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Board of Directors- Mini'app'les W^ HyperCard SIG - Scripting Q&A - E. Members Welcome - Lexington Lib., Lake Ub., 2727 East Lake St., Mpls - University & Lexington, St. Paul - Peter Fleck, 370-0017 David Laden, 488-6774 c UJ Apple II Novice SIG - Open Forum - Programmer's Workshop - Think-C Murray Jr. High, 2200 Buford, St. Paul Program Coding - Brookdale-Henn Lib., TomGates, 789-1713 6125 Shingle Creek Pkwy, Brooklyn Center - Keven Kasulker, 535-2968 a FileMaker Pro SIG - Open Discussion - Highland Park Ub., 1974 Ford Pkwy., & Apple ll/GS Main - Data Recovery - St. Paul - Steve Wilmes, 458-1513 Murray Jr. High, 2200 Buford, St.Paul - Tom Ostertag, 488-9979 Macintosh DTP SIG - St. Anthony Ub., d3 2245 Como Ave., St. Paul - Bob Grant, Something New Macintosh Main - Marty Probst of Pro 827-6294 Active Marketing - Penn Lake Lib., 8800 to do After Dark Penn Ave. S., Bloomington - wMacintosh Novice SIG - Open Forum - Mike Carlson, 377-6553 Highland Park Ub., 1974 Ford Pkwy., St. Paul - Tom Lufkin, 698-6523

Swap Meet! - Apache Plaza, Mac Programmers SJG - Apple OCE - 3800 Silver Lake Rd., NE Mpls Murray Jr. High, 2200 Buford. St. Paul - Also: -TomGates, 789-1713 Gervaise Kimm, 379-1836 Fourth Dimension SIG - Stonehill © Appleworks SIG - Potpourri - Murray Jr. High, 2200 Buford, St. Paul - eDO**$ «r -so***/ Apts., 3501 Xenium Lane, Plymouth - Ian Abel, 920-5520 Les Anderson, 735-3953 The Minnesota Apple Computer Users' Group, Inc. ^Mi^'ocPp'les P.O. Box 796, Hopkins, MN 55343

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& VOL.16, NO.5 CONTENTS May1993 T H I S I S S U E Macintosh Section Vte„ Hard Drive Q&A 4 Welcome to the HyperCard SIG 4 Illustrator Illuminated 5 Please accept my Adobe Dimensions 6 Mini'app'les MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION. AutoDoubler 2.0 and TimesTwo 8 The Final Frontier in Screen Savers 12 Please Print or Type: 1. Narrt8 Apple Section 16 ProDOS 8 and System v4.0.1 16 Address AppleSauce 16 City State. Zip- Meeting Minutes 17 Res. phone- Bus. The History of the Apple II 18 Renew ID# Exp. Date. News from the Software Director 20 2. Please enroll me as a mini'app'les member. D Regular [1st year] $20.00 D Renew [one year] $15.00 D Educational $50.00 □ Foreign $30.00 □ Corporate $100.00 D Sustaining $25.00 ADVERTISERS □ Donation $ (tax doductablo) 3. Please tell us your special interests: Member Classified Ads 28 Which personal computer do you use: HyperActive Software 28 D Apple II Lotus 1-2-3 Inside back cover D Macintosh Portable Q Apple III □ Macintosh Powerbook Laser-print Supply/Dodd Technical Back cover D Apple He D Macintosh Quadra □ Apple He D IBM or IBM clone □ Apple llc+ Areas of Interest: D Apple IIGS □ Business Application D Laser-Other Q Home Application D Macintosh Plus D Eclucational Application The Fine Print D Macintosh SE D Desktop Publishing The Mini'app'les newsletter is an independent publication not affiliated, sponsored, or sanctioned by Apple □ Macintosh Classic □ Other Computer, Inc. or any other computer manufacturer. The opinions, statements, positions, and views herein are D Macintosh LC those of me authors) or editor and are not intended to be the opinions, statements, positions or views ol Apple Do you own or use: Computer Inc., or any other computer manufacturer. Apple0, the Apple9 #, Apple HGS4, AppleTalk0, D Macintosh II □ Printer AppleWorks0, Macintosh0 ImageWriter9, LaserWriter9, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. O Macintosh SE/30 □ Laser Printer LaserShare'", Finder", MultiFinder" and HyperCard" are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. PostScript* is a D Macintosh si □ Modem registered trademark of Adobe Inc. Times0 and Helvetica0 are registered trademarks of LhoType Co. □ Macintosh fx D Scanner □ Macintosh llcx/ika □ Other

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Board of Directors Thurs, June 3 Lexington Lib, Univ. & Lex, St. Paul David Laden Macintosh Main Thurs, June 10 St. Louis Pk Lib, 3240 Library Lane Mike Carlson Apple ll/GS Main Mon, June 14 Highland Pk Lib, 1974 Ford Pkwy, St.Paul Tom Ostertag HyperCard SIG Mon, June 14 East Lake Lib, 2727 East Lake Street, Mpls Peter Fleck Apple II Novice SIG Tues, June 15 Murray Jr High, 2200 Buford, St. Paul Tom Gates FileMaker Pro SIG Thurs, June 17 Highland Pk Lib, 1974 Ford Pkwy, St. Paul Steve Wilmes Fourth Dimension SIG Mon, June 21 -location pending- Ian Abel Mac Programmers SIG Tues, June 22 Murray Jr High, 2200 Buford, St. Paul Gervaise Kimm Appleworks SIG Thurs, June 24 Murray Jr High, 2200 Buford, St. Paul Les Anderson Macintosh Novice SIG Mon, June 28 Highland Pk Lib, 1974 Ford Pkwy, St. Paul Tom Lufkin Programmer's Workshop Keven Kasulker Macintosh DTP SIG —pending- -location pending- Bob Grant

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flfr mini'app'les About Your Newsletter... Report from Publications (ad hoc) Committee by Tom Edwards into members hand in a timely manner. (Background: The newsletter produc monthly task of the newsletter. There tion staff has been shorthanded for some Once the shell layout (probably about 16 also needs to be enough assistants in the time. Following the recent resignation pages) has been completed for the process so that no one individual is of David Undlin as Newsletter Manager month, then time could be devoted to overloaded or "totally essential" to necessitated by David's job change, layout other available articles to increase complete the newsletter. The production Kevin Kassulker, Board Member at the content and size toward the 32 page staff should also be, ideally, a microcosm Large, volunteered to get the March format target. Priorities requested by the of the club's profile and somewhat newsletter out on an interim basis. He membership, however, favor timeliness transitory. That is, levels of expertise, has been joined by other volunteers for over size. Therefore, depending on interests, etc. should be intermixed, and the April and May issues to allow the volunteer hours available, some newslet some "turnover" would stave off burnout club time to reform the newsletter staff. ter issues may arrive in members hands and allow fresh viewpoints to be An ad hoc committee was formed to "on time" but with fewer pages of considered. articles. suggest ways to make the production The NLAH committee will present a process smoother and more timely. The A follow-up meeting by the NLAH report to the Board at their April committee grew out of the March 6 committee on April 3 continued by meeting. Volunteers continue to be "general meeting." Coordination has defining the content of the shell and a needed to assist with the newsletter. If been provided by Denis DiekhofF, with schedule consistent with printer, you would like to volunteer, or add your about 10 other members attending one labeling, mailer and postal needs for "two cents worth" to this discussion, or both of the meetings.) timely arrival of each issue. The shell contact Denis DiekhofF (NLAH At the March 27th meeting of the would consist of items such as calendars, committee coordinator, 920-2437) or Newsletter Ad Hoc (NLAH) commit essential club business notices, ads, David Laden (President, 488-6774). contents listing, membership application, tee, immediate needs to complete the TWE etc. The schedule would require submis April issue were addressed. The commit tee then moved on to discussion of sion of material longer-range suggestions. The club by the first day of the month membership has expressed a need for an From the Acting Editor events calendar as an essential inclusion preceding the for the newsletter. This need is paired date of issue on As a burned-out fiction writter who's seen too many with the request that the newsletter the cover of the rejection slips and tends to agonize over every self-criticized arrive on, or just prior to, the issue newsletter. word, I could easily — too easily — let this issue slide by without presenting my own feelings in black and white. month stated on the cover. These needs The committee There are other reasons, too, why I'm tempted to keep my formed the focus for the committee's feels that the discussion. Other points of discussion basic structure of silence. I don't have credentialled authority. I don't even have steady employment. I'm just a waifish new kid on the about the newsletter, though worthy the publications block who doesn't know the good guys from the bullies, and and interesting, were subordinated in section of the I don't see the Big Picture yet. Like everyone, moreover, I'm favor of keeping to the limited, essential club is sound. charge for the committee. What is needed, waiting for the annual business meeting to resolve some of the problems I do see. Why should I speak now? And if all is the election/ The NLAH committee began to set up this is not enough to muzzle me, my print deadline, as of the description of a "shell" of what appointments to this writing, is only two hours away. should be essential material for each fill the vacancies newsletter. The committee felt that the with sufficient Ufi... Two hours!... But I still have one blank page to fill! shell required a very deliberate timetable volunteers to Sacre bleu! that must be met to get the essentials accomplish the see Editor on page 27 Mac Welcome to the HyperCard SIG by Peter Fleck, Hard Drive HyperCard SIG Coordinator The HyperCard Special Interest Group has been alive and well Q&A for the past several months. After a feeble attempt to retire, Peter Fleck again took up the yoke of coordinatorship and has by John G. Catalano been scheduling meetings and providing scripting help along Casa Blanca Works publishes Drive7, the with his repertoire of weak jokes. Thousands have been top-rated universal formatter for the attending and he is currently negotiating with representatives Macintosh. To help you understand your from the Met Center about the possibility of using their Macintosh a little better, what follows building for meetings. are typical questions answered by their technical support department. Maybe Well not exactly thousands. We had five scripters at the April meeting. We probably will stay at the East Lake Library for a you have some of the same questions. while longer. What does SCSI mean? The meetings have settled into a comfortable routine of dealing It stands for "Small Computer Systems with users' scripting problems. Someone will ask how to do Interface." a standard that defines the something in a stack they are working on, and we will then interface for peripheral devices. It explore some of the ways to make it happen. Or, a useful provides for parallel transmission of data, HyperCard aspect will be explored. In April, after talking about thereby allowing for high-speed transfer. the use of PICT resources at the March meeting, we took a Translation: A set of standards defining look at the Picture XCMD from the Power Tools stack and how equipment connects and talks to played around with calling up PICTs — which is an excellent other equipment. method to add color to the normally B&W-only world of What is a Driver? HyperCard. We also covered creating the PICT resources. This can be done in ResEdit but there are even easier ways using the A driver is a small piece of code that Resource Mover in the Power Tools stack (I've detailed the controls a part of the computer. The method on page 15) hard drive driver resides in a hidden By the way, bring your stack with you if you have questions partition on your hard drive. That about it, and PLEASE use 800k (DS, DD) disks. The Mac Plus partition is set by the formatting software we use at the meetings cannot read high-density disks. You and can be from 6k to 32K, Apple's might want to bring a spare 800K or two, as I sometimes bring SCSI Manager guidelines suggest a shareware stacks which can be copied and distributed, or users minimum 16k partition size. The hard will share their stacks. see Hard Drive Q&A* page 11 see HyperCard SIG, page 15 Illustrator Illu a t e d Peachpit Press' Casebook for Adobe Illustrator

