excited, with cussed before here along the Trail, out of nowhere on the Apple /// dis­ many ///ers (including yours truly) we are going to contract with Bob cussion group at West Virginia Uni­ offering to provide whatever infor­ Consorti (once again), this time to versity. Kevin has written an Apple mation Kevin needed. He later com­ develop an entirely new version of ][ + emulation in software to run on municated to me that: The Communications Manager. a Macintosh. Here's the message he From what I understand, the While I can not tell you about all the sent after some members were day­ real fundamental difference be­ features it will have right now, we dreaming about ... well, let's let tween the ][/][ + and the Ill is the hope to model it after the Shareware Kevin tell us what he wants to work banked memory. So I'd be inter­ Mac program called ZTerm, which on next: ested to know how it works; that offers an easy to use interface able I'm the (principal) author ofStop way, I can make sure that the main to handle 14,400 baud, ZModem, the Madness, the foolishly named body of the emulator can offer that internal Macros, page scrolling and Apple ][ + emulator that was men­ sort of service to external modules. more. We will also ask for a number tioned recently. From the start, I Any other major deviations from of terminal emulations (like VT 100 had it targeted for a metamorphosis the basic architecture are impor­ and 220). In previous discussions, into an Apple Ill emulator. To this tant, too (e.g., does the/// do all ofits Bob also indicated it would not be end, all ofthe 1/0 stuffis in external memory-mapped 1/0 in page $CO?). difficult for him to add a BBS capa­ code resources which are loaded at I've been planning to clean up the bility, something I would love to run-time (in the current beta ver­ external module interface and re­ have to replace Infonet. sion, I just rolled the code resources lease the specs; that way, as long as As with BOS, this project will into the application to avoid confu­ the emulator core has the flexibility cost our Software Development sion). it needs, I can stick other people Fund $1500. Bob has agreed to take Currently, the modules handle with the work of doing the modules $1000.00 up front to get started as the disk II card, the language card, themselves ... we raise funds for the rest. The way the keyboard, and the paddles; (next) I think I'd die happy if I could we will have to do this is through I'll pull out the video and CPU code see the running horses demo on my pre-sales of the program. We are as well. So, what I'm trying to say is Mac... doing this because, honestly, we that all that's needed to make it into have not sold out all our copies of an Apple Ill is some new 1/0 modules Kevin also says: BOS. As you may remember, we to handle the/// stuff, plus whatever It'd work onjust about any Mac; raised enough funds to purchase 30 was done to handle the banked in its current incarnation (as a][+ copies of BOS from Bob. By selling memory (I have a///+, but no techni­ emulator) it runs on anythingwith them all, we would replenish the cal manuals. Which is why I still System 7 and 256 color display. My SDF so that we could then go on to have only a][+ emulator... ). Oh yeah, girlfriend's brother said, "now, an the next project. Unfortunately, we

56 Washington Apple Pi Journal July/August 1994 have not sold a dozen copies of the ported me with your votes to serve A better solution would be a program yet. While support from as a member of the WAP Board of SuperDrive, since it can hold even our WAP ///ers has been strong, our Directors. It was close, but I main­ more data (1.4 MB). friends atATUNC in California, for tained my record of never having I was not able to reinstall every­ example (who contributed $500 to won an election to serve as a Direc­ thing because I was going from a get things started) never purchased tor (I did serve as Secretary once, lOMB to a 5MB hard disk. but with one copy. but ran without competition). Given GoBack, it's easy to cull out all the We are still selling BOS and these events, I will no longer allow things you really don't need on the hope to sell them all (again, ifyou do my name to be placed in nomination hardisk, and ifyou do get your origi­ not have yours yet, you are missing to run for the BOD and will not nal hardisk repaired, you still have out on a truly wonderful program). nominate myself. I feel I can best the backups on the (in my case) But in the meantime, we are going serve the club at this point by con­ BOOK disks and can reinstall every­ to sell pre-orders for the new TCM. centrating on the Ill SIG, as I have thing if need be. Price will be $45.00 for all, with a for all these many years. By the way, GoBack has a spe­ $5.00 postage and handling fee, if cial feature that makes the most out delivered by mail. The program will Crash But No Burn ofyour hardisk when its got a "clean cost $50.00 when it is released (plus My 10 MB Profile finally bit the slate" to restore to. You can also take P&H). dust in late May-much sooner than advantage of a special feature in As for a timetable, here's what I expected (though the lOMB Pro­ BOS that enhances disk caching Bob told me on CompuServe: files do not have as good a service with hardisks restored from scratch. My schedule is going to be pretty record as the 5s do). Luckily, I had busy this year as I'm doing a rota­ heeded my own advice (given to you tion in the summer, teaching a class many, many times) to do a backup Apple 111 ReSC)UfC8$ in the fall and preparing for my oral often. The backup I had was still not examination, but as long as you're as late as I would have liked (it was Bob Consorti willing to give me until say Decem­ about a month old) but it was close 179-B Kent St. ber I should be able to get every­ enough. I pulled out my old backup Brookline, MA. 02148 thing done. 5MB Profile and reinstalled every­ (617) 731-0662 Bob went on to say that, know­ thing. ing him, he would add even more That gave me an excuse though, On Three c/o Joe Consorti features to the ones we've requested. to take you through the steps of 117 4 Hickory Ave. I'm asking our Co-Chair Paul what I had to do. Not difficult, but Tehachapi, CA. 93561 Campbell to coordinate with Bob something you should keep in mind (805) 822-8580 about what goes into the new TCM. should something similar happen But feel free to call or message ei­ to you: Sun Remarketing ther one ofus (or communicate with 1) Make up a System Utilities disk 1-800-821-3221 Bob directly) ifthere are some fea­ PO Box 4059Logan, Utah 84321 tures you'd like to see included. containing the proper drivers for As with BOS, though, this pro­ your system. The Lisa Shop 2) Boot your system with the backup gram promises to give our SARA (916) 668-5637 added life and capabilities. If you hardisk and format it. PO Box 969Woodland, Ca. 95695 can be a little patient and willing to 3) Make up a copy of your GoBack I invest $50.00 one more time, please II (or Backup ///) disk with the Tom Linders send in a check to the WAP office proper drives for your system. 1-408-741-1001 and note it's for a pre-order for the 4) Boot up GoBack and reinstall 12604 Wardell Ct. new Communications Manager. As Saratoga, CA. 95070 always, thank you again for sup­ your system onto the backup hard disk. porting the Ill Community! Apple User Group Connection 800-538-9696 ext. 500 The Election My system includes an SOOK Well, what can I say here, but Unidisk, which I used for making Apple User Assistance thank you to all who again sup- backups. It certainly makes it easier. 800-767-2775 •

