1991 Since the day the Apple III (RIP) introduced in 1992 was 1980, the''experts'' h ave 1993 been saying the Apple II is a dead machine. I the 1994 Apple III couldn't kill it, the Usa (RIP) or the PC Jr 1995 (RIP) or the 128K Mac

1996 {RIP) would. Some people never learn. I thinkw e'll 1997 see 2001 before we see the end of the Apple II. 1998 Here's wby•••

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We're Apple H experts. 2000 Winter 1990 2 A2·Central Catalog !Yumber 1 Introduction

As we've tried to show on our cover, people have been predicting the demise of the Apple II since the Apple Ill was introduced in 1980-just a few months after I bought my first Apple II. I once told people that I carried around in my billfold, where most people have pictures of their children, a seasonally-adjusted chart of the rate at which computer industry pundits were declaring the death of the Apple II. It's always been ridiculous. Let me be clear: When I started this company six years ago, there were just as many unfounded rumors about Apple's upcoming discontinuance of the Apple II line as there are today. Here's why we've never believed these rumors and why you shouldn't either:

• Apple has sold over 5 million Apple lis (well over half of them since the Macintosh was introduced, incidentally) and continues to sell about half a billion dollars worth of them each year. Public companies like Apple don't just stop selling profitable products, product lines this large, or brand names as well known as this one.

• Don't be fooled by the apparent lack of dealer interest in the Apple II. Retail salespeople at Apple dealers rarely know anything about the Apple 11. Meanwhile, the dealer's education salespeople in the back Hi. I'm Tom Weishaar. I've been using Apple lis since 1980. I've written room are selling them by the truckload.

Apple II soft;�Nare that was published by Beagle Bros; I've written articles • About two-thirds of all computers in U.S. elementary and secondary and :books about the Apple II for Softalk and Tab Books. I've been schools are Apple lis. The other third is a mix of various kinds of interviewed in Nibble (February 1988, page I 0}; and inCider called me incompatible equipment. The U.S. education system is highly unlikely an Apple II hero (December 1987, page 68). On the other hand, I could to throw away its investment in hardware, software, and training any tell you about the time my Toyota stationwagon rolled into the creek time soon, particularly whilethe Apple II continues to meet the needs behind my house, but that story isn't so flattering. of the system. Six years ago, as computer industry experts were declaring the death • The Apple llgs is a state-of-the-art computer, not "ten-year-old of the Apple II, I started an 8-page monthly Apple II newsletter called technology," as IBM education salespeople like to say. Its system Open-Apple. It was immediately successful and grew into A2·Centtal, a software provides its users with a reliable, tested, and fully up-to-date small company that's now at the heart of the world-wide Apple II desktop interface, it comes with built-in networking capability, its community. memory can be expanded to five or even eight megabytes, its sound I still publish that 8-page monthly Apple II newsletter, but now it's and video capabilities are superb, and it is price-competitive with called A2·Central and it's edited by Dennis Doms. We also publish a similar systems from other Fortune 500 companies. version of A2·Central on 3.5 disks. Dean Esmay puts that together for • Apple's managers have repeatedly said that they intend to demonstrate us. and provide a long-term commitment to their Apple II customers. This year we started two other 3.5-disk-based publications. The first, During the summer of 1990 they made a giant leap toward that goal Stack-Central, edited by Terry Baker, revolves around HyperStudio and by creating a high-level executive position that is concerned with multimedia on the Apple llgs. The other, TimeOut-Central, edited by nothing but the Apple II. Ralph Russo, a seven-year Apple veteran Richard Marchiafava, revolves around Apple Works and the TimeOut with a strong commitment to the Apple II, was appointed to the post. series from Beagle Bros. Each month we include a 4-page catalog in the envelope with our Six years ago I started a new Apple 11-only publication and the newsletter. Qur goal has been to provide the Apple II community a "experts" said I was crazy. In 1990 I started two of them. Glory be.

reliable source of high-quality hardware, software, and books that are of Jay Jennings, Jeff Neuer, Joyce Hammond, and even my mother, Jean usually not available from local dealers. Tom Vanderpool, who was Weishaar, who spends one week a month here making copies of our recently elected president of our local Apple user group here in the monthly disk and sending them out. Kansas City area, runs this part of our business. The significant thing about the Apple II has always been the A2·Central manages the Apple II areas on GEnie, General Electric's community of people that has sprung up around the machine, teaching international online information service. Chet Day is our head sysop. other people how to use it, designing hard and software for it, exposing Two years ago we started the A2·Central Summer Conference, its inner flesh to light of day, and using it to manage businesses, run which takes place at Avila College in Kansas City in late July. Popularly church groups, educate children, and turn out prosperous and happy known as "Kansasfest," our summer conference is heavily supported by human beings. Apple Computer and has become the premier technical gathering for You are the core of our business and we pledge to be here as long as Apple II hardware and software developers each year. Sally Dwyer is o�.:r you are. We're Apple II experts, we're proud of it, we use Apple lis every conference manager. day in. our personal lives, and we envision continuing to. do so as far Right behind these people you'll find the A2·Central supporting cast ahead as we can see. 22 A2·Central catalog Number I Index

A2·Central Newsletter Info ...... 4 Editorial...... 2 Monitors ...... 18

A2·Central Subscriptions ...... 5 Education ...... 20 Music ...... 20 A2·Central Summer Conference ...... 12 Electronic Imaging ...... 9 Nexus ...... :...... 8 Applesoft Utilities ...... 13 Fans...... 19 Paint Programs ...... 9

Apple Talk Books ...... 18 Fastdata Pro ...... 5 Pascal ...... 15 Apple Talk Connecters...... 18 File Conversion...... 19 Printer Books ...... 18

AppleWorksAdd-ons ...... 7 Fonts ...... 9 Printers ...... 18 AppleWorks Books ...... 6 Games ...... 21 ProDOS 8 ...... 13 AppleWorks/GS Books ...... 6 GEnie...... 10 Programming Courses...... 15 Assembly Language /16-bit...... 15 Graphics Utilities...... 9 ProSel ...... 20 Assembly Language /8-bit ...... 13 Greetings ...... 2 RAM...... 17

Audio Tapes ...... 12 GSNumerics ...... 3 RAM Disks ...... 17 Battery ...... 19 Hard Drive Utilities ...... -...... 16 Resource Editors ...... 13 C Language ...... 15 Hard Drives - External ...... 16 Salvation Utilities ...... 20

Cables ...... 11 Hard Drives - Internal ...... 17 Scanners ...... 9 ClipArt ...... 9 Hypermedia ...... 8 SCSI Cards...... 16

DeskAccessories ...... 21 HyperStudio ...... 8 Specials ...... 3 Digitized Sounds...... 9 llgs Programming Books ...... 14 Stack-Central lnfo ...... 8 Disk Accessories ...... 17 KansasFest...... 12 Technical Reference Books ...... 21 Disk Drives - 3.5 ...... 17 Math Coprocessor ...... 19 Telecommunications ...... 11

Disk Management...... 20 Memory Expansion Cards ...... 17 TimeOut-Central lnfo ...... 6

Disks - Blank ...... 3 Modems ...... 11 UltraM acros ...... 7

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EIIIJN.166_ ___ 2 DIR storm Breaker adventure in here V6.N06.JUL.90 132TXT July 1990 issue of A2-Central BASIC.CDA 4 CDA Visit llpplesoft frao anywhere NAUG.CO!fEREI!l 41 m Interview of Harren Williare of NAUG li:XJSET!X'I.INro 4 CDA BandyMousetext chert May 1990 IA2.0N.DISK.9005 PROORAMS 1 DIR Useful stuff in here D.I.PAili!ER 154 NDA Paint program in a llgs NDA' FILE.CDA 1 DIR llgs file manager CDA in here FM.V!Eii --- 21 NDA NDAto view amy font Filemure Blocks Type r:.scription GPJIKIR.MACS 1 DIR Autanatic granmar checking system GENIE.MASIER 1 DIR GFnie navigation program in here .90 --- 123 TXT May '90 issue of A2-Central Gli!M1tCIIECIIER 66 AIIP 2 files. ReqsAllo rks, UltraMacros GIN 262 DIR 21 files : :::- Rl'C.MDBAS!C.IX! 58 TXT Rl'C Transcript with Morgan Davis 11!11!1l111P!I.GS 1 D!R Cooplete set of llgs utilities LIS! 1 DIR Stowa Keller's LIS! utility PROORAMS 1 DIR Useful, exciting stuff in here UWGS.DOC.A 855 TXT 6 files IIS!.SYS� 163 SYS 2 files DB.MAS!ER'----- 1 DIR DB Master Version V in here' MISC.GOCDIES 1 D!R Fun stuff in here MISC.IlXll!ES 2 DIR Fun stuff in here DCP ---- 1 DIR Program to disable GS Contrl Panel !liAC.'IAIS.2E 1 DIR 8-bit program to generate fractals' =- FMS 2 D!R Also in 10, 12, 14, 18, 20, 24, 28, SQUIRT 1 DIR Shareware program selector in here FRAC'!AL.2E 13TXT 6 files liALL.ST.9 5 1111 36, and 48 points. 9 files IECJil!)!E.UPDA!E 1 DIR New technical notes in here PACII!li.GIIIES 1 DIR Clljlressed 8-bit gares in here' __ IN.UPD.3.90.S_IIK 313 $10 May '90 llpp!e tech note update August 1990 IA2.0N.DISK.9008 SIIKiliKI! 81 SYS Kist use this to play games IN.M!SSING.SIIK 30 $EO Tech notes we've missed FWBYlii!D.SDK 160 $EO SUpernew Breakout gare' Filenillll! Blocks Type SIIKINK!I 1 DIR New versions of Shtinklt in here' DEFND�.SDK 80 $EO Clone of an arcade classic V6.N01.AUG.90.____ 128 TXT lllqust, 1990 issuo of A2-c.ntral SI!RINKIT 81 SYS Actual ShrinkIt 3. 0.1 program IETIEIIS --- 41 TXT letters to I:oan IIPLUS.SMRII!Kll 24 SYS Shrinks files on !!+, un-enh. lie '=::::- Slil!CIIMASTR.RIC___ 40 TXT Conference with SWitclmiaster authors October 1990 IA2.0N.DISK.901 0 IIPLUS.UNS!IRINK__ 26 SYS Unshtinks on !!+, un-enh. lie PROORAMS 1 DIR Useful stuff in here Filenare Blocks Type I A2.0N.DISK.9006 AIAPlUIOCK 1 D!R New alam clock macro V6.N09.1X.'1.90____ 133TXT October 1990 A2-Central ALARM.MACS 19 AIIP Requires AH 3.0, Ultramacros 3.1 GENIE .INFO 11 TXT New info on GFnie services Blocks Type r:.scription JIJMPSIARI 1 DIR llgs program selector A2.11Bl1ARIES 2 DIR GFnie's llpple !I library data bsses

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Desk Accessories are those nifty Apple llgs available for less than it will cost new. ProDOS 8 or DOS 3.3 programs. Return to any programs you can get to while you're running If you find yourself needing to create of the programs exactly where you left off. You another program. You get to the Classic Desk subdirectories or move and delete files while can save suspended programs in mid-operation, Accessory, or CDA, menu by pressing open­ you're in a program that doesn't have a full­ and you can copy and paste graphics screens apple/control/escape. You get to the list of New featured utility menu, you're stuck. Or rather, between programs. You can take a "snap-shot" Disk Accessories by pressing on the Apple icon you used to be stuck. Now you can choose of any graphics or text screen. Requires a 768K at the left edge of the menu bar on desktop between Disk Access, from Seven Hills llgs. programs. Software, or Desktop File Control- from Roger MacroMate, also from Roger Wagner If you're looking for a complete set of desk Wagner Publishing. Both of them give you much Publishing, is a CDA that allows you to create accessories for your Apple llgs, look no further. the same control over your files. Disk Access keyboard macros that work with virtually any 8 Deskpak from Simple Software Systems gives you more functions, but Desktop file or 16-bit program. Set up a macro to create International contains tools and utilities that Control is more aesthetically pleasing (what can your letterhead in a word processor, or just will make your computing life a breeze. The I say, I like groovy-looking interfaces). Do replace any known set of keystrokes with one fifteen NDAs in this package include an yourself a favor and get one of these packages. key. MacroMate allows you to record macros, or appointment calendar, 25-page note pad, mini­ Quitting back to The finder in order to move, create them with the built-in editor. database, full function calculator, disk utility, copy, delete, etc., files will be a thing of the SS-008 Deskpak $15.00 two games, file printer, and more. As this past. Disk Access also includes an elementary SH-001 Disk Access $30.00 catalog went to press, Deskpak was being file launcher. RW-010 Desktop File Control $24.00 completely rewritten. The bargain-basement You can turn your Apple llgs into a desk full RW-003 SoftSwitch $45.00 $37.50 price we show here is for the old version. If we of lies that you can use at the same time with RW-006 MacroMate still have some, you can get one and then the SoftSwitch CDA from Roger Wagner to the new version when it becomes Pu Switch between different