Review by Bob Rockefeller Before you get the wrong impression of this book, Illustrator the new features in version 3. Many methods are used to Illuminated is not another user's guide or pseudo-documenta produce this ad, and every new tool is showcased. tion. Rather, it is a collection of techniques and advice from The creation of a magazine cover is next. Using carefully seven graphic artists using Adobe Illustrator professionally. The grouped objects and the paste in front/paste in back combina author, Clay Andres, provides a peek over die shoulder of these tion handle the need for layering in this project. artists at work. Showing how they approach jobs and use Illustrator to execute them is the mission of this book. No look at Illustrator would be complete without a discussion of its application to technical drawing. Although no competitor Each artist is presented in a separate case study as a stand-alone to Claris CAD, Illustrator's rendering chapter. Different techniques are employed abilities combined with the clever use of in each of these projects, giving die reader a guides gives the artist the power to handle number of ways to think about using illustrations for an equipment catalog. Illustrator. Although the focus is on Illustrator and its tools, many of the The final artist creates illustrations for The techniques can be applied in other applica New York Times. This project required a tions, such as Canvas or FreeHand. As a semi-3D map and shows the use of shearing technical person who usually struggles with and distortion to give the illusion of volume creativity in the form of art, this book was and transparency, even in gray-scale. fun. An interesting look at artists at work. Overall, the book was fun to read and the The first case study is the publication of a techniques shown give new perspective to colorfully illustrated children's book created the power of illustration on the Macintosh. entirely in Illustrator. Key techniques The figures accompanying this article were presented are importing and exporting created in Illustrator using some of the ideas between Photoshop and Illustrator, hand in the book. As a novice to this field, they tracing and scanning templates, and were harder to create than they might drawing with filled, un-stroked shapes as "cut paper" assembled appear. Sometimes subde effects are the cartoon-like. hardest! Illustrator Illuminated is a valuable look into the trick Next we see a poster design. Here, placing images from bags of real graphic artists executing real world illustration projects. I'm sure I'll refer to it often when I'm stuck and can't Photoshop, distortion of objects and text, and Scitex prepress seem to get a project to "look" right. printing are described. The artist calls his techniques the 4th Dimension of Illustrator. © 1992 The Savannah Macintosh Users Group (Illustrations by the author). An in-depth discussion of complex blends highlights the production of a corporate logo styled after old travel stickers. The featured artist, Ron Chan, is often seen in MacWorld "Illustrator Illuminated" magazine. His style is notable for its use of many masked by Clay Andres blends. Using custom type as outlines is also shown. Peachpit Press, Inc. 2414 Sixth Street Adobe Illustrator 3.0's introduction advertisement is the Berkeley, CA 94710 subject of the next case study. You may remember seeing these (800) 283-9444 ads featuring a matrix of images using light bulbs to show off 161 pages $24.95 list price Adobe A New Dimension in Graphic Design

Reviewed by Jim Alley Adobe Illustrator and Aldus FreeHand rotation. For instance, if you want a 3D will have little trouble adapting to If we are to believe the ads in Macintosh chess piece, you would begin by drawing Dimensions. Dimensions is intended to one half of its profile in FreeHand. After magazines, 3D art - especially 3D text - be used along with one of these is the coming thing in design and importing it into Dimensions, it can be PostScript illustration programs. As a rotated 360° into a wireframe model of a desktop publishing. We'll have to wait and see whether this pans out; as of this stand-alone tool, it is quite limited, since 3D form. it cannot create shapes (beyond a few writing, I haven't seen much evidence of If your intent is to create a banner or 3D it in the field of general publications. primitives), and it cannot print anything text, you would import die flat artwork out; its total dependence on outside into Dimensions and then extrude it. So far, most of the 3D programs for the illustration programs is both a strength When extruding a form, different bevels Mac (and for other computers, too) have and a weakness. After finishing a session can be applied. (See illustration.) been bit-mapped (or raster) programs. with Dimensions, the artwork must be This means that the final image is made exported back into your drawing up of many tiny pixels of color - a map program for touching up, editing, or Lighting and Rendering of the bits that make up the image. printing. Once you've made a 3D form, you'll Often diese programs create very realistic want to make it solid so you can see it images of scenes that never existed. Getting Started better. The next steps involve determin Shading, highlights, cast shadows, and A typical session would begin in a ing color, line, surface qualities, and reflections convince us of the solidity of lighting. Although die colors of an object die objects pictured. A notable example PostScript drawing program by creating are usually defined in the drawing basic elements such as 2D forms or text is the mouthwash ad on television which blocks. (We'll use FreeHand in our program, Dimensions can assign or shows a botde of Listerine in the boxing modify colors later. All of these proce examples, but Adobe Illustrator and dures are handled in a surprisingly ring or swinging through the trees. Deneba Canvas also work.) Text must be intuitive manner through the use of The down side of these programs are converted to paths before it can be several floating palettes. Lights can be manifold: a high learning curve, the modified in Dimensions. After saving added and dragged around to different demand for very high end hardware, and documents in time - lots of time. A 3D image from a FreeHand, we'll " w tile Edit Operations Uleui Rppeoronce UJIndou* program such as Alias Sketch! or switch to Dimensions, Stratavision might take hours or even VwwSluW: Arl»ork [ Anglr Off-«xg front |Per»p«ctivt: Ha» [X: 14.82 Y: 180.93 where we can either W Untltled-1 days for the computer to generate, or Open them directly or "render" the scene after the user lias Import them into entered all of die parameters (lighting, existing documents. surface qualities, viewing angle, etc.). This is obviously not a very practical When the 2D form shows up in Dimen r- approach for a designer on a deadline. sions, it is placed in a Adobe Dimensions is different - on 3D environment several counts. This new program creates indicated by X, Y, and ■i ! and edits simple 3D objects and effects Z axes. (See illustra by working in a vector graphics environ tion.) The next step ment. To the best of our knowledge, involves translating Dimensions is die only commercially the 2D shapes into 3D available 3D program that produces fully forms. There are two editable PostScript Bezier curves. methods available to ^T^TT^pT^wTMol Designers and illustrators familiar widi do this: extrusion and S r" W H File1MB Edit «■■ Operations.■■ .,,..■■ U...... Uieiv — Rppeoronce --fl Ullndom Dimension's inability to print or create |vwvSt«le:andnl | AngW: OTf-«xB frwil |l"ti-ip«ltYe: Wot |x. 3886 Y: 40 33^0-OOCpO text, so you'll want to be switching back Untitled! and forth between it and your drawing program. Although Dimensions will run in 2MB of RAM, it's much more responsive at 4MB. Running Dimen £' sions concurrendy with FreeHand will demand at least an 8MB Mac. £3' O No Shading !»1 O Diffuse Forms which interpenetrate each other ® Plastic Hmbien t: [gTi[rTTTg]f20 tend to confuse Dimensions; objects Matte: which overlap the same coordinates do not render accurately.

iSi!--.^.. ■ -i L'l''t'"1 ■■■ ■■:■■;■■■-.iZZ If 3D text is going to become an important part of tomorrow's design scene, then Dimensions is certainly a quick and easy way to achieve it. Since Dimensions does not create ray tracing (including cast shadows), it is not going to tempt die super-realists away from heavyweights such as Stratavision or Alias Sketch. Package designers may angles. Their intensity, but unfortunately a form, and this procedure is handled realize die most immediate benefit in not their color, can be changed. nicely by the program. Lets say you being able to visualize and present three wanted to create the image a diree- dimensional projects. Objects can be made shiny or matte in dimensional candy box for which you've order to control the relationships © 1992 The Savannah Macintosh Users between highlights and shadows. already designed the two-dimensional label. You'd begin by creating a cylinder Group Ambient light can also be controlled. from Dimension's stock of primitives The controls for this process are not as clear as they might be; after reading this (cylinder, cube, sphere, and cone). The section of the manual several times, I'm Map command brings up a dialog that lets you import your label, and then size still not absolutely sure why there are or rotate it to fit. An automatic size-to-fit separate controls for matte and shiny. command can be helpful here. The Rendering is the last step in the process dialog box for the mapping function (although you can render at intermediate even shows which surfaces are visible in stages in order to check your progress). die current view; the back surfaces are There are three levels of rendering: shaded out. wireframe, draft, and shaded. Even with Adobe Dimensions complex shapes at die highest resolution, Getting Scenic Adobe Systems Incorporated Mountain View, CA rendering proceeded at an agreeable rate; After your object has been created and none of my tests and experiments took 800-833-6687 fine-tuned, you can rotate it and change over a couple of minutes on my Hfx, and Retail: $199 die view or the perspective. There are many were completed in just a few four perspective choices: none, normal, seconds. Neverdieless, you'll be render Requirements: any Macintosh II 68020 wide angle, and telephoto. or greater computer widi System 6.0.7 or ing a lot before you get things just right, later (including System 7), a hard disk, since even slight changes demand a When you are satisfied with all aspects of and at least 2 MB of RAM (4MB for complete re-render to check the results. your image, you can export it back to the The wireframe and draft modes come in format of your original drawing pro System 7). For best performance, a math coprocessor, 4 or more megabytes of handy at these times, since they are gram. Once there, you'll find that all of RAM and a color monitor is recom the shapes are fully editable. speedier. mended. Dimensions performs very well within its Mapping limits. It's actually fun to work with, A very important consideration is since the response times are snappy. You Dimension's ability to map artwork onto might get somewhat frustrated at AutoDoubler 2.0 and TimesTwo

