Enhancing Your Apple® 11 and I le Volume 2 Don Lancaster heads Synergetics, a new-age prototyping and consulting firm involved in limit pushing micro applications and electronic design. He is the well-known author of the classic CMOS and TTL Cookbooks. He is one of the microcomputer pioneers, having introduced the first hobbyist projects involving integrated circuits, the first affordable digital counting modules, the first low-cost TVT-1 video display terminal, the earliest personal computing keyboards, and lots more. Don's numerous books and articles on personal computing have set new standards as understandable, useful, and exciting technical writing. Don's other interests include ecological studies, fire fighting, cave exploration, bicycling, and tinaja questing. The DON LANCASTER Library Assembly Cookbook for the Apple II/lie ...... .. .. ... .. ..... .. .. .... .. .. .. 22331 Active Filter Cookbook ........... .' ...... .. .. .. .... ... ... ..... ... .. ... 21168 Cheap Video Cookbook ..... .... .. •....... .. ... ..... ... ... ........ .. 21524 CMOS Cookbook. ,.. .. ... ... .. ......... .. .... ... ......... .. .. .. 21398 Enhancing Your Apple II, Vol. 1 ............. ... ......... .. .... ... ... 2182i Hexadecimal Chronicles ;_. ...... .. ..... .... .. .... ....... ... ........ ... .. 21802 . Micro Cookbook, Vol. 1 (Fundamentals) . .......... .. ...•.. ...... .... .. .. 21828 Micro Cookbook, Vol. 2 (Machine Language) . .... , .. .. .. .... ... ... .. 2rni9 TTL Cookbook ... .. ........ ..... ........... .. .. .. .... .. ...... .. 21035 Son of Cheap Video .. ... ........ .......• . ...... ........ ... .. ..... .. .. 21723 TV Typewriter Cookbook . ..................... .. ..... ........... .... .. .. 21313 The Incredible Secret Money Machine (Available only from Synergetics) Enhancing Your Apple® II and lie Volume 2 by Don Lancaster Downloaded from wwwApple20nline.com Howard W. Sams & Co., Inc. 4300 West 62nd Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46268 U.S.A. c, 1985 by Don Lancaster FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING -1985 All rights reserved. No part of this book shall be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, .. recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the publisher. No patent liability is assumed with respect to. the use of the information contained herein. While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions. Neither is any liability assumed for damages . resulting from the use of the information cont~ined herein. International Standard Book Number: 0-672-22425-9 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 85-50022 Edited by: Welborn Associates, Inc. Illustrated by: Da~id K. Cripe Downloaded from wwwApple20nline.rom Printed in the United States of America. Contents Introduction . • . • • . • • . • . • • . • . • . • . • . • . 7 ENHANCEMENT 9 Microjustify and Proportional Space Apple Writer lie ...••••..•........•... 11 Dramatic and simple hard-copy upgrade approaches "typeset" quality. Included are many other ideas you can apply to most any word processor or printer. Epson and Diablo self-tutoring command glossaries are shown, along with some automatic formatting programs that can even be used on already existing text files. ENHANCEMENT 10 Absolute "Old Monitor" Reset for the lie ..........................•..•.•. 65 Get back into total control with this "old monitor" memory upgrade for your lie. EPROM scheme eliminates hole blasting and passes diagnostics. Included are the secrets of programming EPROMS on older burners, an upgraded source code, and a simple process to automatically capture your own object code. ENHANCEMENT 11 Castle Wolfenstein Escape Maps ......................................... 93 A set of six playing aides that are easy to build and will greatly improve your survival odds. Learn the nonviolent "vest stealing" secret to effectively deal with those trou­ blesome and meddling SS. ENHANCEMENT 12 Tearing Into Apple Writer lie ....... ; ...•...........•.•.........••..••.. 107 The single most popular and most used Apple lie program is torn stem to stern, giving you a thorough and complete disassembly script, along with full details on capturing your own source code for custom modifications: New irnprovements on the powerful "tearing method" are also shown. ENHANCEMENT 13 The Vaporlock .•••....•.•...••...•.•.••...•.......................... 193 A fast, exact, and jitter-free screen lock that uses software only to let you mix and match text, HIRES, and LORES anywhere on the screen in any combination~ Included are a very simple windowing module and a software-only color killer. The vaporlock works equally well on the II, II+, lie, and lie. Apple Enhancer Support Services •....