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Most of the technical reference books same kind of materials for that computer. detailed troubleshooting diagrams, which lead available for the Apple II series are listed The SAMS Computerfacts series is a line of you step by step through figuring out what is among the programming items we carry on books written for the professional service wrong with a malfunctioning computer. Tells pages 12 to 15. We have a few goodies left that technician. The books include schematics, you which chips to replace, where you'll find wouldn't fit there, however, and here they are. troubleshooting tips, replacement part num· them on the motherboard, and their part First we have Apple's own Technical bers, and service and adjustment tips. SAMS numbers. Reference Manuals for the Apple lie and publishes these for the Apple lie (includes CPU, AW-003 Apple: lie Tech Reference $24.95 Apple lie. These books have a wealth of disk drive, and monitor), Disk IL and Image­ AW-004 Apple: lie Tech Reference $24.95 information, including long descriptions of the Writer I and II printers. We stock them all. LC-005 Laser: Laser 128 Tech Reference $29.95 machines' hardware and firmware, schematics, The Apple 11 Plus/11e Troubleshooting lk HS-005 SAMS Computerfacts: lie $39.95 $24.95 timing diagrams, and firmware source code. Repair Guide, by Robert Brenner, has chapters HS-003 SAMS Computerfacts: Disk 11 $24.95 We also have Laser's Technical Reference on basic and advanced troubleshooting for HS-004 SAMS Computerfacts: /Writer 1 $24.95 Manual for the Laser 128. It contains the both computers. The strength of the book is its HS-008 SAMS Computerfacts: /Writer II HS-006 Apple II Troubleshooting ttRpr $19.95

We don't carry many games because local page II. Runs on any Apple IL but requires a The truth is we can't fit everything else we software stores usually carry an ample supply. 3.5 drive. carry in this little box. We're adding new items We do have a couple of good ones that you're We also carry Jem Software's 1.0. Silver, by every week. And we have some hot products not likely to find locally, however. Brad Wilhelmsen. Your job in this game is to on the horizon, like Cirtech's Duet card, Wraith: Devil's Demise, by John Carmack, build the first 4th-generation supercomputer which will allow you to run Macintosh software is the favorite of our game expert, Joe while racing the clock and battling bugs. on your Apple llgs, and the Liberty card, Weishaar (age 9). He's put tens of hours into I. 0. Silver is two games in one. Without the which will allow you to connect IBM PC-type this game alone and with jealous Nintendo­ pressure of the clock or killer bugs, it's an drives to your Apple II and read and write MS· owning friends at his side. He's been finding engrossing puzzle. When you're ready for the DOS files. secret passageways and treasure chests in arcade version, the pace gets furious! lnCider Meanwhile, if you still can't find what you three cities, three castles, the Well of Souls, magazine said: "l.O.Silver causes acute arcade want you need the Menu Software Guide for and Ancient Mines. He also says not to go into addiction-the strongest recommendation for the Apple 11. It lists virtually every program the toilets unless you're sure there's nobody in any game. This is one of the most ruthlessly available for our favorite computer. If you're there or you'll have a fight on your hands. For a addicting games in years!" 5.25 disk only. looking for a specific type of program, you can much longer review, see Neil Shapiro's "More N0-003 Wraith: Devil's Demise $12.95 find out where to get it in Menu. Orcs for Your Bucks" in the July 1990 Nibble, JE-002 1.0. Silver $20.00 IN-003 Menu Software Guide $19.95 20 A2-Central Catalog JVumber I Software & Books

sell direct to schools, however. That's why we the basic principles of AI. The book includes don't have a large selection of their stuff. many complete programs, focusing on games, We do have a few books related to Apple lis learning, and text generation. and education that you'll have a hard time llow to Build a Better Mousetrap and 1 J . Other Science Projects Using the Apple II contains complete information (including . . �:�� IIII''' i'''i·•i •• i•i·•;·;···�···�·i· ' I''' 11 :;�;n��;�;��;���?3p� at it's software on disk) on fourteen projects for When you needI to show off the sound essential for teachers and parents to recognise making measurements and controlling capabilities of your Apple Jigs, reach for Diversi­ the limits of technology in education. Snyder electrical devices using the Apple II. All the Tune. This program turns your computer into a believes it's more important to put computers projects can be done with an Apple 11-Pius, lie, MIDI synthesizer, recording studio, and hi-fi on teachers' desks than on those of students. or Jigs; all but four work on a lie or Laser 128. system. You can use the "follow the bouncing Yes, this is the same Tom Snyder who is a Measure pH! Control DC and stepper motors! ball" feature to have a sing-along led by your prolific author of education software. Your Best Interest is the best book ever Apple Jigs. If you're into creating your own Discovering Science on your Apple uses written on the art and science of interest rates.

music, use Diversi-Tune to record your own short, simple Applesoft programs to help kids AW-013 Snyder: In Search/Amazing Thing$1 0.95 & MIDI instrument notes--then synthesize them, discover principles in Astronomy Space TB-003 PeHino: Science On Your Apple $14.95 edit them, or mix them. Scince, Earth and Life Science, and more. TB-004 11om: SmartApples $12.95 DR-001 Diversi-Tune $59.00 Smart Apples is an introduction to artificial vs-001 Vernier: Build Better Mousetrap $24.95 intelligence. It uses Applesoft to demonstrate IB-001 Weishaar: Your Best Interest $9.95 :�� ==� .�l ::: : ,j�: ·::: : : . .: ��f l1: ;�� I! :�[ j!!. =:: :: :=· . t ::· If your hard disk looks like my 13-year-old version does, but more, ' better, and in a GS/OS unique feature of Guardian is the ability to stop daughter's room, then you know what file context. It handles GS/OS extended files, has a backup procedure in the middle and continue clutter is. As program and data files online help, allows file-by-file incremental it at a later time. Also available are macros that multiply-whether you have a hard disk or not backups, and includes a math calculator that allow you to setup different backup options to managing a personal computer becomes a will draw graphs of functions and an be run at a later date. difficult task. appointment calendar. We highly recommend Salvation: Renaissance optimizes a volume But if you have the right tools, any job is Prose/ to everyone, yet we admit it is a complex by writing all the files and folders in the order easier than before. And Apple II users are very package that may force you to learn more they appear in the directory. By eliminating all lucky to have some excellent disk management about file management than you ever wanted to the unused blocks between files, you end up utilities available to them. know. with shorter disk access times. You can also If you use an Apple lie or lie, the software we Another option for Apple Jigs users is the set sort directories before optimization. This allows recommend is Glen Bredon's Prose/ 8. This of Salvation Utilities from Vitesse. Unlike you to put the files that are changed rarely (or package normally comes on a 3.5 disk, but we Prose/, these use the familiar desktop interface. never) at the beginning of the directory. This can supply it on 5.25s at your request. The Salvation: Wings is a program launcher and will cut down on the amount of fragmentation Prose/ 8 package includes an incredible disk management utility. It has 128 single-click that happens. number of goodies. It's impossible to do justice buttons ( 16 per screen) that allow you to Salvation: Exorciser is a virus detection to such a complete set of utilities as ProSe/ in launch virtually any program file. It allows you program. One of the worst things that can the space we have here. to define each of the launch buttons yourself. happen to a computer user is to find out your First you get a program selector-a text­ You can also launch programs from an on­ system is infected by a virus. Unfortunately, you based menu that comes up when you start your screen list of files. Except that if you choose a usually discover this only after your hard drive computer and when you quit from programs. graphics file you'll see the picture. If you has been erased, or whatever. Exorciser The menu, which you can edit lets you select choose a sound file you'll hear the sound. And combats computer viruses by detecting and the next program you want to run by moving a if you click on a text or Apple Works file, you'll correcting infected systems. You can check for cursor over the selections and pressing return. pop into a mini-word processor. The file and and correct any single virus or use the If you have more applications than will fit on volume utilities allow you to copy, move, verify, Exorciser utilities to analyze machine language one screen (60), you can create more delete/undelete, compare, etc. You can also calls in any file. This could help in detecting application screens that can be jumped to at sort directories, format/erase volumes, and so new virus strains. If you're not into virus­ the touch of a button. Virtually any executable on. spotting, don't worry. Exorciser can handle add­ program can be launched from Prose}. Salvation: Guardian is a full featured on virus check files that will be available from Beyond that. however, Prose/ includes backup/restore program that allows you to Vitesse (if necessary).

separate programs that allow file and disk backup a hard drive (or just selected folders or GB-001 Prose/ 8 $40.00 manipulation, volume and directory testing and files) to 3.5 disks, 5.25 disks, another hard GB-002 Prose/ 16 $60.00 repair, hard drive or RAMdisk backup and drive, or a specified file. When restoring a VI-005 Salvation: Wings $59.00 restore, volume optimizing, block editing, volume, you can choose to restore the entire VI-002 Salvation: Guardian $37.00 password protection, and more. volume, or just selected folders or files. A VI-003 Salvation: Renaissance $37.00 The GS/OS version of this program is called single catalog disk is all that's needed to find VI-004 Salvation: Exorciser $34.00 Prose/ 16. It does basically everything the 8-bit out which disk a given file or folder is on. A fall1990 A2·Central Catalog 19

Even though it might be deemed cruel and underline code will be converted to a Keeping your computer cool is important to unusual punishment some people are forced WordPerfect underline code and a Lotus 1·2·3 its health. Apple suggests a fan if you have to use MS·DOS computers at work. One big formula will be translated to an Apple Works more than two cards in your computer. Apple's request they have is a way to transfer data formula. own fan, however, is noisy and expensive. So from their Apple to their IBM and back. Cross-Works supports transfers between Cirtech developed a pair of fans, one for the Cross-Works is a Pro DOS to MS-DOS file files created with classic AppleWorks (not llgs and one for the lie, that are whisper quiet. exchange utility. You get an 8 foot cable with AppleWorks OS) versions 1.0-through 3.0 and They're three times quieter than Apple's fan multiple connectors that attach to a lie, lie, Lotus 1·2·3: dBase Ill, Ill-Plus, IV, Q&'A and use only one-third the energy. lie-Plus, llgs, or Laser 128 on one end and an R:Base, Paradox, fox Base, and other data The fans install in about two minutes and IBM PC XT, AT PS/2, or compatible on the base programs; WordPerfect versions 4.1 operate directly from the Apple power other. You also get 5.25 and 3.5 disks for both through 5. I; and the MS-DOS version of supply-you have no power cord to run. Installs the Apple and the PC. Microsoft Works. Also does generic text file on the side of the power supply on the llgs and File conversions can be made in either transfers. Modem transfers are supported but under the keyboard on the lie.

direction. Formatting embedded in a file is require an operator at each end. CT-FAN-GS Cool·lt for the llgs $49.00 retained-for example, an AppleWorks ss-006 Cross-Works $79.95 CT-FAN-E Cool·lt for the lie $49.00

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:=: :=: : ,• When your llgs can't remember your control The Floating Point Engine is a math co· the: : speed:=· of spreadsheet calculations and of panel settings or the time of day, you need to processor card for your Apple lie or llgs. This some data base operations. replace the battery. But since the battery is card can lessen the time it takes your The Floating Point Engine is also directly soldered onto original llgs motherboards, some computer to do math operations. It works in supported by the Beagle Compiler (see page dealers want to charge you several hundred any available slot and it uses an on-board 13). dollars for a motherboard exchange to fix a Motorola MC68881 floating point processor, Glen Bredon, author of the Prose/ utility dead battery! the same math chip used in the Macintosh. package, has written routines that let you use Nite Owl's Slide-On Battery allows you to On a llgs running under GS/05, any the card from Applesoft. These are included in clip off your old battery and slide a new one program that uses the built-in Apple llgs SANE the package. onto the old leads, without solder, in just a few math calls will automatically use the FPE The card's manual explains how to access minutes. It's an exact replacement for the instead. All you have to do is copy a file called the coprocessor from assembly language. You original llgs battery. It comes with complete FPETOOL.INIT into the SYSTEM/SYSTEM.SETUP also get a version of Apple's 8-bit SANE tool installation instructions. folder on your boot disk. that uses the card.