flUTO„ t-J 1—J— IhOnpnoaVtoQiiie by Jim Alley idea is represented by programs such as fact, sometimes it seems as if the Disk Doubler and Magic Menu. These AutoDoubled files launch faster.) If diere is one subject that Mac users add a new selection to the Finder's menu The down side of automatic compression disagree on more than any other, it is bar; simply select a file on your desktop, automatic data compression - so much dien choose "Compress" or "Expand" programs is the program conflicts that so that a recent issue of MacWEEK are inevitable with system extensions. from the menu. This innovation removes devoted a major story to the topic. Some the cumbersome need to run a separate Nobody denies that they exist, but most professionals won't touch it with a ten- of them seem to have been resolved, at foot SCSI cable, and others can't live program. Another benefit is that these least widi AutoDoubler. Still, a few without it. programs allow for "semi-automatic" obscure conflicts exist, and this makes features; once you have compressed the some people very nervous. "It," for those of you new to the subject, file manually, double-clicking it will is automatic background data compres cause the file to automatically decom Here at Mac Monitor, we've been using sion. Let's look at that term in more press, and its parent program will open AutoDoubler since it first came out, and detail. Data compression means smash it. After you quit, the file will be upgrading to each new version. We've ing your data into a smaller space than it recompressed automatically. The only never lost any data through its use. Our would normally take. This is valuable penalty you pay is the time it takes to tests of More Disk Space, however, have both for storage (on magnetic media) decompress and rccompress the file - shown it to be untrustworthy - at least and for transmission (via a modem). usually just a few seconds, depending on on our system configuration - and we do Compression is accomplished by die size and complexity of the original. not recommend its use, even though sophisticated methods of removing or Everyone seems to agree diat these some users have reported no problems. coding redundant data. (It takes less programs are completely safe. AutoDoubler 2.0 space to say "437 zeros" than it does to The next - and current - step is fully say "zero" 437 times.) automatic background compression, as The latest version of AutoDoubler has There are two types of compression: exemplified by AutoDoubler 1.0, recently arrived, claiming more speed, manual and automatic. Manual compres SpaceSaver, and More Disk Space. Once fewer conflicts, new features, and an sion is relatively straightforward; you use configured, these utilities sit in the improved interface. Since we experienced a compression program to convert files background waiting for a time when no conflicts with the earlier version, we into "archives" which take up less space. your Mac is not busy (during a coffee cannot test the claim of improvement in Later, when you need access to the data break, for instance), and automatically diis area. While the compression seems a in those files, you run the compression scan your hard drive looking for things bit faster, we found it impossible to program again to "unstuff" the file, thus to compress. You, the user, can configure accurately test this claim; background returning it to its original size and several aspects of their operation: what compression is, by definition, hidden format. This procedure is valuable, but types of files to exclude from compres from you. At any rate, we have no hardly handy; and it is most often used sion, how old files must be before being complaints in this area. As for the for files which are going into long-term compressed, how long to wait before improved interface, we feel that, while storage, or whidi need to be transmitted scanning, etc.) The beauty of these largely cosmetic, it does help us to via a modem. automatic compression programs is two visualize die space usage on our hard fold: first, you don't have to manually drives. There is still room for improve Manual compression programs have ment here. Using the Finder's Get Info been around for quite a while. Programs compress files; and second, the decom command on an AutoDoubler com of this type which are currendy popular pression times are very short. (We haven't been able to detect any speed for the Macintosh include Compact Pro pressed file shows the size the file would difference between launching be if it were not compressed. In order to and Stufflt Deluxe. A more recent AutoDoubled programs and documents find its real size, you must use also have variation on the manual compression and their uncompressed counterparts. In DiskDoubler installed and use its settings which can be configured from Triangle has now released TimesTwo. the Control Panel. All of the other products discussed here "Savings..." command. (See illustration.) have been system extensions, which by AIC their nature, alter your Mac's operating Savteas Ur "HD100* AutoDoubler Internal Compres system by applying patches to the System O ■ « spaot ustd O = sp*e* «Y«il*bW and Finder files. This is where the Actual Pfalt Sit* (phgitoal spaat) sor has been supplied for advanced users. Some items do possibilities for problems and conflicts Effcettvt Msk St» (how much OKpaaart data oo b» stored) come in. TimesTwo is different in that it not function property if com is a driver. As a hard disk formatter, it 41 .0MB saved so far. vttti average savfap of 47SB pressed by AutoDoubler. This VtthowTicragstanagra.tnrtrti 18.1KB of xMKtowl fflfS «n replaces the original formatter that came hertwdonttudtel. includes many INITs and with your hard drive. TimesTwo Control Panels, as well as a few C53 compresses and decompresses all data as applications. Since many items in it is being written to the drive. The the System Folder should not be The most visible improvements in the process is totally transparent - there is compressed, AutoDoubler automatically nothing to configure - and there should AutoDoubler package actually come excludes it from compression. There are be no problems, as long as the driver is from the "new features" which are also some self-modifying programs which contained in two separate programs do not respond well to normal compres bug-free. included in the package: CopyDoubler sion. AIC is provided as an optional way With TimesTwo, your hard drive will and AutoDoubler Internal Compressor. to compress internal resources in these simply seem to be (approximately) twice files. AIC is a stand-alone program - it as big as previously. A Syquest 44MB CopyDoubler, a Control Panel for only runs when you manually launch it, cartridge will hold over 80MB worth of System 7 users, serves several purposes. data. Interestingly, you can take that First, it allows normal Finder copying of enhanced cartridge to another Mac, and files to proceed at up to three times Fart Caa») Profaraoeaa it will behave exactly the same as it did faster, and can empty the trash up to ten H Stww Progress on your Mac. The driver is installed on times fester. Since System 7 is noticeably □ Dtfautt to DrttiM Progrws the drive; there is no software that needs slow at these functions, these speed gJCopgFMerloons Bgv»rtftiDfafcVrlt»«:r~rhw»l»«*l0Kiw«b1»s ▼! to be on the computer. This certainly improvements are welcome. WtKMndmWTuciCosgtiaTo:! nxouWrtiVI sounded like the way to go. (HoWtng down the Control fcou when copying rrrtrws thte sttthg. CopyDoubler's other function will be Q4Qwin ippaar m tn» progreti ctaplaj vMn expanding fflnj Our first tests were somewhat confusing. even more welcome to many longtime We formatted a Syquest 44MB cartridge AutoDoubler users; it allows for easy and attempted to back up our large copying of compressed files. With the System Folder onto it. Things seemed to previous version of AutoDoubler, and you decide how and where to use it. be going well, but when we reached the The manual gives complete instructions. copying a file from one disk to another point where the Finder thought the disk caused it to automatically decompress. AIC will allow you to compress some had approximately 50MB of data on it The idea was to protect you if you items which could not be compressed and about 30MB free, we started getting wanted to copy a file from your hard otherwise. warning dialogs saying that the disk had drive to give to someone else who might We tested different compression modes less than 2MB of free space available. not have AutoDoubler. Many users on two applications (FileMaker Pro and Our second attempt gave similar results; exclaimed (loudly) that they did not America Online) to compare their when we attempted to back up a huge want this form of protection since it was launch times. We could detect no folder of Type 1 fonts, TimesTwo began far more typical for them to move difference whether the programs were reporting disk full errors long before the compressed files around for storage Finder showed any concern. convenience rather than data sharing. compressed or not. (Of course, our precision lab equipment A call to the tech CopyDoubler gives you the choice, and consisted only of a even provides a hot key setting to IDSaaB Tlm8»TuK>~ info HjgHJtign support folks provided stopwatch.) temporarily reverse the setting. the answer: TimesTwo CopyDoubler also includes a "Smart A New Scheme §=3 Jatmtoe does not do a very good Replace" feature which can be a big help KMTtmwTvo Dttfc job of compressing fonts if you are copying a folder from one Now that you under TaamTw* Bfaa. 170.7 MB or the type of things one OrtotaalSiza 832 he location to the other, by copying only stand different types of Unaa- 162.2 MB used normally expects to find 8.3MBavattiMe changed files. This last feature, inciden compression and Vaor* SCSI D 2 in a System Folder. Total Blacks 176929 bboks Since TimesTwo shows tally, may be helpful to PowerBook users decompression, get ready ftajslaal Una* 162244 blocks used. who want to synchronize folders on two for a totally different l4604*v»(W>W the remaining free space Caifjraniaa) 2.000:1 different computers. There are several concept. Golden Available Sam 85 MB (projected) on a disk as a guess of how much data it can hold, loading it TimesTwo that you might want to file compression program on hand to with lots of hard-to-compress files threw consider. If you use virtual memory, pack - or unpack - files for archival its estimates way off. Golden Triangle compressing the disk containing the VM storage or modem transmission. recommends that you run its software swap file will cause serious performance from time to time in order to "verify" the hits. Also, the current version will not And remember, neither of these utilities disk. Each rime we do this, we get a work with a partitioned disk, and the guarantees that your disk space will be different estimate of the disk usage. TimesTwo release disk seems to be copy doubled. Different types of files com Hopefully, each new estimate is more protected in some way, normal copies of press differendy. Our tests with accurate than the last, but this seems an it do not function properly. TimesTwo, for instance, ranged from awkward way to ensure that the Finder 1.956:1 to about 1.2:1, and we'd expect AutoDoubler's performance to be gives a fairly accurate accounting of Conclusions available disk space. comparable. As usual, there ain't no such As stated previously, we've been using thing as a free lunch, but spending less Our later tests - with more "normal" AutoDoubler since it first came out (and than a hundred dollars for one of these files - proved much more satisfactory; we DiskDoubler before it). The Hfx in Mac "disk expanders" sure sounds better than formatted our old Jasmine 80MB drive, Monitor's office has three hard drives spending several hundred dollars on a and it now shows approximately 170MB plus a Syquest attached to it, and since new drive. We hope we've given you the of usable space. We've added and erased we've been testing TimesTwo (several information you need to make the choice files for several weeks with no problems. weeks now), we've run one external hard - and the courage to make the decision. We tried another Syquest cartridge with drive with AutoDoubler, and the other © 1992 The Savannah Macintosh Users TimesTwo for storing clip art with (plus several Syquest cartridges) with excellent results. TimesTwo. With the exceptions Group On our clip art cartridge, we got a reported above, we haven't had any AutoDoubler 2.0 Fifth Generation Systems, Inc compression rate of 1.956 to one, but on problems. 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ID=Lack of Submissions [Restart] I tosurnca partition, designating a boot partition, or Hard Drive Q&A automatically mounting a partition at from page 4 startup. Patronize drive driver is code that acts as the Are there hidden partitions on a hard gateway between your system and the drive? hard drive itself. It lets each know of the Yes. In addition to the visible partitions, Our others' capabilities. most formatters write two which are What does "Format" Do? hidden: The first is the Apple Map Entry, which tells the computer that that The Format operation completely erases drive is initialized for the Macintosh. Advertisers the disk, preparing it to receive new data. The second is the hard drive driver Once formatted, a drive can be initial partition. After that, the visible Operat ized for use with a computer. Pressing the Format button in many formatters ing System partitions are visible. actually performs three functions: 1) What are some direct "Test" calls? Erases all data (formats the drive); 2) the PRAM may help by bringing the Each hard drive will understand a set Initializes the drive, (writing a new Mac SCSI bus information back to the common of commands sent to it via factory default settings. directory and partitioning); and, 3) software. One suite of these commands Installs a new hard drive driver in the are Test. Two common ones are SCSI What happens when I reset (zap) the driver partition. Verify and Scan Drive. A "SCSI Verify" PRAM? command checks that each block on the How does "Initialize" differ from When you zap the PRAM, you return all drive is good. A "Scan Drive" test, which "Format"? the PRAM information, including the reads data from each block on the drive, SCSI bus information, back to the After a drive is formatted, the initializa stores it in memory, writes it somewhere tion process divides it into partitions and factory defaults. Please note that in else, reads the copy, and compares it to addition to resetting the parameters back installs the hard drive driver in one of the original. If they are the same, it to the factory defaults, zapping the those partitions. This process also erases continues. If they are different, it reports PRAM also deletes "Get Info" comments the location of the data on the drive. If an error and writes out the bad block. you've used your drive on a Macintosh you may have added. What about writing out bad blocks? before, you generally just initialize. How do I reset (zap) the PRAM? What does "Update" mean? All good formatters will write out bad blocks as part of their formatting process, Always reset the Parameter RAM from a "cold" start, not a "Restart". When you Update your drive, you install and give you the option to disable that just the new driver partition information. feature. Once the bad blocks are written If you are running System 7, hold down Nothing else is changed. If a formatter out, the drive will not attempt to write these four keys when you boot the Mac can "take over" the space allocated by the data to them. As bad blocks appear Command, Option, P and R. The Mac old driver partition on your drive, you during normal use over time, good will blink and restart itself. Release the may press the Update button. If the formatters will move your data to a stable keys. space allocated is too small, Update is location on the media. gray. If you are using System 6, allow the Mac What is Parameter RAM? to boot to the Desktop. Hold down the What is Partitioning? Command, Shift, and Option keys while Parameter RAM is an area on a chip on you select "Control Panel" from the Partitions allow you to store and retrieve the Macintosh logic board that stores data independent of one another, much information about the Mac's hardware Apple menu. You will be asked if you like having multiple drives on your want to Zap the PRAM. Click "Yes." settings, such as Chooser and serial port desktop. Theoretically, a large drive will information, color, keyboard, and ©1992 Casa Blanca Works, Inc. Re read and write data to a single partition monitor settings, as well as the SCSI bus printed with permission. faster if the drive is divided into smaller configuration. partitions. John Catalano is the president of Casa How is the SCSI bus related to the Blanca Works, Inc. You can reach him at Many formatters allow you to create PRAM? 415.461.2227. AppleLink and AOL: single or multiple visible partitions and CBWorks. CompuServe: 73750,1317. to select partition attributes. These If you are having consistent SCSI include: password protection, locking a recognition problems or hangs, your SCSI bus could be "confused." Resetting Something New to do After Dark - The Final Frontier in Screen Savers

