SharewareShareware SolutionsSolutions IIII An Exciting Apple II Journey Into The Future

Volume 3, Issue 1 Spring, 1996 Heard It Through The Grapevine Hard Drive Give Away following e-mail message: “The There was also quite a bit of dis- winner of the HD is Keith Saga- cussion about Brutal Deluxe’s Everyone whose subscription low. We threw all of the papers System 6.0.2 update, and Oliv- was current at the end of Febru- into the air, then we threw a ier admitted that his program- ary, 1996 was automatically en- dart at one. There were three ming partner suffered from a tered into the Hard Drive Give names hit by the dart, but only hard drive crash and that much Away Contest, and the winner one was legible, so Keith was of the work had been lost. of that contest is Keith Saga- the winner.” low, a IIGS owner from Central The freewheeling online chat Valley, New York. Keith is now Thanks to Tony Diaz for do- session was attended by more the proud owner of a 120 Mega- nating the drive. Thanks to Auri than 30 people, and a good time byte Focus Hard Drive. for acting as an intermediary to seemed to be had by all. Steve Wozniak. Thanks to Woz From the time the contest was for choosing the winner. But Upon his return to France, Oliv- announced in the last issue un- most of all, thanks to all of you ier started work on the next Bru- til the time that Keith received for supporting Shareware Solu- tal Deluxe release, a IIGS game his hard drive, several unexpect- tions II. that is inspired by a very popu- ed developments occurred. Tony lar game that is already availa- Diaz of Alltech Electronics, the Brutal Deluxe Visit ble on other computer platforms. sponsor of the contest, informed He expects that the game will be me that he would be unable to Olivier Zardini of Brutal Deluxe completed in the late summer of donate the planned 80 Mega- Software recently visited the 1996, and it will be available as byte Focus Hard Drive, as All- Shareware Solutions II World- a Limited Edition from Share- tech was completely sold out of wide Headquarters and we were ware Solutions II for $5, but them; instead, Alltech donated able to spend five or six enjoy- only to those people who have a 120 Megabyte drive. able and educational days to- purchased Convert 3200. gether. Olivier arrived with his In the last issue, no mention homebrew SCSI hard drive and Olivier has been sending me a was made of the method that from examining the contents of weekly update of the game, and Shareware Solutions II planned that drive, it certainly appears it has been fascinating to watch to use to choose the lucky win- as if the Apple IIGS world has a his programming efforts evolve ner. After that issue was com- lot to look forward to; two new into a completed game. At this pleted, I contacted Auri Rahim- Brutal Deluxe arcade games point, it is a work-in-progress zadeh to ask whether he might should be available before the that is lovely to behold but it is be able to convince his boss to end of the year not yet playable. Given Brutal choose the lucky winner. Auri’s Deluxe’s history of creating IIGS boss, as many of you know, is During his visit, arrangements versions of other popular com- Steve Wozniak, the inventor of were made to conduct a chat puter games, the next game the Apple II computer. Auri was session over the GEnie online should prove to be yet another pleased to get Woz involved. network, and some of the high- smash hit. As Olivier recently lights of that three hour session told me, “The new arcade game On the morning that Woz was included a long question and will be our best program ever.” going to choose the winner, I answer session about Convert Stay tuned for details. generated a text file from the 3200, with Olivier announcing AppleWorks based subscriber that a free update is planned; Magic Eye Graphics database and sent it to Woz, via that update will offer some sup- Auri, and later received the port for the Second Sight card. If you’ve been in a bookstore in

Shareware Solutions II 1 Shareware Solutions II the last few years, chances are celerator cards, back issues of that you’ve seen the “Magic Eye” GS+ Magazine and several IIGS Volume 3, Issue 1 series of books. Those books software titles that they pub- contain graphic images that at lish, including Addressed For Shareware Solutions II is pub- first glance look like a jumble of Success, AutoArk, and Balloon, lished bi-monthly by Joe Kohn, colors, but if you look at them in but their product line now 166 Alpine Street, San Rafael, a certain way and for a certain boasts many new additions. CA 94901-1008. length of time, they are magi- cally transformed into three di- EGO Systems was able to track Publisher/Writer: Joe Kohn mensional images that literally down a former Apple II vendor Roving Reporter: Cynthia Field come to life and jump off the who had unsold inventory, and Contrib. Writer: Steve Disbrow page. was able to secure a limited Proofreader: Jane Kos number of copies of PublishIt v4, Called random dot stereograms, the premiere desktop publishing Entire contents of Shareware thousands of images similar to program for the IIe/IIc, and is Solutions II copyright (©) 1996 “Magic Eye” graphics can be now offering it for $39.95. Also by Joe Kohn. All rights are found on the Internet. Unfortu- available in limited quantities reserved. Nothing may be re- nately, those images were cre- is the PaceMark IIGS 4 Mega- printed or reproduced, in whole ated on computer systems with byte RAM card for $109. or in part, in any media without resolution greater than the IIGS the prior written consent of Joe can display on a single screen, EGO continues to program new Kohn. and the 3-D effects are com- IIGS software, and is now of- pletely lost when those images fering several translators for Available by subscription only, are converted to the 320 x 200 Seven Hills Software’s Graphic- several options are available: graphic mode that the IIGS Writer III desktop publishing displays best. program. The RTF Translator A) The first 18 issues: $55 for ($24.95) allows GWIII to import US/Canada; $75 elsewhere. Are Apple IIGS users therefore “Rich Text Format” files into a unable to enjoy random dot page layout document with all B) The next 6 issues/Renewal: stereograms? Not anymore, formatting remaining intact, $25 for US/Canada; $40 else- thanks to Lee Golden, the Man- and their new AWGS Translator where. aging Editor of Softdisk G-S. ($14.95) allows AppleWorks GS Lee has granted Shareware Sol- word processing documents to be Make all checks payable to Joe utions II permission to distrib- imported into GWIII with all Kohn. US Funds Only. No ute ThreeDer, a program that font information, text, text col- charge cards, purchase orders or originally appeared on Issue 67 ors, and paragraph justification COD orders will be accepted. of Softdisk G-S. ThreeDer will and indentation remaining in- convert any IIGS Super Hi Res tact. This newsletter was created graphic into a random dot stere- entirely with an Apple IIGS. All ogram, and display it on screen In addition to their own soft- articles written in AppleWorks or let you print it out. ware, EGO now carries the en- Classic. Page Layout prepared tire catalog of TimeOut based in AppleWorks GS. Printing Effective immediately, Three- AppleWorks enhancements from was done on a Hewlett-Packard Der is available from Share- Office Productivity Software, in- LaserJet IIP Plus, connected to ware Solutions II for $5. De- cluding About Time ($14.95), the IIGS courtesy of Vitesse’s spite its low cost, ThreeDer is ShrinkIt Plus ($29.95) and Harmonie. The use of TrueType not shareware or freeware; it re- Statistics ($79.95). fonts is courtesy of WestCode mains copyrighted by Softdisk. Software’s Pointless. If you haven’t yet seen EGO Sys- EGO Systems tems brand new 20 page catalog, E-mail Addresses: you owe it to yourself to contact CIS: 76702,565 The number of products avail- them and request a free copy. GENIE: JOE.KOHN able from EGO Systems just Please contact EGO before or- INTERNET: [email protected] keeps growing and growing. dering any products, as some of They continue to sell ZipGS ac- them are available only in lim-