Purchase ahead and be ready! The FPE also comes with patches for all IS-001 floating Point Engine $249.00 N0-001 !Vite Owl Slide-On BatteryKit $14.95 versions of classic Apple Works. It increases

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PROORIIIS 1 DIR Neat, useful stuff in here Jllll.IIACS.1 9 Ail! date mth within Appleworks lECII!mE.UPDAlE___ 1 DIR lechnica1 note update from Apple' AIIJ.O.PAII.PA!CH 1 DIR Patches Appleworks 3.0 for PAM disk Jllll.IIACS.J l1 lliP 3.0. TIPE.IIm!S 1 DIR New file type notes liAMSE'l 13 BAS Desktop limiter for App1eworks 3. 0 IU!CHIECH.Dlll11 l DIR lutor·lech deioo program #l in here IECH.IIm!S 1 DIR New general teclmical notes SIIJDEII!.SYS!ill 1 SYS 8-bit Hypernodia program deJool BACK.RESI --- 1 DIR Backs up & restores IIDiltiple PROORIIIS 1 DIR Useful & informative stuff in here · -=- BACK.RESI__ _ 13 S16 llgs control panel settings. 4 files FOOTS 16 NOO (ranaimi.ng files deleted fran BME.PA!CH l D!R Update of patch fran Beagle Bros 1 DIR Break CUrsor llgs init in here SIIJDEII!.DPJ 16 lilN list for space) PAICREF..SYS!ill 17 SYS Fixes Appleworks 3.0 bugs BRKCIJRSIJR'::-:-:-:---­ BRKCURSDR.OOC 10 TXT 3 files IU!CHIECH.Dlll11 1 DIR lutor·lech deioo program #1 in here POLYGONIA 1 DIR New Fill !lode stuff from J.Haqor DESK.ACCS 1 DIR llgs desk accessories in here !EACIIEI\.SYS!ill 1 SYS Allows creation & modification of POLYGONIA.I 54 S16 Ising3D animation program DISKWIICII.OOC 9 TXT Docunentation for Disk Witch FOOTS 16 liiN lutor·lech "stacks" (changes tllRDSEAPO! 1 DIR liord Search puzzle generator DISK.\II!CH 45 lllA File utilities in a GS lllA IFACIIER.DPJ 55 liiN cannot be saved). WRI!E.II 1 DIR Mini liord Processor NDA li2.DA 15 lllA Nifty lllA to controllnllgewriter VIRUS.PmAM 1 DIR New version of Virus.Rx MISC.GCODIES 1 DIR Miscellaneous Goodies... SIIU!IXliN 3 NDA Quick frigid reboot NDA RX.OOC 11 TXT DoCUIIOlltation for Virus.Rx FCIIIS 1 OIR Clairvaux, in 9 sizes: S!!OIIPIC4 .21 11 NDA Swiss ArmyKnife graphic NDA APPIE.RX 10 SYS Virus protection program CWIIIAIIX.11 8FCII 10, 11, 14, 18,10

MACPD.SIUFF 1 DIR li.noout U1tramacros 3.1 stuff MISC.GCODIES 1 DIR Fun, silly stuff in here CWRVAUX.14___ 9FCII 14, 18, 36, and 40 pts IIAC.REF.OOCS___ 13 Ail! Docunentation for macro reference DESKPIC.IN!l 1 DIR Deskpic initialization in here GER!.5 1 DIR Final chapter of Germ lab saga MACPD.IIE!'EiENCE 34 Ail! Special Ultramacro writing utility DESKPIC.IN!l l $B7 Place in 'SYS'!Fli/SYS!ili.SE!UP QUADCIIllll.NDA___ 1 DIR letris look-alike in an NDA' FOO.COOSI.Kll 18 Ail! File Card Menu Construction Kit, DESKP!C\1111: 65 PIC " " !AIIES.89 1 DIR lax worksheets for 1989 in'""' tax I'OO.CONSUII-- 50 Ail! aliows creation of file card GER!.4 3 DIR Germlab, Chapter IV Continued on page 22 FOO.CONSI.KII 70 Ail! nenus within Appleworks with SlARliJP 66 BAS 5 files ADD.FIIES.MENU 10 Ail! Ultramacros 3.1' 18 A2-Central Catalog /Yumber 1 Other peripherals

Your local electronics superstore is filled with exactly like those of the ImageWriter. Just tell high-quality dot matrix printers that are cheaper your software that you're using an lmageWriter. than an Apple lmageWriter. The problem with Laser's printer handles standard 8.5 inch Confused by R5-2.32 and serial links? The them is that very few respond correctly to the continuous-form paper or single sheets of any RS-232 Solution is the best book we've found Image Writer command codes that all Apple II width up to 8.5 inches. Continuous forms of to clear things up for you. software supports. other widths require an optional tractor feed East's is a For example, an Image Writer responds to the attachment. It uses standard Epson LX-80/LX· Handbook of Printer Commands three volume set of books that lists the code "ESCAPE X" by beginning to underline. But 90 ribbons available from us or your local features and command codes for almost every other printers might use that code to begin a ribbon outlet (ribbons also fit Olympia NP.30). printer on the market. subscript or to use slashed zeros, or to To use the printer with a lie or Jigs, you need SAMS Computerfacts manuals are written for perform reverse paper feeds. Thus, when you the "serial" version of the printer. Don't forget to dealer service personnel. They include use one of these printers with an Apple II also order the correct cable. With a lie, the schematics, trouble-shooting tips, and so on. expecting an ImageWriter, the results are not printer will connect to a card inside your Addison-Wesley's Apple Technical Library what you expect. You may find there's no way to computer. Whether you need the serial or includes reference manuals for the ImageWriter use your printer's advanced features without parallel version depends on whether you have a II and LQ and the LaserWriter. becoming a printer expert and patching all your serial or parallel card. II0 volts only. SY-003 The RS-232 Solution, 2nd Ed $21.95 software with your printer's codes. r.c-001 Laser 190A serial printer $249.00* CP-001· llandbk of Printer Cmds (J vols} $89.95 Everyone knows that Laser Computer, Inc. LC-003 Laser 190A parallel printer $199.00* $24.95 builds Apple II compatible computers. It seems • LC-006 tractor feed attachment $59.95 HS-004 SAMS Computerfacts: IWriterI $24.95 to be a secret, however, that Laser also makes LC-007 llve ribbons $14.95 HS-008 SAMS Computelfacts: IWriterH an ImageWriter-compatible dot-matrix printer RC-001 8' serial cable for ugsmc-Plus $15.00 AW-008 lmageWriter H Technical Ref $19.95 $22.95 called the Laser 190A. It won't do color like RC-002 8' serial cable for olderHe $15.00 AW-025 lmageWriter LQ Reference $19.95 the Image Writer II and it has a different ribbon, RC-003 8' serial cable for serial cards $15.00 AW-028 LaserWriter Reference $25.00 but we've used Laser's printer with all our • sulface shipping outside u.s. GS/OS and ProDOS 8 software with results

If you're planning to buy a new llgs or if your RGB signal. In addition, it has stereo audio television. 120 volts, 60Hz. 2 year warranty. old llgs RGB color monitor needs to be inputs, speakers and volume control. and video For those of you with more simple needs, we replaced, you can get a Magnavox KGB inputs for use with North American standard also carry Magnavox monochrome monitors monitor and cable from us that's cheaper than NTSC or Super VHS video tape and video disk with your choice of amber or green screens. Apple's monitor and that has more features. players. It's perfect for schools or other DC-003 Magnavox Hgs RGB Monitor $349.00* Magnavox designed its monitor for use with a multimedia applications-one classroom RC-005 Hgs RGB cable for monitor $23.00 monitor works with both a computer and a variety of home and personal computer DC-004 Magnavox monochrome, green $99.00* products. It works with any computer that video player. Using the VCR's tuner, you could DC-005 Magnavox monochrome, amber $99.00* generates a 15.7 KHz digital (TTL) or analog also easily reconfigure it as a standard * Swface outside u.s. $20.00

Apple designed AppleTalk as a low-cost way connectors are about the size of a mouse. They for work groups to share files and expensive have a tail that plugs into the serial port on the peripherals such as laser printers. The Apple device you want to add to the network. llgs, Apple LaserWriters, and Macintoshes have A company called ModuNet makes similar If you'd like more information on installing AppleTalk capability built-in. You can get a connectors that replace the expensive boxes and managing an AppleTalk network, we "Workstation Card" for Apple lies or an Apple sells. Not only do ModuNet's connectors recommend Hands On AppleTalk from Brady AppleTalk card for Apple lmageWriter printers cost less than Apple's, they also work with books. that allow those devices to join the network. inexpensive telephone wire (not supplied) The other three books listed here are part of To actually share files you need a hard drive rather than Apple's expensive cables. Addison-Wesley's Apple Technical Library. on the network connected to a Macintosh that's We bought our telephone wire at Radio Understanding Networks is also useful for running Apple's AppleShare software. To share Shack. We also got a tool that can attach a getting up to speed with networks. The other printers, however, you need nothing beyond the modular plug to the end of the cable. The books are for programmers writing software standard Apple II system software, a special Modunet connectors have jacks for modular that uses AppleTalk. connector for each device on the network, and telephone plugs. They also have screws you can IN-002 llands On AppleTalk $21.95 cables to chain the connectors together. use to attach bare wire. $9.95 Apple's connector and cable solution ModuNet connectors: Understanding IYetworks 1 Alllt-u;u. AppleTalkIYetwork Overview $14.95 consists of some amazingly expensive items mgs/new $34.95 OE-001 B·pin for ae Macs ,...,1-u'"' Inside AppleTalk $34.95 called "LocaiTalk" cables and connectors. The OE-002 9-pin for old LaserWriters IJtMacs$34.95 falll990 A2·Central Catalog 1 7

There are some price advantages to buying onstrations-you can't beat one of these hard it has a connector you can use to add hard drives in kit form, but if you can afford the drives. It comes right out of one computer, fits additional, external hard drives to your system. smallest, most modern disk drive made for in a shirt pocket, weighs almost nothing, and The software Cirtech supplies allows you to Apple lis, it's definitely worth it. simply plugs back in at your destination. No partition the hard drive for GS/OS, ProDOS, The Cirtech CID-20 and CID-40 20· and 40· cables to lose. No cables to forget. No cables to DOS 3.3, Pascal, or CP/M-individually, or all on meg hard drives fit on a card that you plug into connect. Not even a power cable! The Cirtech the same hard drive at one time. a slot in your Apple II. (Since He's don't have drive uses a special hard drive mechanism Cirtech's internal hard drive comes ready to slots, this drive doesn't work with the lie.) That's designed for portable computers that uses plug in and use. It's the smallest, quietest, all there is to it. No cables, no search for relatively little power. finest, most modern drive available today for deskspace, and whisper quiet. The card that Cirtech's internal hard drive is Apple II computers. And if portability is important to you-if you mounted on is identical to its SCSI card, CT-Cm20 Cirtech 20-meg internal $695.00 need to take large files to clients or to dem- mentioned on the previous page. Consequently, CT-CID40 Cirtech 40-meg internal $895.00

Our staff member Jay Jennings remembers that the best peripheral he ever bought for his Apple He was an Apple 3.5 Unidisk. For about $450 he had more data storage than he ever We use thousands of blank 3.5 disks every come in sets of 100 and are 2.75 inches on thought he'd need. You can still pay more than month in publishing our disk-based each side. This means they wrap around the $400 for an Apple 3.5 drive, but why? We sell newsletters, so we're able to get them at a disk so that you can write or print on the the AMR 3.5 Drive for a couple hundred bucks very good price. They're generic BOOK disks spine. less. You can plug it straight into an Apple lie· that come without a box or labels. The price Now, you know about those blank disks Plus, or you can plug one or two of them into a shown here is our normal price for these that come without boxes? Well, guess what ligs, or you can get the Laser 3.5 Disk disks, but be sure to catch our special price, we also sell? Wrong, not boxes! We have Controller card and use one or two AMR _ mentioned in a big, bold headline on page 3. Static-Guard vinyl disk-holders that store four drives with your Apple He. Now, you know about those blank disks 3.5 disks each and that fit in a three-ring We've used several of the AMR drives here in that come without labels? Well, guess what binder. Sold in packs of I 0. the office for months. They're the same color as we also sell? Unlike the labels you usually get A2-001 JO generic blank 3.5 disks $9.49 Apple drives but they're slightly smaller. We with blank disks, however, these come on A2-002 IOO blank.. continuous labels $1.99 think they're great! continuous, tractor-feed forms so that you A2-003 10 Static-Guard binder storage $189.00 AM-001 AMH 3.5 Drive can run them through your printer. They pages for 3.5 disks $9.97 AM-002 Laser 3.5 controHer for lie $59.00

An Apple lie comes with 128K of RAM. This For the Apple ligs, we recommend the is fine for many applications, but if you want Cirtech Primo or the Chinook RAM 4000 more than a 55K desktop in AppleWorks, for memol)i expansion cards. These cards are DMA The Cirtech StatDisk is a standard-slot RAM example, you need more memory. The Apple compatible and can be configured for I, 2, or llgs comes with 1 Megabyte memory installed. 4-Megabytes of memory using standard 1-meg card with a twist. It uses very-low-power static This is fine for many applications, but if you RAM chips. The Cirtech card comes with RAM that's backed up with an on-board battery. want to use desk accessories or a RAMdisk, you software for a DOS 3.3 RAMdisk and has a All the data stored on the card is retained, even when the card is pulled out of your machine! run out of memory very quickly. connector that in the future will allow you to The battery will hold the data intact for up to Cirtech's plusKAM PR·l6 is a standard-slot add a SCSI internal or external hard drive to two months and the battery is recharged every memory card that can be used in a li-Pius, lie, your system. The Chinook card has a multi· time the computer is turned on. The Statoisk or llgs. It uses standard !-meg RAM chips and layer circuit board that reduces electronic noise works in both the Apple He and ligs. Sizes from can handle configurations of 1·4 megabytes and comes with a five year warranty. 128K to I meg are available. Over 512K the (with upcoming 4-meg chips it can be PR-16-1 J meg CIR1ECH plusRAM $359.00 card blocks the next higher slot except when configured for 16 megabytes). The card works, Cirtech# Chinook# used in He slot 7. It has no moving parts, automatically, as a RAMdisk. And AppleWorks CT-PO CH-002-0 0 meg $99.00 (V makes no noise, and is the fastest and most 1.3 and higher) will automatically expand its CT-P1 CH-002-1 I meg $169.00 reliable storage medium you can buy. desktop into this type of card (1-2 megs only). CT-P2 CH-002-1 2 meg $239.00 $389.00 The card also comes with software that allows it CT-P4 CH-002-1 4 meg $379.00 SD-4 5 I2K CIR1ECH StaWisk SD-8 J meg CIRTECH StaWisk $699.00 to be partitioned as a RAMdisk for DOS 3.3, DEW4-1 Set of 8 std I-meg RAM chips $70.00 SRAM-32 2 chips (64K) for StaWisk $30.00 Pascal, or CPM (ProDOS is automatic). lit PR· I6, Primo, RAM 4000, and many others. 16 A2·Central Catalog !Yumber 1 Hard, 3.5 & RAM Disks I