By Tom Pitts "Trelane, are you being nasty to your pets again?" Figure 2. In hot water, Spock burns the toast. This was "Oh, Mommy. I was only playing with them. They make my created from a MultiModule of After Dark and computer screen a lot more fun. " StarTrek screen saver modules. "Now, Trelane, those are beings, too. You can't keep them in your sorts. The litde sub-programs that generate what will be computer. They want their freedom. " displayed on your screen are called modules. Most older or less "But my screen will burn in, Mommy. " sophisticated screen savers, such as shareware programs, do not "Oh well, I guess you can keep them then. " have modules — rather they display only one moving image, pattern or animation, or else they merely darken the screen. Like Trelane, the mischievous kid of Gothos, you can now The commercial screen savers that are popular today offer have the Enterprise, all your favorite Star Trek crew members many modules, including some you can customize to suit your and a few aliens, too, with Star Trek: The Screen Saver. And needs and sense of humor (or lack thereof). not to worry: It is fully compatible with those After Dark modules you have grown to love. Who says you can't have your Of course, there is a reason to use a screen saver. Its basic cake and eat it too? purpose in blanking or altering the screen image is to save the phosphor, that is, the special lining in the cadiode ray tube. If From Starfleet Academy's an image is continuously displayed on the screen for a long Mac Basics course... period, widiout changing, it can be etched into the phosphor and leave a ghost image that is noticeable even when another A screen saver is a program that runs automatically after your image is displayed. The computer monitor, with its set computer has been on but idle for a specified time period. windows and menu bars is prone to develop these ghost images. When it is activated, it blanks the screen image and, with most Black and white monitors are at greatest risk of screen burn-in. screen savers, displays moving patterns or animations of various Some experts claim that color monitors don't suffer this malady, but that has not limited the popularity of screen saver programs. Perhaps that's really because the screen saver is more than just something to protect your monitor: It is a source of great fun and diversion. Thus we have the enormously popular After Dark with its flying toasters, colorful aquarium and many other modules. Now, with Star Trek: The Screen Saver, Berkeley Systems, die maker of After Dark, boldly goes where no screen saver has gone before. Beam it aboard Star Trek: The Screen Saver is an independent program based on the After Dark software engine. You don't have to have After Dark to use Star Trek: The Screen Saver, but if you do, it will run all your After Dark modules, too. It gives you over a dozen new and quite sophisticated modules derived from characters and episodes of the original StarTrek television Figure 1. In the Control Panel interface you can preview series. It runs on color and black and white monitors, and is the modules and set the various options. compatible with system 6.04 or later. Installation of StarTrek: The Screen spacecraft, and a devilish Gorn or two. spores of Omicron Ceti III as well as his Saver is simple. Insert the installation Nomad, who seems to be omnipresent, singing and playing of the Vulcan lyrette. disks and follow the online directions. makes an occasional visit to the bridge as Despite its limited graphics, this module The software checks your monitor type well. Even if you sit and stare for hours - will live long and prosper, I'm sure. and installs the necessary files. (If you something that is easy to do - you might One of the dominant features of the already use After Dark, it will be not catch every variation the program modules is the constant use of sounds contains. upgraded to the Star Trek version. All taken from the television show. You will your After Dark modules will be The other modules are almost as recognize many of them. Others are just preserved.) Restart the computer, access mesmerizing. Scotty's Files offer detailed a cacophony of Trekkie electronic beeps and configure the "After Dark The Star and buzzes that would shame even Trek® Edition" program in your diagrams of the Enterprise and its equipment. There is a Planetary Atlas of R2D2's constant chatter. Now, as I Control Panel, and your mission has die stars and planets visited by the watch Star Trek TNG and Deep Space begun. Enterprise or mentioned in the show. Nine, I hear from the adjacent room (Do you recall Deneb IV with its Slime where my computer sits, a symphony of On screen! Devil, and Regelus with its Bloodworm? classic Star Trek lines. Imagine my If you are already familiar widi screen And which is better, Saurian brandy or confusion! I love it. savers such as After Dark and Tranya?) In another module, the Pyro!, Star Trek: The Screen Tholians weave a web of danger Red alert! Saver will offer no new learning that can trap you if you're not careful. Anyone, even those not Surely there could be nothing wrong challenges. In the Control Panel with having such a fun time, especially interface you set its standard too familiar with StarTrek, will when my screen is being saved simulta features such as delay until love watching the screen fill up with Tribbles who scream at even neously. It pains me, as a devoted activation, sleep and wake Trekkie to admit it, but the program has the briefest appearance of a corners, optional password some problems. protection, and default modules. (See Klingon. Fans of Dr. McCoy will enjoy Figure 1.) It has the usual randomizer the Sick bay module with its encyclope Of greatest concern is the amount of disk function that randomly selects from dic listings of the curious ailments seen space it requires. You'll find it hogging among modules specified by the user. during the travels of the Enterprise's around 4 MB of hard disk space if you There is also the MultiModule, in which legendary country doctor. (Who cares if install all its modules and sounds. the user can create new modules by Beverly Crusher is beautiful? Give me Unfortunately, with just a few modules combine other modules. If you have OF Bones any day!) or with no sounds it wouldn't be quite so After Dark, you can even combine its much fun — maybe not worth the effort Real Trekkies will be riveted to the modules with Star Trek modules to or cost. screen by the online make unique MultiModules. Imagine Trek trivia module, Spock batding Flying Toasters! Illogical! Final Exam. (What (See Figure 2.) monster appearing as a What the doctor ordered scientist and ex- girlfriend of McCoy Star Trek: The Screen Saver is a tonic for sapped the sodium from the jaded Mac user - especially if, like die bodies of her me, you have become bored by simple victims?) Even I found lawn mowers and toasters decorating questions I couldn't your screen. The Star Trek modules are answer! Now I'll have to delightful! They will jog your memory by stay up late re-watching bringing to life characters from some the original Star Trek! classic Star Trek episodes. My favorite. Great homework The Mission, features Kirk on the bridge assignment, huh? and Scotty at work on repairs in the Another down side is that its modules Admirers of die Vulcan master, Spock, Jeffries Tube - the very bowels of the will perhaps be a bit disappointed with appear pretty mediocre in black and white. They lose a tremendous amount Enterprise. Intermittent cutaways to the the Spock module. It is more cute than of their visual impact without color. bridge's main viewing screen bring you clever, and the graphics are the poorest of face-to-face with such enemies as Remember the Gorn is always greener on the set. Bitter dregs... Nevertheless, I Klingon battle cruisers, the Greek god a color Mac. enjoyed reliving Spock's encounter with Apollo from Pollux IV, Talosians and the Horta, and the intoxicating plant After Dark has received some criticism various other mysterious aliens and for purported conflicts with other especially those with black and white screen might be here today and Khan programs. I believe diis is an individual monitors. Berkeley Systems lias a near- tomorrow! problem. That is, each person might monopoly on the market these days. © 1993 MacValley Voice Burbank CA experience unique conflicts depending After Dark is fun, but it can become on what other INITs and background tedious. Star Trek: The Screen Saver Requirements: programs they use. In this respect Star adds a new dimension to your Mac. Trek: The Screen Saver is not different Unless you hate Star Trek: The TV Mac Plus or newer from After Dark. I found with bodi Show (Is that possible?) you can hardly System 6.0.4 or later 2 MB RAM programs that I can usually avoid freezes go wrong widi Star Trek: The Screen Tricoder is optional but useful by setting the program to randomize Saver. Its animations are more sophisti using only one module per sleep episode cated than those of After Dark - The Facts: rather than switching modules frequently including the More After Dark modules as the program runs. While this might be - and for variety, if you must, you can Star Trek: The Screen Saver less entertaining, it's a useful solution. also use commercial modules and Berkeley Systems (You aren't supposed to be watching the freeware and shareware After Dark 2095 Rose Street screen as it sleeps anyway. Surely you modules available on electronic bulletin Berkeley, CA 94709 have work to do.) boards. I doubt most folks will need to Terra do that. (Hey, once a Trekkie...) So List price $60 Analysis, Mr. Spock? head out at warp factor nine to get Star "Street" price $35 Trek: The Screen Saver - or else your Sufficient data! A screen saver is a good investment for most Mac users -

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PhoneInquir ies to: 24 hours DavidUndlin(61 2)432- 0913 /^\ most interesting questions. We are need to look in this newsletter or call me HyperCard SIG learning from each other. to confirm the date. Most meetings will from page 4 be at the East Lake Library, 2727 East If you are not a scripter but are interested Lake Street, in Minneapolis. This is near in finding out about HyperCard, you Who's Invited the Minnehaha Target. There is parking might try the Mini'app'les Novice SIG. behind the library or you can park in the Of course these meetings are open to the Or pick up Danny Goodman's book The church lot next door if nothing is public so anyone can come including Complete HyperCard Handbook (make non-members, but there is a targeted sure it's for version 2.0). There are classes happening at the church. audience. Unfortunately, this is not the locally through some of the Community There will probably be a break in the meeting to come to if you have no idea Ed programs, the Science Museum, and what HyperCard is and want to find out monthly meetings this summer so do call several other training facilities. Feel free to confirm dates and times. ("Well, I know it came with my com to contact me for more info on getting puter."). This SIG is designed for active started with HyperCard (via the Upcoming Meetings scripters — those involved with using Mini'app'les BBS is best, or call me at Location: East Lake Library, 2727 E. the HyperCard language to design their 370-0017). Lake St., Minneapolis own stacks. Monday, May 17,7:00 - 8:45 PM You do not have to be an advanced or Meeting Times Besides answering your questions, we'll even intermediate HyperTalker, how At the time of this writing there are no rake a look at pop-up menu externals. ever. Beginning scripters are very regularly scheduled meetings (like "third Press anywhere and there's a menu! welcome and several are actively involved Monday of each month") although I try in the meetings. They usually bring the to schedule on Monday evenings. You Monday, June 14,7:00 - 8:45 PM