2 Shareware Solutions II ited quantities. you are away from your comput- Dr Buggie continues to tune up er for more than a few minutes. Disk II disk drives for $5. But, EGO Systems If you are unfamiliar with those he now offers to supercharge 7918 Cove Ridge Road commands, you may want to set those drives by adding a front Hixson, TN 37343-1808 up a self starting disk that au- panel three position manual tomatically runs the program. write protection toggle switch or 800-622-3634 (orders only) In order to easily do that, for- by adding a front panel speed 423-843-1775 (questions) mat a ProDOS disk, copy Pro- adjust knob. Each of these en- 423-843-0661 (fax) DOS and Basic.System to that hancements can be added by Dr disk, and then startup that Buggie for $5, plus $4.50 per Basic Screen Blanker disk. Then, enter the above pro- drive for shipping and handling. gram and when finished, type Tom Zuchowski of the Eamon SAVE STARTUP to save it to If you don’t want to be bothered Adventurers Guild wrote a sim- disk. by boxing up your old Disk II ple Applesoft Basic program drive, Dr Buggie will sell you one that blanks his IIe’s computer Low Cost Enhancements with both of the enhancements screen to prevent phosphor burn already installed for only $24 while his computer is not being Dr Steve Buggie continues to plus $4.50 shipping. used, and he’d like to share that offer great deals to Apple II us- program with you. He suggests ers; his most current hobbyist If you’d prefer to perform the that you type it in, save the pro- projects involve connecting IBM- modifications yourself, make gram to disk, and then run it style power supplies to Apple sure you attend Dr Buggie’s whenever you are going to be IIe or IIGS systems, and offer- presentation at KansasFest. away from your computer. ing customized improvements to Disk II disk drives. Dr Steve Buggie In order to type the program in, UNM-Gallup you’ll need to run Basic.System, IBM-style power supplies gener- 200 College Rd which can be found on your Sys- ate the same voltages required Gallup NM 87301 tem Disk or on many of your self by the Apple II, but they deliver starting ProDOS disks. Once 150-200 watts of power, more 505-863-7504 (office) you run Basic.System, you will than twice the output of the 505-863-2390 (home) be deposited at the Applesoft standard 60 watt Apple II pow- [email protected] prompt (]). From that prompt, er supply. Problems associated just type in the following short with weak power can be reduced On The Horizon program, pressing your Return or eliminated by using an IBM- key after each line. style power supply, and you can Dan Crutcher created Check- safely fill all of your slots or add Works as a checking account 10 HGR extra disk drives without over- program that works from within 20 HOME loading the power source. AppleWorks as a TimeOut mod- 30 GET A$: PRINT A$ ule. He originally released 40 TEXT Dr Buggie includes cabling and CheckWorks as a shareware 50 END connector plugs with the power program for AppleWorks v3, and supplies, and has them avail- when Quality Computers re- After you have typed it in, type able in two sizes: 150 watts for leased AppleWorks v4.0, they the RUN command and decide $27 or 200 watts for $30. There purchased the rights to Check- whether you like this very basic is an additional $5 required for Works and re-released it as a and simple screen blanker. You shipping. Specify whether you commercial program available can end the program by pressing plan to use the power supply on exclusively from Quality. any key, and you’ll be back at a IIe or IIGS, and please note the Applesoft Basic prompt. that these power supplies are Unfortunately, by the time external, and will sit on the AppleWorks v5 was released, If you’re familiar with Apple- floor beneath your Apple IIe or Quality had already started to soft’s SAVE and PREFIX com- IIGS. scale back the scope of its Apple mands, just save the program to II software catalog, and they no disk and then run it whenever As mentioned in the last issue, longer seemed interested in of-

Shareware Solutions II 3 fering updated AppleWorks v5 different versions of Check- It’s expected that we’ll have compatible TimeOut-based pro- Works available in a single details in the next issue, but if grams. For that reason, Dan is package, so that whether you you can’t wait that long, look for working with Quality to have use AppleWorks v3, 4.x or 5.x, an announcement online, or send the copyrights for CheckWorks you’ll be able to write and print a self addressed stamped en- revert back to him, and he is checks, maintain a checkbook velope to Shareware Solutions also working with Shareware register, show current balances, II, and you’ll receive notification Solutions II to re-release all the and reconcile accounts without when CheckWorks becomes various versions of CheckWorks. ever having to leave Apple- available. ö As planned, we will make three Works. Lies, Lies, And More Lies By Professor G. S. Gumby Hello Again! for the show by calling Kellers’ ware designer left the company. Auto Electric (this year’s KFest After far too long an absence, I sponsor) at 908-775-0371. If Is There Anybody Out There? am happy to be reporting on you want more information on Apple II rumors once again. I the show, send an e-mail to If this fine publicaton is the only am especially glad to finally be [email protected] or write: Apple II literature that you working with someone who know of, it might surprise you to knows the real meaning of jour- KFest ’96 find out that there are at least nalism. Not only that, but Dr c/o Kellers’ Auto Electric four other periodicals out there Field is a babe too. Oh, yeah, PO Box 391 for you to latch onto. For exam- Joe Kohn is OK too I guess. Brielle, NJ 08730 ple, II Alive still has four issues left to go before Quality Com- A Meaningful Relationship Tangled Up In Hype puters pulls the plug on it. Softdisk G-S (318-221-8718 for If you’ve been wondering why Just as the rest of the world be- info) is still going strong and nobody has come out with IIGS gins to figure out that the World shows no sign of stopping. software for the QuickTake or Wide Web is somewhat less Juiced GS is a IIGS-specific QuickCam video devices, you’re thrilling than all the hype would newsletter that Joe Kohn spoke not alone. But that may change have us believe, rumors are fly- at length about in our last issue soon if the rumored IIGS Quick- ing about the imminent release (direct your e-mail message to Cam software comes to pass. of three different web browsers [email protected] for more for the IIGS. At this point, information). And finally, there’s Yet Another KansasFest there’s no word on when any of even a NEW publication for you these will actually ship, but at to check out. It’s called The In case you haven’t heard yet, least one of them should be AppleBlossom and you can send the committee who put together ready no later than August. e-mail to [email protected] last year’s successful Kansas- for more information. Fest is gearing up to do it again. Just You Wait This year’s show will take place Speaking Of E-Mail from July 17-21 (Wednesday If you bought a Second Sight through Sunday) at Avila Col- video card for your IIGS and If you own an Apple II and you lege in Kansas City, Missouri. you’ve been wondering where all don’t have a Genie account, The cost will be a mere $375 for the Second Sight-aware applica- shame on you! Genie is one of the whole show, including all tions are...just wait. Sequential the few online services that still room and food fees. So, if you has said that they plan to sup- treats Apple II owners like hu- want to go, sign up now! If you port the card as fully as possi- man beings. Best of all, they’ve know you want to go, and you’ve ble, but they are having some got new owners and new lower got an American Express, Visa trouble moving forward with prices! For more info, call them or MasterCard, you can register those plans since the card’s soft- at 800-638-9636.

4 Shareware Solutions II Ask Mr 8-Ball 8-Ball: As I see it, yes. 8-Ball: My reply is no.

For those of you who aren’t Gumby: I’ve heard that Apple is Gumby: I’ve heard that someone familiar with my old column in going to be porting its new out there is working on a Kodak GS+ Magazine, my good friend Copeland operating system over Photo CD viewer application for Mr 8-Ball is the one source that to the IIGS. True? the IIGS. True? I can always turn to when I need to get a rumor confirmed. So 8-Ball: Better not tell you now. 8-Ball: Yes. Definitely. let’s get right to those rumors! Gumby: A miniscule avian told Gumby: I’ve also heard that Gumby: Rumor has it that a me that the programming on there are two separate projects venerable Apple II company is Wolfenstein 3-D for the IIGS to create an Apple IIGS emu- looking to turn technical sup- has been done for months. Is it lator for the PowerMac. Will port for its Apple II products true that legal troubles are the either of these ever see the light over to another company. True? only thing keeping it from being of day? released? 8-Ball: Very doubtful. ö The Computer That Could Have Changed The World Meet Mark Twain Apple II sessions. agers of the Apple II division ac- companied him. Besides myself, Each year, Apple’s User Group Not being one who is easily dis- there were no more than five oth- Connection co-sponsors a sum- couraged when it comes to the er Apple II owners in atten- mer conference and convention Apple II, I asked Raines about dance. What we heard that day for Apple User Group leaders, the possibility of offering some was remarkable in that it was and it was at the July, 1991 sessions for Apple II User the first time, and possibly the convention that I first learned Group leaders, and he agreed only time, that Apple employees about Apple’s imminent plans that if I wanted to coordinate ever spoke to the public about to release a new souped-up Ap- all of the Apple II activities, I the Mark Twain computer. ple IIGS computer, code-named was welcome to do so. I was off Mark Twain. and running. The Big Picture

The 1991 National Apple User I immediately contacted Tim During the summer of 1991, the Group Convention was held Swihart, a well-known Apple II Apple IIGS was alive and well, near me at the University of programmer who had been hired and Apple was still more than California in Berkeley. Usually by Apple to serve in a manageri- 1.5 years away from announcing the convention is co-sponsored al position in the then-Apple II its discontinuation. System 6.0 by a local user group, but that division. Tim agreed to attend hadn’t yet been announced, and year it was co-sponsored by an the convention and to give a the SuperDrive Controller Card individual – Raines Cohen – the talk. At the time, both Hyper- was still six months away from founder of the Berkeley Macin- Card IIGS and System 5.0.4 being released. Those were hope- tosh User Group. At the time, I had recently been released, so I ful and optimistic times; not e- was wondering whether there expected that one or both of ven a year had passed since Ap- would be anything of interest at these would be the subject of his ple CEO John Sculley pro- the convention for an Apple II talk. claimed in an open letter to the User Group officer, so I con- Apple II community, “Apple’s tacted Raines and was some- On the day that the convention commitment to its 5 million what dismayed to find out that started, I was surprised to see Apple II users is to continue to absolutely no arrangements had that Tim Swihart didn’t come create products that improve the yet been made to offer any alone; all of the top level man- functionality and performance of

