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Board of Directors - Mini'apples FileMaker Pro SIG - Open Discussion - Members Welcome - Lexington Lib., Highland Park Ub., 1974 Ford Pkwy., SL University & Lexington, SL Paul - David Paul - Steve Wilmes. 458-1513 Laden, 488-6774 Fourth Dimension SIG - Metro II, 1300 Macintosh Novice SIG - Open Forum - Highland Park Lib., 1974 Ford Pkwy., St. Peter Fleck, 370-0017 Paul - Tom Lufkin, 698-6523 LUJ AppJaj II Novice SIG - Running Your Macintosh DTP SIG - Call for day & Apple II: DOS 3.3 - Murray Jr. High, location - Bob Grant, 827-6294 2200 Buford, St. Paul -Tom Gates, 789-1713 Are you Programmer's Workshop - No jj Meeting; Restarts in September - Keven Kasulker, 535-2968 Computer "Green? The Minnesota Apple Computer Users' Group, Inc. ^miniaPples P.O. Box 796, Hopkins, MN 55343
Board of Directors This is the Newsletter of Mini'app'les, the Minnesota Apple Computer Users' Group, Inc., a Minnesota non-profit club. The whole newsletter is copy righted President David E. Laden 488-6774 © by Mini'app'les. Articles may be reproduced in other non-profit User 675 Wheelock Parkway West Groups' publications except where specifically copyrighted by the author. (Permission to reproduce these articles must be given by the author.) Please Saint Paul, Minnesota 55117-4151 include the source when reprinting. Vice-President Thomas M. Lufkin 698-6523 2078 Highland Parkway Questions — Please direct questions to an appropriate board member. Saint Paul, Minnesota 55116 Users with technical questions should refer to the Members Helping Members section. Secretary Tish Cavalier 789-5465 2743 Hayes Street NE Membership - Minneapolis, Minnesota 55418 attn: Billi Rhoades, 652-2221 or write Treasurer Steven Lassiter 823-6748 P.O. Box 796 4704 South Lyndale Hopkins MN 55343 Minneapolis, Minnesota 55409 All members receive a subscription to the newsletter and all club benefits. New members receive a package of member lists and software catalogs. Membership Director Bill Rhoades 1-652-2221 eDOMs At Mail Operations & Resource Allen Mackler 424-8889 Meetings Order Publications Director Vacant M e m b e r s : 5 1 / 4 " e D O M s $ 3 . 0 0 Add Software Director Greg Carlson 544-8252 5 1 / 4 " S y s t e m $ 1 . 0 0 $1.00 SIG: Macs Wade Brezina (715) 485-3585 3 1/2" Apple/Mac eDOMs $5.00 SIG: Apples Tom Gates 789-1713 3 1 / 2 " S y s t e m $ 3 . 0 0 per Director at Large Kevin Kassulker 535-2968 3 1/2" System 7.0 (9 disks) $15.00 disk, Non-Members: 5 1/4" eDOMs $6.00 $4.00 Coordinators 3 1/2" Apple/Mac eDOMs $ 10.00 maximum. Beginners Consultant Earl Benser 835-2523 Make checks payable to: Mini'app'les Dakota County Tom Michals 452-5667 Mail to Mini'app'les: Attention: eDOM Sales Mac Users SIG Mike Carlson (days) 866-3441 P.O. Box 796, Hopkins, MN 55343 4th Dimension SIG Ian Abel 824-8602 Dealers — Mini'app'les does not endorse specific dealers. The club pro CAD & Engin. SIG Bill Langer 937-9240 motes distribution of information which may help members identify best buys DeskTop Pub. SIG Bob Grant 827-6142 and service. The club itself does not participate in bulk purchases of media, FileMaker Pro SIG Steve Wilmes 458-0838 software, hardware and publications. Members may organize such activities HyperCard SIG Peter Fleck 370-0017 on behalf of other members. Mac Computer Art. Newsletter Contributions - Please send contributions directly to & Design SIG Joy Kopp 440-5436 our Post Office, Box 796, Hopkins, MN 55343 or upload them to our BBS at Mac Novice SIG Tom Lufkin 698-6523 892-3317. Mac Programming SIG Gervaise Kimm 379-1836 Deadline for material for the next newsletter is the 1st of the month. An MicroSoft Works SIG KenEdd 631-3679 article will be printed when space permits and, if in the opinion of the North Shore Mac Users Jim Ringquist (218) 387-2234 Newsletter Editor or Manager, it constitutes material suitable for publication. Tom Ostertag 488-9979 Meetinq Dates — Please phone calendar dates and changes to: Erik Apple II Users SIG Knopp at 636-3244. Apple IIGS SIG Mark Evans 935-7251 AppleWorks® SIG Les Anderson 735-3953 Mini'app'les BBS - 892-3317,24 hours: 8 data, 1 stop, 0 parity Apple II DTP Mini'app'les Voice Mail - 229-6952 Beginner's Basic SIG Tom Alexander 698-8633 Languages/Tech SIG Wesley Johnson 636-1826 Advertising - open Tech. Adviser (hardware) Newsletter Publication Staff- Software Director's Staff Advertising open Mac eDOMs: Jacque Gay, Jim Spencer & Mary Kosowski AppleLink Contributor Rand Sibet 566-8571 Apple eDOMs: Bill Job, Randy Peterson & Tom Gates Calendar Updates Erik Knopp 636-3244 eDOM Sale,s: Mac - Allen Mackler & Mary Kosowski Calendar Layout Hugh Johnson 780-6053 Apple — Les Anderson Contributing Editor Ken Slingsby (507) 263-3715 Liaison Contacts (Contact with non-Miniapples SIGs.) Contributing Editor Peter Fleck 370-0017 Medical Stewart Haight 644-1838 Contributing Editor Rand Sibet 566-8571 CP/M Jim Rosenow (414)261-2536 Contributing artist Roy Sorenson 870-7366 PACER Center Karen Samuels 827-2966 Editor open TC/PC Gervaise Kimm 379-1836 Graphics open Layout (content) Hugh Johnson 780-6053 Circulation this issue: 650 Newsletter Manager open Printed with soy-based ink. Production Manager open Publications Director open VOL.16, NO.6 CONTENTS June 1993 T H I S I S S U E
Apple Section « eA> Choosing a Printer for your Apple II 4 Enhancement of Printer Output 4 Are You Computer "Green?" 5 Vet U6e t* jfii*! News from the Software Director 6 Please accept my The History of the Apple II 10 Mini'app'les MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION.
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Macintosh Main No Meeting Restarts in August 4 Programmer's Workshop No Meeting Restarts in September 21
1. Dave Laden 488-6774 6. Melvyn Magree 559-1108 11. Tom Ostertag 488-9979 18. Gervaise Kimm 379-1836 2. Ian Abel 920-5520 7. JoyKopp 440-5436 12. Mark Evans 377-9000 19. Daron Applequist 938-7001 3. Bob Grant 827-6294 8. BillLanger 937-9240 15. Jim Ringquist (218)387-2234 20. SteveWilmes 450-7448 4. Mike Carlson 866-3441 9. Tom Lufkin 698-6523 16. Tom Michals 452-5667 21. KevinKassulker 535-2968 5. Peter Reck 370-0017 10. Les Anderson 735-3953 17. John Hackbarth (715)246-6561 22. TomGates 789-1713 Coordinators - Please contact Erik Knopp (on our BBS or at 636-3244) by the 1st of the month to have your meeting listed correctly. Members Helping Members
Need Help? Have a question the manual doesn't answer? Members Helping Members is a group of volunteers who have generously agreed to help. They are just a phone call away. Please call only during appropriate times, 'if you are a Member, and own the software in question.