. . It used to be that 5.25 inch floppies were all we have a couple of Easy Order Bundles that ordered separately. The case we have comes anybody ever needed. Then we started include almost everything you need. completely assembled and is-5.5 inches high, 7 switching to 3.5 inch drives because we had to These hard drives are designed to be inches wide, and 15 inches deep (130 mm x have more storage room. And increasingly, compatible with a computer industry standard 175 mm x 395 mm). It will hold two half-height people are moving on to hard drives that hold called the Small Computer Systems Interface, "5.25 inch" drives, so you can, for example, put from 20 to more than I 00 megabytes of data (a or SCSI (scuzzy). In order to use one of these both our 80-meg Seagate and our 42-meg 5.25 disk holds a little more than one-tenth of a drives with an Apple II, you have to add a SCSI SyQuest drives in one case. It has a built-in 60 megabyte-a 3.5 disk holds eight-tenths of a card to one of the slots in your system (lie watt power supply with power cord and megabyte). owners don't have slots, sorry). A single SCSI replaceable fuse. It comes from the factory set The Apple II was designed to be used card can be connected to as many as seven for II0 volt operation, but disconnecting and without a hard drive, but once you've tried one SCSI peripherals, including hard disk drives, reconnecting one well-marked wire makes it it's hard to go back to a floppy-based system. CD-ROM drives, tape backup units and so on. ready for use in 220 volt countries. It has a Particularly if you use a llgs, chances are that Our BO·megabyte Easy Order Bundle built-in fan, weighs 2.65 kilograms, and you'll go stark raving mad without a hard drive. includes a case with 60 watt power supply, a matches your other Apple equipment in color. It The llgs system software itself takes up so Seagate hard drive sub-assembly, and a SCSI looks like a commercial unit-no one will ever much space on a disk that a hard drive is cable that connects your hard drive to your guess that it's part of a kit. almost a necessity. In addition, hard drives can computer. The only other piece you need is a Our 5 foot SCSI cable has a 25-pin retrieve and transmit data several times faster SCSI card, which we sell separately because connector on the SCSI card end and a 50-pin than 3.5 drives. there are three different choices. connector on the hard drive end. You can walk into any computer store and We also have a 42-megabyte Easy Order DC-001 Case litpower supply $124.00* purchase a hard drive off the shelf, but you can Bundle. This one comes with a SyQuest RC-004 SCSIcable $30.00 save hundreds of dollars by purchasing the Removable Media hard drive sub-assembly. DC-002 Seagate 80 meg SCSI asmbly $519.00* pieces of a hard drive and putting it together The neat thing about this system is that it uses DC-006 SyQuest 4-2 meg removable $649.00* yourself. Wait! Don't panic! Hard drive assembly removable hard disk cartridges-you can have as DC-007 cartridge for SyQuest drive $119.00 takes just a few minutes and only requires a many cartridges as your wallet will allow! The CD-001 80-meg Easy OrderBundle: screwdriver and some pliers. No soldering, no sub-assembly comes without a cartridge so DC·OOI, DC-002, RC-004- $649.00* electrical work, and no dust-free rooms are you'll have to buy at least one. This is like required. We have all the pieces you need to having a 3.5 disk drive with hard drive-like CD-008 4-2-meg Easy OrderBundle: DC·OOl, $874.00* put together your own fixed- or removable· speed and virtually unlimited storage capacity. DC-006, DC.007, RC.OO.t. media hard drive. And to make ordering easy, Each of the items in our bundles can also be $25.00

This is a great how-to book for users who A SCSI card plugs into a slot on your virtually any generic SCSI device, including are thinking about purchasing a hard drive, for computer so that you have a place to connect tape backup units, CD-ROM drives, and so. new owners, and for experienced owners who the cable that goes to your SCSI-based hard And since it uses DMA (Direct Memory Access) want to get more from their investment. The drive. We carry three different SCSI cards. it's faster than Apple's old Rev C SCSI Card. author, Gary Morrison, compares the different The Cirtech SCSI card is unique in that it For the fastest SCSI drive around, however,

types of hard drives and takes you through the comes with software that allows you to split you'll need the RA!Vast SCSI card. Its on­ step-by-step procedures necessary to install your hard drive for use by five different board 256K RAM cache and DMA give you a and configure a hard drive. Also describes operating systems-GS/OS, ProDOS 8, DOS blazingly fast hard drive. It works by keeping disk managment programs, backing up your 3.3, Pascal, or CP/M. It also comes with your most frequently accessed data in a RAM hard drive, and using it with AppleWorks. networking software that allows you to give cache on the card itself.

NA-002 ffardDisk Primer $16.95 several computers (each computer needs one CT-SC CIH1ECIISCSI card $109.00 card) private partitions on a single hard drive. AP-001 Apple lllgh·Speed SCSI card $119.00 The unique feature of the Apple High· CIT-001 MMfast SCSI card $219.00 Speed SCSI card is that it will work with

Once you have a hard drive it's helpful to have advanced software for managing your data storage. There are a number of programs Software for formatting SCSI hard drives others, conduct speed tests to find out the available for copying files, backing up hard comes with all the SCSI cards we sell, but fastest interleave to use when formatting your disks, optimizing drives, checking for viruses, some people like a little more power. That's hard drive, and print out virtually all and so on. where the Chinook SCSI utHities come in. information the SCSI card is capable of For Apple He users we recommend Glen These utilities were created for use with outputting. Uses a file card interface (like Bredon's excellent Prose/ B. Apple llgs users Apple's Rev C and High Speed SCSI cards. Apple Works) for ease of use, and will run on can select from Bredon's Prose/ 16 or the They don't work with our other SCSI cards. all Apple lis from the un-enhanced lie on up. Salvation Utilities from Vitesse. For more With Chinook's utilities you can do low level $30.00 information on these programs, see the 'Disk CH-001 ChinookSCSI utHities formats, split one partition without erasing the Management Utilities" box on page 20. f'alll990 A2·Central catalog 15

Assembly Language is the most powerful and a special version that will run on a lie or lie Source code disks are available for both books. language you can program in. It has its that has a 65802 installed. Built-in file utilities We also have a Merlin 16-Plus source code disk, disadvantages-programs take longer to write allow copying, directory compares, etc. The and an OrcajC source code disk available for and aren't portable from one type of computer editor includes mouse control. a split screen the Lichty and Eyes book. to another-but for professional work the speed function, and a 4,000 step undo buffer. The second way to learn assembly language and power of assembly language programs is Merlin 16-Plus (the llgs-only version) is via the "jump in and learn" route. A big help unbeatable. To program in assembly you need assembles up to 40,000 lines per minute, in this area is a disassembler, which takes a an "assembler." We carry and support the two supports automatic partial assemblies, includes runnable program and turns it into source code most popular assemblers for the Apple SuperMacros, subroutine libraries, and three that you can study. The Orca/Disassembler is llgs-Merlin 8/16 and OrcajM. Both can linkers. The Merlin package also includes the the best we've seen. Two versions are included assemble programs written for the 6502, Sourceror disassembler. in the package-a text version that runs under 65C02, or 65816 microprocessor. If you own one assembler but want to use the Orca/M shell and a stand-alone desktop Orca/M is more than just an assembler, it's a source code that was written for the other, you version. The disassembler automatically complete development environment. It either need a lot of patience or an automatic recognizes llgs Toolbox and GS/OS calls to help provides a UNIX-like text-based shell for any source code converter. An Orca-to-Merlin make disassembly a snap. compiler or accessory that is compatible with converter comes with the Merlin assembler. A The text version of the Orca/Disassembler APW (Apple Programmer's Workshop). The shell Merlin-to-Orca converter is available as an extra­ requires 512K of memory and the Orca/M or allows you to copy, delete, move, or rename cost option. Both converters include source APW shell. The desktop version requires GS/OS files, launch programs, create "batch" files, and code. 5.0 and 768K of memory. more. If you want to mix programming Both assemblers have their strengths and Assemblers languages (C programs with assembly modules, weaknesses. If mixing languages is more RN-002 Merlin 8/16 $99.00 for example), or if you want to use the Rez important to you, go for the OrcajM package. If BW-005 Orca/MAssembler $42.00 Merlin. resource compiler or other APDA (Apple blazing speed is what you're after, get BW-008 Merlin to Orca Source Convert $24.00 Programmer's and Developer's Association) Both require a minimum of I megabyte Disassemblers supplied utilities, Orca/Mis a must. memory. BW-007 $30.00 The assembler in OrcajM assembles up to There are a couple ways to learn assembly Orca/Disassembler 5,000 lines per minute, supports partial language. The first is the tutorial approach and Books assembly for faster turnaround, and includes an for that we have a couple of books that are CB-002 Hgs MaclJlne Lang for Beginners $19.95 extensive macro language. Also included is a good for novices. The first, Apple llgs Machine DS-005 diskfor thisbook (3.5) $15.95 full-screen text editor, subroutine libraries, and Language for Beginners, by Roger Wagner, uses ss-005 Frgrmg the Hgs In Asm Lang $29.95 a linker. Merlin source code for the examples. The DS-008 AYW disk for thisbook (3.5) $20.00 Merlin 8!16 Programming the llgs in Assembly The assembler comes with not second, DS-009 Merllndiskforthisbook (3.5) $10.00 3.3 only a full llgs version, but also a DOS and Language, by Lichty and Eyes, uses APW source DS-010 Orca/C diskfor thisbook (3.5) $20.00 ProDOS 8 versions that will run on any Apple II, code (almost identical to Orca/M source code).

. . Assembly language is called a low-level works up to a simple "Break-Out" type graphics libraries and extensions for the Apple llgs language because it allows you (or forces you, game program. Toolbox. You can use Orca/C to create stand· depending on your perspective) to program as The Learn To Program course uses the alone programs, shell utilities, CDAs, or NDAs. close to the computer hardware as possible. A Orca/Pascal compiler, which is a desktop-based You can use a text-based or desktop high-level language insulates you from the ISO Standard Pascal Compiler, with extensions environment for program development. and machine, thus making programming easier and (fancy talk that means it's very similar to Pascal just like Orca/Pascal, Orca/C includes the your programs more compatible, yet still gives compilers on other machines). Orca/Pascal Source Level Debugger. you enough control to create powerful provides full access to the llgs Toolbox, If you don't know C but would like to learn, applications. support for NDAs, CDAs, desktop, and text try the Learn to Program in C course. It's just Pascal was designed to be a language for programming. A sample disk is also included. like the Pascal course mentioned above. learning how to program, though many It's filled with programming examples and Orca/Pascal and OrcajC both require I professionals use it in their projects. Its focus complete source code. And with the included megabyte of memory. on "structured" programming keeps the Source Level Debuggeryou can step through Pascal beginning student from learning bad coding your programs and see exactly how the BW-001 $90.00 habits. And it's also powerful enough to be computer executes your code. Orca/Pascal compiler BW-002 Learn to $50.00 used as the development platform for major (or If you're an Applesoft programmer, you may Program in f"ascal AN-037 J"ascalfor Basic l"rogrammers $12.95 minor) programs. like the book Pascal for Basic Programmers. c If you're beginning from ground zero, you C is probably the "hottest" language in the BW-003 $90.00 can start with the Learn To Program in Pascal computer industry today. It's in use on every Orca/C compiler BW-004 Learn to in $50.00 course from The Byte Works. This 16-Iesson major computer, including the Apple llgs. l"rogram C tutorial starts with text-based programs and Orca/C is an ANSI C compiler with complete C 14 A2·Central catalog !Yumber I