How to Get a PICT into HyperCard Without Using ResEdit

by Peter Fleck For this procedure, you need the Power Tools stack that comes option key down this time), and in the dialog, find the stack with the registered version of HyperCard 2.x, or ResCopy, a free where you want to put the resource and open it. The name of utility for moving resources around in HyperCard. These the stack will appear right above the "Open..." button, but instructions use the Resource Mover in the Power Tools stack. the scroll window may be blank (because there are no resources here yet). 1. Create a picture in your favorite painting or drawing program. Color is OK. Copy the picture and put it in your Scrapbook. 6. Select a PICT resource in the left scroll window. If there is The picture is stored as a PICT resource in the Scrapbook more than one PICT resource, you won't know which one is File. yours and you can't look at it until it's in the stack, so just get the first one in the list. 2. Open HyperCard, go to the PowerTools stack, and click on the words "Resource Mover" button in the Table of Contents. 7. Click on the Copy button. The resource will appear in the other scroll window. Select it and click the View button to see 3. Press on the option key on your keyboard and, with the if it is the one you want. If it's not, select it and click the option key DOWN, click on the "Open..." button near the lower left corner of the card. If you don't have the option key Remove button and try again. down, the Resource Mover will only recognize HyperCard For information on using this resource, go to the Picture XCMD stacks. in the Power Tools stack and read the documentation. To learn 4. You get a standard dialog box. Find your system folder, find more about using the Resource Mover, click on the Light Bulb the Scrapbook File, select said file, and click the Open button. button in the upper right corner of the Resource Mover card. (If you can't see a Scrapbook File, you probably weren't There is a freeware stack called Mr. PICTure which will actually holding the option key down when you clicked the Open write the commands to make the PICT appear in your stack. I button.) The resources in the Scrapbook File will appear in will pass this stack on to Jacque Gay, the Mac eDOM maker. It the scroll list above the Open button. You should at least see should be available on a future eDOM. I will also put the stack one PICT resource because you pasted your picture in the on the Science City BBS (221-9411). Those of you with a Scrapbook, right? modem can download it from there. Science City is a free BBS run by the Science Museum. The stack may be available on other 5. Now go to the opposite "Open..." button (lower right corner or the one you didn't use before), click it (don't hold the local BBSs as well. AppleSauce ProDOS 8 and Under No Circumstances, Not Ever, Etc. Like Matt said, NEVER use Control-Reset to simply reboot or exit a program on the GS. Especially GS/OS programs. It can System v4.0.1 be incredibly dangerous and there is the possibility that you'll lose data or corrupt files. (Some programs actually keep files Suggested Retail: $14.00 open on the disk when the user is using them in order to Apple has finally released its update to support net-working and whatnot. Control-Reset could cause the ProDOS 8 System Disk that these files to become at worst, corrupted, and at best they could corresponds to the GS/OS System Disk no longer be up-to-date. release. In this package you will get ProDOS 8 v2.0.2; BasicSystem 1.5; Did you know...if you normally boot into ProSel 16 instead of the finder, but occasionally launch Finder from there, you SysUtil.System v3.1; and won't want all the nifty Finder Extras clogging up memory FastCopy.Sysr.em vl.0.1. SysUtil.System allows you to copy, delete, and rename until/unless you do launch the Finder. Instead of placing them files and disks. It will also allow copy files in the System.Setup folder, create a folder named Finder.Extras between DOS 3.3, Apple Pascal, and within the System folder and place them there. Now they wont ProDOS disks. Fastcopy.System allows be run until you launch finder. copying of entire 3.5 or 5.25 disks. Dollars & Sense Coming Back? Also includes patch for clock called ClodcPatch that will fix ProDOS so it Hank Wessel posted on October 14th that the marketing and will display correct year after it expires in development rights to Dollars & Sense for all platforms (MS- 1996. DOS, MAC, DOS 3.3, and ProDOS) are now owned by: This system Disk requires a 128k Business Sense, Inc. enhanced He, lie, or IIgs. If you have an 6360 Moki Circle unenhanced He (64K), or 11+ you can West Jordan, Utah 84084 order a System Disk for that, so give the Phone: 800-377-4954 people at RC a call. FAX: 800-377-5453 Resource Central, Inc. PO Box 11250 He also said that this company is currendy offering all versions Overland Park, KS 66207 at special promotional prices. Jeff Strichard called up the (913)469-6502 company and was told that they are in the process of updating (913) 469-6507 (fax) Dollars & Sense for the Apple II, and expect something to be ready by January 1993. Submitted by Rand Sibet see AppleSauce, page 26 Minutes - January Apple II Meeting The Sprinkles of snow were just starting to descend when I arrived at Murray for the January meeting. I carried the equipment into the building and found John Hyde busily working on the Mac LCII Minutes... using ClarisWorks. Yes, it is the Apple II Meeting, you're not in the wrong place. Others gathered and a pre-meeting discussion started by Tom Edwards about accessing bulletin boards - specifically ours - and how to finish a message. There were numerous suggestions given to the hapless soul Minutes - December Apple II Meeting who asked the question, more answers than he ever wanted. This is December, the month of snowdrifts and reindeer, not Introductions were the first order of business. Mini'app'les Board fog and drizzle. But I digress... The meeting started a few members and committee members along with all the attendees were minutes late as people continued to funnel in. Introductions introduced or introduced themselves... were made as people arrived, so announcements were in The meeting then progressed to Announcements and the dates, times progress as we gathered. AppleWorks, Main Apple II, Novice and locations were pven for the Board Meeting, the Apple II Novice meetings were announced as well as requests for Newsletter Meeting, the AppleWorks Meeting and the next Apple II Meeting. A manager and nominations committee members. Next came letter from inCider/A+ was read concerning rumors about their Questions and Answers; first a question on alternatives to the demise (gready exaggerated), and the comment brought up the Finder, multiple open windows, disk based newsletter, 816, question about what other Apple II publications. Resource-Central, why the New Print Shop won't work on a //c with an Studio City, Apple II Alive, Scarlet are still being published. Tom ImageWriter II... It was a lively discussion. Gates also passed out tickets for a Door Prize, Cleanwater Detective Tom Gates brought in the videotape of an interview of Steve from MECC. The Announcements then degenerated into... Wozniak by Tom Weishaar from Kansasfest for the group to The Question and Answer period. Questions concerned memory watch. A very interesting view of the history of computing by the creator of the original Apple II... expansion cards for the //c, hard drive backups and several others. By this time everyone was watching John Hyde and what he was doing on the Mac, so... ^ After the tape, Tom did a demo on HyperCard GS and HyperStudio. Both programs did a creditable job of presenta John Hyde was introduced. His presentation was on file transfers to tion in terms of graphics and sound. Tom showed how to the Mac platform using ClarisWorks as the translator. He had three generate cards and insert text, talked a bit about scripting, copies of ClarisWorks on his hard drive, but only one had the answered some questions about HyperMover and in general, translators. Unfortunately, some system files and Apple File Exchange did an excellent job of describing the MultiMedia direction of were missing from his system folder so the Mac wanted to format the Apple IIGS. ProDOS and MSDOS disks when they were inserted into the drive. The meeting did go a bit overtime and the custodian was Too bad. The Mac formatted disk, which had Microsoft Works, waiting patiently for us to leave... which we did... and then Word, Excel transferred from AppleWorks files load very well. The regrouped at Perkins for the 5th quarter Huddle... word processing documents seemed to load much more readily than database or spreadsheet documents. The January Main Apple II meeting will feature John Hyde with the Mac LCII and ClarisWorks to talk about file format John then asked if there were any Apple II programs that people transfers. The AppleWorks meeting will be on ReportWriter. wanted to try. Steve George had a program called Word Challenge January will also initiate the Apple II Novice meeting. It will be that didn't work, probably due to a copy protection scheme. A couple on the third Tuesday of January, the 19th, and will meet at the of others from the Club's eDOM collection did work and looked very Murray High School location. If we want some novices there, good. One of them, Car Race required a joystick and as John was we should also have some crusty old experts there as well to explaining why it wouldn't work, Erik Knopp pulled a joystick out of answer the "easy" questions. So come and join us. (It's a good his bag... that's the way to go! Be Prepared for anything. It was great! excuse to go and have some coffee and pie afterwards.) By this time, it was time. So we packed up the computers and left. February's Main meeting hasn't been solidified yet, but some We reconvened at Perkins on Snelling and talked about all sorts of type of presentation on graphics transfer will be considered. esoteric topics until all hours of the evening. Also, February is the month for the Mini 'app'les general By the way, Dick Peterson won the Door Prize, and Les Anderson meeting (both Mac and Apple II), so look for an announce volunteered to do a presentation of Publish It! at the February ment to that effect. Meeting. Les has done this before and it has been great, so hope to see See you at the next Apple II meeting. Bring lots of ques you there... tions. .. Tom ne History of the Apple II Part 1: Pre-Apple History

Compiled and written by Steven Weyhrich This strength of the Apple II could also be considered a weakness, because it presents a major difficulty in making design improve Introduction ments that keep up with the advances in computer technology between 1976 and the present, and yet maintain that compatibility This project began as a description of how the Apple II evolved with the past. Other early computer makers found it easy to design into a IIGS, and some of the standards that emerged along the improvements that created a better machine, but they did so at the way. It has grown into a history of Apple Computer, with an expense of their existing user base (Commodore comes to mind, emphasis on the place of the Apple II in that history. It has been with the PET, Vic 20, Commodore 64, and lasdy the Amiga, all gleaned from a variety of magazine articles and books that I have completely incompatible). However, this attention to detail is just collected over the years, supplemented by information supplied by one of the things that has made the Apple II the long-lived individuals who were "there" when it happened. I have tried not to computer that it is. spend much rime on information that has been often repeated, but rather on the less known stories that led to the Apple II as we In examining the development of the Apple II, we will take a look know it (and love it) today. Along the way I hope to present some at some prc-Apple microcomputer history, the Apple I, and the interesting technical trivia, some thoughts about what the Apple II formation of Apple Computers, Inc., with some side roads into could have been, and what the Apple II still can be. The Apple II ways in which early users overcame the limits of their systems. We has been described as the computer that refuses to die. This story will follow through with the development of the Apple He, He, tells a little bit of why that is true. and IIGS, and lasdy make some comments on the current state of affairs at Apple Inc. regarding the Apple II. If you are a new Apple II owner in 1991 and use any 8-bit Apple II software at all, you may feel bewildered by the seemingly nonsensical way in which certain things are laid out. AppleWorks Pre-Apple History asks which "slot" your printer is in. If you want to use the 80 Let's begin our adventure in history. I've designed a special column screen in Applesoft BASIC you must type an odd interface card that plugs into slot 7 on an Apple II. It contains an command, "PR#3*. If you want to write PROGRAMS for item its inventor called a "Flux Capacitor" (something about the Applesoft, you may have some of those ridiculous PEEKs and being able to modify flux and flow of time). The card derives its POKEs to contend with. The disk layout (which type is supposed power from a self-contained generator called "Mr. Fusion" to go into which slot) seems to be in some random order! And (another item I dug out of the wreckage from a train/auto accident then there is the alphabet soup of disk systems: DOS 3.3, CP/M, in California a couple of years ago). Connected to the card via a Pascal, ProDOS, and GS/OS (if you have a IIGS). If you use 16- specially shielded line, Mr. Fusion runs on trash (and is, therefore, bit software EXCLUSIVELY, you will probably see none of this; the ultimate computer peripheral, if you recall the old principal of however, even the most diehard GS user of the "latest and "garbage in, garbage out"). Let's put a few issues of PC MAGA greatest" 16-bit programs will eventually need to use an 8-bit ZINE into Mr. Fusion, and switch on the Flux Capacitor. program. If you can tolerate a history lesson and would like to (Incidentally, for this to work, it needs an Apple II equipped with know "the rest of the story," I will try to make sense of it all. a specially modified Zip chip running at 88 MHz). Boot the disk and set the time circuits for 1975. Ready? Set? Go! ** I think one of the Apple IPs greatest strengths is the attention they CRACKADOOM **!! have paid over the years to be backward compatible. That means that a IIGS "power system" manufactured in 1991, with 8 meg of Did you make it all right? Oust don't touch anything - you don't memory, a hand-held optical scanner, CD-ROM drive, and 150 want to disrupt the space-time continuum, you know!) Now, since meg of hard disk storage can still run an Integer BASIC program the first Apple II wasn't released until 1977, what are we doing written in 1977, probably without ANY modification! In the back in 1975? Well, to understand how the Apple II came about, world of microcomputers, where technology continues to advance it helps to know the environment that produced it. In 1975, the monthly, and old programs may or may not run on the new microcomputer industry was still very much in its infancy. There models, that consistency is amazing to me. Consider the quantum were few "home computers" that you can choose from, and their leap in complexity and function between the original 4K Apple ][ capabilities were very much limited. The first microprocessor chip, and the ROM 03 IIGS; the amount of firmware (built-in the 4-bit 4004, had been released by Intel back in 1971. The first programs) in the IIGS is larger than the entire RAM SPACE in a video game, Pong, was created by Nolan Bushnell of Atari in fully expanded original Apple ][! 1972. Also in 1972, Intel had gone a step further in microproces- sor development and released the 8-bit described. They called it "a full-blown BASIC interpreter, you might have been 8008, and then the 8080 in 1973. The year computer that can hold its own against able to write some small programs that ran 1974 saw Scelbi Computer Consulting sell sophisticated minicomputers now on the in that language instead of having to figure what some consider to be the first commer market... The Altair 8800 is not a out 8080 assembly language. If you were cially built microcomputer, the Scelbi 8-H, 'demonstrator' or souped-up calculator... lucky (or rich) you had 16K of memory, based on Intel's 8008 chip. However, it [it] is a complete system." The article had possibly more; if you were REALLY lucky had limited distribution and due to the an insert that lists some possible applica you owned (or could borrow) a surplus designer's health problems it didn't go very tions for the computer, stating that "the paper tape reader to avoid typing in far. The first home-built computer, the Altair 8800 is so powerful, in fact, that manually your friend's checkbook Mark 8, was released that same year. The many of these applications can be per balancing program. Did I say typing? Mark 8 used the Intel 8080 chip, but had formed simultaneously." Among the Many early computer hobbyists didn't even no power supply, monitor, keyboard, or possible uses listed are an automated have the interface allowing them to TYPE case, and only a few hobbyists ever finished control for a ham station, a digital clock from a keyboard or teletype. The "com their kits. Overall, the microchip had yet to with time zone conversion, an autopilot for plete" Altair 8800 discussed above could make much of an impact on the general planes and boats, navigation computer, a only be programmed by entering data via public beyond the introduction of the brain for a robot, a pattern-recognition tiny little switches on its front panel, as hand-held calculator. device, and a printed marter-to-Braille cither octal (base 8) bytes or hexadecimal converter for the blind.2 Many of these With the start of 1975 came a significant (base 16) bytes. With no television monitor available either, the results of the program event in microcomputer history. If you will things will be possible with microcomput consider the early microprocessors of the ers by 1991, but even by then few people were read in binary (base 2) from lights on will have the hardware add-ons to make that front panel. This may sound like the years 1971 through 1974 as a rime of some of these applications possible. Also, old story that begins with the statement, "I germination and "pregnancy" of ideas and various hardware designs, January of 1975 despite the power that micros will have in had to walk five miles to school through saw the "labor and delivery" of a special that year, the ability to carry out more than snow three feet deep when I was your age," one of these applications "simultaneously" but it helps to understand how things were package. The birth announcement was will not be not practical or in some cases at this time to see what a leap forward the splashed on the front cover of a hacker's even possible. The exaggeration by the Apple II really was (er, will be. Time travel magazine, Popular Electronics. The baby's jj^N authors of the Popular Electronics article complicates grammar!) parents, MITS, Inc., named it "Altair can perhaps be excused by their excitement 8800"; it measured 18-inches deep by 17 in being able to offer a computer that inches wide by 7 inches high, and it Notes ANYONE can own and use. All this was weighed in at a massive 256 bytes (that's 1 Steven Levy, HACKERS: HEROES one fourth of a "K"). Called the "World's promised from a computer that came OF THE COMPUTER REVOLU First Minicomputer Kit to Rival Commer "complete" with only 256 bytes of memory TION, pp. 187-192. (expandable if you can afford it) and no cial Models," the Altair 8800 used the Intel 2 H. Edward Roberts and William Yates, 8080 chip, and sold for $395 (or $498 keyboard, monitor, or storage device. "Altair 8800 Minicomputer, Part 1", fully assembled). MITS hoped that they The IMSAI 8080 (an Altair clone) also POPULAR ELECTRONICS, 7(1) would get about four hundred orders for came out in 1975 and did fairly well in the clones of this baby, trickling in over the (January 1975), pp. 33,38. The article hobbyist market. Another popular early is interesting also in some of the months that the two-part article was computer, the Sol, would not be released printed. This would supply the money until the following year. Other computers terminology that is used. The Altair is described as having "256 eight- bit MITS needed to buy the parrs to send to released in 1975 that enjoyed limited words" of RAM. Apparently, the term people ordering the kits (one common way success were the Altair 680 (also from those days of "bootstrapping" a small MITS, Inc., based on the Motorola 6800 "byte" was not in common use yet. electronics business). This "trickle" of processor), the Jupiter II (Wavemate), 3 Gene Smarte and Andrew Reinhardt, orders would also give MITS time to M6800 (Southwest Technical Products), "15 Years of Bits, Bytes, and Other establish a proper assembly line for and the JOLT (Microcomputer Associ Great Moments", BYTE, (September packaging the kits. However, they ates), all kits.3 The entire microcomputer 1990), pp. 370-371. misjudged the burning desire of Popular market was still very much a hobbyist Electronics readers to build and operate market, best suited for those who enjoyed Next Installment: The Apple I their own computer. MITS received four assembling a computer from a kit. After © Copyright 1991, Zonker Software hundred orders in ONE AFTERNOON, you assembled your computer, you either and in three weeks it had taken in had to write your own programs (from $250,000.1 assembly language) or enter a program The Popular Electronics article was a bit someone else wrote. If you could afford the exuberant in the way the Altair 8800 was extra memory and the cost of buying a JSfc^. Software NeWS from the Director