Macintosh Kev PostScript 8 Quicken 25 Prosel 2 Adobe Illustrator 21 PowerPoint 5 Ta l k I s C h e a p 3 TML Basic 3,10 B e g i n n e r s 1 3 , 1 4 Q u i c k B a s i c 5 , 6 TimeOut 2 TML Pascal 3,10 C a n v a s 5 X P r e s s 2 1 TO Graph 2 Writer's Choice 15 FileMaker II, Pro 1,17 Freehand 22 Apple II Kev A p p l e I I G S K e y Apple/// Key General 14,17,18 AppleWriter 2 A p p l e W o r k s G S 1 5 General 12 H e l i x 1 6 A p p l e W o r k s 2 , 2 3 , 2 5 APW 20,23 HyperCard 6,9 Ascii Express 3 Complete Pascal 10 MacDraft 5 BASIC 5 D e l u x P a i n t I I 2 5 If you would like to be
1. SteveWilmes 450-7448 E 9. Peter Fleck 370-0017 DEW 16. ArnieKroll 433-3517 E 2. Tom Ostertag 488-9979 E 10. Randy Dop 452-0425 EW 17. Michael Foote 507-645-6710 DEW 3. TomGates 789-1713 EW 11. Ed Spitler 432-0103 D 18. Richard Becker 870-0659 EW 4. Tom Edwards 927-6790 E 12. Bob Rosenberg 377-4300 EW 20. Steve Peterson 922-9219 EW 5. Ear) Benser 884-2148 EW 340-0234 D 21. JodiRoste 933-1698 EW 6. DanBuchler 435-3075 E 13. John Hackbarth 715-246-6561 D 22. Nancy McClure 227-9348 DEW 7. Ann Bell 422-1115 E 14. Jim Horswill 379-7624 DEW 23. James C. Fullwood 454-7610 EW 8. Fritz Lott 377-3032 E 15. Tom Michals 452-5667 DEW 25. Rand Sibet 566-8571 EW D-days (generally 9 am. to 5 p.m.). E-evenings (generally 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.), W-weekends (generally 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. In any case, call at reasonable hours and ask if this is a convenient time for them. We appreciate your cooperation. The Saga Continues
Note: What follow is predicated on the graphic submissions by courting assumption that certain changes under contributes over the phone and running consideration by the BoardvriH be enacted a "Submit ///"campaign (I've had some The acting editor (yours truly) may be success here - a thousand thanks to Roy wrong about this, but so long as our Sorenson for the exquisite " Tree" and the circulation is limited, he's not about to perfecdy impish swordsman!). I would have his style cramped by a fear of putting have worked toward a more structured his foot in his mouth (as you already newsletter format, too, but I would have "Talent imitates; genius steals." know!). done it gradually, adding regular — Igor Stravinsky template features only when others Take a good look at this edition of the requested them (albeit with a lot of give- Your Newsletter needs submis newsletter. It may be the last of its kind. and-take ideas from me). It would have sions! We need stories you write Notice how unstructured it is, with been a long row to hoe, though. Prob yourself (don't be afraid if you stories of varying length and subject ably too long. I never really was in a think it's not 'original' enough), thrown together, almost willy-nilly, and position to make a long commitment and we need articles scrounged made to fit like a jiigsaw puzzle that and inspire much confidence, so I'm up from anywhere you can get changes every month. This, I believe, is only too glad to take a back seat and them (usual copyright restric more or less the same format that the continue working - and learning- in tions apply). If you find some publication has had from the beginning. another capacity. thing overly long, write a 'report' There have been alterations - certainly on it, and boil it down! We need you're aware of the ongoing alterations - Things have worked out well. artwork and graphics, too. Help but on the whole it has always been free- us avoid the 'dip-art' look! fbrm. This sort of amorphous layout Next month, with any luck at all, you'll does have its strengths. It's very forgiving see an entirely different publication How to submit: of people who promise to contribute (although I'll lobby to keep my calendar material and then don't make good. It design - it's really nothzid to do, you We prefer plain-text files. Hard doesn't rely on regular columnists, who guys!).We'll have a few more 'boilerplate' copy will be accepted in the have been very hard to find and retain. pages, admittedly, but they'll do a better future, but for now the best But the problem is, it's a lot of work for job of explaining our purpose and route is to upload to the club the single person who has to do the final getting people to join up. We'll have bulletin board at 892-3317. more co-editors and columnists. We'll assembly - too much work for an unpaid Type two carriage-returns to log job. Too many layout people have have more input from more people. on. A first-time user will be suffered 'burnout,' and have left, We'll need mote input! It will take a prompted for info, and will see sometimes embittered by the general lack concerted effort from every involved club several screens of'Read-me'-type of respect for their efforts. The time has member - a team short on players can't instructions. Don't be intimi come to try something drastically allow too many bench-warmers. It can be dated. You'll learn the interface different. With any luck, next month's done, with a modicum of discipline and quickly enough. Next time you issue will be entirely different. heaps of begging. I don't know if a call in, type V at the main general-public "Submit it!" campaign is menu. Type "5" in the transfers Before I describe what's coming, let me as appropriate as I had hitherto intended, section. Type a?" for further put in a word for my own alterations, but I'm sure it's still appropriate enough instructions to upload. and for the direction I would have taken to run. We want your input! We'll love if an older, wiser, more professional guru your prose! Come and get published! We will make things easier in the hadn't stepped in. Basically, my ambi Submit! Please! future, and offer more channels tion was to get back on the newstands of communication, but we beg — Hugh Johnson, through sheer eye-appeal (probably a big your forbearance for now. mistake; I'm sick of Palatino bold italic acting Editor. 4 Thank you! already!), and to increase story and Enhancement of Printer Output
by Daryl Baxter Choosing a (Part One of a Three Part Series) Although I would not trade my ImageWriter II printer for Printer for another printer (because the color capability and speed of continuous feed printing of the IWII are great), I have found myself on many occasions wishing that I could produce higher your Apple II quality printed output with my Apple II computer when typing by Gareth Jones, letters and other documents so that they would have that laser like printing quality we see when we read books and also letters Apples BC Computer Society to us from companies which obviously produced their output Introduction with laser printers. Well, I do believe I have found the way and made my wish come true. A computer system first shows its age in its printouts. Faded and jagged characters The Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 500 printer ("DJ") is the answer or splotchy illustrations may make you for producing laser like printer output quality and I purchased it want to dump your Apple II for a new for $368.00 plus tax from a discount store in December of 1991. I currendy have the DJ connected to an A/B switch box with a computer. Don't do it! All it takes is a new printer to bring a fresh look to your RS-232-C serial cable. The switch box is also connected to my computer's public face. You can use the ImageWriter II and to my Apple IIGS so that I can literally newest printer technologies with Apple "switch" my printing output to whichever printer I want to print II's for results that are indistinguishable with depending on the data and the desired quality. from other computers'. This article shows you how. For your benefit I will attempt in the following paragraphs to describe how I am able to access the DJ and use the dual printer Choosing a new printer for an Apple II is setup successfully and it does work with any Apple computer a complicated process, though. You capable of using the software AppleWorks Classic, AppleWorks GS or any Hgs application via GS/OS. Let me clarify that last already have the software that you intend to use, and that software may have been sentence by stating that the very best and most versatile printing written before PostScript, TrueType, or output is accomplished with the IIgs because of the Harmonic QuickDraw were ever heard of. v2.0 printer driver software package (includes printer drivers for the IWII and DJ) that unleashes the power of the IIgs for top- This article looks at printers from the quality text and graphic printing and the Pointless software font point of view of people who own an management utility that incorporates TrueType font technology Apple II with at least 128K (sorry, ][ Plus into the GS/OS system software. However, very acceptable people) and a software collection. It improvement of print quality can be accomplished with the DJ discusses how to print files from, or with, over the IWII using an Apple He, lie or a Hgs computer with the most popular programs. These AppleWorks Classic versions 2.0,2.1 or 3.0 that has been specifically include AppleWorks, Print patched with SuperPatch v8.0 that installs DeskJet 500 printer see "Printer Choices," page 14 see "Printer Quality," page 11 Are You Computer "Green?" by Don Rittner