• Ilgs Programming

. :l Like Apple's Macintosh line of computers, the Reference. This book is brand new and has a Apple llgs supports the Desktop Interface using Toolbox Manuals complete description of all the GS/OS calls and a built-in programmer's toolbox. The toolbox The programmer's toolbox built into the how to use them. It also has full information on makes writing programs that use the desktop Apple llgs supports literally hundreds of calls. using the GS/OS console driver for text-based interface much easier than they would be Apple's toolbox reference manuals give each interfaces. otherwise; nonetheless, describing the call equal time and space, which makes it AW-026 Exploring GS/OS and ProDOS 8 $21.95 multitude of tool calls available on the Apple difficult to find a place to start. DS-006 disk for this book (3,5) $15.00 llgs and how to use them takes an entire library If toolbox programming is new to you, we AW-041 Apple llgs GS/OSReference $28.95 of books. recommend Mastering the llgs Toolbox and Advanced Programming Techniques for the llgs Technical References Toolbox, by Dan Gookin and Morgan Davis. Introductory Books In addition to the ToolBox manuals, Apple Our favorite introduction to Apple llgs These books start at a beginning, show you has published the Apple llgs firmware programming is Gary Little's Exploring the Apple which tools are most important, and have a Reference and the Applellgs Hardware 1/gs. Little covers the architecture of the llgs, its more tutorial flavor than Apple's reference­ Reference. The firmware book discusses the 65816 microprocessor, and its development oriented books. routines built into the llgs that aren't a part of tools, and introduces toolbox programming. A Nonetheless, serious Apple llgs programmers the ToolBox but that make the llgs compatible disk that includes the programs in this book is will find no adequate substitute for Apple's with earlier Apple lis. The hardware manual, available separately. complete set of toolbox manuals. Apple has which is a new 2nd edition first published late Apple itself has published two introductory published three of these. They discuss each of in 1989, includes schematics for the Apple llgs books that together go into a great deal more the tools available to Apple llgs programmers and a thorough discussion of the machine's detail than Little's book. They are the Technical and how they are used. Volume 3 is brand new hardware. Introduction to the Apple 1/gs and the and includes both new tools and updated Two other books of interest from Apple are Programmer's Introduction to the Apple 1/gs. discussions of tools introduced in Volumes I the Apple Numerics Manual, Second Edition The Technicallntro contains a full overview and 2. and Human Interface Guidelines. These books of the Apple llgs, including hardware, firmware, $19.95 CB-005 Mastering the Hgs Toolbox were written both for Apple llgs and Macintosh and 1/0 features, a description of the $19.95 CB-007 Adv Prog Tech for llgs Toolbox programmers. computer's architecture, and a discussion of the AW-019 Apple llgs Toolbox Ret Vol 1 $26.95 The Numerics Manual discusses the Standard toolbox and development environment. AW-006 Apple llgs Toolbox Ret Vol 2 $26.95 Apple Numerics Environment, or SANE, in The Programmer's Intra includes a disk and 3 $39.95 AW-036 Apple llgs Toolbox Ret Vol detail. The first part of the book is mainly for takes you step-by-step through the creation of a people who perform scientific, statistical, or demonstration program called HodgePodge. GS/OS engineering computations on Apple computers. HodgePodge sample source code comes on the The best introduction to GS/OS is Gary The second part is for people who write these disk you get with the book. The program has Little's Exploring GS/05 and ProDOS 8. Little's kinds of programs. samples of creating menus, windows, and book has a tutorial style. It develops a ProDOS Human Interface Guidelines discusses dialog boxes; of using fonts and an event loop; 8 base and then discusses GS/OS in that Apple's philosophy and recommendations and of printing. context. It also has a good section on the regarding the Desktop Interface. $22.95 AW-017 Exploring the Apple Hgs GS/OS console driver. We also have Little's disk, AW-022 Apple llgs Firmware Ref (3,5) $20.00 DS-007 disk for this book which includes all of the programs in the book. AW-002 Apple llgs Hardware Ref AW-018 Technicallntro to the Apple Hgs $9.95 Following tradition, Apple has a separate $32.95 AW-001 Apple !Yumerics Reference AW-011 l"rgrmr'slntro to Hgs (w/disk) manual for GS/OS. This is the Apple llgs GS/05 AW-014 Human Interface Guidelines

GS/OS supports "resources." The use of Apple llgs System Software 5.0. forks, even though it will create them. This resources can cut weeks off the time it takes Novice desktop programmers can use means you can't edit resources with Design you to develop desktop programs. That's Oenesys to gain insights into how desktop Master. However, you can save Design Master­ because a 'resource editor" will allow you to programs work. Non-programmers can use created resources in a file Design Master can specify all your menus, windows, dialog boxes, Genesys to tailor desktop programs that use reload and edit. and controls with points and clicks in a desktop GS/OS resources to their tastes. You can use Design Master lets you visually create menu environment (instead of byte-by-byte in a Oenesys to rename menu items or controls, to bars, windows, and dialogs in either 640 or .320 program editor). change the shape or color of windows or mode (Oenesys works only in 640 mode) and it Oenesys is a program that creates and edits controls, to add keyboard equivalents to menus includes a unique "test run" feature that allows resources. You see the results of your changes and controls, and more. you to see exactly how your created objects will on the screen in front of you, instantaneously, Design Master, from The Byte Works, is much act in your finished program. without compiling or linking or anything. Once like Genesys in that it allows you to "paint• your ss-007 Genesys $90.00 you've created your program's interface with windows, menus, etc., on the screen, and then BW-006 Design Master $57.00 Oenesys, it will generate fully commented create resource forks or source code. Unlike source code for ANY language that supports Oenesys, Design Master won't read resource fall 1990 A2·Central Catalog I J

Applesoft BASIC is the ·universal language• programming but want to learn about Applesoft. easier to have a library of often-used routines, of the Apple II. An Applesoft program will run None of these books go into much detail on and to 'define" constants and code macros. MD­ on every Apple II ever built. Most Apple II what you have to do to store data on disks. If Basic translates your file into standard programmers started with Applesoft and this is important to you, you'll also need one or Applesoft that can run on any Apple 11 and that programming examples often use it. more of the books listed in the "ProDOS 8" box can be compiled with the Beagle Compiler. MD­ We have materials suitable for teaching at the bottom of this page. If you are interested Basic itself. however, will run only on a llgs. yourself how to write Applesoft programs and 3.3 in using files from the earlier DOS rather BB-003 Beagle: Program Writer $37.50 we have materials that push Applesoft to near than ProDOS, Larry Wintermeyer's Applesoft BB-002 Beagle: Beagle Compiler $59.00 state-of-the-art levels--incredible for a language BASIC Toolbox is your best choice. MD-001 Davis: MD·Basic $49.95 written to run on 48K computers more than ten AW-040 A Bit of Applesolt BASIC $9.95 years ago. AW-010 Apple: Applesolt Tutorial (w/dlsk)$29.95 Applesoft Graphics AW-021 Apple: Applesolt l"rgrmr's Ref $22.95 The Apple II was the first personal computer Learning Applesoft AW-038 Wlnt"fmneyer: Applesolt Toolbox $9.95 to come with a built-in color graphics capability The best book for getting started with and several books have been written about Applesoft came in the box with your computer Development Tools how to take advantage of this. We carry David and is called A Touch of Applesoft BASIC. We If you're serious about Applesoft you should Miller's Mastering Applesoft Graphics and Roy can't sell you one, but you should already have know about two programs from Beagle Bros. Myers' Microcomputer Graphics for the Apple a copy. Another good place to start is a book Program Writer is a full-sceen editor Computer. we do stock called A Bit of Applesoft BASIC, by specifically for writing Applesoft programs. It Miller's book is the more recent. It covers Margot Critchfield and Thomas Dwyer. It starts features search/replace, auto-number and low res, high-res, and llgs super-hi-res graphics. at the very beginning and is a good introduction renumber, cut and paste between programs, It discusses programming with the "drawing" to Apple lis as well as Applesoft. one-key macros, and it can list the variables commands (lines, circles and so on), with If the taste of Applesoft you get from one of you've used. Beagle Compiler speeds up your "shapes", and also programming of graphs (line, these books pleases you, the next step is string-intensive Applesoft programs by a factor bar, pie and so on). Apple's Applesoft Tutorial. This book comes of 15 or more. Myers' book sticks with standard high-res but with a 5.25 ProDOS disk with copies of the MIJ.Basic is a new "pre-compiler" for goes into more detail on the drawing routines. sample programs in the book. Applesoft that we really like. It allows you to It includes more than eighty Applesoft programs Finally, if you intend to get serious about write programs that have many of the features that illustrate hidden lines, hidden surfaces, Applesoft, you should have Apple's Applesoft Applesoft lacks, such as named subroutines (no scaling, rotation, animation, and more. BASIC Programmer's Reference Manual. This line numbers), long variable names, IF-THEN· SF-001 Miller: Mastering Aplslt Graphics $18.95 book is also the one you should have if you're ELSE, REPEAT-UNTIL, and WHILE-WEND loops. It AW-039 Jllyers: Graphics for the Apple H $9.95 already familiar with computers and allows to 'include" files, which makes it

Many professional programs are written in a Assembly Language for the Applesoft We also have Lance Levanthal's 6502 books, combination of Applesoft and 6502 assembly Programmer is a good book that shows how to which are considered by many to be classics.

language. If you don't know assembly language link the two languages. RW-SET 6502 Starter Kit $39.95 at all, we recommend our 6502 Starter Kit. It For more advanced programmers, we RW-001 Wagner: Assembly Unes $19.95 includes Roger Wagner's Assembly Lines: The recommend the Object Module Manager from DS-004 disk for this book $15.95 Book, which is an excellent introduction to . Morgan Davis of MD-BASIC. It's a 'memory AW-012 Asmbly Lang for Applesolt Yrgmr $18.95 assembly language, a disk with the programs in manager'' for assembly language modules used MD-002 Davis: Object Module Manager $24.95 the book, and DOS 3.3 and ProDOS 8 versions with Applesoft. It supports built-in ampersand MH-007 of Merlin Pro, the most widely used assembler parsing, relocates modules from disk into Leventhal: 65021"rgrmg, 2nd Ed $19.95 MH-008 Leventhal: 6502 SubrouUnes $19.95 on 8-bit Apples. The book and disk are also memory, and provides a way for modules to �,t<>h• available ., ., r.,.. communicate with each other.

. . Applesoft was originally written well before programming under ProDOS is ProDOS Inside including disk, directory, and file structures and Apple lis were using disk drives. To this day, and Out, which was written by our own Dennis formats. Includes complete information on Apple's Applesoft manuals say very little about Doms and Tom Weishaar. This book also has a using the ProDOS Machine Language Interface how to use data files on disks. Instead, this disk, sold separately, with the book's programs. from assembly language.

information is in Apple's BASIC Programming One other important ProDOS reference we AW-024 Basic Yrgrmg w/ YroDOS (w/disk) $29.95 8 with ProDOS. The book includes a disk with stock is Apple's ProDOS Technical Reference TB-006 YroDOS Inside and Out $16.95 utilities and sample programs. Manual. This book has a great deal of technical os-002 disk for this book $10.00 Another good book about Applesoft information on the inner workings of Pro DOS, AW-023 ProDOS 8 Tech Ref (w/disk) $29.95 12 A2-Central Catalog JYumber 1 Programming

··: � · w j� ::�. :�: �� � t �� :; = . j!: \ � ', � ,•, : : ;: ;�� ,. : : ii :1 } ::= : :: ' �� �. i�; l� :: :. : ; : : · . :: :: : : The world's largest Apple 11-oriented technical gathering is our own A2· minutes from the college. Central Summer Conference. The conference takes place each Last summer Apple did an Apple llgs College the day before our summer, during July, in Kansas City. conference started. Next summer we're hoping to have three choices Apple Computer is a major sponsor of the conference. Each year it prior to our conference: a two-day Apple Ilgs College and two-day sends 20 or more engineers from its Apple II development labs and from introductions to programming in Pascal and C on the Apple llgs. Our its Developer Technical Support team. Last summer Ralph Russo, Apple's tentative date for these sessions is July 16 and I 7, 1991. top executive in charge of the Apple II; Jane Lee, Apple's head of Apple We're planning to hold our own conference on July 18 and 19. This II marketing; and David Szetela, head of Developer Services, also spoke will be a Thursday and Friday. Previously our conference has been on at our conference. Friday and Saturday. We're moving it ahead a day for 1991 to open up During 1990's conference, Apple's engineers showed off a number of room on Saturday and Sunday, July 20 and 21, for a public, Apple II· new tools for the Apple llgs. Apple also brought a logic analyzer and oriented trade show. Our plans are only tentative as this catalog is being used it as the primary tool in their bug-busting room, which solved major written, but if we can pull it off, will this be neat or what? problems for several developers. While we do intend to once again provide those who attend with the The main part of the conference lasts two days. We have several tracks option of Avila College's inexpensive food and accomodations, we are of sessions going on simultaneously. Some sessions are done by Apple's currently planning to hold the actual colleges, conference, and exhibit people, the rest are done by people like Roger Wagner, head of Roger fair at the facilities of the National Office Machine Dealers Association, Wagner Publishing; Mike Westerfield, head of The Byte Works; and Randy which is within walking distance of Avila College. NOMDA's facility Brandt, head of JEM Software and author of TimeOut UltraMacros. You includes a larger auditorium, more comfortable seminar rooms with built­ can get a better idea of the number of sessio_ns and their topics by in color projection systems, and much more room for exhibits than we've studying the list of audio tapes we have available from last summer's had in the past. conference. You'll find the list in the box below. While the sessions are important, most attendees agree that the real For the last two years we've taken over the dorms, cafeteria, and reason to attend our conference is the chance to meet and talk to other conference center of Kansas City's Avila College. This allowed us to offer Apple II developers. It's like a reunion, only better. To get on our those who attended a place to stay, a large selection of technical conference mailing list, write the following number on our order form sessions, and three meals a day at a very good price. For those who and we'll send you full details when\ we have them available. a hotel, there are several, covering a wide price range, just a few CONF-ML More Infonnation on the A2-Central Summer Conference free