Washington Apple Pi Journal 57 July/August 1994 though most will work with B/W or color Macs, others may require a color Mac. In any case, there is something Macintosh Disketeria for everybody in this collection. The revised collection includes 15 disks offiles compressed with Stuffit. by Dave Weikert There are nearly 30 megabytes of files on these 15 disks; enough to keep you busy at least through next New Disks, New Record response to the requests oftheir cus­ weekend. The 15 disks are available HERE IS A NEW Mac tomers. Jon has collected and as­ only as a set for $30. T Disketeria record in the club­ sembled 'patch' programs released house tonight-50 new disks this by these software vendors into this Apple System Software month-the most that we have ever convenient series of disks. There are four disks this month issued. But I had a lot of help since Do you run Adobe Photoshop, Il­ which include updates to Apple Sys­ Jon Hardis compiled 30 of them. The lustrator or Premiere? Or Aldus tem Software. new disks are: aMacworldE:xpo Sum­ PageMaker or FreeHand? System 7.1 Update 3.0 • 1.44M mit special, a new Application and QuarkXPress? Word, WordPerfect, consists of two disks and is a "must Utilities Updates series, a complete MacWrite or FullWrite? FileMaker have" update for anybody running revision of the Best of the Pi series Pro and Excel? Or many other appli­ System 7.1, 7.1.1 (System 7 Pro) or and four Apple System Software. Of cation and utility programs? Are they 7.1.2 (for Power Macintosh). This disk particular note is Apple's release of up-to-date? Look over the list ofdisks set fixes bugs and enhances the reli­ System 7.1Update3.0. Descriptions in Mac Disk #26.XX Updates series ability and performance of all Macs of the files on the new and revised below and compare the version num­ running versions of System 7.1. Its disks are included below. bers with your software. And then installer script installs updated Sys­ order the updates you need to main­ tem Enablers, Control Panels and Macworld Expo Special tain your software tools-sharp and Desk Accessories appropriate your As a special promotion for ready to use. Mac. In addition, SimpleText is pro­ Macworld Expo Summit, we com­ All of the Mac Disk #26.XX Up­ vided to replace TeachText; piled a disk of utility programs. The dates series are available at special SimpleText permits multiple open programs were listed by MacWorld prices through July-see the prices document and different fonts and magazine (April '94) as the eleven on the Macintosh Library Order font styles. An updated version of best shareware utility programs. We Form. Apple HD SC Setup is included for agree that these are some of the best formatting Apple brandedhard disks. shareware programs-although not The Best of the Pi necessarily the eleven best-and they We completely revised our the Best System 7.1 Update 3.0 • SOOK is are included in our the Best ofthe Pi of the Pi disk series for the recent a single disk which updates Mac II, series. The disk is available at MacWorld Expo Summit in Wash­ Mac SE and Mac Plus computers Macworld Expo prices while they ington, DC. This series includes the with BOOK floppy disk drives. It in­ last-$3 for the disk. most popular and useful programs cludes only the updates pertinent to from our extensive Macintosh these three computer series. If you Is Your Software Current? Disketeria for your use and enjoy­ Jon Hardis has compiled a new have updated your Mac II or SE with ment. The programs in this series are 1.44M drives, then you should use series of disks-Mac Disk #26.XX an eclectic mixture; a few are "oldies" Updates-that will be useful to many the two disk set. that have withstood the test of time QuickTime 1.6.2 fixes bugs and of you. This collection includes while most are more recent than Sys­ 'patches' for many popular applica­ improves performance ofMacs when tem 7.1. Most will work with all of running QuickTime. The primary tion and utility software packages. Apple's recent System Software re­ features of this version are: takes Software vendors are continually leases and any Mac Plus or later. A much less memory (approximately improving their products-finding few will operate only when run in and fixing bugs, making changes to 20K) when it is not in use, permits conjunction with System 6.0.8 or ear­ converting audio tracks to movies, be compatible with new Macintosh lier. A few others are System 7.X supports Easy Open extension, adds models and other new products, to specific; they are designed to work take advantage ofnew capabilities of ColorSync support, Improved with or take advantage of the fea­ Grayscale and adds smoother (anti- Macintosh System software, and in tures of Apple's newest Systems. Al-

58 Washington Apple Pi Journal July/August 1994 aliased) looking text. that have been dragged to the trash. Manual is in TeachText format. For Also reads drive PROMs and reports System 7.0 and later. Shareware - About Shareware Requests back vendor, product and version $10. Please honor authors' requests for numbers. SCSIProbe.ReadMe is in TeachText format. System 6 and 7 DISKS #26.01A & #26.02A shareware fees if you decide to add compatible. ADOBE PHorosHOP shareware programs to your software SpeedyFinder7 1.5.9d f .sit By Victor Updates Adobe Photoshop version 2.5 to library. Shareware is a valuable dis­ Tan. Speed up the Mac Finder when 2.5.1. Two disk set. tribution channel for low cost soft­ copying files, opening or closing DISK #26.03A ware and it is important to encour­ windows, changing file name and ADOBE l'HOTOSHOP PLUG-INS age authors to use this channel by emptying the trash. It also has some PowerPC Accelerator Plug-in 1.0.1: Lets paying them for their efforts. other features such as adding the computationally intensive part of additional command key shortcuts and MACWORLD'S PICKS - Photoshop run in native PPC mode optionally removing Balloon Help from (i.e., much faster). 11 BEST SHAREWARE UTIUTIES the menu. SpeedyFinder7.doc and These are the programs picked by Release Notes 1.5.9.doc are in AV DSP Power Plug-In: Lets the MacWorld magazine (April '94) as the Mac Write format. For System 7 .0 and computationally intensive part of best shareware utility programs. Try later. Shareware -Aus$20. Photoshop run on the DSP chip of Centris and Quadra "AV" models. them out and see if you agree. Yes, Stuffit Expander™ 3.0. 7 f .sit: By they are all included in our 'the Best of Leonard Rosenthol. Decompress any Kodak CMS Photo CD Plug-In 2.1.0: the Pi" 15 disk set. No, they are not all non-encrypted Macintosh archives Updated software for the Kodak Color on my list of 11 best-but many are. compressed with Stuffit, Compact Pro Management System. No, I will not tell you which ones are or AppleLink packages. Also decodes Drop Shadow I.Ob: By Alien Skin not on my list. Yes, my list does change files which have been encoded by Software. This Plug-in is provided as a almost daily. BinHex 4.0 (or a compatible product). sample of their work. You may AppDisk 1.6.1 J.sit By Mark Adams. A Stuffit Expander 3.0. 7 Docs is in purchased additional Plug-ins from RAM disk that lets you use part ofyour text format. Requires System 6.0.4 or them directly. RAM as a fast disk drive, without later. Watermark 1.0.1: By John Dykstra. restarting your Mac. It is System 7.0 SuperClock! 4 •• 0.4 J.sit: By Steve Watermark is a Plug-in filterthatadds dependent. It has the ability to save its Christensen. 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WindowShade 1.2 f: By Robert 4.0 to 4.0b, and Aldus PageMaker 5.0 Lamkins. Switch back and forth Johnston. Double click anywhere on to 5.0a. between active programs using your the title bar of the window and the power-on key or escape key rather lower part of the window will 'roll up' DISK #26.0SA than the mouse. Move to the next underneath the title bar. Double click QuARKXPRESs active programs with each press of the on the title bar again and the window Upgrade QuarkXPress version 3.2 to 3.3. key. PwrSwitcher Instructions is will lower to its original size. Also, patch the bug in version 3.3 that in TeachText format. Shareware - WindowShade Doc is in TeachText prevents printing with LaserWriter charitable donation at your format. drivers prior to version 8. discretion. Zipple 1.9.2 f .sit By Christopher Suley. DISK #26.07A SCSIProbe 3.5 J.sit: By Robert Polic. 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An 3.0 to 3.0.1. and other screen savers, plus 27 application for intelligent browsing DISK #26.13A additional freeware and shareware ofcollections ofstructured text files, After Dark screen saver modules. large or small. It allows very fast CLAR1SWoRKs AND Qu1cKEN access by recognizing the internal Update any version ofClaris Works since DISKS #26.1 BA THRU #26.23A structure. Easy View lntroduc· 2.0 to version 2.lv2. Includes such AFTER DARK DISK SET tion and Easy View Notes are in enhancements and new features as Includes disk #26.18A together with five text format. Easy View· Read Me support for PowerTalk (electronic additional disks to bring the number is in Easy View format. mail), automatic hyphenation, and of screen saver modules to over 100. UnStuftlt™3.0.7.sea: By Raymond Lau additional imports and exports. Update Six disk set. andAladdinSystems, Inc. Decompress Quicken 4 to Release 6. DISKS #26.25A THRU #26.28A (unstuft) archive files created with DISK #26. 