© 1992 Don Rittner, had a permanent: exhibit of fgscifijily Toner Cartridge Recycling MUG NEWS SERVICE decorated floppy disks whose ^aysjts tfetta. carriers; were long over. -Adam] [This h probably not an exhaustive list, More than 75 million Americans own a W n&a. good start.] personal computer, and this number is pisk Storage. Don't buy 4|$k.storage rapidly climbing as computers become hexes. If you or a friend] ha$ a rjewbojn Apple Clean Earth Campaign- 800/776- more affordable. Many more use comput child (or know someone who has)r*&c 2333 ftonates $0.50 to National Wildlife ers in their workplace (more than $T rectangular "baby YApes*1SQk^t§gJ££ g^^C %£eiBf|i£bn- and Nature Conservancy per million Intel-based PCs and seven million disk storage containers. Youcart St about: cartridge. CaU'them and they send you a laser printers use 18.2 billion kilowatt/ 50 4isk$ in a.hox. Soak off the lahefo and prepaid.UPS shipping label. hours of electricity per year). yott q»& write on the bo* using a ntagic m a & B r s , ^ CanoniMn Earth Campaign - 800/962- Most people think of computet? as 27Q8 Canon has the same deal as Apple. relatively pollution-free, but the ^tof Primers. If you use a dot matrix or laser computing is not. Here are a KSir$*p? ia "' printer there an? a few rfiiflp ^u can dQv Datapr&foffi-fmaging Supplies Division - help make your computing a bit n&gg Be suns to ii&iKf(&4 paftfrfond $&#^-$Q£5 Dataproducts will pay you environmentally gende. envelopes and labels) m fcoth types of $10 &feach Cawn SX cartridge plus the primers, and remember tpuse the Wank „ $B4pg&Eg i%pa send 28 or more cartridges The Computer. If you work iftun o£ftce back sjd^pf sheets that you print as. <&aft$* where there are many terminals witjh There isnsenbiqg wrong with usifig
MACINTOSH your opponent while both you and your opponent are constandy moving on a track. You control It's here! Disinfectant 3.2 is now direction, aiming, and armament available on Mac eDOM #815, along for your piece. Good graphics, with Compact Pro 1.33 and UnStuffit sound and basic game play (with Deluxe 2.0. Bring in your old #815 disks one or two person play) add up to an or better Mac, yet supports balloon help and exchange for the new one. Since exceptional game value! for those running System 7. It boasts the diere have been three new virus intro full version will support color, ability to duced lately, this is a MUST for your Mac eDOM #879- save games, and Stud Poker. Crosswords&Poker system. Mac eDOM #880- Mac eDOM #878 - Conquer Copyright © 1993 Mini'app'les Office Desk 1 ing Games MAY 1993 Copyright © 1993 Mini'app'les Copyright© 1993 Mini'app'les Mac eDOM #879 was submitted and MAY 1993 MAY 1993 reviewed by Roy Sorenson and contains the following two games. Mac eDOM #880 is the first of two disks Mac eDOM #878 was submitted by Roy containing handy items you might need Sorenson and contains two good games. CrossMaster 1.1 Demo around your office, or anywhere you want to track time and data. This Humanitarian 1.2 This is a demonstration version of a eDOM was compiled and reviewed by commercial crossword puzzle game (as a your Mac eDOM director, Jacque Gay. Humanitarian is that rarity, a non demo, you are not able to save changes). violent computer game. In fact in this In CrossMaster, you can play puzzles (20 Calculator II 1.1 game you control a non-profit peace are provided in categories such as Calculator II is a pleasant looking color organization. You decide how to do your Literature, Football, World Capitals, multi-function calculator that runs as an fundraising, budget your funds into etc.), or create your own. It supports medical teams, negotiators, food, or color, and has many configurable application under system 6.x or System 7. The calculator was written to be run housing; then you provide aid to trouble controls: colors, font, size, and printing. under MultiFinder or System 7 alongside spots that develop around the globe. Like If you have ever enjoyed a crossword other applications. It improves on SimCity, it doesn't have an "ending", so puzzle, this program will entertain you you play until you've had enough. It is and give you a feel for the full commer Apple's original calculator by adding simple, straightforward, and socially cial version (available for $69 from the trigonometric functions, functions for base 10 and natural logorithms and their progressive; I'll bet it's just the thing lots publisher, Focus Development Corp.). of teachers and parents have been inverses, hex-to-decimal and decimal-to- hex conversion, a memory function for looking for. It is a HyperCard stack, Hoyle's Poker friendly to System 7, black and white, storing values across uses of the program, and all of these functions can be invoked and is pretty self-explanatory. Requested Hoyle's Draw Poker is a freeware version shareware fee $25. of an under-development commercial by using the F-Keys on the Apple Extended keyboard (F5 - F15). The game. Game play is simple and intuitive. Movod H Choice of draw poker varients is calculator also allows users to correct exhaustive; I counted 14 versions to trailing digits of values entered on the MOVOD II is a shareware (only $10) choose from, including Jacks or Better, display of die calculator through the use of a backspace key. Balloon help and game by Tony Small that offers color, Low Card Wild, California Draw, New sound, and the option to play against the York Draw, and Canadian Draw. And it general information about the program is available under either the Help menu computer or another player (at the same has betting; as my card-shark brother Mac.) It runs fine with System 7 and told me, "if it doesn't have betting, it under System 6.x or the Balloon Help menu under System 7. Free from Joe requires 8 bit color and 2.3 Megs to run. might be fun but it ain't poker!" The Instructions are in the help section of the documentation (which includes com Cicinelli. game: basically you are trying to out-gun plete rules) states it will run on any 512 k TimeBook 2.0 AppleWriter//V2.1 Free (5 utilities) and partly as ShareWare (6 utilities). The following utilities are TimcBook allows you to keep a log on Copyright 1984 by Paul Lutus ShareWare and require a password: the amount of time you spend for each FreeWare Convert AWP to TXT, convert TXT to client you have. TimeBook maintains a AWP, convert AWP3.0 to 2.x, AWP file list of your clients, billing categories, jobs At long last, Tom Ostertag's "main" doctor, Exhume AWP file, restore ADB in progress, and comments. Four simple word processing program. AppleWriter is file. The following utilities are FreeWare, pop-up menus let you pick a job, ProDOS based, and has no manuals with and are active on this version (no "punch-in", "punch-out" and pick a it, so you'll have to come to the password required): View file, change file billing category. And you have the AppleWorks SIG to learn about it. information, line-feed stripper, strip option of entering a comment as you Maybe we can get Les to do a special on control character, and insert line feed finish each job. When you start your it. On-line help is provided in the after carriage return. next job, TimeBook remembers the stop program. To start, just double-click time of your last job and offers that time (BRUN) on AW.SYSTEM. Computet Vl.O as your default start time. This lets you keep track of all your time during each Oversampler vl .0 by P^pe" GS, music by E. Kon work day. $19.95 shareware from Ronald Ladouceur. by Andre' Horstmann, Switzerland Computix, a little reflexion game. FreeWare Programmed in TML Pascal 1.5. The To Do! 3.2.1 beginning screen is an 8x8 board with The Oversampler isn't anything special numbers on it. The object of the game is ToDo allows you to keep a more detailed at all. It's just a small program demon to get the maximum number of points! To Do list than the Notepad DA or strating the oversampling technique on You play on the cursor's line. The many other systems. Lists may contain the Apple IIGS. The other major feature computer plays in the cursor's column. categories of items and can be listed by is the ability to play digitized sound The selected number adds to (or even order of importance. Items can be direcdy from disk without loading them subtracts from) your score. The game is checked off when done, printed, and into memory. Oversampler requires only finished when neither player can play. alphabetized. $15.00 shareware from 16K of free space! To use, open first a Andrew Welch. sound file by selecting "open" from the Space Whiskey GS v. 103 FILE menu. You can select files of any TransData type but Oversampler treats every file as Copyright 1992 by Lane Roathe raw data. You can play Macintosh ShareWare $10 TransData translates data from one sounds as well. Adjustments are provided format to another, including fixed- for volume, frequency, echo delay, Space Whiskey requires GS/OS 5.0.4 or length. It will change all upper case to output, and oversampling. higher and 1 megabyte of RAM. Ship upper and lower and eliminate duplicate control can use either mouse or joystick. records, among other things. The Oversampler was written in 100% simplest way to learn it is to use it, assembly language on Merlin 16+. Space Whiskey's story: TransData™ only reads and writes Resources were created on Genesys. ASCII data files which most database Space exploration has always been applications have the ability to read. This Change A File treacherous. During your journey, you've is a handy application to use for transfer lost most of your companion ships to the ring data from one application to by Harold D. Portnoy alien who rampage through this sector of another. It contains many filters for FreeWare (5 utilities) + ShareWare (6 space. Now, after waking from your common formats; if you need to, you utilities-$10) cryogenic sleep, you find yourself alone can create your own custom filter for the in your ship. The controls of your ship application you need to work with. $20 Change-A-File is a batch file utility that are on automatic and the smell of shareware from William Modesitt. reads AppleWorks Word Processor whiskey is strong. It seems that your (AWP) and text (TXT) files; converts companions have all gotten drunk and AWP to TXT, TXT to AWP, AWP 3.0 are off gallivanting around with those APPLE nGS DISKS to 2.x, restores damages AWP and ADB pesky aliens! It's your job to rescue the (database) files, changes file or auxiliary poor suckers! type codes, strip or insert line feeds. Up GS #63 - AppleWriter & to 88 files in a directory or subdirectory New Mac Usage - the graphic you have Games can be altered. This program uses the to see to believe! This is one of the many ProSel format. Change-A-File is particu- uses for your older MAC! This eDOM consists of 6 programs (plus lariy useful to the AppleWorks user and one graphic): to prepare files for uploading or to alter GS #64 - Potpourri files after downloading. eDOM #GS64 contains a potpourri of Change-A-File is distributed pardy as various and sundries: FS3 Flight Simulator right, or turn. Words such as CHARGE the encrypted file. You enter the may be helpful in movement. At any password when using Encryptor to by Michael Gillette time, one and two word commands may encrypt or decrypt a file. Encryptor can be entered. There are five levels to this be used to make a self-decrypting file for FS3 is a flight simulator program written game. Good Luck! whatever purposes you wish. entirely in AppleSoft Basic on an Apple / /c. It is actually comprised of three Deathmaze 5000 is a binary program Animated watch separate programs which are chained (ProDOS 8), so you need to enter Basic, together when FS3 is run. and then BRUN the game. FreeeWare by Jason Blockhowiak