Submitted by Gregory L. Carlson Well, Here I am again, working on Pre-Apple Stuff Peripherals DOS 3.1 continuing with the eDOMs the next Apple I month. As you can see, I'm catching up Apple 11 DOS 3.2 - next month I'll have to change the Disk II Drive DOS 3.3 and format (I can't keep up with 8 pages of Beyond eDOM reviews forever!). Apple 11+ Languages CrossPurpose - (shareware - $5) Apple //e and /// Software Anyway, I'm trying not to play favorites AppleWorks Copyright © 1989 by Bob Owen - each of the three platforms will have Apple lie Apple //c+ Magazines When the screen first pops up a cross their turn at the top. Last month was the Apple IIGS Telecom muni MAC, this month, the //GS, and next cations consisting of pegs is shown, with one month - SUPRISE! - the Apple // folks open hole in the middle. A play is made And, I have included a history of the by jumping over an adjacent piece onto get their turn. 65XXX microprocessor to completely an empty square. The jumped piece is The following eDOMs are those for round out the historic disk. then removed from the board. A play can April, 1993. be horizontal, vertical. Diagonal moves Apple IIGS Disks GS #61-AWGS Patch + are not allowed. Games The object is to leave only a single piece GS #59 - True-Type Fonts This eDOM has a potpourri of GS- remaining on the board. This eDOM is for you GS and Apple // specific items for your entertainment. Mah.jongg - (ShareWare - $5) users that have a 3.5 inch disk and are Included on this disk is AWGS.Patch, XPURPOSE, mah.johgg, Floor Tiles 2, By Chris Heckman and Scott Mathews starting to use the True-Type fonts. The Baseball Trivia, and Beyond Fun. fonts included in this disk are: Copyright 1991, 1992. All rights Descriptions are as follows: reserved. CHANNELS - (ShareWare - $14.95) - AWGS.Patch A specialized font, useful for anyone Wedge Software. involved in printing TV listings on a by Steve Bernacki Wedge is a company dedicated to the regular basis. This patch will take advantage of the Apple IIgs. Caligula, FlangeLight, Eurotype, latest-found AppleWorks GS Easter egg The object of the game is to clear all the FranklinGotHvy, SteelplGotB, Umbra diat allows you to get by the 48-pt font tiles limit. My thanks to Tom Gates for providing from the screen. To clear the tiles, you this eDOM to us. Manually, you'd activate this hidden must first find a pair of tiles that match feature if you hold down Option-Shift identically. Only matched pairs can be GS #60 - Applet I History while selecting "Choose Font" from the removed from the playing field. Also, a For all you Apple // users out diere who Font menu. From there you could tile must be considered as 'free' in order are interested in the history of your choose a font widi a point size greater to be removed. favorite computer, this eDOM is just than 48 points. Tiles are highlighted and removed by what you have been looking for. This 23- What this patch does is eliminate the using the mouse. Error messages will part history was written by Steve need of holding down Option-Shift prompt you when you try to remove or Weyhrich, and supplied to us by Tom while selecting "Choose Font". match up a tile in error. Gates. This patch will work only on AWGS A background image sits underneath all Included in this are: vl.l. •fjf^N the tiles. If you can clear the board, The "Cleanup" question is all or knows French, and is willing to translate, you'll get to see it in its entirety. nothing. If answered correctly, it's a I'll be happy to add it to this disk. You can load in a new set of tiles if you bases-clearing home run. If the answer is Anyway, what I can glean from playing incorrect, the inning is over, regardless of the game, the object of the game is to get bored of the default set. Four tile sets the number of outs. are included with this program. Or, load pick up "cans" with your bouncing ball. in a tile set of your own creation! Questions that are asked are ones like: The "life" is indicated by a level indicator at the bottom of the screen. You must Floor Tiles 2 - (ShareWare $10) Name the only Canadian team in the American League. get cans to add to your life force and by Karl Bunker continue to the next level. What Yankee holds the record for Also included is a game editor, so you Floor Tiles 2 uses playing pieces. The consecutive games played? playing pieces are rile of 1 to 4 randomly can create your own Bouncin' Ferno selected colors. You can rotate a tile by and lots more. game disks! pressing the space bar, and place a tile in Beyond Fun or FUN COLUMNS vl.l Thanks to Les Anderson for supplying any open square on the board by clicking this program to us. the mouse in that square. You receive Copyright© 1991 points for each tile you place, the Apple II Disks number of points depending on how by FTA quickly you place the file. If you haven't Programming by O. Goguel eDOM #89 - AppleWorks placed a tile when the "thermometer" This is a simple game. A "column" of Templates runs out, that tile will be placed in the three squares is descending into a "well". nearest available square. The game is (2 double-sided disks) over when the board if full. These columns are of up to three colors. This eDOM contains a series of The colors may be rotated in their order. AppleWorks templates: Playing pieces disappear from the board As the columns reach the bottom of the when they are surrounded on three sides well, they "stick". The object is to get as Here are another 31 AppleWorks™ by matching colors. many columns in the well as possible. templates for your operating and The more tiles you make disappear this Oh yes, there is another slight wrinkle - programming pleasure. /^PN If you get three or more block in a way, the more tiles you can place before Footnotes - TERM PAPER FOOT the board is full, and the higher your vertical, horizontal, or diagonal that are NOTES SMW MACROS score will be. If you drop a tile into a the same color, those blocks disappear, SUPERMACROWORKS and the blocks above it are dropped space with matching colors on all 4 sides, that rile and the 4 surrounding riles will lower. by Dave Gair disappear. Whenever a tile disappears, This game is a simple, yet very addicting Automated footnotes and paging for any adjacent tiles will rotate 90 degrees. game, on the order of columns (see report writing. Uses SuperMacroWorks with AppleWorks 2.0 to automate the Baseball Trivia V4.2 — (ShareWare - GS.34). procedure. Docs and examples are $10) GS #62 - BOUNCIN' FERNO included in files. Self Prompting. Copyright© 1991 byTINASoft 2V0.1 Suggestions welcome. Program by Russ Eagle © 1991 FTA Documentation: For all you baseball trivia nuts, this is the By Pierre Raynaud, Richard and Oliver The following files are included in this game for you! Bailly-Maritre package: Baseball Trivia is for two players. A game Graphics and sound effects by Olivier 1. FN.DOC consists of nine innings. During each Maitre 2. FN.EXAMPLE.1 3. FN.EXAMPLE.2 inning each player receives three (Part of the Summer 1991 collection) questions. Players have 30 seconds to 4. MACROS.FN answer each question. For each correct This disk must be booted by itself- it 5. FN.STARTER answer, the player is awarded a will not operate from the Finder. 6. FN.NEWPAGE baserunner. For each incorrect answer Bouncin' Ferno is a little like Marble FN EXAMPLE. 1 Shows a report in the player is charged with an out. If after Madness, only different. progress prior to starting a second page three questions the player has not made and can be studied to show how this three outs, then the cleanup hitter comes The "ABOUT" file supplied with the works to the plate. game is written in French (there is no English version supplied), so if anyone FN EXAMPLE.2 Shows a the report after a second page has been added and SuperPatch 3.1 for AW 2.0 & 2.1 on another person's tax return you adjustments made. Print should not use this template. FN.EXAMPLE.2 for use as additional Public domain by John Link 4. If you are married filing a separate Documentation. My wonderful wife of 19 years says that I return AND your spouse itemizes deductions you should not use this MACROS.FN should be placed on the should not release any more programs into the public domain, unless I get some template. Desktop BY ITSELF to start, Compile bucks back. So, I include this 5. If you are a dual status alien you and use SA-B to Stair. (Compile only if should not use this template. you are returning after a break while BeggarWare notice. SuperPatch is still public domain, and it is not copyrighted. writing your report) AUTO.LOAN.EXP There are three major improvements FN.STARTER will be loaded with SA-B over SuperPatch 1.x and 2.x: 1) by Tony Criswcll and renamed MY.REPORT and This is a worksheet he did when he was becomes the report file which the user is SuperPatch now recognizes which version of AppleWorks it is patching and shopping for a new car. Many times it is writing. adjusts its operations accordingly. Thus, favorable to inflate the trade value of FN NEWPAGE will be added to the no longer are there two versions of your present car and add that to the price report. SuperPatch, each aimed at a specific of the new vehicle. This gives a greater version of AW - SuperPatch 3.0 copes percent down which can ease financing Government.Works with both releases at the 2.x level; the new one. by George W. Goth 2) Thanks to Stephen Weyhrich, By playing around with the cell labeled Science/Math/Technology Division SuperPatch will size the desktop for lie "INCR", you can see what this increase and //c folks who use slinky type does to the percent down and the Skyline College RAMcards - see the description of that monthly payments. I hope I will be able March 3,1989 patch for more info; and 3) SuperPatch to explain clearly enough to make it easy will now patch SEG.PR for half-height to use. If not, the formula for calculating On pages 42 and 43 of the March 6, 1989 issue of US News and World sub/superscripting if you are using an monthly payments (Cell F17) may be ImageWriter II. enough in itself. Report is an article called "Go ahead! You try making a budget" which With these two new patches, SuperPatch AW.Locations - a list of AppleWorks challenges the reader to construct a now installs/ de-installs/analyzes 29 "patch" locations. national budget that has a deficit less patches on 8-bit AppleWorks 2.x. AW.Patches. 1 - a list of AppleWorks than $100 billion [the total budget is TAX HELPER 1987 patches. about $1.2 trillion]. AW.Software - list of compatible I thought it would make an excellent Lou Vincenri AppleWorks software. AWorks.8x5 - prints out the commands exercise in trying to set one's priorities December 16,1987 in an 8x5 paper format. and, in addition, the data in the article was ideal for a spreadsheet. I have AppleWorks tax template consists of 4 Beep.Fixer - how to fix the "beep" in pages in 1 spreadsheet: AppleWorks. entered it as such, and you are welcome Cat.List.Exec - how to "catalog" your to try your hand at meeting this chal This template is not intended as a AppleWorks files. lenge. substitute for the IRS tax forms or tax CI.Ruler - Characters per Inch ruler preparation instructions. You are The other files in this set are: cautioned to use this spreadsheet as a Deleting.Member - miscellaneous AppleWorks information. a) INFO - a summary of the USNW check against your own tax work or that Eval.Form - Software evaluation form article outlining the effects of budget of your tax advisor and not to rely on it FULL.BLOCKED - form for block cuts and revenue measures alone for preparing your taxes. letters. b) RULES - a summary of the rules This spreadsheet is based on the IRS FUNKEY-ADB Keyboard Patch and c) NATIONAL.DEBT- the deficit forms and instructions for 1987 issued Sample Macros spreadsheet by the IRS in November 1987. INVOICE - Sample invoice form c) NEXT.YEAR - a file you should read ITALICS - Got a printer that will print only after completing the Here are a couple of specific limitations: in Italics? Love AppleWorks but wish it NATIONAL.DEBT spreadsheet 1. Head of Household filers are not would print just what you want in Italics SuperPatch 3.1 - (BeggarWare - $5) supported by this template. instead of having to set your printer in 2. If you or your spouse are blind or over Italics for the entire document? Software upgrade dated January 15, 65 you should not use this template. IW.TYPEFACES - list of Imagewriter 1989 3. If you can be claimed as a dependent typefaces and their codes LETTER.TEMPLATE - a letter Although it makes some use of Use the "program," then decide what is template MouseText, it has alternate displays if it fair compensation. Send that. MEMO - a memo template is run on an un-enhanccd lie. OVERSIZE.DBS - work with and create I am quite serious about this. I really do oversize databases With Columnist you should be able to not care how much you send, or if you PAGENUMBER - pagenumbering do simple, newsletter-type desktop send only a note (even anonymous if you tutorial publishing projects. Columnist is text wish) saying that you are using it. If I based, rather than graphics based as most can't get money for them, I at least want READ.FIRST.RJN -TRIG FUNC TIONS are of course not available in desktop publishing programs are. This the small pleasure of knowing that APPLEWORKS. The program on this has both advantages and disadvantages. someone, somewhere has found these disk calculates all six(6) normal functions The advantages include the following: macros useful. And I absolutely forbid and makes conversions between degrees Columnist is fast; it prints as quickly as anyone to feel guilty about using these and radians and vice versa. your printer allows. This can mean a macros, even if you never send a penny REPORT - Report format template savings of HOURS over most Hgs DTP and don't bother to write. RULES.FOR.LIVING -just as it says - programs. Columnist works with all EFFECTIVE WRITING AND read and enjoy! types of printers, including daisy-wheel and other letter-quality printers. GRAMMAR CHECKER vl.21 SIMPLIFIED - simplified letter Columnist uses the fonts that are built template Enhanced (11/30/90) for UltraMacros TRIV.2.1 - Trivia questions (with into your printer, this gives you clearer, 3.1 better looking text than is available with answers) TIMEOUT.PLUS - UltraMacros most 8-bit graphics based DTP pro Copyright © 1990 by Will Nelken grams. Columnist is