14A CENTRAL Po1NT SoRWARE MAc Stuftlt Classic, Stuffit Lite and Stuftlt MICROSOFT WORD TooLS3.0s Deluxe programs. Easy to install, just double click and follow the directions. Update Microsoft Word 5.0 to 5.0a. Update Mac Tools version 3.0 3.0b. to Read Me First is in text format. Update Microsoft Word 5.1 to 5.la. Four disk set. Also includes new converters which Add/Strip 3.0.3 /.sit: By John Wind. allows Word for the Mac to read files DISK #26.29A Addsorstripslinefeeds and/or carriage from the new Microsoft Word 6.0 for Now U11UT1ES 4.0.2 returns from text files; that is it Windows, MacWrite II, and Update Now Utilities versions 4.0, 4.0.1, converts PC format files to Mac format WordPerfect 2.0. and 4.0.lp to version 4.0.2. and vice versa. It also has a feature to strip carriage returns from all lines DISK #26.15A DISK #26.30A not followed by two carriage returns WORD ENHANCEMENTS MISCELLANEOUS U11L111ES thus creating paragraphs. Add/ Contains Application Notes and Update RAM Doubler to version 1.0.2; Strip™ 3.0.3 Docs is in TeachText templates from Microsoft and others. update TimesTwo to version 1.0.3d; format. Edit Add/Strip 3.0.3 permits Also includes help files, a modified update Hard Disk Toolkit from version you to personalize your copy of Add/ toolbar, a dictionary of medical terms, 1.5 to 1.5.1 (regular and Personal Strip. Shareware -$25. and a utility to fix damaged Word Edition); update any version of Address Book DA 3.6.6 /.sit: By Jim

60 Washington Apple Pi Journal July/August 1994 Leitch. This is a Address and phone AppDisk 1.6.1 f.sit By Mark Adams. A your shareware fee. Shareware-$5. list, dialer and envelope and label RAM disk that lets you use part ofyour BBEdit Lite 2.3.2 f .sit: By Rich Siegel. generator in DA and application RAM as a fast disk drive, without A full featured text and programming formats. You may view an index of 66 restarting your Mac. It is System 7.0 editor with powerful but complex names (length limited to40characters) dependent. It has the ability to save its pattern ('grep') searching and per page in three columns per page. contents to provide some protection matching. Additional functions include Select name and double click to open against loss of data due to system entabbing and detabbing, wrapping record and choose one of three crashes. AppDisk 1.6.1 Read ME!is and unwrapping, removal of gremlin telephone numbers to dial in text format. Shareware - $15. characters and a powerful multi-file automatically. Several pages of help ARAClient2.0.3 f .sit: By Ron Duritsch. capability. Extensible with BBEdit and is System 6 MultiFinder and Provides one-step connection for Macs Extensions. About BBEdit Lite is in System 7 compatible. Files can be configured with Apple's AppleTalk text format. exported. In theAd.ReadMe is in game down by a factor of4 for a Mac II. Ann-Stone TT f.sit: By David text format. Shareware -$10. You have to be very quick to play this Rakowski. A drop caps woodcut font on most of the current Macs. from the late nineteenth century. Basic Color Monitor 1.0 f .sit By Apple Germany, to be exact. Each letter is Computer. Eliminates the greenish Carpetbag 1.4 f.sit: By James L. black, surrounded by a box drawn in cast that the Apple Basic Color Monitor Walker. Carpetbag permits you to keep thin lines and curvy, curtain-like, and some non-Apple VGA monitors DAs, fonts, keyboard layouts, sounds stained glass patterns filling in the display when used with Quadra and and FKeys outside your System file space. Read me Ann-Stone is in text Centris models. Read Me is in much as Suitcase II or MasterJuggler. format. TeachText format. Ancillary files CarpUnmount, Laser Path, Outboard Keyboard, Anonymity 1.2.sit By Anonymous. Battleship 1.3.sit By John Linda!. A classic board game of battleship Outboard Sound and Universal Removes a program's owner's name Suitcase are also included. Contents from the opening menu of some complete with sounds and game options; you may get a key to unlock is in TeachText format. Shareware­ applications. Run only on copies of $5. applications. the protected features when you pay

July/August 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 61 CartWright TT f .sit: By LORVAD About Desktop Reset is in text operates under your control and can (formerly Printers Devil). A font format. For Syst.em 6.0.x and Syst.em 7. scan a succession of floppy disks and inspired by the Adobe wood type Disk Charmer 2.0.4 f .sit: By Fabrizio create a log file of the results. Check Ponderosa font. Just the font for Oddone. Locks out 'bad' sectors on out the About Disinfectant under the designing those old west wanted floppy disks. This is imperative ifyou Apple menu; it's a gas! Requires System posters. Read Me First!! is in text want to use disks with bad sectors Software 6.0 or later and Mac 512KE format. Shareware - $10. withSystemsearlierthan 7.0(down to or later. Classic Daleks 1.1 f.sit By Ingemar 4.3). The program even has some utility DisKeeper vl.9.sit By J. Geagan. A Ragnemalm. Another version of the with System 7 and later as it locks out very handy disk management utility original Daleks game that was bad sectors more efficiently than the that lists all files and possible file available for play on the original 128K method Apple uses with System 7. anomalies such as identical files, files Mac. This one works with both color Disk Charmer docs is in TeachText. of zero length, empty folders, etc. You and B&W Macs and has a high score Shareware - $10. also have the ability to move such files list and a number of other options not Disk Copy 4.2 f .sit: By Steve to a DisKeeper Trash folder for later available on the original Daleks. Christensen, Apple Computer, Inc. removal (or other operations). ClassicDaleks docs is in text format. Duplicate 3.5" floppy disks from a DOCMaker4.0.1/.sit By MarkS. Wall, ColorSwitch 2.2.0 f.sit: By Andrew single master disk. It performs Green Mountain Software. This Welch. Permits you to easily switch checksumming of the master disk to program allows you to create stand between color modes on one or more assure a reliable duplication. Copies alone documents that do not need a attached monitors. For color capable 800KAppleand 720Kand 1440KMFM word processor to open them. You may Macs running System 6.0.5 with Color disk formats. Requires a double sided include different fonts, sizes and styles QuickDraw and later systems. disk drive. Mountlmage 1.lb3 and graphics and print from the ColorSwitch 2.2.0 Notes is in text permits you to view and use disk images document. Frequently used to format. Shareware - $10. just as if they were disks. Apple document shareware. DOCMaker Compact Pro 1.33 f .sit: By Bill DiskCopy documentation is in Shareware Doc is double clickable. Goodman. Lets you reduce the size of MacWrite format and Disk Image Shareware -$26 with disk. many of the files on your computer by Directions is in text format. DoubleScroll 2.0.5 f.sit: By Edward "compressing" the data in the files. DiskDup+ 2.5 f .sit: By Roger D. Bates. Voas. A Control Panel that places a Also supports "archives" which are A disk duplication program written to double arrow on each end ofyour scroll collections offiles and folders combined automate as much as possible the bars, allowing you to scroll in both into a single unit. You can simplify the sector-by-sector duplication ofa floppy directionswithouthavingtomoveyour storage of large amounts of data by onto one or more duplicates. Performs mouse from one end ofyour desk to the grouping related items into an archive. sector duplication of either 400K to other to scroll back and forth. For Compact Pro User's Guide is in SOOK floppies. Formats copies as single System 7.0 and later. Shareware - MacWrite format. Shareware-$25. or double sided. ReadMe-DiskDup+ $10. ConnectFourf .sit: By Berrie Kremers. is in TeachText format. Shareware­ Eclipse 2.2.0 f .sit: By Andrew Welch. A board game for two players where $25. Automatically dims your screen after each player drops stones into cells in a DISK #25.04C - 4 a specified amount of inactivity. box. You win by connecting 4 stones of THE BEST OF THE Pt Eclipse 2.2.0 Notes is in text format. your color in a vertical, diagonal or For System 6 and later. Shareware - DeSEA 1.4 f.sit By Ken Hancock. horizontal row. READ ME is in text $10. DeSEA removes the overhead self­ format. Shareware - $10. extraction code from files created from Edit II 2.1.5 f .sit By Kenneth Seah. Default Folder 2.48 f .sit: (formerly self-extracting archives (SEAs). Can This relatively powerful text editor is DFaultD) By Jon Gotow. Lets you be run on a single file or on an entire designed as a replacement for the assign, for each application you run, a folder of files. Configured for Disk Consulair Edit text editor. It has font default folder in which to store Doubler, Compact Pro and Stuffit and size selection. It supports program documents. The idea is that you Classir/Deluxe. DeSEA 1.4 Release editing with auto-indenting, UNIX shouldn't have to navigate throughout Notes is in text format. 