When you first start FS3 you will see a Miami Ice Animated Watch is a program, when brief startup screen widi credits, and a installed, will animate the hands on the message to read the accompanying Miami Ice is a one-player car race game. "wristwatch" mouse cursor when it documentation before starting a flight. The car is on ice, so be careful how you comes on the screen (in either 320 or You will then see a view through the move. Uses die joystick. Miami Ice is a 640 mode) without the application - front window of the aircraft. The view binary program (ProDOS 8), so you you're running even knowing. Just copy out of the front window is rather limited. need to enter Basic, and dien BRUN the it to the */SYSTEM/SYSTEM.SETUP You see the horizon, and that's about it game. folder of your boot volume and then except for the airfield. This program is reboot. pretty good, especially considering that it GS Term is written in AppleSoft! Dr. Daily vl.O GS Term consists of a couple of terminal Fox and Geese (modem) programs: Copyright 1988 by GuyT. Rice ShareWare $5 This is a board game written in BASIC. I Unsinglist - AppleSingle file unpacker haven't figured out all the particulars, vl.O, Copyright 1990 Snow Software. Dr. Daily is a program for detecting but the object of the game is to have the virus infections or other alterations in fox escape from the geese, or have the Z.Link — communications program your system. Dr. Daily is installed as a geese trap the fox. You'll have to figure (modem) Copyright 1989 by David SYSTEM.SETUP file, and once per day, out this one for yourselves. Whitney, ShareWare $25. it checks files on your hard drive to make sure none have been altered. If they have, Galaxy Pinball SnowTerm - a desktop terminal it warns you about it. emulator for the Apple IIGS. by Snow Galaxy Pinball is a pinball game from Software, ShareWare $20. Desktop Mod Pinball Construction Set. By Clayton Rivas. Galaxy Pinball is a binary program GS Comm (GenericComm v2.03 by C.K. Haun, Raven Ware Software (ProDOS 8), so you need to enter Basic, and then BRUN the game. Copyright 1990 by Matthew Montano DeskTop mod lets you change the "BeerWare" (send cash to purchase desktop pattern that the Finder uses. Quintette VI. 01 some!) Personalize your desktop; get away from that silly pale blue to what you want. Copyright 1990, AFA, France This is a fast (quick and dirty) terminal by Kwisartz & Ticks program for general usage. In this version RSounder FreeWare it doesn't support things like terminal emulations, protocol transfers, GS/OS Copyright 1992 by Paul Benson, Baja This program is two board games, interaction and file control, and fancy Software Quintette and GoMoku. text editors. GenericComm contains ShareWare $3 65,536 line scroll back, 65,536 line Quintette - to win you must either align buffer ability, 255 item dialing list, This program is a "raw sound" player. 5 stones or win 5 pairs of your oppo support of 300, 1200, 2400, 9600 and Settings available are for sound name, nents stones. To win your opponent's 19200 bps operation. channel and frequency. There is no stones, you must surround a pair of your documentation with this program, so opponent's stones. The program requires 768K and GS/OS. your guess is as good as mine as to how well it works. Go Moku - to win you simply align 5 Encryptor II V2.0 stones (5 in a row). Ham Macros ShareWare $5 by Karl Bunker Deathmaze 5000 ULTRAMACROs Macro for ham radio. Encryptor allow you to encrypt and Location is constantly displayed via 3-D decrypt all types of ProDOS files. A graphics. You can move forward, left, four-character password acts as the key to APPLE II DISKS time, one and two word commands may based on Alan Birds Better Bye but be entered. There are five levels to this works only in 80 columns and give the game. Good Luck! user the added ability to choose from 32 eDOM #93 - AppleWriter system programs and/or directories. Deathmaze 5000 is a binary program AppleWriter//V2.1 (ProDOS 8), so you need to enter Basic Super Hello V4.2.1 and then BRUN the game. Copyright 1984 by Paul Lutus October 1988 FreeWare Miami Ice ShareWare $6 by Eric A. Seiden.
At long last, Tom Ostertag's "main" Miami Ice is a one-player car race game. This is written for ProDOS 8 1.1.1 or word processing program. AppleWriter is The car is on ice, so be careful how you later running on an Apple //e, lie, or // ProDOS based, and has no manuals with move. Uses the joystick. Miami Ice is a gs. The program is a simple program it, so you'll have to come to the binary program (ProDOS 8), so you launcher written in BASIC. AppleWorks SIG to learn about it. need to enter Basic and then BRUN the Maybe we can get Les to do a special on game. New Promenu it. On-line help is provided in the program. To start, just double-dick eDOM #95 - Utilities Another program launcher for your (BRUN) on AW.SYSTEM. Apple //x computer. This one allows up This eDOM contains 7 various utilities, to 30 programs to be selected, as well as eDOM #94-Games and menus. updating date and time. If more than 30 files are in a given subdirectory, you can This disk contains 4 games for your Change A File "page" through to the next. This enjoyment: program is written in BASIC. by Harold D. Portnoy FS3 Flight Simulator FreeWare (5 utilities) + ShareWare (6 Launch2PlusV1.4.11 utilities-$10) by Michael Gillette Copyright 1987 Change-A-File is a batch file utility that FS3 is a flight simulator program written reads AppleWorks Word Processor Yet another program launcher for your entirely in AppleSoft Basic on an Apple / (AWP) and text (TXT) files; converts use. This one uses the alphabet to figure /c. It is actually comprised of three AWP to TXT, TXT to AWP, AWP 3.0 out which to run. This program is separate programs which are chained to 2.x, restores damages AWP and ADB written in BASIC. together when FS3 is run. (database) files, changes file or auxiliary type codes, strip or insert line feeds. Up II Plus Menu When you first start FS3 you will see a to 88 files in a directory or subdirectory brief startup screen with credits, and a can be altered. This program uses the This program launcher is an 80 column message to read the accompanying ProSel format. Change-A-File is particu- program selector for Videx compatible documentation before starting a flight. lariy useful to the AppleWorks user and cards on II+. For lit or lie, delete line 54 You will then see a view through the to prepare files for uploading or to alter and substitute 'INVERSE* and 'NOR front window oT the aircraft. The view files after downloading. MAL' where 'PRINT UNVERSE$' or out of the front window is rather limited. 'PRINT NURMAL$' appear. Programs You see the horizon, and that's about it Change-A-File is distributed partly as must be locked to appear in the menu. except for the airfield. This program is Free (5 utilities) and partly as ShareWare This program is also written in BASIC. pretty good, especially considering that it (6 utilities). The following utilities are is written in AppleSoft! ShareWare and require a password: Startup Pro Convert AWP to TXT, convert TXT to Galaxy Pinball AWP, convert AWP3.0 to 2.x, AWP file by Dave Beazley, 1985 doctor, Exhume AWP file, restore ADB Galaxy Pinball is a pinball game from file. The following utilities are FreeWare, This is yet another program launcher Pinball Construction Set. By Clayton and are active on this version (no written in BASIC. Here, to change Rivas. Galaxy Pinball is a binary program password required): View file, change file drives, you must enter the ProDOS (ProDOS 8), so you need to enter Basic, information, line-feed stripper, strip prefix of the subdirectory that you wish and then BRUN the game. control character, and insert line feed to view. It also tells you what type of after carriage return. computer you have and what is in the Deathmaze 5000 slot. My //gs with a SCSI hard drive in Better Bye 80 by David D. Ely slot 7 is told that it is a //e? with a Location is constandy displayed via 3-D joystick in slot 4, and a unifile/duofile in graphics. You can move forward, left, This is a selector program called from my hard drive slod Anyway, this is a right, or turn. Words such as CHARGE memory whenever a ProDOS QUIT or pretty decent launcher for you lie, lie, II may be helpful in movement. At any BASIC BYE is given. This program is + users out there. 6 The History of the Apple II Part 2: The Apple I