: :: ;: ; : : � �� ::: :: :: .�1 ;: : : · ·: ii =� :i :: . · :'•' :'•'. :'•'. ·,:• ..: · :: ;,' · } : : � : = : li. : : : : ::l , ,i · �' : :�· :I, 1: ,I j� �� : : :ii. , � : , ·�: �:: ';:- ·· . .j: � !i : := ;: 1 � . � . � ::= ::· m · :·: }: ::: i : . ;j i1 �= ) ·:: : . =� :l ;1. { : These audio tapes were all made during AT0-08 60 min (Apple)Talkin' 'bout My Generation 8-Bit sessions of the 1990 A2-Central Summer AT0-09 50 min Genesys -In The Beginning AT0-32 25 min Apple 11 and ProDOS 8 Update AT0-11 50 min /Yew Apple 11 SCSI card Conference. held in Kansas City on July 20 and AT0-33 50 min 8-Bit Development Environments AT0-12 50 min CD-ROM and the Apple 11 21. The list is a good overview of the types of AT0-34 50 min Using MD-BASIC AT0-13 50 min Apple 11gs Media Integration sessions you can attend at the conference. The AT0-36 50 min Stalking tbe Elusive Auxmem AT0-14 50 min Apple 11gs Programming Tips tapes themselves are full of good information. AT0-37 50 min Dev Systems for DB Master AT0-16 50 min Advanced Apple Hgs Debugging Apple Ilgs College AT0-17 50 min Writing DAs, CDevs, and Inits UltraMacros AT0-51 50 min GS/OS & Toolbox Overview AT0-18 50 min Creating Apple Hgs Device Drivers AT0-38 50 min Brandt on UltraMacros AT0-52 50 min Programming Strategies (same AT0-20 50 min Printing and the Apple Hgs AT0-39 50 min UltraMacros Prgming for Developers content as AT0-14) AT0-21 50 min Toast and tbe Human Interface AT0-40 50 min A Works Routines from UltraMacros AT0-53 50 min Writing the Code AT0-22 50 min Working with the Apple 11gs Finder AT0-54 50 min Debugging (same content as ATO· AT0-23 50 min Sex_ Lies, and File Fonnats Other 16) AT0-24 50 min 11gs Programming for the 1990s AT0-70 30 min Jane Lee luncheon speech AT0-55 50 min Using a Test Plan AT0-25 50 min Languages & Tools from Byte AT0-71 50 min Dev Assn Meeting (Ralph Russo) AT0-56 50 min Appletalk (same content as ATO· Woms AT0-72 50 min David Szetela luncheon speech 07) AT0-26 50 min Developing with Micol Adv Basic AT0-44 50 min Laser Computer and Apple AT0-58 50 min Seminar: Graphics AT0-35 50 min Introduction to Debugging Technlgy AT0-59 50 min Seminar: IYetworking AT0-45 50 min Extending the Life of the Apple 11 AT0-60 50 min Seminar: GS/OS, SCSI HyperStudio AT0-46 50 min Computing for tbe Handicapped AT0-61 50 min Seminar: Development Tools AT0-27 50 min ftyperStudio Stack Authoring AT0-47 25 min Where to Go for Apple Tech Info AT0-62 50 min Seminar: Printing (same content as AT0-28 50 min ftyperStudio XCMDs AT0-48 50 min Online Resources for Programmers AT0-20) Cross Development AT0-49 50 min BBS Design and Operation AT0-50 50 min Computing in the USSH Other Apple Ilgs AT0-29 50 min 2-For-1: Farallel Development AT0-80 50 min SEA Software Tools AT0-01 50 min Apple 11gs System Software Update AT0-30 50 min Working With The Enemy AT0-02 50 min /Yew Apple 11gs Sound Tools AT0-31 50 min Dynamo & rizzazz Tape Prices AT0-03 50 min Unleashing tbe Sound of tbe 11gs number of tapes AT0-04 50 min The Apple 11gs Animation Toolkit Marketing price/each 1-5 $3.95 AT0-05 50 min AT0-41 50 min Marketing for Small Developers Apple 11gs Animation Secrets 6·11 $3.25 AT0-42 50 min AT0-06 110 min Sound and Animation Q & A TumYour Software Into Cash 12-24 $2.95 AT0-07 50 min AppleTalk: now to Make the calls AT0-43 50 min The Road to Fame & Fortune 25-49 $2.45 50+ $1.95 fall1990 A2·Central Catalog II

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A modem allows you to hook your computer to the world-wide warranty, and it's made in the U.S.A. telephone network. Once connected, you can call other computers-from In addition to the II 0 volt North American model, we stock three 220· Apple lis running local bulletin boards to the large mainframes used by volt versions of this modem. These differ only in the type of plug on international information services such as GEnie. the power supply. This chart shows you the types of plugs lnt'l Modems work at various speeds, or "baud rates." Most modems sold available-order the one that matches the sockets in your power today have a top operating speed of 2400 baud. locality. plugs All of the modems we sell are external modems. This means they sit For those of you who spend hours on line, we also have on the desk beside your computer. They come with one of those little 0 the Computer Peripherals ViVa24m MNP modem. Besides power cubes that plugs into the wall and a phone cable that plugs into a being hip looking, this 2400 baud modem supports MNP Australia modular jack. You also have to connect the modem to your computer error correction and data compression levels 2 through 5 with a "serial cable." Since the serial cable you need depends on which when connected to other MNP modems. Most GEnie nodes computer you have, the cable is sold separately. See the box below. D support MNP to level 4, for example. Our best-selling modem is the SupraModem 2400. It's a good, WGermany MNP is a data communications protocol for error-free inexpensive, all-purpose modem that's fully compatible with the industry· communication over ordinary voice-grade telephone lines. standard "AT" command set. It will operate at 300, 1200, or 2400 baud 0 The classes of MNP have varying levels of capability. Wtih and is compatible with Bell I 03/212A, CCITT V.21, CCITT V.22, and Britain MNP Class 5, you typically set your modem-computer baud CCITT V.22bis protocols, which means it works all over the world. ..__,....._.... rate at 9600 even though the modem-modem baud rate will It supports automatic answer/automatic dial (tone or pulse) and has a be lower (1200 or 2400 baud). Besides error detecting and correcting, programmable non-volatile memory that stores a telephone number and two MNP Class 5 modems connected to each other will also perform your user configuration profile without any need for setting switches. It compression of transmitted data. On ordinary text the compression can has two modular phone jacks, one for the cable that goes to the wall and be about 50 per cent, which doubles the effective baud rate. one for a phone. It also has a speaker with volume control, a one-year All our modems, by the way, will work with any personal computer, ·. = �. not just an Apple II. · . . .. :� =r SC-001 Supra 2400 for JVorth America (I10 volts) $129.00

One end of these cables plugs into any of the modems or printers we SC-002-AU Supra 2400 for Australia (220 volts) $139.00 carry. The other end plugs into the type of computer you have. These SC-002-WG Supra 2400 for West Germany (220 volts) $139.00 cables are all 8 feet long. SC-002-UK Supra 2400 for Britain (220 volts) $139.00

RC-001 B·pin connector for llgs, llc·Pius. Macintosh $15.00 DC-008 ViVa24m 2400 baud M/VP 5 modem (I10 volts) $199.00 RC-002 5-pin connector for older lie $15.00 SHIP Surface shipping any modem outside U.S. $3.00 RC-003 25-pin connector for serial cards (Apple lie, MS·DOS) $15.00

:! :1 i : : .· . :: : :: In order to use a modem you have to have telecommunications ability to trick mainframe and · minicomputers into thinking your Apple II software running on your computer. At a minimum, this software takes is one of a variety of mainframe terminals, including models from your keystrokes and passes them to the modem, which passes them on TeleVideo, Hazeltine, ADM, ADDS, and the DEC VT-52. to the remote computer you're connected to, and it grabs the characters Its strongest feature is a robust "scripting language," which allows it to coming in from the remote computer and displays them on your screen. be turned into a "telecommunications robot." It can follow sophisticated Talk ls Cheap is an excellent, inexpensive telecommunications scripts that log onto a service, read your mail, read the bulletin boards package. It has the ability to save all incoming characters-you can scroll you are interested in, download software, and log off-all automatically. back through the text that disappears off the top of your screen. It comes You touch the keyboard only to start the script in motion. It's because of with an editor you can use to write messages and it has a special mode this feature that software such as Co-Pilot and Gfnie Master (next box) for use in real-time conferences. It supports the file transfer protocols require Talk Is Cheap. known as XMODEM and YMODEM, which are used to prevent errors CS-001 Talk Is Cheap $40.00 creeping into files being transferred between computers. And it has the

.· �= : :� :: ·. : : .· : : . :: ,:· , : :·� · : : ��. :: : . :: :: · Co-Pilot and GEnie Master are two programs designed to make it GEnie Master, on the other hand, has an AppleWorks·like interface. It easy and cheap to use GEnie. They log on to GEnie for you and do the consists of sophisticated scripts for TimeOut UltraMacros and Talk Is things you want done, all automatically. You read and respond to the Cheap. It requires that you have Apple Works and Talk Is Cheap, although information collected from GEnie later, while offline. No need to worry you don't need to have UltraMacros (it's distributed as a "task file"). about a clock ticking in the background. Currently GEnie Master requires Apple Works 2.0 or 2.I; it doesn't work Co-Pilot is an Apple llgs program that uses the desktop interface. You with AppleWorks 3.0. control it with easy-to-use pull-down menus. Co·Pilot uses either Talk Is cs-001 GEnie Master $20.00 Cheap or Point-To-Point, the telecom package published by Beagle Bros, KG-001 Co-Pilot $25.00 for its online robot. You must have one or the other. 10 A2-Central Catalog IYumber I Telecommunications

A2-Central manages the Apple II areas on GEnie Services, the leading GEnie announces price reductions online information service owned and operated by General Electric. On Oct. I, 1990, GEnie's subscription rate in the U.S. was changed to There are two Apple 11 areas on GEnie. The larger of the two is called the $4.95 per month. The basic subscription includes unlimited, non-prime Apple 11 RoundTable, or "A2." The other is the Apple II Programmers and time access to more than I 00 products and services, including electronic Developers RoundTable, or "A2Pro." maiL an online encyclopedia, single-player games, stock quotes, news, Each area includes a library of the best Apple 11-related software and and weather. GEnie calls these its Star' Services. data files you'll find anywhere, including system software updates and While the basic rate does not include the Apple II RoundTables, GEnie technical notes direct from Apple, classic Beagle Bros software, the A2· simultaneously announced a new non-prime hourly rate of $6 per hour Central Font Clearing Nouse, graphics, games, and AppleWorks for all three speeds (300, 1200, and 2400 baud) to access services not templates. In A2Pro's library, you'll find reams of sample source code. covered by the basic subscription. This is a 40 per cent reduction from In addition to the library, each area has a bulletin board where you the previous 2400 baud non-prime time rate. The prime time rate can get fast answers to your questions. Most of the leading Apple II· remains at $18 per hour for all three access speeds. related companies provide customer support inside the A2 bulletin The hourly rate applies to all the personal computing RoundTables, board. In A2Pro we not only have some of the best llgs programmers in software libraries, financial services, value-added services, chat lines, the world, but a number of Apple's engineers come by on their own time real-time conferences, and multi-player games. to help developers with Apple 11-related puzzles. GEnie also announced a new money-back guarantee. After trying Each RoundTable also has real-time conference rooms where you can GEnie Star' Services for one month, unsatisfied subscribers can cancel ask questions at regularly scheduled formal and iQformal conferences their membership and their $4.95 subscription fee will be refunded. This with leading guests from the Apple II community. offer applies only to first-time GEnie subscribers, one per household. How to open an account on GEnie Expanded International Access payment: Have your credit card number ready Invoice billing available in the U.S.-cali the In addition, GEnie announced that it is now available via the Public customer service number shown for more information. Data Network in 21 countries, in addition to its previous availability in the United States U.S., Canada, Austria, Japan, Switzerland, and West Germany. Set-up: Half Duplex (local echo)300, t 200, or 2400 baud The 21 countries with GEnie availablity through PDN are Australia, New Dial: 1-800-638-8369 Upon connection, enter: HHH Zealand, Mexico, PortugaL Spain, Ireland, the United Kingdom, France, At the "U#=" prompt, enter: XJM11797,CENTRAL (no spaces)and press RETURN Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, South Need help? For GEnie customer service (voice)call 1·800·638·9636 Africa, Singapore, Nong Kong, the Philippines, Taiwan, and South Korea. canada The new Star' Services rate is not available in PDN countries. Hourly Set-up: Half Duplex (local echo)300, 1200, or 2400 baud Dial: 1-800-387-8330 rates are $8 non-prime and $20 prime time (local times). PDN users will Upon connection, enter: HHH be billed separately by their local telephone company for PDN charges. At the "U#=" prompt. enter: XJM11797,CENTRAL (no spaces)and press RETURN Need help? For GEnie customer service (voice)call 1·800-638-9636 GEnie charges will be billed, in U.S. dollars, to the subscriber's credit card. Switzerland Set-up: 8N1, Half Duplex (local echo)1200 baud Dial: Zuerich ...... 01-556821 Lausanne ....021-6174511 Join GEnie free! Basel ...... 061-350523 Geneva ...... 022-7985566 Upon connection, enter: HHH The former $29.95 sign-up fee for the GEnie service has also been At the "U#=" prompt, enter· XJM11797,CENTRAL (no spaces) and press RETURN eliminated for all new subscribers. As a result there is no real cost to Need help? For GEnie customer service (voice)call 2233·6091 (Huerth-Effern, West Germany) subscribe to the GEnie service (Japan excluded), except for the first I Germany Austria month subscription rate of $4.95 in the U.S. and Canada. The certificate Service Provider DATEX·P Dial: Call GEnie customer service at 2233-6091 (voice, Huerth-Effern, and agreement numbers formerly assigned to A2·Central subscribers West Germany) for number of your local node and for access codes. are no longer necessary. At the "U#=" prompt. enter: XJM11797,CENTRAL (no spaces) and press RETURN Need help? For GEnie customer service (voice) call 2233-6091 (Huerth·Effern, West Germany) World-wide rates Japan Service Provider: C&C VAN As of October I, 1990, in U.S. dollars except where noted: Dial: Call NEG Client Services at 03-452·9800 (voice)for number of your local * node and for access codes basic non-prime prime sign-up At the "U#=" prompt, enter: XJM11797,CENTRAL (no spaces) and press RETURN monthly rate per hour per hour fee Need help? For NEG customer service (voice)call 03-452-9800 u.s. $4.95 $6 $18 free Public Data Network Countries (PDN) Canada (in Canadian $) C$ 5.95 C$8 C$ 25 free PDN country list: Australia Ireland Philippines Sweden Austria/Germany/Switzerland NA $18 $27 free Belgium Italy Portugal Taiwan Denmark Mexico Singapore Uniited Kingdom Japan (in Yen) NA Y 5400 Y 5400 Y8ooo Finland Netherlands South Africa PDN countries NA $8 $20 free France New Zealand South Korea In PDN countries the phone company will bill you separately for PDN access Hong Kong Norway Spain Contact your local telephone company to get a PDN account number and to ' Non-prime rates apply Monday through Friday from 6 PM to 8 AM local time and all find out how to access the PDN day Saturday, Sunday, and designated holidays. Hourly rates shown are billed in one­ Upon connection, enter: 3136900 (in some countries an additional? zeros may be required) At the "U#=" prompt, enter: XJM11797,CENTRAL (no spaces)and press RETURN minute increments. Some GEnie connections in smaller U.S. cities carry an additional Need help? For GEnie customer service (email only) send a message to FEEDBACK. After you surcharge. GEnie rates and services are subject to change. Some third party services sign up, GEnie will mail you a contract. The contract must be signed and returned offered on GEnie may be subject to specific country restrictions or may carry additional before your account can be validated. You may fax the signed contract to GEnie. charges. GEnie is a service mark of General Electric Company, U.S.A. falll990 A2-Central Catalog 9