'grep' pattern matching search and your disk the first time you try to save replace functions, a Creator Names Disinfectant 3.5.sit: By John Norstad. a document after starting up an menu and other features. Edit Il Doc Detects and repairs files infected by all application. Default Folder Docs is andEditllReadMeareintextformat. of the currently known viruses in double clickablePrint2PictPostCard Requires System Software 4.1 and including Scores, nVIR (A & B), INIT format. Shareware - $20. above, is MultiFinder-friendly and is M, INIT 17, INIT 29 (A & B), INIT also 32-bit clean and runs under Desktop Reset 1.1 f.sit By Lloyd L. 1984, ANTI (A & B), WDEF (A & B), System 7. Shareware - $15. Chambers, Salient Software, Inc. CDEF, ZUC (A, B & C), MDEF A Forces the Finder to rebuild the desktop (Garfield), MDEF B (Top Cat), MDEF Enabler Patch f .sit: By Connectix. A by deleting the hidden desktop file. C and MDEF D, MacMag (Drew, fix for a bug that affects Macs that use Can be used to correct the corrupted Brandow, Aldus or Peace), MBDF (A an Enabler with System 7.1 by the desktop (missing files and folders) & B), CODE 1, CODE 252, T4, T4-C folks that developed the MODE 32 fix sometimes seen under System 7. and Frankie. Like Virus Detective, it for the bugin some Mac RO Ms. This is

62 Washington Apple Pi Journal July/August 1994 for Ilvi and Ilvx desktop Macs and DeskWriter printers. You may also creates a new folder with icon. Folder 160, 180, 210 and 230 PowerBooks. create your own templates and save Icon Maker 1.0 Notes is in text READ ME! (Enabler Patch) is in them for later use. This program is format. Requires System 7 or later. TeachText format. worth at least five times the shareware GateKeeper 1.3 Dist f.sit By Chris EraserDust TT f .sit: By David price. QuickStart! is in text format. Johnson. These INITs and associated Rakowski. A large and detailed display Shareware -$10. Control Panel Device (cdev) are placed font that looks like letters written in FileSharingToggle 1.0.4 f .sit By Steve in your system folder (Systems earlier thick chalk on a blackboard. A full Forgacs. An easy way to switch file than 7.0) and are then accessible via alphabet, punctuation and numbers sharing on and off. the Control Panel after booting. For are included. Use at sizes above 48 FileSharingToggle Read Me is in System 7 .0 and later installation, see points. Read me EraserDust is in TeachText format. For System 7 and the documentation. GateKeeper text format. later. monitors the types of action that viruses take and limits the system DISK Finder Sounds 1.3.1 /.sit By Greg #25.0SC - 5 response to prevent infection. THE BEST OF THE P1 Smith. With System Software version 6.0.4 or later, the Finder can play GateKeeper creates a log file for later Enigma 2.la f.sit By Mike Watson. sounds corresponding to various analysis and diagnosis ofvirus attacks. Implements a limited version of the events. The Finder Sounds Config GateKeeper Aid looks for certain NSA developed Data Encryption cdev permits you to select sounds for viruses and their variants and Standard (DES) which is the standard these events include opening and eradicates them. GateKeeper for commercial, unclassified, data closing windows, creating and deleting Introduction and GateKeeper Aid protection. enigma 2.1 doc.txt and files, and even modifying windows. Introduction, in MacWrite format, READ Me are in text format; enigma Finder Sounds READ ME is in text describe the use of the programs. For 2.1 doc.wrd is in Word format. format. Requires System 6.0.4 through Mac 512KE and System 4.1 or later. Requires System 7.0 and later. 6.0.8; not for System 7.0 and later. Send a postcard. Shareware - $16 for full DES GIFConvertor 2.3.7.sit: By Kevin capability. Flash-It 3.0.2 f .sit: By No bu Toge. Defines five hot-keys to: capture all or Mitchell. Allows you to view, edit Extension Kit 1.1 f .sit By Richard a selected part of the screen image, contrast, lightness and gamma and Harvey. An extension/INIT manager. save it to the clipboard, scrapbook or to convert between various graphics Create as many as 10 groups (kits) of a disk file, and print it. It can also scale formats, especially Graphics extensions and control which ones load the image by a pre-specified ratio. Interchange Format (GIF for short). at startup. Extension Kit READ ME Flash-It 3.0.2 Doc (MW) is in You may view graphics images in GIF, is in TeachText format. For System 6 MacWrite format. System 6 and 7 RIFF, TIFF, JPG, JPEG (JFIF), and later. Shareware - whatever MacPaint or PICT format. Save you feel it's worth. compatible. Shareware -$16. GIFwatcher 2.2.0 /.sit: By Kerry formats include GIF, RLE, scan, Extensions Manager 2.01 f.sit By Shetline. A DA for viewing GIF files; it startup screen, RIFF TIFF and EPSN Ricardo Batista, Apple Computer, Inc. is especially designed for viewing GIF format. GIFConverter2.3Notesand Permits you to enable or disable loading files during download. Your may select about gifconverter 2.3. 7 are in text of system extensions at startup much display alternatives that range from format. Requires Mac Plus or higher, like Init Picker and other commercial best color for your system or a number System 6 or later. Shareware -$40. utilities do. Notes for Extensions of dithered color and black and white Goudy Medieval PS f.sit: By Mgr is in text format. Requires System selections. GIFwatcher 2.2.0 doc is MentorFonts. A Type 1 font with an 4.1 or later although written with in MacWrite format and GIFwatcher old fashioned look. This is mystery System 7 in mind. 2.2.0 update info is in text format. font that came without any author or FastEnvelope 2.1.4 f .sit By Henry Shareware -$16. shareware information. The AFM file Carstens, Vertical Solutions. Prints GMS Calendar 1.5 /.sit By Green included the reference to Mentor Fonts. envelopes of various sizes and Mountain Software. A calendar and Please give us a call if you have any postcards with address, return note taker in a small but handy format. additional information. address, bar code, message (for When not in use, the calendar Graphic Light 1T /.sit: By Richard example-First Class), Icons and compresses to a small icon that floats Mitchell. Afont patterned after a metal Pictures. FastEnvelope 2.0 on the desktop or on top of any open type from the Baltimore Type Foundry. Manual.text, QuickStart! and window. GMSCalendarShareware It has an unusual "ft" ligature and a What's New are in text format. is in double clickable DOCMaker small x-height. Ifyou use it for blocks Commercial - see license for format. Shareware -$26. of text, always try it first set solid, that ordering information. is, with a line spacing equal to its size, FastLabel 3.l.3sw f .sit By Henry DISK #25.06C - 6 12on12,forinstance. Theface,because Carstens. Permits you to print a variety THE BEST OF THE Pt of its small x-height, is very small on of labels quickly and easily. Includes Folder IconMaker 1.1 f .sitByGregory the body, and the lines will fly apart standard templates for mailing, disks, M. Robbins. Creates folders with with too much leading. Please Read••• VCR, and other label formats for custom icons;just dragthe application and Generic READ ME· TrueType LaserWriter, ImageWriter and or document to the FIM and that font are in text format.