Compiled and written by Steven Weyhrich To make the computer easier to use, Wozniak favored a keyboard over the front panel switches that came on the Altair. The Apple I: Development He also made it simple to use a television for a video terminal. (Recall that at this time the most common mechanism used for At the Homebrew Computer dub in Palo Alto, California (in input/output was a teletype, which consisted of a keyboard, Silicon Valley), Steve Wozniak, a 26 year old employee of typewriter, and if you were lucky, a paper tape reader/puncher). Hewlett-Packard and a long-time digital electronics hacker, had Functionally, it was a television terminal attached to a com been wanting to build a computer of his own for a long time. puter, all on one printed circuit board (another enhancement For years he had designed many on paper, and even written over the Altair). Wozniak used two 256 x 4 PROM (program FORTRAN compilers and BASIC interpreters for these mable read-only memory) chips to create a 256 byte program theoretical machines, but a lack of money kept him from (called a "monitor") that looked at the keyboard when the carrying out his desire. He looked at the Intel 8080 chip (the computer was turned on. This monitor program could not do heart of the Altair), but at $179 dedded he couldn't afford it. A much more than allow entry of hex bytes, examine a range of dedsion to NOT use the 8080 was considered foolhardy by memory, and run a program at a specific address.3 (The Altair other members of the dub. Consider this description of the needed these "bootstrapping" instructions to be entered by microcomputer "world" as it was in the summer of 1975: hand each time the computer was turned on). "That summer at the Homebrew Club the Intd 8080 formed Because there were no cheap RAMs available, Woz used shift the center of the universe. The Altair was built around the registers to send text to the TV screen. Consequently, his video 8080 and its early popularity spawned a cottage industry of terminal was somewhat slow, displaying characters at about 60 small companies that either made machines that would run characters per second, one character per scan of the TV screen. programs written for the Altair or made attachments that (This speed would be similar to watching a computer commu would plug into the computer. The private peculiarities of nicate via a modem at 1200 baud). It was slow by 1991 microprocessors meant that a program or device designed for standards, but an advancement over the teletypes that could one would not work on another. The junction of these only type 10 characters per second. The computer had 8K of peripheral devices for the Altair was known as the S-100 bus dynamic RAM. You could load BASIC into 4K of memory and because it used one hundred signal lines. Disdples of the 8080 have 4K left over for your own programs. It had a video formed religious attachments to the 8080 and S-100 even connector, but you had to connect a monitor on your own. though they readily admitted that the latter was pooriy You also had to buy the keyboard separately and wire it into a designed. The people who wrote programs or built peripherals 16-pin DIP connector. The power supply had to be connected for 8080 computers thought that later, competing microproces to two transformers to get 5 volts and 12 volts for the sors were doomed. The sheer weight of the programs and the motherboard. There was no speaker, no graphics, and no color. choice of peripherals, so the argument went, would make it There was a single peripheral slot, and when it was first rdeased more useful to more users and more profitable for more there was nothing available to plug into this slot. It was entirely companies. The 8080, they liked to say, had critical mass contained on a single printed circuit board, about six by eight which was sufficient to consign anything else to oblivion."1 inches in size (most hobby computers of that time needed at least two boards), used only 30 or 40 chips, and because it Another chip, the Motorola 6800, interested Wozniak because could run BASIC programs it got people's attention.4 it resembled his favorite minicomputers (such as the Data General Nova) more than the 8080. However, cost was still a The Apple I: Marketing problem for him until he and his friend Allen Baum discovered a chip that was almost identical to the 6800, while considerably Let's adjust our time circuits for 1976, and jump forward in cheaper. MOS Technology sold their 6502 chip for $25, as time. By now, Steve Wozniak had completed his 6502-based opposed to the $175 Motorola 6800. Wozniak decided to computer and would display enhancements or modifications at change his choice of processor to the 6502 and began writing a the bi-weekly Homebrew Computer Club meetings. Steve Jobs version of BASIC that would run on it. A friend over at was a 21 year old friend of Wozniak's and also a visitor at the Hewlett-Packard programmed a computer to simulate the Homebrew dub. He had worked with Wozniak in the past function of the 6502, and Wozniak used it to test some of his (together they designed the arcade game "Breakout" for Atari) early routines. When his BASIC interpreter was finished, he and was very interested in his computer. During the design turned his attention to designing the computer he could run it process Jobs made suggestions that hdped shape the final on. Except for some small riming differences, he was able to use product, such as the use of the newer dynamic RAMs instead of the hardware design he had earlier done on paper for the older, more expensive static RAMs. He suggested to Wozniak 6800.2 that they get some printed circuit boards made for the com- puter and sdl it at the dub for people to assemble themsdves. plugged into the single slot on the motherboard. The card sold They pooled their financial resources together to have PC for $75 and a cassette tape of Woz's BASIC was induded with boards made, and on April 1st, 1976 they officially formed the it. The advertisement Apple induded with the card stated, Apple Computer Company. Jobs had recendy worked at an "Our philosophy is to provide software for our machines free or organic apple orchard, and liked the name because "he thought at minimal cost," The interface worked, but worked well only of the apple as the perfect fruit - it has a high nutritional with cassettes running on expensive tape recorders. To further content, it comes in a nice package, it doesn't damage easily - try to enhance sales, the Byte Shop stores found a local and he wanted Apple to be the perfect company. Besides, they cabinetmaker that made some koa-wood cases for the Apple couldn't come up with a better name."5 computer (so it would no longer be just a "naked" circuit board).8 Jobs approached the owner of a new computer store in the bay area called "The Byte Shop." This businessman, Paul Terrell, Interestingly, although most of the action in the micro world expressed an interest in the Apple Computer (to be known later was going on in Silicon Valley, news of the Apple I made its as the "Apple I"), but wanted only fully assembled computers way east. Stan Veit, owner of the east coast's first computer to sdl. If they could provide this, Terrell told them he would store, bought an Apple I and took it to a meeting of the order fifty Apples, and pay cash on ddivery. Suddenly, the cost Association of Computer Machinery. Those attending were of making (and selling) this computer was considerably more quite skeptical that a REAL computer could fit into a small than they expected. Jobs and Wozniak managed to get the parts briefcase; they were sure that the machine was just a portable on "net 30 days" (30 days credit without interest), and set terminal, attached by a hidden phone line to a mainframe themsdves up in Job's garage for assembly and testing of the somewhere!' Apple I. After marathon sessions of stuffing and soldering PC boards, Jobs delivered the computers to the Byte Shop. NOTES Although these "fully assembled" computers lacked a power ' Michael Moritz, THE LITTLE KINGDOM, p. 123. supply, keyboard, or monitor, Terrell bought them as prom ised. In July of 1976 the Apple I was released and sold for 2 Moritz, pp. 124-127. $666.66, which was about twice the cost of the parts plus a 3 Williams & Moore, p. A69. 33% dealer markup.6 Two hundred Apple I computers were 4 Gregg Williams and Rob Moore, "The Apple Story, Part 1: manufactured, and all except twenty-five of them sold over a Early History", BYTE, Dec 1984, pp. A68-A69. 5 Frank Rose, WEST OF EDEN: THE END OF INNO period often months.7 CENCE AT APPLE COMPUTER, p. 33. 6 Moritz, pp. 138-144. Although the Apple I was easier to begin using than the Altair 7 Williams & Moore, pp. A69. (thanks to its built-in ROM code), it was still a time consum 8 Moritz, pp. 147-149. ing process to set it up to do something useful. Steve Wozniak would have to type in about 3K of hexadecimal bytes before 9 Chien, PhUip, "Apple's First Decade: A Look Back", THE BASIC was ready to use. He could do it in about 20 to 30 APPLE II REVIEW, Fall/Winter 1986, p. 12. minutes, but he almost knew the code by heart. The typical user was more limited in ability to use BASIC on the Apple I. Next Installment: The Apple U To broaden the appeal of the Apple I (and at the insistence of Paul Terrell), Wozniak designed a cassette interface. It was © Copyright 1991, Zonker Software mounted on a small two-inch-high printed circuit board and submitted by Gregory L Carlson 6 rttttttttttttttttttttttttt******