Shareware Solutions II 5 their computers. Apple will sell, the same price range as the first answering some technical ques- service, and support the Apple of the “low cost” Macs that had tions about the Apple II when II line well into the 1990s.” been released in late 1990. several Mark Twain computers literally walked themselves into At the 1991 User Group Con- That was truly an exciting my life. vention, the Apple employees meeting, and I think all of us were very excited and they had were thrilled to be the first Ap- Several days prior to the meet- one item, and one item only, ple users informed of Apple’s ing, a fellow club officer received that they wanted to discuss upcoming plans. Several weeks a cry for help over the telephone. with those in attendance: the later, that same Apple II team The call started innocently e- soon to be released Mark Twain. traveled to Peterborough, New nough: “Help. Something is They quickly rattled off some Hampshire to give employees of wrong with my IIGS computer.” basic technical specifications: inCider/A+ Magazine their own The club officer tried to deter- the machine would have a built- sneak peek at the Mark Twain. mine which model IIGS the call- in 3.5" disk drive and a built-in Unlike at the User Group con- er had and tried to get as many 40 megabyte hard drive, and it vention, an actual Mark Twain details as possible. From the would ship with System Soft- prototype was shown to the way the caller described her sys- ware, AppleWorks GS and Hy- inCider/A+ editors. At the time, tem, the club officer was unable perCard IIGS pre-installed on inCider/A+ had plans to devote to determine which model Apple the hard drive. They stated that an issue to the Mark Twain; IIGS she had, as there had been the Mark Twain was intended alas, those plans never materi- several references to a built-in to be sold primarily in the edu- alized because in the late sum- disk drive. So, the caller was in- cational marketplace. They mer of 1991, inCider/A+ was in- vited to bring her computer to waved around a copy of Apple’s formed that the Mark Twain the next meeting. most current marketing bro- project had been cancelled. And, chure, and it was there that our nothing more was ever heard She did, and when the woman attention was directed towards from Apple about the project. walked into the room, I was in the “Educational Bundle” – a the middle of describing how to package deal for educators that Fast Forward Five Years convert various foreign format included a ROM 3 IIGS, exter- graphics to a IIGS format. I nal 3.5" and 5.25" disk drives, a After its cancellation, tales of glanced over at her and her com- 40 megabyte hard drive that the Mark Twain project took on puter, and my jaw dropped. I in- came with System 5.0.4 pre- almost mythic proportions. Sto- stantly lost my train of thought, installed, along with HyperCard ries circulated in the Apple II and quite frankly, I was so IIGS and AppleWorks GS. world about the cancelled proj- stunned by what I saw that I ect, and that community re- was temporarily at a complete As excited as the Apple employ- named the Mark Twain as the loss for words. ees were about the imminent re- ROM 4 computer. Rumors about lease of a new model IIGS, they the capabilities of the Mark The computer, at first glance, kept trying to point out that the Twain circulated for years but looked like a standard Apple Mark Twain was simply in- nothing was ever heard from IIGS. But, I noticed, there really tended to replace the “Educa- Apple, except for a well dis- was a built-in 3.5" disk drive. tional Bundle” then being of- guised reference to Mark Twain How was that possible? Need- fered for $1,299. Although we that appeared on the cover of less to say, I no longer cared a- never actually saw the new the 1992 edition of Apple’s “The bout explaining how to convert IIGS, we were led to believe Apple II Guide.” But certainly graphics. I wanted to know what that it was just mere weeks or no outsiders, aside from the that IIGS was. I rushed over and months away from being re- inCider/A+ staff, had ever seen immediately opened the case, leased and that the last step in a Mark Twain. Until October, and there was a motherboard the process was to determine 1995, that is. unlike anything I had ever seen the pricing. Although no firm before. It had only five slots, and price was announced that day, At the end of October, 1995, I a square shaped power supply. the Apple employees indicated was presiding over the monthly It had a built-in 3.5" disk drive that the cost would be about meeting of The GravenStein Ap- and a built-in SCSI hard drive $999, which would place it in ple User Group, and was busy sitting just under the 3.5" drive.

6 Shareware Solutions II Upon turning the machine over, that each of the three mother- would be Tony. As if on cue, Tony I saw, just as plain as day, the boards he examined were slight- contacted me before I had a notation on the sticker attached ly different. He also stated that chance to contact him; he had al- to the underside of the case – “the floppy disk will not eject ready heard the tale of the Mark “Prototype: Mark Twain.” The when the button is pushed, and Twain through the Apple II woman said she had two of this is due to a problem on the grapevine. them, along with a spare moth- motherboard and not on the erboard!!! Apparently, she had drive or switch.” He bypassed Within just a few days, the gotten them from a friend of a that problem by rewiring the deals were concluded, and I was friend of a friend’s ex-husband eject switch directly to the drive heading off to sunny Southern whose former sister-in-law’s connector. California, with two Mark cousin used to work for Apple. Twain computers well packed Before returning the Mark for the long ride. One of those The woman had absolutely no Twains to their owner, Ray told Mark Twains was destined to be idea how rare her computers me that he planned to wheel the one this very article was were; to her they were just IIGS and deal and to get one of those prepared on, and the other was computers. On the spot, I of- machines for himself, and won- destined to enter Tony Diaz’s fered to purchase her Mark dered what it would be worth to unofficial Apple II museum. Twains, but they were both cur- me. I blurted out: “What do you rently in daily use, and there want?” The response was: “A The Age Of Discovery was no way she was going to full blown, state of the art part with them. Or, so she said. Macintosh system.” I wondered, Tony Diaz and I spent the next “How on earth am I going to be four or five days literally im- Wheelin’ And Dealin’ able to get such a system and mersed in the Mark Twain com- not go bankrupt?” puters. We ripped them apart I was so distracted for the rest and put them back together of the meeting that I never even During the next month, there again. We connected Focus hard noticed that the woman with were many more desperate Drives and CD-ROM drives. We the Mark Twain had left, and phone calls made, and I eventu- tried every piece of software we much to my dismay, I never ally learned the name of the had at our disposal. We ran Sys- even learned her name. While woman who owned the Mark tem 6 and System 6.0.1. We ran more excited than I’d been in a Twains and was able to extract diagnostics and dumped the long time, I was also quite dis- a price from her for the one re- ROMs to disk. We examined and mayed that the secrets which maining Mark Twain. All she compared the Mark Twain to lay within the Mark Twain wanted was “a full blown, state both the ROM 01 and ROM 3. might really be lost forever. of the art PC clone.” I wondered, And, we’ve continued to examine “How on earth am I going to be those machines for the past six Several days later, I was con- able to get such a system and months. And in all that time, tacted by our user group’s hard- not go bankrupt?” the only software programs we ware wizard, our club’s very own have found that wouldn’t work Mr Fix It, Ray MacAnally. Ap- I looked at ads in the local on the Mark Twain were a few of parently, while I was distracted, newspaper, and saw that mod- the early FTA demo programs. Ray had made arrangements to ern day Macs and PC clones We’ve made quite a few discov- take a look at the Mark Twains started at about $1,500, and eries, the highlights of which and to fix them if at all possi- that putting together two “full follow. ble. Almost as if to taunt me, he blown” systems for trading pur- told me that he was going to get poses was beyond my means. A Guided Tour the Mark Twains that very day. Who do I know, I wondered, who Upon receipt of the Mark loves the Apple II but who sells Let’s first get a perspective; Twains, he reported “the sup- Macs and PC clones? The long when comparing the innards of a ports for the drives are fabri- list I came up with had exactly ROM 3 and a ROM 01, for the cated from metal that have an one name on it, and that was most part, the motherboards ap- unfinished look to them, and it Tony Diaz of Alltech Electron- pear to be quite similar. Some is a real bear to disassemble ics. If anyone had access to more custom chips were added the whole thing.” He noticed great systems at low cost, it to the ROM 3, a new battery