simple to use; most Effective writing principles, a desire to program for loading more han 30 of the formatting options available to templates in AW 2.0 improve one's writing, and practice ZZCLEAfLARC - a SuperMacroWorks you are listed on a single menu screen. would alleviate the problem. But, it is a File Clearing Utility The major disadvantages to Columnist's chore! If there was a means to make it MPS - "My Personal Secretary" text-based nature are that it doesn't allow easier, would that help? If there was a true WYSIWYG (What You See Is What means to make it into a game, would eDOM #90 - Columnist You Get), imported computer graphics, that help? Who knows? or proportional type fonts. ShareWare $15 Anyway, I have attempted to create some Columnist can also be used for such macros which should help anyone who Columnist is a text file post-processor things as printing 2-across or 3-across writes, whether it is a letter to a loved which rakes any TXT (ASCII text) or mailing labels, or columnized data base one, a documentation text file, a high AWP (AppleWorks Word Processor) file reports. With an AppleWorks data base school paper or a college thesis. and converts it into a new file in which of addresses, you would first "print" a the text is formatted in two or three data base report to disk as an ASCII test English, even though it is a vibrant and columns on each page. This converted file, and then load this file into Colum changing language, has some current file can be then loaded back into your nist to format and print it. rules which make it easier to understand word processor for additional editing and and use. What my macros do is help the printing, or can be printed by Colum eDOM #91 - CheckWorks & writer polish his/her writing. I won't nist. Before converting a file, you adjust Grammar Checker guarantee that these macros will make various format settings to control the you another Shakespeare. They won't. CheckWorks 1.2 - by Dan Crutcher page layout of your document. These But by using them on your composi format settings include such things as: (FairWare) tions, the principles of good writing will Number of lines per page, width of left eventually become second nature. You margin, width of each column, amount CheckWorks, a check-printing and WILL become a better writer. of space between the columns, number check-management system that works To become a more effective writer, read of columns, and whether the columns entirely within AppleWorks, using will be full justified. You can add multi Timeout UltraMacros. To use your text THREE rimes. line page headers and/or footers to the CheckWorks, YOU MUST HAVE First for - TECHNICAL ACCURACY formatted file, and can include printer APPLEWORKS V. 3.0 AND and COVERAGE control-characters. These and other ULTRAMACROS V. 3.1 or later Second for - ARRANGEMENT and features of Columnist will be explained versions, if issued. FLOW OF IDEAS in detail below. CheckWorks is now "Fairware," an Third for - READABILITY and MECHANICS (the macros fit in here, Columnist is for all Apple II 's but the amalgam of Freeware and Shareware. To ] [+, and requires 80 column display. wit: along with spelling checkers) /^N ALWAYS BEGIN BY SPELL-CHECK students. The full version can access the ment, course descriptions, and provides ING YOUR DOCUMENT. Of course, same data files you created earlier with two categories in which to record spell-checking will improve the readabil the DEMO, so there will be no wasted student-specific information such as ity of your document and clear up many effort if you start using the DEMO on a student identification numbers, tele problems, but it also enables these regular basis, and then decide to phone numbers, homeroom numbers - macros to work at their best. purchase the full package. it's entirely up to the teacher. MTG can Then call up the Grammar Checker and also track absenteeism, truancy, and Normally, a user-defined password must times late. check your document. Grammar be entered at the opening screen, giving Checker begins with a message screen some measure of protection against Any item - a student, a test, or the entire that reminds you of the necessity of first unauthorized access to your files. This data set - can be graphed. Simply move spell-checking your document. At that feature has been disabled in the DEMO the cursor onto the item you wish to screen, press to return to version. graph, and press the appropriate command key. Any graph (in fact, any AppleWorks and check your spelling, or The full version displays the owner's data screen) can be printed. 'Cumulative press to check your name at the bottom of the tide screen, grammar. instead of the row of underscores you see average' histograms (bar graphs) show a student's progress compared to his/her After running Grammar Checker, try in the DEMO. Aside from discouraging classmates over a period of time. running Sensible Grammar or some people from passing unauthorized copies other grammar checker. Bet it doesn't around, this feature serves a more useful 'Frequency distribution' histograms indicate, in a way that numerical data find near as many. Won't be near as purpose: your name will automatically be much fun either! inserted into any of the reports that cannot, how test scores are distributed. Standard deviation, median, average, requires a teacher's name. eDOM #92 - Making The range, percentage failing are displayed on Grade Demo The full version includes a printed the graph. The standard deviation and manual with table of contents and index, average can be temporarily changed, (Double-Sided Disk) in addition to the documentation on resulting in a new distribution of scores. disk. A temporary set of new raw scores is also Making The Grade vl .4 shown for comparison. The full version may be ordered in 5 1/ Copyright ©1989 4" format or in 3.5" format, and includes Eight reports are available and can be by Rick Pedley, Coffee Mug Software an enhanced and unenhanced version printed in draft or 'near letter quality' (for older He's). mode (when available and appropriate). Making The Grade was developed with the aid of The Beagle Compiler, by Alan MTG provides a complete system for Report types include a progress report, a gradebook-style printout, blank searing Bird of Beagle Bros, copyright ©1986. recording and processing student grades. The program can accommodate up to plan, blank attendance record, atten This is a DEMO version of Making The dance report, class summary, student Grade (hereafter referred to as MTG). forty students and forty sets of test scores information report and missing assign The DEMO version is designed to allow per class. Scores are entered on a ments report. Most reports have a variety customized spreadsheet-like screen, and of customizing options, such as date you to try out the program for a period the many built-in prompts and safe of time at no cost, before deciding format, tides, leaving some data catego whether or not to buy the complete guards help to ensure straightforward, ries blank, the number of copies to be error-free record keeping. Percentages package. Both versions are unprotected; and weighted averages are calculated printed, etc MTG uses many of the the program disks may be easily dupli enhanced capabilities that most printers cated by Apple's FILER utility, the GS/ automatically as data is entered, so that have today, such as 'headlined' titles, at any given moment, all values shown OS System disk, or other third party bold print, letter quality, and underlin are up-to-date. Provision is made for up ProDOS utilities such as Copy II Plus by to 18 'letter grades' and any passing ing. Central Point Software. grade you desire. MTG distinguishes The DEMO version contains all the between a score of zero, and a 'no score', Macintosh Disks features of the full version, with the allowing the teacher to include or ignore following exceptions: missing scores when calculating test eDOM #875 - Utilities 18 The full version can handle a maximum averages, student averages, and final of 40 sets of scores for 40 students (a grades. Copyright© 1993 Mini'app'les test, assignment, etc. comprises a set of Apart from data related purely to grades, APR 1993 MTG records due dates for assignments, scores). The DEMO version can handle Mac eDOM #875 provides a variety of a maximum of 5 sets of scores for 40 names and descriptions for each assign tools for your Mac. JPN Catalog 3.0 client information as well. Unregistered criteria such as name, date of birth, date copies will display a "please register" of disappearance, state, sex, eye color, This program creates a directory listing screen every five minutes. #15 shareware and race. or "catalog" of a Macintosh Hierarchical from Eric Hegstrom. Filing System (HFS) volume. The A single child's information, or the entire volume catalog can be easily viewed in a Privacy directory, can be printed. window, saved to a TEXT file, or printed Privacy is a utility that will, at the touch This directory contains listings through from within Catalog 3.0. You can catalog summer of 1992, but can be easily more than 1 volume during a single run of a key in the Finder, instandy hide files and folders on your Macintosh so that updated by downloading updates of the program by choosing Close from distributed on Child Find's BBS as well the File menu when a volume catalog is others can't see or access them. Your files and folders become invisible until, at the as on various online services. displayed in the Catalog window, and touch of the same key, you enter your then choosing another volume. Catalog password into a dialog. Your files and Mac eDOM #877-Mt. of 3.0 also lets you "filter out" file types for folders are unhidden and appear where Mayhem Auditing purposes. $5 shareware from Richard Fiegle. you last left them. Not a foolproof Copyright © 1993 Mini'app'les security system, but good for keeping Lockout/Idle Launch kids and casual adults out. Free from APR 1993 Lockout 2.2 is a password protection John Bascombc. This disk was reviewed by Greg Carlson, "screen locker". It displays a window Speedometer 3.2 the club's software director. This game over the entire screen and does not has been tested on a Mac Hsi running Use Speedometer to measure the relinquish control of a Macintosh System 7. performance of your Mac. This program computer without a user first entering a Mountain of Mayhem valid password. An arbitrary number of will measure just about everything your Mac can do and report it to you in a Mountain of Mayhem is an adventure passwords can be assigned. Also, a variety of ways, then provides a compre comprehensive "Log" TEXT file is game created with World Builder™, the maintained for later auditing. The hensive printable listing of the results. adventure creation system. World documentation says that Lockout will Speedometer can compare two different Builder is copyright 1986 by William C. not interfere with network or printing Macs and displays a comparison graph in full color; this is good information to Appleton, and published by Silicon operations. If you have a published Beach Software, Inc. folder on your Macintosh and Lockout is have when you want to compare your own machine with one you are consider As the story starts out, "You are a running, others connected to your network will still be able to mount the ing buying. It will also measure your wandering traveler, well acquainted with Mac's CPU, disk, graphics, and math the ways of a warrior, whose journeys published volumes, unless you set performance, as well as a lot more. Good have taken you throughout the Kingdom Lockout so they can't. online help is available. Registered users of Warwick. Your name and your motto Idle Launch is an extension to make get an extended number of machine as read on your business card say it all: Lockout "self-launch" after a specified types with which to compare their Mac BEL ALTON Have Sword, Will Travel. number of minutes of idleness (Le., no This program is nicely done. $30.00 This is an interesting adventure game. In mouse movement or keyboard action.) shareware from Scott Berfield. While it is provided as a companion a manner of about 10 minutes, I program to Lockout, it can also be Mac eDOM #876 - Missing manages to kill myself? customized to allow the launch of any Children Anyway, for you adventurers, this is an application you choose. Lockout and Idle interesting game. Launch are free from Richard Fiegle. Copyright © 1993 Mini'app'les APR 1993 Enjoy it! LogM aster 2.1 This Mac eDOM, a special 4-disk $10 shareware from Curtis Mardden. LogMaster is an application that will track billing hours and rime for your HyperCard set, is the Child Find End Notes: Missing Children Directory distributed projects. Comes with a sample project but almost no documentation. The joindy by the Computer Users for Social My thanks to Eric Knopp, Tom Gates, Responsibility and Child Find of Randy Peterson, Steve George, Bill Jobs, interface is a little sloppy but it seems America. Allen Mackler, Les Anderson, and most serviceable. The program allows you to of all Jacque Gay for the wonderful help keep a running total of hours spent on a This interactive program allows the user that they have given me. If you see any of project, calculates the total charges for to search or scan a database of missing these folks, please let them know how you, and keeps a small amount of other children. The user can search using good a job they are doing. For those of you who ordered eDOMs, please be patient - I've me know, and I'll be happy to check out your disk and replace sent out a bunch of mail orders, and some of them seem to it. have gotten lost. If you haven't gotten your order, please let me If you need to call me, please be polite to both me and my wife. know, and I'll re-send to you. I've gotten a few callers that have been very demanding that As you know, this club is a non-profit organization, and we are they get hold of me immediately. This is not always possible, so trying to do as much as we can. However, for mc, my paying if you need to call me, please do so at night, and if I am not job takes precedence, and if your eDOMs are somewhat late, or available, leave a message, and I will get back to you. non-functional, please don't take it out on me, just chalk it up GLC to me being too busy to check all of the disks personally. Let ttttttttttttftttttttttttt*******