and ImageWriter II. Depending on m 6 and 12 points. Also featured by the Printer Quality, whether you choose the IWII or the DJ, from page 4 DJ and accessible with the installed drivers you would make sure the appropriately are italics, underiine and double under drivers (portrait and landscape) and that chosen printer is turned on and ready and line, boldface, superscript, subscript and 6 can install some 150 plus other patches of the sdection at the switch box made point typeface. In landscape mode you your choosing. correcdy before pressing the return key to should change the page length to 8.0 commence printing the document. inches, but it is very nice to be able to The patch that installs the DJ printer print sideways (landscape) without having drivers on AppleWorks Classic diminates The DJ printer drivers installed on to use another application to cause the all previous printers stored in the Seg.Er AppleWorks Classic support just about printer to type sideways. file, but the ImageWriter II printer driver everything the DJ can do with its ROM can be reinstalled as the third printer based built in fonts of Courier, CG Times The DJ will work well with most types of using the "other activities" feature of (proportional) and Letter Gothic. These paper but high-quality single sheet AppleWorks. Now when you press Oa-P fonts feature Times in both 6 and 12 photocopy paper (like Xerox) yields good to print a document, you have three point, Courier 5,10,16.7 and 20 cpi in 6 results. You can toad envdopes easily and choices being DJ portrait, DJ landscape and 12 points and Gothic 12 and 24 cpi the printer cartridge (which is the printer head), costing about $16.00, is a snap to fonts. An IWLQ requires fonts 3 times program and those will vary: load and replace. The printer keypad larger than the screen fonts and the DJ AppleWorksGS - 48, HyperStudio - 125, performs various printer functions, is easy requires fonts that are 4 times larger than Platinum Paint - 100, etc. to read and the built-in ROM fonts can the screen fonts. be selected from this pad. The Owner's I would like to mention that there is a file Manual that comes with the DJ is one of With Poindess, one does not have to be in HAAUG's BBS library regarding the the best prepared and easy to read concerned with having all the different DJ which is freeware by Ray Merlin and manuals I have read and illustrates cleariy sizes of bit-mapped fonts to produce good describes how to set up a custom printer the functions of die printer and font quality printing, as Poindess will inter with AppleWorks 3.0 for use with the DJ. terminology. nally generate any point size required to The file also includes documentation and produce high quality printing from a a Timeout Hdp Screen defining the As mentioned above, the Harmonie single TrueType font. TrueType fonts can special codes to use for italics, ASCII printer driver software package contains be referred to as scalable or outline fonts Character Set and Legal Character Set, several printer drivers (to indude a driver and can be shrunk or enlarged to the Times font and Courier font. This is a for the ImageWriter II printer which sdected size while accurately retaining its helpful file for anyone desiring to know gready increases printing speed and adds shape or outline. One other great feature about the DJ and also may be all that some extra Print Menu controls and a of Poindess is that you can change any someone would want to acquire to access driver for the DJ with detailed printing TrueType font to any particular size you the DJ with AppleWorks Classic. adjustments) that are easily installed in the desire (such as Courier to a 24 point size Although I prefer the printer drivers System/Drivers folder of any GS/OS 5.0+ and a 48 point size) and then save those provided with SuperPatch 8.0,1 did use system disk. Installation is easy with the newly formed fonts as bit-mapped fonts to some of the information provided by Ray Installer program supplied on the your font folder containing your bit Merlin to change some of the special Harmonie 3.5 disk. When you install mapped fonts that you use with your 8 bit codes provided by SuperPatch. several printers, you simply choose which programs such as AppleWorks Classic printer driver you desire to use through using Superfonts or Publish It!. Then A listing is probably an excellent way to the control pand function. Some of the when you sdect Courier 12 and print with summarize some of the above points: detailed printer adjustments that the IWII, you get good printer output Harmonie provides are shading, contrast, with the 24 point font being used to 1. Adding an A/B switch box to your rendering and compression. Although create a higher resolution. If you print hardware setup with the IWII and DJ these adjustments sound complicated, with the DJ you get good printing connected to your computer is a great they really are not and are explained in the resolution with the 48 point Courier font way to provide versatility "with a flip documentation well enough to allow you being used. of the switch" depending on the type to quickly experiment until you find the of printer output desired. The DJ can right combination that suits you best. The best print resolution for a DJ is 300 not take the place of the IWII when it dpi (dots per inch) and for the IWII is comes to printing out several pages of The newly released font management 160 dpi. The DJ is capable of printing documentation on continuous feed INiT/CDev utility for the Hgs called graphics at variable resolutions of 300, paper in draft mode for review or for Poindess incorporates TrueType font 150,100 and 75 dpi. Resolution can be the color output. However after your technology and the use of this application sdected through software or printer review of the material and choosing the creates smooth, crisp and clean text, commands or from the keypad. You can part you want to print out in the best instead of the ragged text you sometimes also expand your ROM internally based quality possible with an Apple II, sdect get with your current bit-mapped fonts, at fonts by installing optional font cartridges the DJ and print it out in the "best any point size both on the monitor screen into one or both of the two font cartridge mode". and on the printed page. All standard GS/ slots on the DJ printer. OS application programs use bit-mapped 2. AppleWorks Classic versions 2.0, 2.1 fonts. It is important to know that For comparative purposes the Draft and 3-0 can be patched with printers have a greater resolution than the quality mode is 250 cps for the IWII and SuperPatch 8.0 (Quality Computers - IIgs screen, so printed text requires fonts 240 cps for the DJ. Letter quality mode is $34.95) to install portrait and land with more detail than the fonts used on 45 cps for the IWII and 120 cps for the scape printer drivers to access the DJ the screen. If you are printing with an DJ. The maximum character point size 500 printer with an Apple lie, He or IWII, the GS Print Manager will try to allowed on the IIgs is 255 points. When IIgs. find a font that is twice as big as the one printing with the rWII at best quality, the intended. And since the IWII has twice maximum printable point size is 127 since 3. Installing Harmonie 2.0 (Vitesse - the resolution of the GS screen, the font is the printer driver uses fonts that are 2 $32.95) printer drivers for the IWII printed at the proper size, but with a times the size of the fonts you are using in and DJ in the */System/Drivers folder higher resolution (twice as many dots per the document (127 x 2 = 254). When of your GS/OS 5.0+ system (to indude inch) providing you have in your font printing with the DJ at best quality, the 6.0) on the IIgs will provide excellent folder a bit-mapped font that is twice the maximum printable point size is 63 (63 x GS/OS text and graphics output on size as the font point size you chose to 4 = 252). Remember however that many either printer. print in. As the resolution of a printer GS programs impose restrictions on the increases, so does its need for larger sized maximum point size allowed by that 4. Poindess (WestCode - $49.95) improves output with most printers additional option font cartridges. consider acquiring the DJ as a great including the IWII and DJ and the However for short two and three page addition to your Apple II hardware INIT/CDev font management utility letters, I prefer using internal rendering configuration, but be in a position to use for the IIgs generates laser-sharp text so that my choice of fonts is limited the DJ printer with any PC hardware you transparendy from the GS/OS System only by the number of TrueType fonts might purchase in the future. That idea is folder (System 6.0-OK). I desire to acquire for use with not being a turncoat to the Apple II, but is Pointless. As you probably know, such being sensible and realistic to the possibili Although not discussed specifically fonts are available for downloading ties of potential growth and change in this above, it is worth noting that choosing from several sources and even ever evolving worid of computer technol External rendering in the print window TrueType fonts from a Macintosh disk ogy. Besides, like I said in the beginning, using Harmonies DJ printer, rather can be used by Poindess. the dual printer hardware set up is great than Internal rendering, will cause the and I continue to use the IWII for color document to be printed out using the In conclusion, let me leave you with an and speed of continuous feed printing in ROM based fonts of the DJ. This of idea that is worth your consideration. The draft mode and use the DJ for Enhance course produces much faster printer wonderful printing quality of the DeskJet ment of Printer Quality Output to output (about 3 times) due to less 500 printer can be accessed with various produce documents that will definitely communication needed between software, as mentioned above, for the pass as laser printer generated. computer and printer, but does limit Apple II computer and with software for you to the ROM fonts (Courier, the PC such as Display Write, Lotus 1 -2- Our apologies for losing the name of the CGTimes, Letter Gothic) built into 3, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Windows, submitter # the printer or available through WordPerfect and others. Why not