July/August 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 63 Greg's Browser 2.1 f.sit By Gregory Int'l Symbols Tr f .sit: By Gary Ratay. Hagestead. A bold headline Type 1 D. Landweber. Allows you to easily A font with international symbols such font consisting of upper case letters move up and down the folder hierarchy as bus stop, handicapped access, food, and most of the commonly used to select one or more files or folders. etc. Includes ability to overprint shaded symbols. It is patterned after the Create 'bookmarks' for frequently boxes, triangles, circles and slashed "Machine" type style. accessed files or folders. Browser "no" circles. About International••• MachineBlock.docs is in MacWrite Notes is in TeachText format. For is in double clickable Take a Letter format. Shareware - $15. System 7 .0 and later and Color format. Maclntalk 1.5.1 f.sit By Apple QuickDraw. Shareware - $20. Klondike5.l f .sit By Michael A Casteel. Computer, Inc., tweaked by Matthew Greg's Buttons 3.1.5 f.sit By Greg Probably the most commonly-known Lewis Carroll Smith. The latest version Landweber. Replace the standard versionofsolitairecardgame.Klondike of the system file that allows the Mac black and white push buttons, check has been available forthe Mac since its to "talk". Place it in the System folder boxes, and radio buttons with shaded, introduction in 1984; this version to permit programs like Talking Moose color 3-D ones. The new buttons are includes color and a number of other to talk. This version is tweaked for designed to match the windows and improvements overthatoriginal game. System 7. scroll bars under System 7 and support Klondike read me is in TeachText Macman Classic Pro 1.0 f.sit: By John the color tinges that you can select in format. Shareware - $10. Butler. Patterned after the PacMan the System 7 Color Control Panel. Loodle™ 5.3 f .sit: By Josh and Nick arcade game and now in glorious color; Greg's Buttons Docs and Franco. Create labels for 3.5 inch Mac munch dots, energizers and fruits while Registration Form are in TeachText disks in any of a variety of formats of avoiding ghosts. Reqires System 6.0. 7 format. For System 7.0 and later. commercial label stock. Just pop the and later and Color QuickDraw; for Shareware - $15. disk into the drive and Loodle creates Mac Plus and later. Shareware-$5. HP calc! (15C).sit By Mike Wessler. A a label with disk name and files. MacSokoban 2.1 f.sit By Ingemar calculator based on the Hewlett LoodleList is a HyperCard stack for Ragnemalm. The Japanese word Packard 15-C. Just like the HP, this searching the lists produced by Loodle. Sokoban means warehouse keeper. one uses RPN (post-fix) notation. LOODLE 5.3 Doc is in double The object of the game is to, for each Shareware - $10. clickable DOCMaker format. level, rearrange a set of 'gold bags' to DISK #25.07C- 7 Shareware - $10. certain positions. When you have THE BEST OF THE Pl Mac a £oan 3.3 f .sit: By Coconut Info. solved all levels, you have won the Calculates details of a loan from input game. MacSokoban docs is in text Griffin Dingbats Tr f .sit: By David information such as loan amount and format. Rakowski. Contains about 155 picture interest rate. Doesn't provide for characters and a rather ornate Gothic MacUpdate 3.1.5 f .sit By Richard E. printing until registered. READ ME­ drop caps font. The images range from Fiegle. Compares modification dates Mac a£oan3.3 is in TeachTextformat. Art Nouveau printer ornaments, of files in a local folder with another Renaissance printer ornaments and Shareware - $20. mounted volume and updates the local woodcut printer ornaments to smiling, MacAmortize 1.2 f .sit By Charlie folder files to the same date. walking vegetables; the drop caps Moylan. Create amortization MacUpdate 3.1 ReadMe and other letters are based on a Gothic typeface schedules from data you enter and documentation are in TeachText called Celebration. Read me Griffin print them or save them to disk. Unique format. Shareware - $5. Dingbats TrueTy is in text format. features include an ability to show tax MenuChoice 2.0 f.sit: By Kerry Shareware - a tax deductible deductible interest and the effect of Clendinning. Enables hierarchical contribution of$12 or more. inflation. READ ME is in text format. menus under the Apple menu. Every Imagery 1.8 f.sit By Jeff Lewis. Shareware - $15. folder stored in your "Apple Menu Converts Macintosh, Apple Ilgs, Atari DISK #25.0BC- 8 Items" folder will show up as a sub­ ST,Amiga, IBM PC and UNIXgraphics THE BEST OF THE P1 menu under the Apple menu. ReadMe files into Macintosh compatible LightningPaint 1.1 f .sit By Humayun is in TeachText format. For System 7 monochrome or color TIFF, GIF and S. Lari. A very capable bit-mapped and later. Shareware - $15. PICT2 files. The file formats that can painting program with lots ofadvanced Mille Hornes 1.2.1 f .sit By Greg Abbas. be converted are too numerous to features such as zooms, blends, An electronic version of the Parker mention but seem to include many of shadowing, masking, mirroring, etc. Brothers board game of the same the most popular and many obscure ReadMeisin text format. Shareware name-which is French for 1000 formats. You may also import raw -$14. milestones. Requires a 13" or larger image data and try to organize it in a MacErrors 1.0 f .sit By Marty Wachter. color monitor. Release Notes is in way the Mac can display. Imagery 1.8 Ever wondered what an "error type - text format. Shareware -$10. Docs.mw is in MacWrite format. 34" means? Well, now you can find out MineField 1.3.sit: By Robert Donner Consider a donation to your local using this handy utility. and Kurt Johnson. A take-off of the Society ofPrevention ofCruelty to MacErrors.readme is in text format. Minesweeper game that runs on PCs Animals. MachineBlock PS f .sit: By Gary (Ugh!). This one has a lot of features and an excellent Help function.

64 Washington Apple Pi Journal July/August 1994 MODE32 1.2 f .sit By Connectrix. This application format. Shareware - $5. README$$ is in text format. For originally commercial product has been Open-wide 3.5.8 f .sit: By James W. System 7.0 and later. Shareware - released by Apple to correct a problem Walker. Widens the Open and Save $10. on Mac II, Ilx, Ilcx and SE/30 computer dialogs so that you can see long file PwrSwitcher 1.1.2 /.sit By David B. ROMs. These ROMs are not 32-bit names. Very useful when the only Lamkins. Switch back and forth clean and will not support System 7 differences in a file name is near the between active programs using your 32-bit addressing thus limiting the end of a long name. recent changes power-on key or escape key rather amount ofaddressable memory to less is in TeachText format. than the mouse. Move to the next than advertised. MODE32 patches the Postcardware. active programs with each press ofthe system to correct the problem and give Otello 2.0 /.sit: By Ron Hayter. The key. PwrSwitcher Instructions is you back the memory addressing you classic strategy board game of Othello in TeachText format. Shareware - thought you were buying. Read Me played on a grid with black and white charitable donation at your (MODE32) is in text format. pieces. You may play against the Mac discretion. Mug Shot Lite 1.34.sit By James K or another person and may save Quoter DA 1.0 f .sit By Pete Johnson. Miles. Creates a "rap sheet" of unfinished games. Converts text on the Clipboard into information about your computer and OtherMenu 1.3.1 f .sit By James W. quotes in the form generally used by the programs on it. The rap sheet may Walker. Creates a system-wide FidoNet boards. It can also reformat be copied to the clipboard or saved as a hierarchical menu (up to 5 levels deep), textwithoutaddingthe quoter's initials text file for later formatting in your somewhat similar to the Apple menu. and has an encrypting function using favorite word processor. Designed to It can be used for launching a "decoder ring" for those private facilitate collecting information about applications and documents, restart conversations on a BBS. About your system when you need to report and shut down, various file Quoter DA... is in text format. suspected bugs in programs. management functions, and executing RamDisk+3.22f.sit:ByRogerD.Bates. DISK #25.09C- 9 FKEYs. OtherMenu Manual and A RAM Disk program designed to run THE BEST OF THE P1 other documents are in TeachText automatically