Shareware Solutions II 7 holder was installed, and the a- Speed SCSI card and a FDHD bilities similar to that of the mount of RAM on the mother- SuperDrive Controller chip set. HyperStudio Slotless digitizer board was increased. There have been integrated into this were also some minor improve- To add all of those additional section as well, with the input ments in power routing to de- components and still fit the connector straddled on top of the crease the “noise interference” motherboard in the same case, stereo headphone/speaker jack. levels that plagued the ROM 01, a lot of engineering miracles The sound hardware stretches but to the average Apple IIGS had to happen. In some ways, over to the inner side of the user, the ROM 3 was essentially the Mark Twain has the perfect printer port and immediately just a ROM 01 with an extra motherboard in terms of layout next to it is the last slot, slot 6. megabyte of RAM. as everything is contained in its own area of the board. The Despite rumors that the Mark One look at the motherboard of built-in RAM has been moved to Twain is a speed demon, a stan- the Mark Twain leaves no doubt the very front edge of the moth- dard 65C816-4 CPU running at that there were major and re- erboard, located near the power 2.8 Mhz is found in the same markable engineering changes LED, and higher density surface physical location as it is on the made since the ROM 3 had been mount RAM chips have been other IIGS models; therefore, released. For starters, there is a used so that only four chips are standard ZIP GS and Trans- slot cut into the front of the case required to total the 2 mega- Warp GS accelerators can be where a 3.5" disk can be in- bytes of RAM supplied on the used on the Mark Twain. To the serted. Upon opening the case, motherboard. In comparison, left of slot 1 is a square shaped it is clear that the motherboard the ROM 01 uses eight chips to higher output half size power is 1.5" wider than in the two equal 256K, and the ROM 3 supply with two +5 supply wires previous models and there are uses eight chips to equal 1 and a built-in cooling fan. only five slots instead of the megabyte. Like both other IIGS customary seven. The built-in models, the Mark Twain has The power supply sits on top of a 3.5" drive sits above a Quantum 128K of “slow” RAM to remain long metal assembly that ex- LPS 40 megabyte hard drive compatible with the original de- tends the full length of the com- which in turn is connected to the sign and to insure backward puter and attached to that as- built-in High Speed SCSI Con- compatibility with the Apple sembly, in front of the power troller which provides daisy IIe. supply, is the floppy disk and chain capabilities, so Slot 7 is hard drive unit. In between the no longer needed. Additionally, The two 30 Pin SIMM sockets power supply and the disk as- the new built-in stereo sound on the Mark Twain are found in sembly is a gap of less than .5", circuitry has been improved over the exact same spot where the and peering into that gap you the previous models by virtually ROM 01 and ROM 3 memory ex- can easily see the new location isolating it electrically from the pansion slot is located. Directly of the floppy controller hard- rest of the motherboard; in es- next to and above the SIMM ware. Directly beneath that is sence, the entire area sur- sockets is the sound area with the power supply connector and rounding where Slot 7 would ap- the Ensoniq chip. The Piezo a 50 pin header for the SCSI/ pear has been taken over by the Electric Speaker is also located Floppy daughterboard. Below, built-in equivalent to a stereo above the SIMM sockets. Al- and occupying the rest of the card. though that speaker actually board to the lower edge, is the sounds worse than the speaker High Speed SCSI controller. The In addition to the 2 megabytes found in all other Apple II mod- floppy controller consists of a of RAM found on the mother- els, full stereo output is provid- 344S0061A chip, which is Ap- board, there are two 30 pin ed via the rear port connection ple’s SWIM (Super Woz Inte- SIMM sockets that can each ac- jack, making stereo speakers grated Machine) chip that is cept 1 megabyte SIMMs; there- connected to the back of the GS also found on the SuperDrive fore 4 megabytes are the maxi- essentially plug and play. Per- Controller card and on newer mum amount of RAM that can haps Apple never really in- Macintosh models. Despite the be utilized on the Mark Twain. tended for anyone to actually fact that the disk drive appears Among the other new elements use the Piezo Electric Speaker. to be capable of handling high found on the motherboard are a density disks, the functionality Piezo Electric Speaker, the High Built-in sound digitizing capa- is limited to 800K due to lack of

8 Shareware Solutions II FDHD firmware. Please note ed guesses. of the Mark Twain. that the FDHD SuperDrive con- troller card wasn’t actually re- For the past ten years, Apple Of course, we had several flights leased until November, 1991, has desperately been trying to of fancy and imagined that the several months after the Mark cut manufacturing costs, and we Mark Twain was actually built Twain was cancelled. believe that it was cost cutting by several Apple II loyalist en- measures that led to the devel- gineers who were trying to keep The SCSI hardware is also in a opment of the Mark Twain. Af- the Apple II alive by lowering similar unfinished state; it con- ter all, the Mark Twain bor- the manufacturing costs. Or, we sists of hardware similar to a rowed several important parts even imagined that it was to be High Speed DMA SCSI card, from the Macintosh, including Apple’s “swan song,” a parting but it does not operate quite as the hard drive/3.5" disk assem- present to the Apple II world. fast as the High Speed SCSI bly and SIMM Sockets. Al- card. Although the $C700 mem- though the Mark Twain was a In any case, the Mark Twain ory location looks just like there technological and engineering could have been a wonderful is an Apple High Speed SCSI marvel, we speculate that the computer with amazing capabil- card attached to Slot 7, none of machine was dreamed up by ities that didn’t require lots of the standard SCSI utilities Apple’s marketing department expensive add-ons. It could have aside from ADU work with the as a way to partially reverse been the ultimate Apple II. It built-in SCSI hardware. IBM’s inroads into the class- could have been the second Ap- room. It seems to us that if Ap- ple II to change the world. Located in front of slot 1, and to ple offered a complete computer the right of the SCSI/Floppy system for less than $1,000 (Note: You are cordially invited daughterboard header, is a 26 that would run all of the thou- to attend a public showing/demo pin male header for attaching a sands of Apple II educational of the Mark Twain prototype on ribbon cable that connects to software titles, they’d have a big Saturday, June 15, 1996 at 10 the back of the computer in or- seller on their hands. AM at the Trinity Community der to permit more SCSI de- Church, 1675 Grand Avenue, vices to be part of a daisy chain. As things turned out, in late San Rafael, CA. The Mark There is only one SCSI bus 1990 Apple did release a com- Twain will be shown as a fund built-in, so there is a maximum plete Macintosh computer syst- raising benefit for the Graven- of six additional SCSI devices em for less than $1,000 and in Stein Apple User Group; admis- that can be daisy chained to the March, 1991 Apple released the sion for non-members will be SCSI controller. IIe card for the Macintosh LC. $5.) We speculate that it was the Impressions LC/IIe card combination that Shareware Solutions II would most probably delivered the 1-2 like to acknowledge the valuable After discussing for months our punch that knocked the Apple II contributions made to this article Mark Twain discoveries, Tony family out of Apple’s product by Ray MacAnally and Tony Diaz and I have reached many line-up and that was directly Diaz. It would not have been of the same conclusions about responsible for the cancellation possible without their help.ö the computer, and we have both enjoyed speculating on the moti- vations Apple had for designing such a computer and the possi- Stack Central/Studio City ble reasons why Apple cancelled the project. Aside from the tech- What’s It All About? named Studio City. During that nical data presented above, all time, a total of 30 issues were of which was directly observed From 1990 to 1995, Resource published and Shareware Solu- with our own eyes, our conclu- Central and its ICON successor tions II is pleased to announce sions are completely unsubstan- published an amazingly crea- that all 30 issues are available tiated and therefore impossible tive bi-monthly interactive Hy- once again. to prove. But, as long time Ap- perStudio based magazine-on- ple followers, we like to think disk that originally appeared as HyperStudio, of course, is the that our conclusions are educat- Stack Central but was later re- easy to use award winning hy-

Shareware Solutions II 9 permedia construction kit for require a IIGS, a 3.5" disk drive, cluding Future Hype which con- the Apple IIGS that permits 1.25 megabytes of RAM, and tains a wish list and vision of non-programmers to create non- System 5.0.2 or later. You do the uses of hypermedia and the linear interactive software that not even need to own the Hyper- IIGS. Stack Ideas provides can contain any combination of Studio program to use Studio guidelines for creating a hyper- scrolling text, digitized sounds, City since a HyperStudio “play- media based user interface, and animations, or graphics. er” program is included with all Hypermedia In Use describes a Studio City disks. college level Physical Sciences Each of the 30 issues of Studio project that uses HyperStudio to City is a veritable work of art Ordering Information control laserdisks. that shows off the amazing ca- pabilities of HyperStudio. Each If you’ve never experienced the The HyperStudio stacks in this two disk issue serves a dual wonders of HyperStudio or seen issue include a Question and purpose as both a showcase for Studio City before, you can sam- Answer stack that addresses the very best HyperStudio gen- ple those wonders through a some elementary HyperStudio erated software ever created, three disk Sampler Pack for concerns. There are two geogra- and as an on-going tutorial and only $6. phy related stacks: Geo Test is a resource guide for those who stack that uses the test func- want to learn how to tap the in- Single issues are available for tions of HyperStudio to test your credible power of HyperStudio $7 each, which includes ship- knowledge of countries in North to create inventive and creative ping to anywhere in the world. and Central America, and A- software (often called stacks). cross The USA is the first in- A six issue combo pack (choose stallment of a group project de- Each issue contains a potpourri any six issues) is available for signed to eventually teach about of articles about HyperStudio, $36. Shipping charges are $3 for all 50 states. This first portion interactive tutorials, digitized US destinations or $5 else- is a visual almanac about Kan- sounds, beautiful clip art, cus- where. sas. Included are maps, demo- tom XCMDs (short for External graphic data, historical informa- Commands), NBAs (short for You can purchase all 30 issues tion, and digitized sound files of New Button Actions), and ex- for $120. Shipping charges for the state song and the state amples of HyperStudio crea- the entire set are $6 for US bird. In addition to the Kansas tions that often include detailed delivery, $10 for delivery to stack, there is a template for descriptions about how it was Canada and Mexico, and $20 for you to use to create a similar created and usually provides in- Air Mail anywhere else. stack about your home state. formation on how you can use similar techniques in your own As always, send checks or mon- There is also a stack that in- HyperStudio projects. ey orders (in US Funds only) cludes seven sound effects that made payable to “Joe Kohn” to: you can use in your own crea- Although Studio City holds tions. HyperMagic performs great interest to those who cre- Joe Kohn magic tricks from within Hyper- ate their own HyperStudio Shareware Solutions II Studio, and HyperTubes teaches stacks, there are a lot of won- 166 Alpine St the notes of the musical scale. derfully imaginative and crea- San Rafael, CA 94901-1008 tive stacks included that will be Issue 2: The articles in this of interest to teachers, students The Master Index issue focus on HyperStudio; one and even small children. You describes a course about Hyper- don’t need to be a hypermedia Issue 1: The premiere issue of Studio offered on television, designer to appreciate Studio Stack Central appeared in Feb- while another describes the use City. All it takes to enjoy Studio ruary, 1990 and although that of interactive video and multi- City is a desire to see the best first issue may have been a media education. that the Apple IIGS has to offer. “little rough around the edges,” it did provide a glimpse into the The HyperStudio stacks in this Requirements future glories that would evolve. issue include two inventive In this issue, there are several stacks that describe how and HyperStudio, and Studio City, newsletter-types of articles in- when nearly 50 common phrases