Monthly Newsletter Ad Rates Correction: 1/12 Page 2.5"w.x2.5"h. $10.00 Last month's Apple II Meeting Minutes 1/6 Page by Tom Ostertag were wrongly attrib 2.5" w. x 5" h. $20.00 uted to another author. The editor 1/3 Page regrets the error. 2.5"w.xlO"h.Vert $40.00 5" w. x 5" h. Horz. $40.00 HALF Page 7.5" w. x 5" h. Less 5% $60.00 2/3 Page 5"w.x10"h.Less7% $80.00 FULL Page 7.5" w. x 10" h. Less 15% $120.00 Frequency Discounts Six months® 5% One year® 15% Outside Back Cover For 24-hour 7.5" w. x 7.5" h. $100.00 Inside Back Cover flminiapples user 7.5" w. x 10" h. $120.00 group and meeting Mail Inquiries to: P.O. Box 796 information call Hopkins. MN 55343 229-6952 Phone Inquiries to: Hugh Johnson (612) 780-6053 Printer Choices, laser printers. that comes free with System 6) for from page 4 touching up with GS fonts and printing If you want to keep printing with eight with GS/OS printer drivers. Shop (all versions), Blazing Paddles, bit software, make a "master table" of Dazzle Draw, Publish It! 4 and GS-only supported printers. Take a sheet of lined I have similar advise for GS owners who software. paper and write the word "Printer" and create masterpieces with Blazing Paddles, the names of the programs you use along Dazzle Draw, or another drawing and Printing with GS Programs the top. Boot up one of the programs and painting program. Create them, save sdect its "Configuration'' or "Set-Up" them as usual, then convert them to If you use only GS/OS and ProDOS 16 option. Write down all the printers that it Super hi-res and print them with a GS programs you have an easy job selecting a supports in the first column, then place paint program. SuperConvert (from new printer. Look at the list of printer checkmarks against them in the appropri Seven Hills Software) or Graphics drivers available through the system ate column for that software. Do the same Exchange (Roger Wagner Publishing) will software and through third-party for each program, checking off the do the conversion for you. packages, and make your choice based on printers that were already on the list and the printer's price, speed, and resolution. adding new ones as necessary. The Desktop publishing programs are the best Whatever printer driver you install, it will printers you will want to consider buying printing "utilities" for graphics or text work equally well with all your software. will have a checkmark in every column. from almost any source. GraphicWriter These printers will probably be III, for example, will import formatted System 6 supports several Apple printers ImageWriters or nine-pin Epson dot AppleWorks, AppleWriter, FrEdWriter, and many nine-pin Epson and Epson- matrix printers. MouseWrite, Bank Street Writer, Teach, compatible printers. The LaserWriter and text files. It also imports Print Shop, printer driver should support any If you would like more choices than the Print Shop Hgs, MacPaint, and single, PostScript printer to the limit of its master list gives you, read on. I will double, and super hi-res graphics. These resolution. This is usually 300 dpi ("dots describe your alternatives. First, I will files can be combined, arranged, en per inch"), but 600 dpi printers are discuss why and how to use a new hanced with color and GS fonts, and then coming down in price. application program to print all of your printed to any printer for which you have old files. Second, I will show how a driver. Other printers are supported by drivers in PostScript printers are chameleons which "Independence" (from Seven Hills work with the newest software for high- Publish It! 4 provides just as much Software) and "Harmonie'' (Vitesse). quality results but emulate an flexibility for owners of any 128K Apple ImageWriter to work with older software. II. It lets you load, manipulate, and print /Sf^L Independence supports: Third, I will discuss the commercial word processing files from AppleWorks software drivers that let all of your GS- and Bank Street Writer, text files, and all Hewlett-Packard (HP) DeskJet specific software use some models of laser sorts of graphics: hi-res, double hi-res, DeskWriter and inkjet printers. super hi-res, Print Shop, New Print Shop, LaserJet IIP Print Shop Hgs, Newsroom, and Encap LaserJet III Using Applications as Print sulated PostScript. It uses GS fonts, even ing Utilities if you don't have a GS. Harmonie supports the same printers as well as: The cheapest way to use a new printer Publish It! 4 supports many dot-matrix with old software is to do all your printers, all PostScript printers, and the HP PaintWriter printing with software that supports the HP DeskJet and LaserJet series. Publish PaintJet printer. Some of these programs are It! 4 prints to about the same resolution QuadJet probably in your software collection on the HP printers as on a dot-matrix LaserJet compatibles such as the Okidata already. printer, so the results are not the best that OL400 and Tl MicroLaser and a the HP printer is can do. On the other selection of 9- and 24-pin dot matrix If you only need to print text, don't give hand, the software supports PostScript printers. up on AppleWorks. This program lets printers to the limit of their resolution, users create custom printer drivers. usually 300 dpi. Printing with the Classics Hewlett-Packard LaserJet drivers are available in the public domain. In Recommended Laser Printers Every eight bit program poses problems addition, Resource Central sells a book to the printer hunter because it supports called Using AppleWorks With a DeskJet Moving on to a slick, modern printer is an idiosyncratic list of printers. These lists 500. ' going to cause some incompatibilities do not match between programs, even with your current software. Depend on it. when they are from the same company. If you own a GS, you can continue word- The problems will be minimized if you Even worse, many programs have not processing with your favorite program, spend $2000 to buy a PostScript laser been updated to support modern printers. but save the documents as text files. These printer. These are fast, quiet, dear, and Even the recently-released New Print text files can be loaded into AppleWorks y^i^ Shop does not work with any inkjet or GS or Teach (a simple word processor will let you keep printing with your old programs, by using Apple's ImageWriter color inkjet printer, the DeskWriter C. In theory, any big-name desktop publish Emulator software. (For a review, see inCider, March 1992). ing software for MS-DOS or the Mac Quality Computers informs me that the should be able to open and print a If you would like a laser printer for half color driver should be available in early PostScript file generated on your Apple IL the cost, I recommend the HP LaserJet or 1993. The DeskWriter C sells locally for My experience with Aldus PageMaker one of its many imitators. This printer is about$1000. (running under Windows) suggests that supported by all GS/OS programs if the you may have to alter Apple II PostScript appropriate printer driver is installed from [Will hope this driver also works with the files to make them acceptable. Experi either "Independence" or "Harmonie." It newer HP DeskJet 550C color printer. It ment, but be prepared to get quicker and is also supported on eight-bit Apples by has "true black" instead of combining easier results from service bureaus than Publish It! 4. three colors to make black as the HP from your friends with a Mac or an MS- DeskJet 500C does. The HP DeskJet DOS machine. LaserJets arc not supported by Print Shop 550C is available in the Twin Cities area (in any of its variations). If you buy a for approximately $750 to $800. ed.] Conclusions LaserJet you will have to create your letterheads, posters, and cards in Publish Recommendations for Impov The Apple II is capable of making It! 4 or Graphic Writer III. This is not as erished Users beautiful printouts with modem inkjet easy, but think of it as a challenge to your and laser printers. The secret is to develop creativity! Even if you can't afford to buy a printer a printer strategy before you choose a that matches your refined tastes in printer. Think carefully about your Fortunately, you can save your pennies typography, you can still produce desires, your funds, and your current ($400 to $500 worth) to make your beautiful printouts. Publish It! 4 allows software. LaserJet into a PostScript printer. Some you to save files in EPS ("Encapsulated LaserJet compatibles, such as the Okidata PostScript") format so that they can be If you buy a LaserWriter or other OL400, cannot be upgraded to uploaded to a printer service bureau. PostScript printer, you will be able to PostScript. Make sure that your printer produce beautiful documents with any can be upgraded. GS owners have the same capability in all software that supports PostScript. In of their software, thanks to a wonderful addition, you will still be able to use your Recommended Inkjet Printers hidden feature ("Easter Egg") in the old software by pretending that the new LaserWriter printer driver. Just sdect the printer is an old-fashioned ImageWriter. For between $500 and $600 you can buy LaserWriter printer from the "DC Clearly, this is the easiest route to follow. /^\ an HP DeskJet 500. [In the local Twin Printer" Control Pand. Give the com Cities area, this printer can be purchased mand that brings up the "Print" dialogue If you buy a non-PostScript laser or an for between $350 and $400. ed.] The box. Hold down the Apple and "P keys as inkjet printer, you will probably have to DeskJet's printouts are almost as good as you dick "OK." An EPS file called do a litde work to see the results. If you a LaserJet's. The most serious drawback is "PostScript.GSxx" will be created in the use AppleWorks, then make or borrow a that DeskJets (like other inkjet printers) Drivers folder. (The "xx" in the filename customized driver for your printer. This cannot be upgraded to PostScript. You means numbers). will suffice for printing plain text with no can use a DeskJet with GS/OS applica fancy fonts or graphics. To print those tions if you buy either Harmonie or One additional note: if you want to print desirable luxuries from an eight bit Apple Independence. You can also use it with graphics from AppleWorks GS v. 1.1 to a II, do all your printing with Publish It! 4. Publish It! 4. PostScript printer, or to "print" them to disk as EPS files, import them into the If you have a GS, buy printer drivers to The StyleWriter printer is a bit less Page Layout module and print them from work with a DeskJet or LaserJet. Or just expensive than the DeskJet and its driver there. The Graphics module will print print PostScript files to disk with the comes free with System 6, but you'll only "draw objects" like drdes and squares as LaserWriter driver and develop a be able to use it with GS/OS programs. A bit maps, but Page Layout prints them as relationship with a local service bureau. phone call to TimeWorks' Technical draw objects. If you don't understand One way or another, your Apple II will Department verified that there are no what they means, don't worry. Just help you look good. plans to have Publish It! 4 support the remember that the Page Layout module StyleWriter. Given this, I personally produces better results when you work (This article first appeared in the January recommend the DeskJet over the with PostScript printers or EPS files. 