on startup. It copies any M~ire 4.01 f: By John Lim. A color format. For System 7.0 and later. selected files and folders to the RAM Mflfire screensaverwith a built-in menu Shareware -$10. disk and optionally installs a crash clock. Includes a variety of user PhoneBook Plus 2.6.4 /.sit: By Tim saver to recover from system bombs. selectable shapes, colors, lengths and Herzog. A program for handling long This program is considered by many to speeds as well as sleep and wake lists ofnames and addresses, extensive be the best of the shareware RAM position selection. Shareware -$10. phone dialing features, envelope disks. Read Me • RamDisk+ is in Mountlmage 1.2b2 /.sit By Steve printing, and a robust phone call timer. TeachText format. System 6 and 7 Christensen, Apple Computer, Inc. It also can open multiple files, import compatible. Shareware - $35. Mounts the image of disks created and export text files, print reports and RPN Cale.sit: By Jonathan Hess. A with Apple's DiskCopy 4.x. The disks display the phone log. PhoneBook RPN calculator based inspired by the may be "locked" or "unlocked" just like 2.6.4Notes/ReadMe is in text format. more complex Hewlett Packard types. a floppy. Mountlmage 1.2b2 doc is Shareware -$25. Plenty ofscientific functions and some in text format. PopChar 2.7.1 /.sit: By Gunther limited financial functions. Click the? NetCal 1.4.4 /.sit By Tad Woods. Blaschek. Enables you to generate button on the DAfor help. Shareware Displays a window with a one month every possible character that is -$10. desktop or wall type calendar. You available in the current font without Sad Mac Error Codes 3.82.sit: may select a day and enter notes for having to remember keyboard Assembled by Jean Bauldin. The that day in a scrollable note area. You combinations or to resort to Key Caps. diagnostic error codes for different may have multiple calendars on one It's all done with the mouse. System 6 versions of the Macintosh in double Mac and may have multiple Macs each and 7 compatible. clickable DOCMaker application with one or more calendars. If you Preview 3.0 /.sit: By Software by format. send in the shareware fee, you receive Design. Gives a print preview even in DISK #25. IOC- 10 INITs that let users share calendars applications that don't specifically have THE BEST OF THE P1 across anAppleTalk network. NetCal such a feature. Also includes an FKEY Remember? DA 2.3.4 /.sit: By Dave • Documentation is in Word and to toggle your 'real' driver and this one. Warker.ADeskAccessoryandanINIT Write format. Requires System 6.X or Preview 3.0 Docs is in Word format. to recall descriptions of important later. Shareware -$10 per user for Print2Pict 3.5 /.sit: By B. Raoult. network sharing keys. occasions, both one-time only (such as Preview and save printed pages to a appointments) and repeating (like NeuSansBlackPro 'IT f.sit: By Jim PICT file. The contents of P2P birthdays) entered into a file. The Pearson. A sans-seriftypeface designed Extensions f permits you to save Remember? Extension reminds of for almost every phase of font use. It's printed pages to Pixmap PICT (raster impending events when the Mac is handy for emphasizing text, headlines, PICT), Paint, PICS, Postcard, scrap powered up or reset. Remember? special announcements, etc. About and text formats. README is in 2.3.2 User's Guide is in double NeuSansBlack is in double clickable double clickable application format and clickableDOCMakerformat.ReadMe

July/August 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 65 First and Remember? V2.3.4 Shareware -$10. of the Mac and System Software. Changes are in text format. SIMM Stack 4.2.1 *.sit: By Apple SoundMover 1.75moves sounds into Shareware -$20. Computer. A HyperCard stack that and out of the System file and ResetDTDBs2.0 f .sit: By Brian Gaeke. provides the SIMM (Single Inline automatically converts between Resets the Desktop Databases on each Memory Module) configurations ofthe several different (and incompatible) mounted volume. Eject all floppy disks majority ofMacs. A logic board layout, sound formats. 1Beep2 lets you pick and read-only disks and quit all memory alternatives, memory speed an alternative to the standard sound running applications prior to use. and other pertinent data are shown for of the Macintosh beep and works with Don't Read Me is in TeachText each computer. Requires current MacPlusandSEusersrunningSystem format. version of HyperCard or HyperCard 4.1 and later. SndControl contains two Saloon Tl' f .sit: By Robert Schenk. A Player. complementarycdevs to Apple's Sound bold display typeface with an "Old­ SmartCal 2.3.4 f.sit: By Lee Ann control panel, one for System System 6 West" feel. Shareware-$16 for this Rucker. Smart Calendar is an INIT/ and one for System 7. StartupSndlnit font and 12 others. DA combination. The Calendar DA plays compatible sounds placed in the System Folder. SMP Read Me is in Scrapz 1.3.2 .sit By Lars Sundstrom. allows you to save messages, and the f TeachText format and SndControl AreplacementfortheApple scrapbook INIT reminds you of them when you Manual and Format 1 vs Format 2 that has features such as import/ first start up your Macintosh. Smart snds••• are in text format.Shareware export, resizeable window, partial Cal Converter produces a text file -$26. selection oftext and pictures ,multiple that may be used with Calendar Maker. scrapbooks and more. Scrapz Read For System 6.0.x or higher to see DISK#25.11C- 11 Me is in text format. reminders, calendar should work with THE BEST OF THE P1 SCSIProbe 3.5 f.sit: By Robert Polle. earliersystems.ReadMe-. SmartCal Sound Extractor 1.31 f. By Alberto Displays status ofSCSI drive in control is in text format. Ricci. Extracts sound resources from panel; mounts SCSI disks and disks SndConverter Pro 2.2 f .sit: By David SoundMover and SoundEdit suitcases that have been dragged to the trash. Lambert. Convert between SoundEdit and creates a folder with sounds that Also reads drive PROMs and reports files, SoundMover suitcases, System 7 can be played from within System 7 by back vendor, product and version sounds and System 7 suitcases. About double clicking them. Also extracts numbers. SCSIProbe.ReadMe is in SndConverter Pro and other any contained sound resources from TeachText format. System 6 and 7 documentation are in TeachText applications, stacks and other files. compatible. format. Compatible with System 6.0 For System 7.0 and later. SCSIProbe3.5sqf.sit: By RobertPolic. and later and Mac 512KE and later. SoundExtractor Doc is in text Displays status ofSCSI drive in control Shareware -$20. format. Shareware - $6. panel; mounts SCSI disks and disks sndConverter 1.2.1 f. By Joe Zobkiw. SoundMaster 1.7.5 f .sit By Bruce that have been dragged to the trash. Converts or extracts 'snd' resources to Tomlin. Specify startup, beep, disk Also reads drive PROMs and reports a format that may be used with System insert, disk eject, bad disk, restart, back vendor, product and version 7.0 and higher. Includes two sound shutdown and key click sounds, rates numbers. This version is sponsored by files; Razz SysBark (to be converted) and volumes from folders inside your SyQuest for use with their cartridge and Triangle (7.0 compatible). System folders. Use System 6.0.4 or drives. SCSIProbe.ReadMe and sndConverter 1.2.1 Read Me! is in higher. System 6 and 7 compatible. SyQuest SCSI Probe User's Guide text format. SoundMaster.doc and are in TeachText format. System 6 SoftwareFPU 2.45 f .sit: By John Neil. SoundMaster changes are in text and 7 compatible. Allows most programs expecting an format. Shareware -$16. Set Clock 3.3.sit: By Jim Leitch. FPU to work properly on the Macintosh Spacelnvader! 1.02/.sit By Hui Dong. Synchronize your Mac to within one Classic II, Color Classic, LC series and Afast action, shoot-em-up, destroy the second with a 10 second call to Toronto Hsi and some models of PowerBook, dreadful space invaders arcade game. Canada, Washington D.C. or Centris and Performa series which are There are more different types of Chesapeake Virginia. not configured with an FPU. An FPU weapons to defend against than anyone Set Paths 1.lb4 f .sit By Bruce Tomlin. (Floating Point Unit) is a hardware could stand. Requires 256 color or gray A control panel file which maintains a chip that performs certain types of scale Mac and a 640x480 pixel screen list ofup to five folders. The list is used mathematical operations quickly. An (13/14 inch). Shareware - $20. as a search path any time a file open FPU is also known as a floating point Speedometer 3.21 f.sit By Scott operation occurs. A very handy way to co-processor or a math co-processor. Berfield. A system information and reduce System folder clutter. Set About SoftwareFPU and performance testing program for the Paths.doc is in text format. Programmer Info are in Word Macintosh family of computers. format;ReleaseNotesisin TeachText Various tests are available; the central Shaman 1.1.0 f .sit By Robert Hess. A format. For System 6 and later. utility that helps you use file sharing one is designed to give a performance Shareware - $10. and Apple Remote Access by letting rating for the system as a whole. you control and view what is Sound Mover Pkg 1.75 /.sit: By Intended to help you understand and happening. Requires System 7.0 or Riccardo Ettore. A package of four tune the performance ofyour computer later. Read Me is in text format. sound programs for different versions and to give you some basis for