10 Shareware Solutions II and cliches worked their way in- There are three more digitized structions, and beautiful looking to the English language. There’s sound files that can be used in examples, that detail how Hy- also a stack with six sound files other stacks, and an amusing perStudio can be used to gener- that you can use with your own Perplexing Puzzles stack that ate elegant hypermedia-based stacks. HyperSpace provides a includes word puzzles, puzzles letters and correspondence. Me- simulated tour of our solar that involve puns, and picture lodia, created by a college level system, complete with factual puzzles that include animated music teacher, is designed to as- information about all of the solutions. sist in the practice of correlating planets. musical notation with the Issue 4: The articles in this is- sounds it represents in a simple This issue sees the introduction sue include detailed instruc- melodic context; unfortunately, of the first two of many Hyper- tions on installing and using only three of the five included Studio add-ons called XCMDs Stack Central on hard disk melodic samples work correctly. that will appear in Stack Cen- drives. There is also an infor- tral and Studio City. Complete mative tutorial on using differ- Issue 6: The articles in this is- with step-by-step instructions ent fonts and text styles in sue focus on new HyperStudio on how to implement them in HyperStudio stacks, and as a add-on products, and how to your own stacks, the Border bonus, eight nice looking bit- combine graphic elements with XCMD allows you to easily mapped fonts in various point text items. In conjunction with change the color of the IIGS bor- sizes are included. the text article, there’s detailed der, and Dialog XCMD allows information and a Scroll XCMD you to create a custom dialog Color Stack was created by a six that allows you to use scrolling box with up to 30 characters year old (with a little help from text in your stacks. A second and add a button to return the Dad) and it helps beginning XCMD is included that will al- user to the current card. readers to recognize and pro- low you to create stacks that can nounce colors. Riddle Maze is a be easily navigated by people This issue also contains two stack that was offered as a con- with disabilities who rely on useful New Desk Accessories test; subscribers were chal- adaptive input devices to control that can help you while you are lenged to try to solve the cryptic a IIGS. using HyperStudio or any other word and pictogram puzzle, and GS/OS application that sup- were offered a $100 prize if they There are two stacks devoted to ports NDAs. File Manager al- could crack the code. Clip Art, and to make it easy for lows you to copy, move, get infor- you to use the graphic images in mation, or delete a file while Issue 5: With this issue, we your own stacks, eight Super Hi within a GS/OS application. start to see some evolutionary Res screens of clip art are in- Write It is a mini-word pro- changes to the basic design and cluded. There’s a fascinating his- cessor that can be called up layout of Stack Central, re- torical stack about the world’s from within GS/OS programs. sulting in improved stack navi- first jet aircraft, the Messer- gation and with less emphasis schmidt 109. There’s a stack a- Issue 3: The articles in this is- on newsletter articles and more bout various types of whales and sue include yet another one that focus on HyperStudio stacks. in true hypermedia fashion, you focuses on interactive video, but There is a short write-up about can even listen to the song of the this latest article is accompa- the HyperStudio related activi- Humpback whale. Lastly, there nied by a videodisc controller ties at KansasFest ’90, and a is a Rapid Home Stack which XCMD. There’s also a discus- continuation of the article about will allow you to easily design a sion about locking HyperStudio fonts, with special emphasis on customized replacement for Hy- stacks and copyrighting them. explaining the differences be- perStudio’s Home Stack. There’s a detailed and technical tween serif and sans serif fonts. article, provided by the team To illustrate those differences, Issue 7: In addition to news- that created HyperStudio, that six bit mapped fonts in various letter types of articles about serves as an XCMD Reference point sizes are included. Hypercard IIGS and AppleFest Guide and includes source code 1990, there’s a fascinating hy- examples in several languages Balloons is an informative permedia based interactive ar- including Orca C, Pascal, and stack about hot air balloons and ticle about combining various Assembler. the Letter Stack provides in- text and graphic elements to cre-

Shareware Solutions II 11 ate and design a visually stun- witness a magical transforma- There are also five sound files, ning HyperStudio screen. tion as Stack Central undergoes and seven screens of aviation re- a transition from an infor- lated clip art. Lastly, there’s a There are four sound files that mative and educational Hyper- demo version of HyperBole, a can be used in your own stacks, Studio journal into a work of HyperStudio based literary and and an early version of Audio- art. A new editor, a new editori- poetry magazine. Zap, a full featured GS/OS al staff, a new staff artist, a based sound editing program. new look, and fresh new ideas Issue 10: In this issue, there is The highlight of this issue is a have come to Stack Central. a HyperStudio related question creative stack devoted to Shake- and answer stack with many of speare’s 55th Sonnet. It is quite In this issue, we find many tu- the answers supplied by Hyper- detailed and includes every- torials, directed at both ad- Studio’s publisher and his staff thing from the anatomy of a vanced stack creators and be- of programmers. There’s also an sonnet to the history of Shake- ginners alike, that explain the excellent article about XCMDs speare’s period. You can either inner workings of HyperStudio. that defines what they are and read the sonnet or listen to it The articles have been trans- how to use them, and the article being read to you. formed into interactive animat- is accompanied by a Scroll ed tutorials, as best illustrated XCMD that allows you to easily Issue 8: In this issue, there’s a by Button School, a stack which create animations by scrolling thought provoking article about includes six step-by-step les- any section of a Super Hi Res using hypermedia in education sons in creating three dimen- screen at any speed. that discusses the advantages sional animated navigational of using the non-linear ap- buttons. In conjunction with the Animation School is a four part proach, as implemented in Hy- tutorials there are two addi- tutorial that offers fascinating perStudio, over more traditional tional and impressive stacks, examples and detailed step-by- methods. There’s also a stack Stupid Button Tricks 1 and 2, step instructions about anima- based interactive article that which show you just how sophis- tion, including how to use clip introduces the concept of linking ticated HyperStudio is when art to create animations, how to text with visual and graphic ex- used as an animation studio. create single image animations amples. that mimic advanced program- There’s also a tutorial stack, ming techniques, and how to cre- There’s a HyperDialer stack written by one of the program- ate simple full screen animated which allows you to set up a mers who created HyperStudio, special effects. computerized telephone directo- that explains everything you ry with the capability of clicking could ever possibly want to There’s a clip art stack of human on an entry and having the know about using sound effects faces and a number of Super Hi stack dial the phone number (if in HyperStudio stacks. Res graphic files that are all set a modem is connected). up and ready for you to practice There are two text related animating with your new-found Much of this issue is devoted to XCMDs: LoadText and Save- animation skills. Sound Smith, the now classic Text. LoadText will permit you Apple IIGS music program. The to easily add any type of disk- Numbers Stack is an education- Sound Smith program is in- based text material to a stack al stack for pre-schoolers that cluded, as well as an XCMD and and SaveText permits you to will help them learn about num- GS/OS Toolset that allows you save user input as text, making bers. HyperStates is another to add wonderful sounding mu- it possible, for example, to have educational stack that is useful sic to your own stacks. (Note: students take HyperStudio- as both a reference guide and a Because HyperStudio has been based tests. The tutorials that learning tool. Using it, you can updated since this issue first explain the use of these XCMDs learn basic information about appeared, there’s a new article are excellent, and a stack based every US state and a quiz com- written by Joe Kohn that de- word processing program is in- ponent will assist in learning scribes how to use these tools cluded to illustrate just how the capitals of each state. with HyperStudio v3.1) simple it is to implement these useful XCMDs in your own Issue 11: More changes are ap- Issue 9: With this issue, we stacks. parent with this issue as the