Hypermedia authors (and others interested white or 16-level grey scales. You can also save from video cameras or video disk players. VCRs in the Apple ll's ability to display pictures as scans in high-res, double-high-res, and Print that can display a noise-free single-frame well as text on its screen) soon feel a need to Shop OS formats. The Apple lie software works picture also work well. Scan times are less than create their own graphics. Actually drawing an in black and white and can save data in high-res 6 seconds except in 640-mode, which takes image with a program such as MiniPaint or double high-res files. less than twelve seconds. (described elsewhere on this page) is an option The video digitizer we carry is Digital VI-001 Quickie Scanner $219.95 for those with the ability to draw. And for the Vision's ComputerEyes. This device comes in DV-001 BA'WComputerEyes $119.95 rest of us there's electronic imaging. two models. One is a black and white version DV-002 Enhancement Software $22.95 There are two kinds of imaging equipment that will work in any slotted Apple II and with DV-003 Jigs Support Software $22.95 available for the Apple II, scanners and any composite video source, including PAL and $219.95 digitizers. A scanner is used with graphics that SECAM. By itself, it can create hi-res and double DV-004 Color ComputerEyes for Jigs are already on a sheet of paper. A digitizer is hi-res black and white images. With optional used with video images coming from a video enhancement software it supports Print Shop camera, VCR, or video disk player. and Newsroom formats, image negate, The scanner we carry is the Quickie hand shrink/expand, left-right flip, and so on. With Second Chance V2.0 is an image scanner from Vitesse. It comes with a card optional llgs support software, in can create enhancement package written to work with Apple you put into one of your computer's slots and 320-mode graphics using a 16-level gray scale. llgs 320-mode 16-level gray scale images. It will software that runs under GS/OS or ProDOS 8. The Color ComputerEyes requires the North also convert 640-mode images to 320 and back The scanner itself is about the size of a double­ American standard NTSC video and an Apple again so they can be enhanced as well. wide mouse. It has a cable that plugs into the llgs. It can do everything the black and white Includes ten smoothing (blurring) algorithms, card. It can scan an area about four inches digitizer and software can do, but it can also do seven sharpening algorithms, sample wide. The length of the scan depends on how what the black and white model can't-create photographs, and a technical discussion of what much memory you have in your computer. 320-mode graphics with 16 colors. It can also the algorithms (many of which use Fast Fourier The llgs software comes both in NDA and create 640-mode graphics in black and white or Transforms) actually do. stand-alone versions. It allows you to create four-level gray scale. RI-001 Second Chance $39.95 both 320· and 640-mode in black and These work best with still

The A2·Central Font Clearinghouse on HyperStudio Clip·Art, Volume 1 has more sound won't have to be embedded in the stack GEnie (see next page) is the best source for than 550 Apple llgs 640-mode graphic images more than once. The DiskPlay Xcmd will play

public domain fonts that work with Apple llgs you can use with HyperStudio, AppleWorks OS, sounds directly from disk. Normally Hyper­ programs and with many 8-bit programs such as or other programs. The images include 27 Studio loads sounds into memory before Beagle Bros' TimeOut Superfonts and animations that will work within HyperStudio. playing them. On some machines you'll run out TimeWork's Publishlt! We've compressed all but The disk also includes a slide-show program for of memory before a long sound is completely the most recently uploaded fonts onto eight 3.5 viewing the files and a printed manual with loaded. On others, the sound may fit but there disks so that you can have a complete font images of the graphics. will be a long delay as the sound loads. The collection. Besides fonts, the disks include a HyperStudio Clip-Sounds, Volume l has DiskPlay Xcmd solves these problems. copy of Shrinklt that you'll need to uncompress 41 sound files including musical transitions, All these fonts, sound clips and art clips may the fonts, an AppleWorks database file showing button noises, and sound effects. It also be used in stacks you distribute to others.

the characteristics of the fonts, graphics files includes two Xcmds, ButtonPlay and DiskPlay. FC-001 A2-Central font Collection $39.00 showing the look of the fonts, and general The ButtonPlay Xcmd will play a sound that's RW-007 ffyperStudio Clip-Art, Vol I $19.95 technical information. already attached to another button so that the RW-008 HyperStudio Clip·Sounds, Vol I $19.95

Minil'aint is a full-featured, full-color, its price-just a fraction of what other llgs paint Print Shop OS, and Newsroom, as well as 320· and 640-mode paint program for the programs cost even though it includes most of MacPaint files. The program can even read Apple Ilgs. MiniPaint is published by JEM and their features. Macintosh 3.5 disks! has: Roger Wagner Publishing's The Graphic Graphics can be examined, cropped, and

· auto-shadowing for powerful "light source" control Exchange is for you if you already have or can scaled and colors can be manipulated. A new,

· scroll bars that speed you to any part of your picture get the graphics you want but they're in the recently-released GS/OS version does batch

· exotic lasso and marquee options that add power wrong format. conversions and can also convert graphics to · "Dither Lock" to keep 640-mode colors accurate This Apple llgs program allows you to Mac format for use on a network or with Apple · keyboard shortcuts to speed up work, increase control exchange virtually any Apple II graphic image File Exchange. · coordinate display gives pixel-by-pixel control from one format to another. Supported formats JE-003MiniPaint $25.00 · prints on LaserWriters, in color on lmageWriters include normal and double low-res and hi-res, RW-004 The Graphic Exchange $37.50 Nonetheless, its most remarkable feature is 320- and 640-mode super high-res, Print Shop, 8 A2·Central Catalog JYumber 1 Hypermedia

: . : Frankly, there's a lot of hype surrounding hypermedia. But it's not all Stack-Central hype. At its kerneL hypermedia technology allows anyone to bring 1 3 1 together informational material that includes text sounds, graphics, and 2 issue even videotape or videodisk segments and to give users multiple ways to year years years trial explore this material. SubscripUon prices $42 $81 $117 $7 Computers are at the center of hypermedia. In schools, the primary 6 issueslyear, 3.5"disk only hypermedia machine is the Apple Ilgs. The primary hypermedia software Stack-Central Sampler itllyperStudio Demo $3 is Roger Wagner Publishing's HyperStudio. HyperStudio, like HyperCard on the Macintosh, uses the metaphor of a "stack" of "cards". Stack authors write text or paint pictures on these cards, or they attach sounds or videos to them that are played when a Stack.·Central card appears. They can also put "buttons' on the cards that play sounds Stack-Central or videos, that score tests, or that bring up other cards. has been published every other month since The major differences between HyperStudio running on an Apple Ilgs February, 1990. Each issue consists of two BOOK, 3.5 disks and and HyperCard running on a Macintosh are that the HyperStudio includes a HyperStudio stack containing editor Terry Baker's tips, tricks, machines cost less, support color. and have a more sophisticated and letters from readers for that month. Each issue also includes public sound system. In addition, with HyperStudio, stack authors create domain and shareware stacks. Specific issues contain sounds, xcmds, stacks by using the point-and-click Apple desktop. With the Mac's and other material you can use in your own stacks. HyperCard, stacks are created by writing programs. Stack-Central back issues are available for $10 each. Stack-Central is a 3.5-disk based publication for people who are SC-9081 Semiannual disk set (Feb/Apr/Jun 90) $25.00 creating stacks with HyperStudio. It's published every other month by the gang at A2·Central. Each two-disk issue is filled with tips and tricks, sounds, and graphics that stack authors can use in creating their own Free airmail world-wide stacks. Each issue also includes state-of-the art public domain and All of our publications, A2·Central, TimeOut-Central. and Stack· shareware stacks. Central are sent to you by airmail. To U.S. addresses this means first If you'd like to see the potential of HyperStudio on your own Apple class mail. To most other countries we use international priority airmail. Stack-Central llgs, send for a sampler disk. It includes a demo version This means you'll get your issue within about a week of when we mail it of HyperStudio and several stacks. If you'd like to take advantage of no matter where in the world you live. There is no additional charge for Stack-Central HyperStudio's potential. you'd better get a subscription. this service. Each of our publications has a single world-wide price.

HyperStudio is a hypermedia authoring Sound Shop unless you want to. Since HyperStudio and HyperCard use the system for the Apple Ilgs. You create "stacks" HyperStudio includes graphic tools for "stack of cards" metaphor, many people think made up of "cards." Each card consists of a creating Apple Ilgs 640-mode Super High that hypermedia is defined by stacks. That isn't graphic background and can also hold text Resolution graphics or you can import graphics right. Hypermedia is defined by links. Hyper· objects, graphic objects, sounds, and buttons. from other Ilgs programs. For example, you media simply provides users with multiple Text Objects are scrolling windows that can can use the Quickie Scanner or the paths through a set of informational material. hold much more information than would ComputerEyes Video digitizer described on the Another approach to hypermedia is to otherwise fit on one card. You can make the opposite page to create personalized graphics present the user with text and graphic files that text editable or read-only. The text can be part you can use with HyperStudio. have embedded links to other text. graphic, of the stack or it can be in separate files. HyperStudio also supports video disk players and sound files. For example, imagine that a Buttons can be used to move to another that can be controlled through an RS·232 serial highlighted word in a text file indicates that you card, stack, or program; to play a sound or a port. You can play video segments on a can obtain expanded information on the word segment from a video disk; to activate an separate monitor, or, with Apple's Video (more text a picture, or a sound) by clicking on animation; or to execute an external assembly Overlay Card, on the Apple Ilgs screen itself. that word. Or imagine being able to click on a language command called an "Xcommand". RN-005 llypei'Studio $99.95 face in a photograph of a basketball team and Buttons can also be used to keep test scores. sc-o llyperStudio/Stack·Central Demo $3.00 getting a text file with that player's name and HyperStudio comes with tools for creating statistics. sounds and graphics, including a sound Tracy Valleau's Nexus is an Apple Ilgs digitizing hardware card that doesn't need a program that allows you to create these kinds slot. a microphone, and a separate program 'Xcommands" are external assembly language of "linked sets" of information. You can even called Sound Shop that allows you to edit and programs that can be used by HyperStudio. edit the text or graphics without destroying the add special effects to the sounds you record. Normally you can only use one per stack, but the links. Nexus includes a file you can distribute You can also use Sound Shop to convert sound HyperStudio Xcmd Library Disk, Volume I, by Ken so anyone can use your linked set. For more, files from other software/hardware packages Kashmarek, provides a Master Xcmd that lets you see the April 1990 A2·Central disk, which into HyperStudio format. In addition, you can use many. It also gives HyperStudio text-based Nexus. record sounds from within HyperStudio while scripting ability and includes I 8 useful Xcmds. includes a demo version of you are creating a stack. You don't have to use RW-009 ltyperStudio Xcmds, Vol. 1 $39.95 GC-001 l"'exus $69.95 falll990 A2·Central catalog 7