66 Washington Apple Pi Journal July/August 1994 comparing different systems. Version Symbionts 2.3.3 f .sit: By B. Kevin System 7 Pack 3.5 J.sit: By Adam History is in text format. Shareware Hardman. Manage the loading of Stein. Allows you to change, add, and -$30. Extensions. Also monitors the startup delete Finder menu command key SpeedyFinder7 1.5.9d f .sit By Victor process and displays the name of, and combinations. Permits you to change Tan. Speed up the Mac Finder when bytes of memory used by each system the rename delay built into System 7. copying files, opening or closing extension. The name and number Allows you to set the default windows, changing file name and appear beneath the extension's icon, Application used to open textandPICT emptying the trash. It also has some and also in the menu bar. Symbionts documents when the creator other features such as adding Read.me is in TeachText format. applications are not available. You can additional command key shortcuts and Shareware -$20. create new links between documents optionally removing Balloon Help from SysErrTableDA 3.1.sit: By Bill and applications; for example, the menu. SpeedyFinder7.doc and Steinberg. Displays a comprehensive Mac Write documents can be linked to Release Notes 1.5.9.doc are in list of Macintosh errors. The window open under MS-Word. System 7Pack! Mac Write format. For System 7.0 and comes set for the proper width, and it 3.5 OrderForm and System 7Pack! later. Shareware -Aus$20. auto-centers itselfon the main screen. Quick Start are in text format; Star 'Roids 7.0.sit: By Jason FeJTara. On a color Mac II, it'll be in color. With System 7 Pack! Documentation is Anarcadegame,oneofthe best Asteroids a little work with ResEdit it can be in double clickable DOCMakerformat. games available for the Mac. Two sizes used to display other information too. For System 7.0andlater.Shareware of asteroids and two kinds of flying Click on the author credit ofthe DA for -$29.96. saucers. Pick up equipment pods for the documentation. System Errors 7.0.1.sit By Pete Corlis. additional capabilitiesorfirepower.For D1SK#25.13C- 13 A stand-alone document which sets Mac Plus and later. Shareware -$5. outthehostoferrorcodeswhichSystem THE BEST OF THE P, 7 can generate. For System 7 and DISK#25.12C- 12 Scraplt ](DA.sit: By John V. Holder. A later. THE BEST OF THE Pl replacement for Apple's Scrapbook DA; TapeLabeler4.0b3J.sit: By Johnathon Star Trek Fonts PS J.sit: By James this one lets you create and access Z. Simon. A real winner for tape Sharer. A package of five Star Trek multiple files, import text, PICT, 'snd' cassette fans. Prints professional Type 1 fonts; Star Trek Classic (sound) and Paint files, export text, looking cassette labels on the (roman and italic), StarTrek Classic PICT, 'snd' and Paint files and perform ImageWriter or LaserWriter. There is Movies, Star Trek TNG Crille and other useful functions. Shareware - space to type two artists, two album Star Trek TNG Titles. The $16. titles and30 songs, plus noise reduction documentation Star Trek Fonts StudioCraft 1.3 f .sit By Sean Bergin. mode and recording dates (for each READ ME is in text format. A multi-layer color drawing program. side of the tape). Specify the tape Shareware -$20. Drawing tools include airbrush and length, bias/equalization, tape brand Stuftit Expander™ 3.0.7 J.sit: By pen and a drop shadow function is and tape type, a catalog number and a Leonard Rosenthal. Decompress any built in. ReadMe • StudioCraft is in distinctive Identification pattern. Even non-encrypted Macintosh archives TeachText format. Requires System 6 prints in color. Tape Labeler compressed with Stuffit, Compact Pro or later with Color QuickDraw; and 4.0beta3 Docs describes the features or AppleLink packages. Also decodes Mac II, SE/30 or LC or better with 256 and how to customize it using ResEdit. files which have been encoded by color or gray scale. Shareware -$36. TattleTale 1. 7.1 f .sit By John Mancino. BinHex 4.0 (or a compatible product). SuperClock! 4.0.4 J.sit: By Steve Collects very complete information Stuffit Expander 3.0. 7 Docs is in Christensen. The classic full-featured about your computer and its system text format. Requires System 6.0.4 or menu clock; with timer and other related software. You may view later. features. Perhaps the best free software information on screen by category, Stuffit Lite™ 3.0.7 Install.sit: By value available for the Macintosh. print it, write to a standard text file in Raymond Lau and Aladdin Systems, SuperClock! README and standard or a special Bug Report Inc. The Stuffit series of programs SuperClock!4.0.4 release notes are format, or output it in database create a type of file called an archive, in TeachText format. For System 6.0. 7 readable format. !! Please Read Me!! which is a collection ofone or more files and later. Free, but ifyou really want 1. 7.land TTale App Docs.Text 1. 7.1 and folders that have been reduced in to send something, send it to Stanford are in text format and TTale App size through compression. Stuffit Lite Children's Hospital. Docs 1.7.lis in Write format. Requires includes some of the features ofStuffit Synchronize! 3.0 f .sit: By Qdea. This System 6.0.4 and later; Mac Plus and Deluxe, Raymond's commercial limited capablity demo keeps the later. program. Easy to install, just double contents of folders on two computers click and follow the directions. Stuffit the same by copying the most recent DISK#25.14C- 14 Lite User's Guide is in DOCMaker files from one to the other. Perfect for THE BEST OF THE Pl application format and Stuffit Lite keeping the PowerBook and desktop TechTool 1.0.4.sit By Robert Sanders ReadMeisin textformat.Shareware Macs up to date. Synchronize! Desc and JeffBaudin. Rebuild the Desktop -$26. (TeachText) is in Teach Text format. or zap the PRAM (Parameter RAM) Commercial - $29.96. the easy way with this simple utility. Read the included Help dialog to see

July/August 1994 Washington Apple Pi Journal 67 why you may want to do this. copy or delete files found during the Read me Will-Harris is in text The Sound-Trecker V2.0.1 f.sit By search. Also permits you to search for format. Frank Seide. An application to play text within files. UltraFindReadMe WindowFinder 1.3 f.sit By Edward mod soundtracks; these relatively is in text format; UltraFindManual Agoff. A most useful utility. Just small size files may play in the (MacWrite) is as indicated. For Command click in the menu bar at any background while you do other things System 7.0 or later.Shareware-$87. time to pop up a menu that lets you on your Mac. You may control the DISK#25.14C- 14 select any open window and bring it to order in which the soundtracks are THE BEST OF THE P1 the front. About WindowFinder is played, the volume of each of the four in text format. UltraBlack PS f .sit: By Gary tracks and the overall volume. You Hagestead. A bold headline Type 1 WindowShade 1.2 f: By Robert also have many ofthe same controls as font consisting ofupper and lower case Johnston. Double click anywhere on an audio CD or tape player including letters and most of the commonly used the title bar of the window and the repeatand shuffle play. Requires68020 symbols. It is patterned after the lower part of the window will 'roll up' or higher CPU. Documentation is in "HelveticaBlack" type style. underneath the title bar. Double click on Word format. Shareware - $80. UltraBlack.docs is in MacWrite the title bar again and the window will theTypeBook v3.26s f.sit: By Jim format. Shareware-$15. lowertoitsoriginalsize. WindowShade Lewis. Create and maintain a typeface Doc is in TeachText format. USDebt 5.3 f .sit: By Chris Riley. reference book (extremely popular in the Displays and increments National WindowWizard.1.1 f .sit By Eric de la Graphics and Typesetting industries). Debt from Federal Deficits current Musse. Switch quickly back and forth Helps people select typefaces by through1February1994andprojected between open windows and demonstrating the various artistic for later years. USDebt 5.3 Docs • applications using a pop-up menu. attributes of each face on a printed page. word is in Word format. Great for navigating open windows on tTB-RefGuide 3.2.txt and other a PB. WWl.l doc US (MW) is in documents are in text format. Compatible VendorDA 1.43 (B&W) f .sit By Bill MacWrite format. For system 7 and with System 7.0 and TrueType. B~dridge, one of Washington Apple later. Shareware - $20. Pis own members. A very useful list of ToDo!3.2.1 DAf.sit By Andrew Welch. Macintosh computer product related WrapScreen 1.2/.sit By EricAubourg. Allows you to keep track of the myriad vendors and their phone numbers. This Allows your mouse to wrap across your ofthings you need to do in an organized version, no longer a DA, was created screen and come out the other side. and easily accessible manner. Permits with Print2Pict by Baudoin Raulot. You can choose to wrap horizontally tasks to be categorized by any number Both B& W and color versions are vertically or both. WrapScree~ of topics and then assigned any of four included. About VDA 1.43 is in READ:ME is in TeachText format. priorities. It sorts all lists TeachText format. Shareware-$10. Shareware - what you think it is alphabetically and permits printing worth. by topic and priority. To Do! 3.2.1 VendorDA 1.43 (Color) f.sit By Bill Baldridge. The color version of the Zipple 1.9.2 f .sit By ChristopherSuley. Docs is in double clickable Document Adds an animated image ofyour choice Reader format. Shareware -$15. preceeding. About VDA is in TeachText format. Shareware-$10. over the title of the Apple, Balloon TrashMan 4.0.5 f.sit: By Dan Help or Application menu. Zipple 1.9.2 Walkowski. Deletes files from your Victoire 1.0.3 f.sit By Samuel K. Manual is in TeachText format. For Caughron. Use this Control Panel to trash after they have 'aged' beyond a System 7.0andlater.Shareware-$10. setpoint that you specify, in days, cheat at a number of games by getting extra moves, lives, etc. Read Me is in ZTerm 0.9 f .sit: By David P. Alverson. hours, and minutes. Works with all The communications program mounted volumes, including text format and Registration Form is in TeachTextformat.Shareware-$15. recommended by our TCS crew. It AppleShare. TrashMan Emptier supports X-, Y- and Z-Modem data empties the trash ofany volume that is Virtual Desktop 1.7 f.sit By Ross transfers and also includes ten user Brown. Create a desktop as large as dropped on it, acting like a selective configurable macros and limited you like no matter what size your 'Empty Trash' command. TrashMan scripting. We have preconfigured the monitor. Excellent for those Macs with 4.0.5Docsisintextformat.ForSystem telephone list with the WAP TCS 2400 small screens and big ambitions. About 7 and later. Shareware - $10. and 9600 Baud telephone numbers as AWOL Utilities 1.1 is in TeachText Typelt4Me4.0 f .sit: By Riccardo Ettore. well as corresponding numbers for the format. Provides a pop-up menu accessed to Twilight Clone. ZTermDoc0.9 (MW) the left of the Apple menu from which Will-Harris TT f .sit: By David is in MacWrite format, most other you can select pre-stored phrases. Rakowski. A font patterned after the documentation is in text format. Typelt4Me UserManualisindouble display font 'Skyline.' It is a special­ Shareware -$40. clickable DOCMakerformat. Requires effect font wherein the characters look System 4.1 or later. Shareware -$80 like views through Venetian blinds of DISK #SU 3.0 (1.44M) fordisk withlatestversionplusother a city skyline. A headline set in this SYSTEM 7.1 UPDA1E 3.0 free and shareware programs. font will appear to have been cut from This two disk set fixes bugs and improves UltraFind 1.0.3 f.sit By Julian and a continuous city skyline. 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68 Washington Apple Pi Journal July/August 1994 It applies to all Macs except those with Installer and script which SOOK drives which are accommodated automatically installs the proper with Disk #SU 3.0 (SOOK). System modifications for your system and Mac Update 3.0 incorporates all prior and removes superceded System enhancements and bug fixes ofSystem components. Update 2.0.2, Hardware System Install System Update 3.0, Installer -HP7475A Plotter-Like new in Update 2.0 and Hardware System 4.0, SimpleText 1.0, System Update original packing. With Macintosh Update 1.0. This disk includes an 3.0 SOOK Archive 3.0 and System cable and supplies. $650.00 call Installer and script which Update 3.0 Read Me SOOK 3.0. Larry at 703-644-2697 automatically installs the proper System Resources f includes Keyboard -External 2400 baud Zoom mo· modifications for your system and Mac Resources 1.0.3, Serial Resources dem (v42.bis). Comes with modem and removes superceded System 1.0andStandardFileResources 1.0. cable for Mac, Apple Ilgs, or Apple components. Utilities fincludesApple HD SC Setup Ile+. Phil (202) 686-5465. Install System Update 3.0, Installer 7.3.1 and Disk First Aid 7 .2. -Zoom/Fax Modem Model FX 96/ 4.0, SimpleText 1.0, System Update 3.0 Archive 3.0 and System Update DISK #QT.162 (1.44M) 24. Usedoneyearwithaseven-year 3.0 Read Me 3.0. QUICKTiME 1.6.2 warranty. Price $50.00 Call Bar­ bara viaMarylandRelay 1-800-735- System Resources f includes Keyboard QuickTime™ 1.6.2, by Apple Computer, Resources 1.0.3, Serial Resources Inc., is the System Extension. 2258, then 301-229-6028 1.0 and StandardFile Resources 1.0. QuickTime Read Me is a TeachText --8MD Simms (2) SONS - 72Pin - Utilities f includes Apple HD SC Setup formatted document that explains how NEC used by HP 1200, 650c etc. and 7.3.1 and Disk First Aid 7.2. to install QuickTime extension and Pentiom PCs. Price $540.00 for both. Scrapbook. Replacement Scrapbook Disk 2 of the set includes the following: Call 703-971-5295 File includes Scrapbook File Read PowerBook Duo Enabler 1.0, -Radius Rocket 040 Accelera­ Me, Scrapbook File and sample PowerPC Enabler 1.0.1, PowerPC tor, new, $500. RasterOps 24 Bit movie. Scrapbook 7.1.2 is a DA that Upgrade Card Enabler 7 .1.2, Color Board, $200. (703) 978-0031. replaces the earlier version ofthe same System Enabler 003 1.1, System -HP LaserJet Printer Postscript name. TeachText 7.1 is used to read Enabler 040 1.1, System Enabler the documentation. Cartridge alongw/doc. and TurboNet 065 1.2, System Enabler 088 1.2, cabling for hook-up to Mac. $99. Call System Enabler 1311.0.3, System DISK#QT.16 HR (301) 670-0884 (Gaithersburg). Enabler 401 1.0.5 and System Qu1cKTiME 1.6 -Mac Lightning Scan 400 hand Enabler 403 1.0.2. QuickTime 1.6.2: By Apple Computer, scanner; 400 dpi; Thunderworks and Inc. QuickTime™ is the System DISK #SU 3.0 (BOOK) Extension. QuickTime Read Me is "Read it" OCR software, manuals. SYSTEM UPDATE 7. 1 3.0 a TeachText formatted document $175.00 Call Lynn at 301-845-4741 This one disk is for Macs with SOOK disk that explains how to install drives; it fixes bugs and improves QuickTime extension and Scrap­ Info Request performance and reliability of System book. Replacement Scrapbook File Is anyone using Lonworks Net­ 7.1 and7.1.1(System7 Pro). It applies includes Scrapbook File Read Me, working Technology by Echelon? only to Macs BOOK drives-Mac Plus, Scrapbook File and sample Please reply to Al Carlton, 6102 Mac SE and Mac II. System Update movies. Scrapbook is a DA that Winsome Lane, #7, Houston, TX 3.0 incorporates all prior replaces the earlier version of the enhancements and bug fixes ofSystem 77057. (Or CompuServe same name. TeachText 7.1 is used 74650,1006) or on TCS. Update 2.0.2, Hardware System to read the documentation. Update 2.0 and Hardware System Update 1.0. This disk includes an

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