AppleSauce Tool015, T00IOI6, and Tool021. from page 16 These are now ran from ROM. It will save about 80K of room. If you own Dollars & Sense and would For 24-hour like to continue using it, you might want Econ's upcoming SoundMeister to call Business Sense and encourage stereo sound board for the Apple IIGS 6 mini'app'les user them to fix the bugs or add the features will also have the capability to direct that you've always been wanting in the non-Ensoniq sounds through the group and meeting program. board, according to D. Proni. Several IIGS owners had asked for this information call Do any of your control panel feature, and Proni had previously told icons looked washed out? them that he did not think it would 229-6952 s*®$S\ be feasible to do this. After talking to Have you installed control panels but the designer of the board, Proni they don't appear when you activate the learned that this feature had already Control Panel NDA? Delete the file been added to the board. The named CDev. Data in the advantage of this change will be that it *:Systems:CDevs folder, and then reboot will be possible to disconnect the the computer. The file will be recreated internal speaker when using the with correct information. SoundMeister, and use external stereo speakers for all IIGS sound, from the AppleWorks Looking for software for your old-fashioned Apple ] [ beep to a new Apple computer? stereo music piece. Tip Well, here is something that might aid ===>ACES<=== you in your search. A publication by Ever try to delete a subdirectory from Apple tided: "Apple II Software: Uploaded by Rand Sibet from ACES within AppleWorks and found you could Opportunities for Apple II users." To get Volume #15 Issue #1 not do it? If you attempt to select a your copy just call Apple at (800) 776- [The Apple Computer Enjoyment subdirectory with the right arrow, an 2333. Ask for part #L0052LL/B. It lists error will sound; if you press return with over a hundred companies that support Society is a not-for-profit users group which has been helping Apple and clone the subdirectory highlighted, you merely the Apple II and gives their phone advance to that directory. Instead of computer owners since 1979. A. C.E.S. numbers and addresses as well. But the reserves die rights to all materials selecting the subdirectory for deletion, best thing of all - its FREE! printed herein. All articles that are not press Open-Apple and the right arrow, which marks all files; then deselect all the protected by copyright may be reprinted ROM 3 UGS users other files in the directory, the empty by Apple User Groups and other non ROM 3 IIGS users that are running profit computer organizations. Such subdirectory will then be deleted. System 6 software can delete the reprints must give credit to the author ===>ACES<=== following tools from the System/Tools and A C.E.S., Inc., PO Box 291557, folder to save a litde room - Tool0l4, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33329.] Submitted by Rand Sibet name for an Minneapolis Apple user newsletters look better than ours! Who Editor group. Nothing serious. No one thought would want to join us?\$ this a user's continued from page 3 to file a trademark registry on it. But group, or a loser's group, for cryin' out then a private company sprang up with a loud! Well, here's the page-filler, folks. I similar name, and took out a trademark, A new look, that's what we need. A suppose I've earned my right to it, and threatened suit. An agreement was better image to attract people. A having slaved over this project for a good signed, allowing the club to continue 50 hours already (including boilerplate reaching-out to the community instead using the name so long as we never of a turning-inward and circling the graphic creation, template redesign, and capitalized it, or changed the font, or other things that hopefully won't need to moved the # symbol to a different place wagons. We can do it - but only under a be done again next time), and having - or this, or that, or the other thing... new name. helped Dave Undlin in past months. Ever since, we've been hog-tied and Well, I don't think I'll be able to quite To be blunt: no matter how we organize hamstrung, restricted to using Helvetica fill up the page, even though this is newsletter 'workgroups' or contrive Bold without modification. If it wasn't blazing fast writing by my standards. I've paper-cutout 'shells', diis club lacks the ugly from the start, it certainly has grown gotta high-tail it to the printshop. dreary over the years... resources necessary to reliably produce a Oh, I guess I need to explain one more regular, decent-looking newsletter - and 1 know, I know, I'm starting to sound thing: Why am I using the new logo on we lack it because membership is falling, like a flakey artiste v/ith delicate sensibili this issue if I fully understand that it's because we fail to appeal to the public, ties - and I suppose there's a grain of illegal? because we're in a catch-22 of presenting truth to that. The standard Well, one reason is, with circulation a shoddy image, because it's all we claim 6mini'app'l6S logo does offend my to be able to afford. Too often, I hear the eye. When Dave Undlin resigned this sinking toward the 500-mark, who's managerial-types in this club speak about going to know, and who's going to care? post, I would have taken over right then, I'll even risk a lawsuit from Paramount making do with the resources we now but I understood that I wouldn't be over the Star Trek picture (although I'm have. They speak of'pulling together' allowed to modify the ugly logo, so and getting more participation from the fairly certain that's p.d.). I might be a tad largely on that basis I declined to step in. too bold for some of you (I'm sure I'll current members. I don't hear anyone I only became interested in this job after talking about reaching out and getting Kevin broke the mold and produced a hear), but I don't think I'm being reckless. more members - members of all kinds - newsletter which seemed to shout, in the confident hope that just a few "Anythinggoes!"That's when I came up Another reason is, "nuthin' could be newcomers will be more participative, with the new logo for him. Nothing finer than a crisis that is minor" when it and will put more resources at our radical; just more to my liking. But comes to precipitating change. If people disposal. But that's what it will take to yesterday someone made it plain that we get up-in-arms over this, it's probably turn this organization around. For every are legally prevented from making more likely to result in good than in ill. twenty new members we attract, there changes. I made a few inquiries - that's Because I won't cave in. I won't go back might be one who has just the right how I learned this club history lesson. I to the old logo. combination of hardware and software even called a corporate-lawyer friend of — Hugh Johnson, and volunteer spirit to help us get the job mine with experience in tort. It's done. We might get lucky and find an acting Mac editor, layout designer, absolutely true: we cannot change the logo calendarmaker, copyfitter, graphics idle millionaire with a spare Linotronic so long as our name is "Mini 'app 'les"! in his basement - but most likely, we'll artist, and gadfly. just get more common folk, more lowly According to the same legal agreement: LaserWriters, more old Mac H's with We cannot sell T-shirts with the club This publication was almost entirely PageMaker installed... That will be name on them. enough to make things immensely easier. designed and layed out on an SE/30 with a If just one or two new members is both We cannot sell mugs with the club crummy 9-inch screen (my big monitor is able and willing to help, that could make name on them. STILL in the @%#* shop!!!), and was a world of difference. We couldn't sell icewater in Hell played out to an Apple StyleWriter* printer We've got to change the name of this under the banner of "Mini'app'les"! club. Not "we ought'to" - we've got to. Now are you taking me seriously??? Thanks Chuck. Thanks Linda. Thanks As trivial as this sounds, it's among the Dave! issues at the very core of our problems. So, what we have here is a seriously When the club was founded, crippled organization, with an ugly newsletter unbecoming of a Macintosh "Mini'app'les" was a just fun, jaunty HEY! I DID IT AFTER ALL! ■ user group. The IBM user group A WHOLE PAGE! MAC SOFTWARE FOR SALE

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