. . One of the things that makes Apple Works subdirectories, and to easily add and drop everything you need to stay efficiently one of the great programs of all times is the subdirectories to or from the current directory. organized. TimeOut series of add-ons from Beagle Bros. The disk also comes with the TimeOut Mr. Invoice, by Mark Munz & Bob Martz, is a We love them and we use them every day, but application PathMaster, by Mark Munz, which fast and easy invoicing system for AppleWorks we don't actually sell most of them. That's gives an alternate way to add and drop users. Mr. Invoice uses the power of because they're widely available in stores and subdirectories. UltraMacros (special version included) to guide we've tended to specialize in the hard-to-find DoubleData. by Dan Verkade, doubles the you as you enter orders. Mr. Invoice will: stuff of exceptional quality. number of categories in the AppleWorks Data • maintain a customer data base Randy Brandt is a software author who has Base! DoubleData gives you 60 categories for • automatically update inventory been associated with Beagle Bros for years. He every record; two pages of 30 categories each • automatically track backorders has written several TimeOut packages, most so that you can set up those large Data Bases • let you print to any custom form notably UltraMacros, which you can read about just the way you've always wanted. Press OA-J • optionally track monthly or annual (I or 2 elsewhere on this page. He was also a member to jump to the other page instantly, or move year) sales of the Beagle team that wrote AppleWorks 3.0 categories from one page to another to fine­ • print on standard continuous-feed invoice for Claris. tune your layout. The 30-category barrier is forms Brandt is also the brains and brawn behind a history! JE-008 OutHneJ.O $39.00 small Apple II software company called JEM. He Randy Brandt wrote SpeiiCopy to copy your JE-005 Pathfinder $20.00 and his associates have produced a number of AppleWorks dictionaries to a RAMdisk at bootup JE-007 DoubleData $30.00 interesting products that work with AppleWorks. for maximum spelling checker speed! JE-006 SpeHCopy $12.50 Outline 3.0 is an integrated Outliner for the SpeiiCopy also features the ability to modify JE-001 nexical $30.00 AppleWorks 3.0 word processor. It modifies AppleWorks so that your dictionaries can be on JE-004 Mr. Invoice $40.00 your copy of AppleWorks so that the Outliner is a drive other than your AppleWorks disk. This always there when you need it. It was written by means that if not much RAM is available you Brandt himself. can put AppleWorks on the RAMdisk, but keep From a word processor document. you the dictionaries on the AppleWorks disk. Classic AppleWorks is known for its flexibility. simply press open-apple·+. You'll see the word Flexical, by Lester Simpson, works with But not everyone knows that this flexibility extends right down to your ability to make subtle "OUTLINER" at the top of the screen. AppleWorks 2.0, 2.1, and 3.0. Never miss changes, or patches, to the AppleWorks program Outline supports six levels of topics and five another appointment! Too many computer code itself. We carry two programs that make label options, including custom (design your calendars unrealistically require the user to be these patches, such as overstrike cursor on own). You can arrange topics in ascending or desk-bound all day. This one is for people on startup, 'Yes' highlighted at prompts, use of descending order, you can bump topics up or the go; real people like teachers and MouseText where appropriate, and much more. down a level. you can collapse or expand an businessmen who have to take their calendars SuperPatch works with AppleWorks 2.0, 2.1, entire outline or zoom to a specific level. Text with them, daytime or night. and .3.0. Beagle Bros Apple Works J.O Companion can be added to topics and can be displayed or Written by a teacher, FlexiCal gives you works only with 3.0. See the October 1990 hidden. practical daily, weekly and monthly calendars JnCider/A+, page 56, for a complete comparative Brandt also wrote Pathfinder. which replaces that you print as Qeeded. The weekly and list of what each program can do. the "Format a Blank Disk" option on the monthly calendars are automated by a special QC-001 Supelf>atch $39.95 AppleWorks 3.0 "Other Activites" menu. It allows version of UltraMacros (included) so that you BB-004 Beagle AppleWorks J.O Companion $39.95 you to lock, unlock, and rename files, to delete can effortlessly enter, arrange, and view

Beagle Bros' TimeOut UltraMacros lets you UltraMacros to run your software. turn Apple Works 3.0 into a player piano. You The UltraMacros compiler supports more can "record" complicated keystroke sequences than 50 commands, including IF·THEN-ELSE, and play them back easily. The sequences can recursion, PEEK, POKE, and CALL. It has a include AppleWorks and TimeOut commands. screen blanker and can execute commands at In addition to recording keystrokes, you can preset times. And it adds mouse control to use the Appleworks word processor to write AppleWorks. Many say this enhancement alone The U/traMacros Primer was written by macro UltraMacrosprograms. For example, flexical is worth the price of UltraMacros. expert Mark Munz and published by the National and Mr. Invoice, which appear on this page with Beagle Bros has also published Macrofase, AppleWorks User Group to help users get started JEM's software, and GEnie Master, which which includes a TimeOut debugging utility that with TimeOut U/traMacros. The book is the best appears in our Telecommunications section, allows you to see the names and values of introduction to the program available. It starts by were all written with TimeOut UltraMacros. You variables in use, seven full-blown macro helping you get U/traMacrosinstalled and then can write programs for your own use or you can applications that do things like convert word walks you up a gentle slope all the way to write programs for sale. And you can license a processor documents to two or three columns, advanced programming. Munz illustrates his work special version of UltraMacros from the write checks, and create interactive multiple· with useful sample macros. choice quizzes. The package also includes 57 program's author, Randy Brandt. so that your NA-001 UltraMacrosPrimer $19.95 customers won't have to own can use to do 6 A2·Central catalog /Yumber I AppleWorks

and many of them do. These secretaries help with grading and with If you already use Apple-Works as your secretary, share your best ideas attendance, with reports to parents and to students, and with collecting with us. If not, let us show you what computer-aided instruction really and organizing materials for classroom presentation. means. No, these teachers aren't self-funded sweep-stakes winners. These are TimeOut·Central simply teachers who have learned to use their classroom computers and Apple Works to get more done, more gracefully, in less time. 1 2 3 1 issue Of course, it's not just teachers who get more done with AppleWorks. year years years trial Virtually everyone who uses an Apple II uses AppleWorks. We'll show you subscription prices $42 $81 $117 $7 6 3.5 the actual templates and techniques these people use in our new 3.5· issues7year, disk only disk based publication, TimeOut-Central. l1. l!r == . == = :=: : It's named after Beagle Brother's famous TimeOut series of :: .: .i 1.: .�1.� �= . . : .: , =�= · . : AppleWorks add-ons. Through our contacts at Beagle, at Claris, and at TimeOut-Central schools around the world we're able to bring you the latest news and the TimeOut-Central has been published every other month since best tips and tricks about Apple Works and TimeOut. And because we're a September, 1990. Each issue consists of one BOOK, 3.5 disk and disk-based publication, we can send you not just text, but complete includes a column by the editor, Richard Marchiafava, letters from computer files. The exact files other people use every day! readers, as well as public domain and shareware files. TimeOut-Central is published every other month (6 issues a year) by TimeOut-Central back issues are $10 each. the gang at A2·Central. The editor is Richard Marchiafava, author of the "AppleWorks Advisor" column that has appeared monthly in user-group newsletters around the world. Free airmail world-wide Every day, people like you are using Apple Works to make themselves All of our publications, A2·Central. TimeOut-Central, and Stack· better teachers, better students, and better businesspeople. Our goal is Central are sent to you by airmail. To U.S. addresses this means first to create a clearinghouse linking these early Apple Works adopters class mail. To most other countries we use international priority airmail. together with each other and with the many other people who have seen This means you'll get your issue within about a week of when we mail it, the potential of Apple Works and TimeOut and who are hungry for ideas no matter where in the world you live. There is no additional charge for and examples. this service. Each of our publications has a single world-wide price.

There are more books in print on haven't yet been updated. of Apple Works novices. It has a good word-of· AppleWorks than on any other Apple II subject. The books that were rewritten for mouth reputation; we carry it for all the people People sometimes have a hard time selecting Apple Works 3.0 are Ruth Witkin's The Best who ask for it by name. the one that would be best for their needs. Book of Apple Works and Arthur and Elaine Ericson's Apple Works Tips and Techniques We carry two books that have been updated Aron's Using Apple Works. supplements the AppleWorks manuals with to reflect the changes in Apple Works 3.0 and Witkin writes the monthly "AppleWorks in literally hundreds of new tips, tricks, and we carry two AppleWorks 2.0 classics that Action" column for inCider/A+ magazine. Her intelligent observations. Its structure, concise r on headings, and detailed index allow you to · : : : � ���:� quickly find practical solutions to typical ,: . ' � :�:i:��t�� lllllli· l'liil:li l·::im••' ;;;I'· I ��E���!���=��E problems. What sets this book apart from the We carry two books about AppleWorks GS. management, a billing system, receivables others is Ericson's ability to recognize and They were written by different authors and tracking, break-even analysis, financial organize good, new ideas. Ericson has also published by different companies, but otherwise calculations, sales force evaluation, employee created a disk that includes all the templates in they are fairly similar-in fact, they have exactly and customer data bases, mailing lists, form his book, which we also carry. the same title: Using Apple Works OS . letters, and handbooks. IN-004 Within: Best Book of AppleWorks Katherine Murray wrote the Using Apple Works $21.95 The Arons' book depends less on hands-on IN-006 OS published by Que. She's written a number of Aron: Using AppleWorks $21.95 examples and more on a thorough discussion user guide books across the MS-DOS, Mac, and SY-007 Tymes: MasteringAppleWorks $21.95 of each element of AppleWorks. This book Apple II range. Her book has higher-quality SY-008 Ericson: AppleWorks Tips lk Tech $19.95 includes hundreds of illustrations of the illustrations and more of them. She also includes DS-003 disk for Ericson's book $12.00 n a neat little Quick-Key appendix. AppleWor ks screen. Like Witki 's book. it is Class Works: AppleWorksfor the Douglas Brown wrote his book for Addison­ suitable both for beginners and more advanced Wesley. He was one of the authors of the manuals users. Classroom that come in the box with Apple Works OS. He The two AppleWorks 2.0 classics we still Rick Thomas. An organized approach to teaching carry are Mastering Apple Works by Elna Tymes includes introductory and advanced chapters for AppleWorks. Includes lessons plans, hand-outs, quizzes, each of the six Apple Works OS modules. and Robert Ericson's Apple Works Tips and and overhead transparencies. Includes a disk with copies IN-005 Murray: Using AppleWorks GS (Que)$21.95 Techniques. of all student activities. Use as-is or modify to your special Afil-027 Brown: Using AppleWorks GS (AW) $19.95 Mastering Apple Works is a classic needs. Successful with 7th grade through adult training. introduction that has been used by thousands CE-001 Thomas: ClassWorks $45.00 fall 1990 A2-Central Catalog 5

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Index to Volume 5 ($C035) 23b-23c Apple llgs Shadow quarterly report 6b keyboard extensions 66a register rumors 12a, B1a portable 30b-30c by Alan Womack ($D7D2) Be return to Applesoft on llgs software licensing 39c power connector 30c In the following index, a lowercase letter ($DB23) Be jumps to $D7D2 on llgs support Apple lie plus appears after each page number. This letter ($D9C6) Be return to Applesoft developer 9b-11 b disk drives see (disk drives; Apple lie plus) points to the column an entry appears in. For ($F666) 67b miniassembler entry on 11-Pius international 23c-24c, 27b-27c, 32b, 56b keyboard extensions 66a example, "47a" refers to the first column on Advanced Disk Utilities 29c contact 37b memory expansion see (cards; memory; page 47; "56c" to the third column on page Advanced Technical Services 6c service policies 21 a-21 b, 27a-27b expansion; Apple lie) 56. Alpha Systems Corporation 21a-21 b technical notes see (books; technical) Apple llgs All page numbers in A2-Central's fifth American Educational Services B4b trademark infringement see (Apple battery replacement 21a-21b, 27a-27c, volume begin with a 5, as in "5.33" To save American Micro Research 5Bb Computer Inc; legal issues) 37b, 77a space, the initial "5" was dropped from the analog to digital converter 93b-93c VAR program 39c, 51a-52a control panel page numbers in this index. animation Apple Desktop Bus standard values 7b-7c, 13b, 53a-53c HyperStudio see (Roger Wagner Software; bar code scanner 93c desktop publishing see (desktop A HyperStudio) infrared remote 26b publishing) A.P.P.LE. Co-op see (TechAIIiance) long cables 63c-64a disk drives see (disk drives; Apple llgs) A-Doc 92b APDAiog see (Apple Programmers and repairing BOa-BOb faster machine 33a A+ see magazines (A+) Developers and Association; APDAiog) Apple Direct 11 a, B3b Finder A2-Central Applause! 91a Apple Fiesta 21 b AppleShare 34a, 61a Applelink mail box 3Bb Apple Assembly Line Ba, 53c Apple File Exchange Translator 64c device scanning ?a, 12a changes 5Ba, 70a-70b Apple Associates 1 Ob-11 a Apple Netherlands 23c tips ?a CompuServe mail box 3Bb Apple Computer Australia see also (Apple Apple Partners 9b-1Oa UniDisk corrections 6a, 12a, 51a, 66a, B4a, 91 a Computer Inc; support; international) Apple Programmers and Developers polling see (Apple llgs; Finder; device developer conference 7b, 16b, 23d, developer conference 5Bb Association 11a scanning) 57a-57b Apple Computer Inc technotes from 63b GS/OS see (GS/OS) direction of 70b contests Apple Programmers Workshop 11a Fatal system error 911 see (bugs/ fixes; font clearing house see (fonts; clearing Apple II Video Overlay Card see (cards; APDAiog11a Apple llgs; Fatal system error 911) house) Apple II Video Overlay) Apple II (general) fonts see (fonts) index 53c copy protection 9a cassette memory card see (cards; memory; Apple newsletter fonts 1 b dealer evaluations 13b-13c playing 7c-Ba llgs) quote permissions 52b directions of 12b-13a, 34b demise predictions 6b PAL upgrade see (upgrades and updates; pessimism of 71 b-72b employee conduct 52a fire hazard 52a-53b Apple llgs; PAL) Academic Courseware Exchange 52a hiring 9a handicapped applications 11 b printing speed 3b ADB see (Apple Desktop Bus) HyperCard library 36a, 63c software upgrades see (upgrades; startup device scanning 14a Addison-Wesley 52a-52b legal issues Apple system software) SYSTEM folder addresses trademark infringement Apple II Developers Association 57b, 77a DRIVERS ($003A) 79c low byte of address to Apple Corp 17a Apple II SCSI Card Technical Reference APPLEDISK5.25 disassemble start Video Technology 26a Manual see (books; Apple II SCSI upgrades see (upgrades and updates; ($0038) 79c high byte of address to profits 9b Card Technical Reference Manua� Apple llgs) disassemble start promotions B3b Apple lie Apple Viewpoints 11 a f'all 1990 A2-Central Catalog J

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