12 Shareware Solutions II new editorial staff settles in. vious versions, there’s a stack playful in order to reflect the Stack Central has a new look that shows off some of the more theme of this issue: kids and and it seems to have developed amazing new capabilities in- their parents. Then again, the a very wild and wacky sense of cluding the new transitions. It new editor quite possibly lost humor. There’s a very long and also provides a peek at the new his marbles too; look for hidden fascinating interview with Rog- scripting language, offers a buttons to discover the editor’s er Wagner, the publisher of demo of New Button Actions, secret screens. HyperStudio. Additionally, the and demonstrates the seamless new resident artist has created integration of 320 mode graph- There are some serious stacks in his first installment of Pixel- ics and movable graphic items. this issue, including a question Talk, an interactive and techni- and answer session with Roger cal, yet humorous, article that There’s an amazingly creative Wagner concerning the recently explains exactly how the IIGS stack called Dam Busters that released HyperStudio v3.0 and a hardware makes pictures ap- tells the true story of the RAF’s thorough review of DreamGrafix, pear on the screen. To comple- World War II 617 Squadron a 3200 color paint program. ment that article is the new which used innovative technol- SuperView XCMD that permits ogy for that time and faced For teachers and parents, there 3200 color graphics to be used incredible danger in destroying is a tutorial about using Simple- with HyperStudio. several key German dams. Script to create multiple choice tests. The wonder of this stack There’s also a program that PixelTalk presents an informa- is that you can simply cut and fixes a bug in HyperStudio v2.1, tive look at 640 mode graphics paste the scripts into your own and a fascinating and well-done and offers an in-depth explana- stacks, meaning that even nov- puzzle stack that was sub- tion of how palettes and dith- ices can now create HyperStudio mitted by a nine year old girl. ering work. The third install- based multiple choice tests. There’s also a stack that can be ment of Stupid Button Tricks There’s an inspirational stack used as a replacement Home offers more innovative ani- created by a HyperStudio novice Stack that will permit you to mated navigational buttons. and her children that describes launch any ProDOS or GS/OS Noisy Hypermessages illus- from a novice’s perspective how software applications. The title trates several animation tech- to create HyperStudio stacks. of one stack describes it com- niques that can be employed as pletely: “Clip Art Made Easy, users wait for your stack to For kids, there’s a stack that Or How To Use A Quickie And load. Additionally, there’s a clip consists of one word scramble Platinum Paint To Do Clip Art art stack devoted to winter and puzzle, two wordsearch puzzles, Screens.” the holiday season. one mixed up quote puzzle, two crossword puzzles, and eight There are several more digitized There’s also Tool Pak, a set of mazes that your youngsters can sound effects and two clip art seven powerful XCMDs that solve on screen or on a print out. stacks devoted to Halloween provide access to the GS/OS file There’s also a bunny stack that and Thanksgiving. The Hallow- system from HyperStudio, al- features a poem with some fun een clip art stack also happens lowing stack designers to per- animations for beginning read- to be animated. As usual, the form such functions from within ers and a poetry stack about a clip art is also included as stan- HyperStudio as create directo- little girl and her dragon. dard Super Hi Res graphic ries, create ASCII text files, or screens. delete files. For kids of all ages there’s an- other installment of Stupid But- Issue 12: To reflect all the re- Issue 13: This issue gives Stu- ton Tricks as well as an assort- cent changes, the name of the dio City a brand new and quite ment of five sound files and sev- publication has been changed to unique look. When attempting eral screens of lovely seasonal Studio City. This issue includes to describe the new Studio City clip art. the brand new, and as yet unre- look, the editor wrote that the leased at the time, HyperStudio graphic artist responsible “has Issue 14: This issue also con- v3.0 run-time module. To show just about totally lost his mar- tains a mixture of information subscribers just how advanced bles and his good taste.” Per- and stacks for both adults and HyperStudio 3.0 is over pre- haps he was just trying to be children. The articles discuss

Shareware Solutions II 13 the latest release of Hyper- how to create stacks with eye- graphics with 640 mode text. Studio. catching animated title pages. Shape Games is a game that Issue 17: In the issue, there are There are six sound files, and has pre-schoolers look at a se- articles about recent updates to three screens of clip art that de- quence of shapes or numbers HyperStudio, six sound effects pict dinosaurs, flowers and of- and decide which shape or num- and five screens of clip art that fice tools. There’s another in- ber should come next. There’s a depict animals, trains, and stallment of Button School that fascinating stack on the SR-71 maps of the Americas. shows how to design navigation- Blackbird supersonic aircraft al buttons using animation complete with lots of scanned First Impressions shows how to techniques to create the illusion photos. There are five Screen add animation and sounds to of movement when clicked. Savers for HyperStudio v3, and title pages of stacks. Painting There’s also another stack for a Saudi Arabia stack, written Stack shows how beautiful art hypermedia novices, created by by a member of the US Air work can be painted on a com- a novice, that describes and in- Force who had been stationed puter screen. Stupid Button structs how to add sound effects there. It includes maps, scanned Tricks has more wacky ani- to your stacks. There are also photos and illustrations which mated navigational buttons and instructions on how to create a help to explain the culture and it includes the clip art that was HyperStudio screen saver along religion of that country. used to create the sequences. with a sample animated exam- Flight School explains by exam- ple. There’s a beautiful looking Issue 16: This is the first issue ple the concept of using Master/ tutorial, with examples, about that comes with an Installer, a Slave stacks where the same how to create a three dimen- utility which permits one-click information can be accessed in sional maze using Simple- hard drive installation. This is- many different ways. Finally, In- Script. There’s also a Tarot sue also sports a brand new side The NFL is a quiz to test Card stack that may, or may “front end” interface. how well you understand Ameri- not, predict your future. can football. There are articles in this issue Puppy Piano should be loved by dealing with HyperStudio stack Issue 18: In this issue, there are all those who laugh during the design, with hints and tips on two sound files and six screens holidays when they hear dogs on making stacks more efficient of clip art depicting a moon- the radio barking to the tune of and take up less disk space. scape, mountains, people and Jingle Bells. And lastly, there’s There are three sound files and maps. Flight School continues a Spelling Quiz stack that can three screens of clip art that de- with the Master/Slave stack be customized to contain any pict birds. technique and introduces the word list. concept of using an auto exit Project Mercury is a historical card that allows, for example, Issue 15: This issue contains stack that provides a glimpse stacks to be password protected. articles and information on the into America’s first manned newest v3.1 HyperStudio up- space program. It includes an HyperTextures shows owners of date, HyperStudio animation overview, biographical data hand held scanners how to cre- and graphics conversion. There about the original astronauts, ate textured background screens are two sound files and three information on each flight and a in stacks by scanning such com- screens of clip art focusing on scrapbook of scanned photos. mon objects as carpets, wallpa- fantasy themes, basic geometric Beatles Songs contains infor- per and tin foil. Tic Tac Toe is a shapes and schematic symbols. mation on the songs appearing game of Tic Tac Toe with infor- on the Abbey Road and Magical mation about how it was cre- The stacks in this issue are Mystery Tour albums. Mini Surf ated. The Addition Stack asks quite eclectic. There’s a Dungeon is a stack about surfing on the 2nd graders to solve six math Designer stack that shows how South Shore of Oahu, Hawaii. problems and when the correct to create eight animated special Exploring Simple Script pro- answers are supplied, a graphic effects for use in adventure vides a tutorial about using the is displayed. games, and includes clip art and Combine command, and Mixing instructions for game designers. Modes provides instructions on Issue 19: This issue contains First Impressions shows exactly how to combine 320 mode some fascinating answers to

14 Shareware Solutions II subscribers’ questions, three presentation about that group board game for children in which sound files and six screens of of five non-metallic elements 16 cards cover the picture of an clip art that depict children, the found in the periodic chart. Met- animal; click on the cards to see solar system, rabbits and maps amorph contains three fasci- a portion of the picture and to of Africa. nating animations that show get a clue as you try to guess how plants grow from seeds, which animal is depicted. Hyper Each and every stack in this is- frogs from tadpoles and butter- Chicago presents a fascinating sue contains a detailed descrip- flies from eggs. 3-D Studio has look at the city of Chicago with a tion of how it was created, with to be seen to be believed; it is a focus on the history, people, cul- explanations of how its Simple- stack that allows you to create ture, architecture, economy and Script works. There is an Ad- three dimensional objects using politics of that city. Fossils was dress Book stack. There’s an a unique four way perspective. created by an Earth Science amusing stack entitled Ask The teacher to demonstrate how liv- Guy/Ask The Kid that will for- Issue 21: This issue contains ing organisms turn into fossils. ever replace your need to toss a quite a few Apple II product an- HyperStudio 3-D displays stere- coin to help make a decision. nouncements and six screens of oscopic scanned photographs. There’s a stack entitled Fire clip art depicting classic cars, Radio Buttons And Check Boxes Arms which is a database stack fish, paint brushes and maps. teaches how to create within Hy- that’s all set up for you to cus- perSudio these common types of tomize in order to keep track of View 32 is a New Button Action GS/OS user inputs. any collectibles. HyperGolf is a that allows you to use 3200 col- seven hole animated game of or graphics in your stacks. Acad- Issue 23: This issue provides a golf. HyperHome is yet another emy Awards is a database like sneak peek at 3-D HyperLogo, Home Stack replacement; it stack that lists all the winners an add-on programming lan- includes a calendar, a program of major awards from 1928- guage for HyperStudio, as well and stack launcher, a calculator 1992. Baccarat is a demo of a as three sound files and three and a link to the Address stack. commercial HyperStudio stack; screens of clip art that depict Finally, there’s Memory Helper the demo explains the rules of reptiles, the classroom and the Game, a children’s game which Baccarat, contains a detailed Space Shuttle. is similar to Concentration. description of how the stack was created, and allows you to play New Frog & Fly is a game de- Issue 20: Easter Eggs are mes- five hands. Chunk Expressions signed to be played by children sages that are often hidden in teaches how to use Simple- with disabilities who use switch programs or stacks and are dis- Script to grab part of a string input devices. The stack makes played when a particular button variable and manipulate it in use of two included New Button is clicked; this issue is filled various ways. Daffynitions is a Actions – Scan and AppleRead. with them. It also contains word game in which you are pre- Guitar Chords demonstrates several product announcements, sented with a word and you how chords are produced on a four sound effects and three have to choose the correct defini- guitar and instructs proper fin- screens of clip art that depict tion from several choices. Paint ger placement to produce those people, ribbons and hand tools. Brushes is a tutorial that shows chords. Review Stack, and its how to use a paint program’s companion Test Stack, are won- Clipsters contains six 320 mode brush tools to create special ef- derful time savers for classroom animations with instructions on fects. Quantum Numbers ex- teachers as they allow them to how to use them in your own plains how those numbers are easily create on-screen reviews stacks. Current Events is a used to describe the properties and multiple choice tests. The wonderful tool for teachers, as it of electrons. Test Stack can even grade the will allow them to easily create students’ tests. Lastly, there’s their own customized daily or Issue 22: There’s lots of news in Voyager Stack, a breathtaking weekly stack focusing on the this issue for Apple II users, as stack that teaches about the news of the world. Easter Eggs well as four sounds and three twin Voyager spacecraft that ex- shows how to create hidden screens of clip art that depict plored the outer reaches of our messages in a stack using the animals, sweets and money. solar system and sent back out supplied AppleRead New But- of this world photos and data on ton Action add-on. Halogens is a Animals, Animals, Animals is a the outer planets.