•................................. 227 Index "· •.•.•....•............•...••.•...•••.......................... 231 Introduction Per your feedback card and hotline requests, Volume 2 in this continuing series has far more in the way of br~md new, in-depth, and ready-to-use software and hardware concepts. These will push both the real and imagined limits of the Apple II and lie to the utmost. Around 75% of you using the response cards have verified receiving your own personal "IT'; messages from your own Apple. I guess the main reason for the 25 % no­ shows is that the Apple involved suspects any no-shows of being users instead of hackers. As we'll find out in Enhancement 13, the penalty for an Apple revealing "IT" messages to a user is severe indeed. At any rate, the secret "IT" messages continue fast and furious, at least from my own lie . .... · Did you know that you can save up to 40% of the cost of all the software you buy? Just buy through a distributor, rather than a retailer. It is that easy. There usually is a minimum order of $100 or so, and a letterhead or a tax number may sometimes be needed. Both of which get paid for out of the savings oil your first purchase. Just bunch your orders together or go in with a few friends. Suitable distributors advertise regularly in such magazines as Computer Retailing, Computer Retail News, and Computer Dealer. Two of my favorite distributors are Ingram and First Software, but there are many more. Many distributors will accept 800 phone orders and ship on VISA® or UPS COD. The words "software pirate" have been much bandied about lately. Up to now, though, these words have lacked a precise and scientific definition. let's nail them down once and for al I. Since it is an observable, immutable, and unarguable scientific fact that there never has been any piece of Apple software ever that was worth over $25, we will, henceforth and evermore, define a "software pirate" as anyone who charges over $24.99 for an Apple program. • • • How do you keep others from stealing code that you have written? Certainly not by copy "protection," for copy "protection" is nothing but a ridiculous game that penal­ izes and inconveniences the legitimate user while waving a red-flag challenge and providing unbeatable entertainment to all the rest of hackerdom. To protect yourself: First through ninety-ninth, reduce the final user price of your product. One-hundredth on your survival list is to have as much added valµe as possible outside of your actual code. Do this with a thorough and professional user manual; with support forms, charts, or game pieces; with a free backup copy or detailed and "up-front" copy instructions and a $5.00 or less exchange policy; wjth source.code easily available; and with personalized and long-term hotline and mail product support. • •• Newcomers to Appledom are often confused by the differences betweer the Apple" DOS and CPM operating systems. 7 8 Introduction The two are very simple to tell apart. Just run the program. it the program is innovative, useful, and creative, then it is running under DOS 3.3 or 3.3e . • • • My Apple is continually amazed that the single most important reason for bootleg copies of programs existing is never mentioned in polite company and has not once appeared in print. It turns out that a bootleg copy is often the only way available that you can get prompt, courteous, and well-informed service at a reasonable price. Let's look at a sad but true story that happened to a female friend of a machine friend of my Apple. It happened quite a while back, but my Apple sees the same thing repeating over a,nd over again. A new and major upgrade of a very heavy piece of software was announced, and review articles appeared in all the usual magazines. So, she promptly ordered one through her local dealer. They took a deposit, but six months later, no delivery. She then went to two large and distant cities, checking no less than seven different stores. Six of the stores told her flatly that the product did not exist. One of thern .tried to shove an inferior substitute product onto her that Peelings; in a fit of generosity, had rated a full "D" instead of the flat "F" it rightly deserved. The seve.nth store owner did admit that the product she needed had existed for quite il while, but he did not presently stock it. So far, over half a year had gone by, much gasoline, time, and.phone money down the drain, and still no product. So, with. no reasonitble alternative, she got on the piracy underground net, and, because she was now desperate for this cpde, she used the gold channel with (gulp) an "R3" priority. Two days later she had two copies, one by UPS blue label, and one by express mail, along with a complete list of