Shareware Solutions II 15 Issue 24: In this issue, long- about US coins. HS Magic Key Monuments; the scanned images time Studio City contributor is a program that will unlock in this stack alone are worth the Bill Lynn takes over as editor. any locked HyperStudio stack. price of admission. Twisted Pine Included in this issue is a cumu- Magic 8 Ball is an amusing elec- is a lovely children’s story that lative index of everything that tronic version of the classic for- features all three animation has appeared in the publication tune telling Magic 8 Ball. There methods available to Hyper- since it started, an interview is a stack about the Roman Em- Studio users. with HyperStudio publisher pire that includes a database of Roger Wagner, ten sounds of all the Roman emperors. Scan Issue 27: In this issue, there is animals, and three screens of Darts is yet another game for a review of a book that teaches clip art that depict Christmas, children or adults with disabili- about using HyperStudio. There parties and arrows/icons. ties who use switch input de- are also ten sounds and four vices. screens of clip art that depict There’s a useful New Button Ac- food, music and state flags. tion, PrintField NBA, that al- Issue 26: This issue includes a There are also three New Button lows HyperStudio users to print SimpleScript question and an- Actions. LockScreen permits the contents of any text field by swer session and an interview stack designers to invisibly ma- just clicking on a button. An with the author of HyperLogo. nipulate on-screen objects and Egyptian Hieroglyphics stack There are ten sounds, and four reveal the changes all at once provides an introduction and screens of clip art that depict with any HyperStudio transi- overview of one of mankind’s state flags, magic and keys. tion. SetMenubar allows stack earliest forms of written com- designers to hide and/or show munication. Scan and Match There are three New Button Ac- the menubar from an invisible Sea Life is a matching game ac- tions. ClickLine NBA allows a button. SetFont allows a new tivity for youngsters with disa- HyperStudio user to click on a font to be selected from Simple- bilities who use switch input de- line in a read-only text field and Script. vices. There are two stacks, Illu- it returns the literal contents of sions and Optical Illusions, that that line to a variable. GetLine Shades of Illusion was inspired prove that seeing isn’t always allows a user to click on a but- by the optical illusion stacks in believing. COWculate is a stack ton that overlays a read-only Issue 24, and all of the illusions in which Bossy the Cow teaches text field and it returns infor- in this stack are based on the youngsters how to add and sub- mation about the text field to a juxtaposition of various shades tract. Finally, the User Group variable. DoMenu NBA offers of gray. The Panama Canal stack can be customized by any the HyperStudio stack designer chronicles the history and the user group to include general access to many HyperStudio construction of the Panama and specific information about menu commands through stack Canal through the use of text, the user group. buttons and SimpleScript. scanned photos, maps, and ani- mations. Issue 25: In this issue, there is Badminton, created by a Phys- HyperStudio news, hints and ical Education teacher, will an- Issue 28: This issue contains tips, ten sound files and three swer every question you’ve ever some general Apple II news screens of clip art that depict had about the game of Bad- items, as well as ten sounds and birds, state flags and musical minton. Fantavision GS offers a four screens of clip art depicting instruments. There are also review of the animation pro- watches and clocks, state flags, three brand new New Button gram Fantavision GS, and also and birthdays and anniversa- Actions. RunBasic allows you to includes an XCMD for running ries. There’s also a New Button run Applesoft Basic and binary Fantavision movies from within Action, ClickWord, that allows files from HyperStudio. Load- HyperStudio, along with in- any word in a read-only text Text allows you to load different structions for using the Mini- field to be clicked, and that word ASCII Text files into a single Script NBA to trigger that is then collected into a Simple- text field without using Simple- XCMD. Myxstyx is a board Script variable. Script. PopUp allows you to add game that is similar to Chinese pop up menus to your stacks. Checkers. Rushmore chronicles Big Days helps you keep track of the creation of one of the most birthdays, anniversaries and HyperMoney teaches youngsters awe inspiring of our National other “big days” and it even al-

16 Shareware Solutions II lows you to create and print ap- a cumulative index that lists word anywhere in the stack. propriate greeting cards to hon- everything that has appeared in MousePoint is an Extra that can or those events. Computer Mice all issues. There are six holiday help the stack designer and Hy- provides mouse practice for related sounds, and four screens perStudio script writer to locate young children in a number of of clip art that depict the holi- the screen coordinates of partic- charming and colorful activities. days, small animals, the Space ular points within a stack’s card. Jackie is a photo journal that Shuttle and Egypt. There are pays homage to Jacqueline Ken- also three New Button Actions Calendar is a useful HyperStu- nedy Onassis. Egyptian Pyra- and a HyperStudio Extra. Music dio template for building and mid provides some very inter- Player allows you to play Music printing your own custom calen- esting information on what is Studio, Sound Smith, or Synth- dars; to customize it, just add inside of an Egyptian pyramid. Lab music from within Hyper- your own clip art and highlight Studio. Set Sound sets the sys- the dates that are important to Issue 29: This issue includes tem sound volume. HyperText you. Presenting With HyperStu- detailed descriptions of two Ap- NBA is designed to allow the dio provides tips and a wealth of ple II related conventions: The HyperStudio user to click on a information on how to put your HyperStudio Festival and Kan- word in a read-only text field ideas across effectively in formal sasFest. There are ten sounds and find other instances of that presentations. ö and four screens of clip art that depict a fantasy theme and state flags. There are also two New Button Actions. GetPath Such A Deal! allows the HyperStudio user to determine the active GS/OS pre- ProSel In addition to that suite of rou- fix, and SetPrefix allows the Hy- tine utilities, ProSel’s greatest perStudio designer to set the If there’s just one utility pro- strengths lie in its ability to current GS/OS prefix, thereby gram that every Apple II hard back up a hard drive, restore avoiding the Standard File dia- drive owner should have, it is corrupted files or disks and op- logue that pops up whenever ProSel! Available in versions for timize fragmented disks. The HyperStudio can’t locate a de- either Apple IIe/IIc or IIGS, disk repair component is often sired sound, text or graphic file ProSel is a combination pro- successful in fixing disks that required by a particular stack. gram launcher, menu program have damaged directory struc- and comprehensive set of utility tures or bad blocks. But, they Heart explains how the human programs. As a program launch- are so powerful that they can heart works; it stresses taking er, ProSel allows you to create a even retrieve information on a care of your heart by decreasing customized menu of commonly disk that has been formatted. risk factors that lead to heart run programs that can be disease. Veterans’ Day pays launched by using the keyboard Despite the fact that ProSel has tribute to Veterans’ Day with a or a mouse. often been recommended and en- stirring song and an inspira- dorsed within these pages, not tional reading of Colonel John But, it is ProSel’s utilities that everyone owns it yet. For that McCrae’s “In Flanders Fields” are legendary; it can perform reason, Shareware Solutions II poem. Voting Machine keeps such routine tasks as batch copy has entered into an agreement track of voters, collects balloting files or disks, display the con- with ProSel’s publisher that al- information and displays it in tents of any file on a printer or lows us to distribute ProSel for the form of election returns; this on screen, lock, unlock, hide, un- the lowest price ever offered. stack can be modified for your hide or delete files, exhume a ProSel-8 for the IIe/IIc is nor- own use at the Moose Lodge or deleted file, verify the integrity mally sold for $40, and ProSel- the elementary school. Word of a file, perform an alphabeti- 16 for the IIGS is normally sold Play is an entertaining stack cal sort of a directory or sub- for $90, but you can now take that displays graphic represen- directory, compare directories or advantage of a special “Such A tations of common phrases that files, change file dates, move Deal” offer that slashes the you try to decode. files, locate a string or a file price of ProSel. You can now ac- anywhere on disk, or add pass- quire these exceptional pro- Issue 30: In this issue, there is word protection to files. grams directly from Shareware

Shareware Solutions II 17 Solutions II for $25 for ProSel-8 Space Fox requires a IIGS with NAUG for $10 per issue, you can or $50 for ProSel-16, plus $5 1 megabyte of RAM and one now purchase the entire 65 disk shipping to anywhere in the 3.5" disk drive. collection, spanning six years world. worth of AppleWorks related in- The Gate and Space Fox are formation, for $150 plus ship- (Note: A preview/demo disk of now available from Shareware ping charges of $6 for US deliv- ProSel-16 is now available from Solutions II for $20 each, plus ery, $10 for delivery to Canada Shareware Solutions II for $3.) $3 for shipping per order. or Mexico, or $20 for Air Mail delivery anywhere else. The Gate And Space Fox (Note: A preview/demo disk that allows you to play Level 1 of The Each 3.5" issue of NAUG-On- Shareware Solutions II is very Gate is now available from Disk contains the complete text pleased to announce that it has Shareware Solutions II for $3.) of all of the articles that ap- been named by Seven Hills peared in NAUG’s AppleWorks Software as the exclusive dis- NAUG-On-Disk Bundle Forum newsletter, as well as all tributor of Bright Software's of the AppleWorks templates IIGS arcade games: The Gate In an attempt to make all the and TimeOut modules that were and Space Fox. disks from the National Apple- described in that issue, and all Works User Group (NAUG) of the latest AppleWorks re- The Gate blends action, adven- even more affordable than ever source disks that were added to ture, aesthetic pleasure and in- before, Shareware Solutions II the NAUG Library in that issue. tellectual challenges to create a has reached an agreement with stimulating adventure game for NAUG Founder Warren Wil- A complete database of every- the IIGS. You must battle ene- liams that now permits the dis- thing in this amazing and com- mies and solve puzzles to es- tribution of all 65 issues of prehensive collection of Apple- cape a castle’s prison. Ultimate- NAUG-On-Disk as a bundled Works materials is included as ly, your goal is to find and de- package for a new lower price. part of the NAUG catalog and feat your captor and bring peace disk supplement that was of- to the land. The Gate features Originally available only from fered in the last issue for $5. ö brain-teasing challenges, lots of action in smooth, synchronized animations plus exciting stereo music and sound effects. Shareware Solutions The Gate requires a IIGS with 1 megabyte of RAM. The Gate is IIe/IIc/IIgs not copy protected, but it cannot be installed on a hard drive. A2 Disks Of The Month Software for the IIe/IIc on this disk includes DOS 3.3 Launcher, Space Fox is an exciting arcade The February and March 1996 a utility that allows you to in- game where you are an ace pilot issues of the GEnie A2 Disk of stall DOS 3.3 programs or disks who must guide your space ship the Month have been combined. on a ProDOS formatted hard through nine levels of assorted Informative text files included drive or 3.5" disk, and launch bad guys. Your mission is to de- on this disk are the January those programs via your favorite stroy The Brain at level ten but issue of GenieLamp for pro- program launcher, such as the you’ll need to collect fuel, shield grammers, the February issue Finder on a IIGS or ProSel-8 on power and new weapons as you of GenieLamp for end users, a a IIe/IIc. Also included is a utili- destroy your enemies. Skill and detailed list of new features ty, Imunger, that allows you to a bit of luck are needed to com- found in the recent Graphic- convert disk image files, gener- plete your mission because the Writer III v2 update, an expla- ally used with Apple II emu- higher the level, the harder it is nation of how PMPFax prints lators, back to 5.25" disks, and to survive. Space Fox features images, and a mid-January is- Treasure, a game whose object fast action, smooth, synchro- sue of the weekly Apple II is to discover six hidden treas- nized animations and a stereo oriented freeware II Something ures that are randomly placed musical soundtrack. newsletter. within a 13x13 grid.

18 Shareware Solutions II Software for the IIGS on the EnviroWorks tives to harmful household prod- February/March A2 DOM in- ucts, a checklist of 101 tips for cludes 10 Super Hi Res graphics Dr Cynthia Field’s EnviroWorks saving money while you help to which demonstrate most of the is an earth-saving and money- save the planet, and even ten advanced features offered by saving AppleWorks resource tips that computer users can Platinum Paint. Micro Word is disk that can help you to be- follow to conserve resources. a HyperStudio-based word pro- come an environmentally aware cessor. ScreenPrint is a New “green” consumer. The disk in- EnviroWorks is available from Desk Accessory that allows you cludes an expandable database Shareware Solutions II on either to print the Super Hi Res screen of dozens of companies that of- 5.25" or 3.5" disk for $5. In- or to save a screen image to fer earthwise consumer prod- cluded as a bonus on the 3.5" disk. Screen Saver New Desk ucts like reusable grocery bags, disk version is an AppleWorks Accessory is a screen blanker herbal flea collars, and compact GS version of EnviroWorks. To that operates from within fluorescent light bulbs. Also use EnviroWorks, you must own GS/OS applications. included is an EcoBibliography AppleWorks Classic (v3 or later) of books and magazines, recipes or AppleWorks GS. ö The April, 1996 GEnie A2 Disk for natural nontoxic alterna- of the Month includes the Genie- Lamp newsletter for both March and April. Software for the Apple IIe/IIc includes a begin- Shareware Solutions IIGS ner’s guide to the HyperText Markup Language (html), the Games ’96 to figure out how to avoid stra- computer language which is the tegically placed death bricks, yet cornerstone of the Internet’s Although there appears to be that’s what makes Diamonds so World Wide Web. Also included somewhat of a slow down in the challenging; it calls you back, is Co-Pilot-8, an offline reader amount of new Apple IIGS free- again and again, as you try to for Genie subscribers who ac- ware and shareware being re- win just one more time. cess Genie with ProTerm v3.1. leased, two of the most enjoy- able and addictive IIGS free- There’s also an editor that al- Software for the IIGS on the ware games ever released have lows you to create your own Dia- April A2 DOM includes Anime, appeared so far this year. monds’ levels, and included as a a New Desk Accessory that bonus is a second set of nearly helps you to create animations Diamonds, by Richard Bennett, impossible to clear levels. using any of the major IIGS is quite possibly the most chal- paint programs. Daleks is a lenging and fun game ever writ- Diamonds includes an Easter IIGS strategy board game. ten for the IIGS. It shares simi- Egg photo of the author, lots of rPacker is a Finder Extra that larities to the classic games of sound effects, colorful screens, compacts GS/OS files with re- Break Out and Arkanoid, in and fast action. It’s a thinking source forks. wInflate is a New which you maneuver a bouncing person’s strategy arcade game Desk Accessory which allows ball in an effort to remove as that is sure to be one of the most you to collapse a window to just many bricks from the board as popular games ever created for the title bar, which is quite use- possible. Unlike those older the Apple IIGS. ful if you have a crowded desk- games, Diamonds has many dif- top and want to see the contents ferent types of bricks that can PuyoPuyo is another thinking of another window. Chronos II only be removed by a corre- person’s fast action strategy allows you to place a clock in sponding colored ball, and it has arcade game. Created by Bret your menu bar that displays the a number of bricks that, when Victor (aka Slixter), PuyoPuyo date and time. hit, result in instant death. shares lots of similarities to There are 30 levels to clear, and Tetris and the Tetris spin-off The A2 Disks of the Month are each one becomes significantly Columns. It’s a game where available from the Shareware more complex and involved as multi-colored pieces fall from Solutions II library, on 3.5" disk the game goes on. As the game the top of the screen, and you only, for $5 each or $8 for both progresses, you may find that it have to manipulate them, by disks. will take you several days just moving or rotating them, so that

Shareware Solutions II 19 at least four pieces of the same Games ’96, which includes both available from the Shareware color are touching each other. Diamonds and PuyoPuyo, is now Solutions II Library for $5. ö When four pieces do touch, they disappear and your score goes up. If you can’t manipulate the falling pieces fast enough, they pile up, and when they reach the top of the screen, the game is over.

There is also a two player mode, where the object is to wreak as much havoc as you possibly can upon your opponent’s side of the board to make his or her pieces reach the top of the screen be- fore yours do.

PuyoPuyo is played using the keyboard, and its action is so fast and furious, you’ll find your- self banging on your keyboard. There’s music and sound effects, but above all, there’s challenge. Coming Soon From Brutal Deluxe!

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