1993 issue of Apples BC News. It may be StyleWriter. reprinted provided that it and this notice Once the EPS file has been created, you remain intact. It is requested that a copy of Recommended Color Printers must find a way to transfer it to the any publication containing the article be computer that will print it. A modem is mailed to Apples BC Computer Society, Box At this moment, the only color printer one way. An even easier way, thanks to 80569, Burnaby BC Canada, V5H3X9, supported by a GS/OS driver is Apple's the HFS (Macintosh) file system transla care of the author.) ancient ImageWriter II. However, tor that comes with System 6 for the GS, idpSs Vitesse, the publisher of Harmonie, is is to copy the EPS file onto a Madntosh- Our apologies for losing the name of the working on a driver for HP's excellent formarted disk. submitter # Mac
A Tale of Two Cities
by Roz Ault— [email protected] 2 New Viruses The world's largest Macintosh user group, Berkeley-based BMUG, recendy set up a second bulletin board system across the country in Boston. Boston, of course, is home to the other New INTT 17 Virus big Mac user group, the Madntosh arm of the Boston Com Busted puter Sodety (BCS). BMUG's Boston BBS arose because of internal political problems within BCS that caused the resignation of the volunteer sysops on die BCS Mac BBS. We by Mark H. Anbinder, thought a brief look at this story might shed light on problems Contributing Editor— that can affect volunteer user groups and suggest ways of mha@baka. itkaca. ny. us avoiding similar problems. Technical Support Coordinator, BAKA Computers The Boston sysop team left BCS because of frustrations over BCS internal politics and lack of BCS support for online [April 12,1993] In a joint bulletin services. The BCS team had cooperated with BMUG on joint rdeased today by Gene Spafford of promotions that direcdy benefited the BCS Mac BBS to the Purdue University, the various Macin tune of several thousand dollars. Nevertheless, the Mac group tosh antiviral developers announced the as a whole was running a serious deficit. The recendy-ap- discovery of a new virus eariier along pointed BCS president, Robert Grenoble, wasn't pleased and with new utility versions to combat it labded the sysops' activities an "embarrassment" to the BCS. It's undear whether he fdt the rdaxed style of BMUG was The new virus, dubbed INIT 17, infects unbefitting the BCS image, or whether his objection was to the System file and most applications as some violation of administrative protocol within the BCS they run, and is likdy to spread quickly hierarchy. once a machine is exposed to the virus. The virus infects programs by modifying At any rate, the sysops' resignations set off a chain of events existing code, which can in some cases that raised a furor in the Boston online community. The BCS cause irreparable damage to the applica employee sent to take over management of the DOS-based tions or the System file. On some low- Mac bulletin board soon began ddeting messages critical of the end Macs (such as the Plus, SE, and BCS, induding private email messages. He reduced the access Classic) the virus can cause the computer of many remaining Mac activists, then when some of those to crash while executing infected volunteers resigned in protest, he deleted their resignation applications. messages, which set off yet another round of resignations. The only overt action by the virus is to BCS President Grenoble, when questioned by a local newspa- see "New Viruses," page 24 see "Tale," page 24 System 7 FAQ's (Frequently Asked Questions)
System 7 has been out for several years run System 7.1, remove your Fonts choking on. now, and although some people have yet folder from the System Folder as wdl to switch to it (mosdy for incorrect when you are booted under Disk Q What should I do if Get Info reasons or because it's too much trouble), Tools.). If strange problems still windows and some other windows System 7 is probably the most common persist, backup your files, reformat display the wrong font? System version in use. Apple rdeased the hard disk, and restore your files. If System 7.1 last fall, but the modules that strange problems still persist, as a last A Your system font is messed up. The make 7.1 a compelling upgrade have resort try other disks, try other setting for the system font is stored in only begun to appear. In the meantime, SIMMs, re-seat your NuBus cards in PRAM (Parameter RAM). To fix the here are some frequendy asked questions different slots, or have diagnostics run problem zap your PRAM by holding (and answers) about Apple and System 7 on the hardware. Also, do call the down command-option-p-r (be sure that we did not cover way back in appropriate technical support line (or Caps Lock is off.) at boot time, and TidBITS#104/System 7. If you use send email to companies that do then let go at the second startup System 7 and have questions beyond online tech support) before you go to chime. these, please check that issue because it a great deal of trouble re-installing answers a ton of common questions. things. Sometimes support can't hdp Q My desktop patterns are black and at all; sometimes support can save you white or messed up. What do I do? Errors and Solutions a great deal of time. A Use ResEdit and copy an unmodified Q My System is raking up way too Q When I add fonts to my System I get ppat resource from die System 7 disks much RAM. What is wrong? an error message saying the System to your System file OR boot from a /^^\ file is damaged. Sometimes when I floppy, trash the System file, and A You need to turn on 32-bit address double dick a suitcase of bitmaps I reinstall. ing. Under 24-bit addressing (this is get the same message. What is wrong? what you are in when 32-bit address Q With File Sharing on, why can't I ing is off) all RAM above 8 MB is A The bitmaps in the system or in the eject removable media even when it is mapped to the System but not used suitcase have been compressed with not shared? (nice interface!). Warning: first make Suitcase's Font Valet or are "dam sure hard disk drivers, NuBus cards, aged" according to System 7. If the A Actually, it is shared for the owner. As Control Panels, extensions and all System file is damaged and you have owner you can log in and have access applications are 32-bit compatible! another source for the fonts installed to all volumes. To eject removable in the System, boot from a floppy, media, turn off File Sharing or mount Q What should I do if I come across trash the System file, empty the trash, it after File Sharing has already really weird system errors like "Bad F- reinstall with the installer to build a started. AppleShare 3.0 does support Line," "Bus Error," or "Error of type new System file, and then reinstall the unmounting removable media. Also 25?" fonts. If the fonts are bad, System 7 look for a free utility from Apple will not let you install them. If you called UnMountlt, which I haven't A I f 32-bit addressing and/or Virtual have no backup of fonts INSIDE a seen on the Internet yet, but which Memory are on, try turning them off, damaged suitcase or damaged System was uploaded to CompuServe's restarting, and testing your system. If file, put Font/DA Mover 4.1 on your MACDEV libraries. the problems go away, you may have hard disk, boot from a floppy with an extension or application that is System 6.0.x, open the Font/DA Q File Sharing cannot be enabled. What incompatible with 32-bit addressing Mover, then hold down the option could be wrong? or Virtual Memory. If strange key, dick open, and you will be able problems persist, try disconnecting to open the "damaged" System or A There has to be some free space on your SCSI chain. If strange problems suitcase and copy the fonts to another each volume (to be safe, have 1 MB persist, try a dean install (boot with suitcase. Split up the suspect fonts free), the hard disk driver may need to Disk Tools, put your System and into smaller suitcases, reboot under be updated, the Users & Groups Data Finder in the Trash, empty the Trash, System 7 and try opening the File may be corrupt (trash it and and then boot again with your first suitcases. By trial and error you can Install Disk [usually Install 1]. If you determine which fonts the Mac is see "Sys.7 FAQ's," page 22 A Review Clarisworks by Ken Slingsby
I bought an LCII after many years of Since my boss gave me a 486 clone to use do all the conversion. You can still use owning Apple lis. The first III purchased at work and wouldn't let me have a Mac, I AFE if you want, it just moves the file was produced just before disk drives needed a means to take work home. At from one volume or directory to another. started shipping - floppy disks, that is. (If work I extensively use WordPerfect 5.1, you ever think that saving a file to a floppy some WP 5.1-Windows, as well as Excel My first attempts at file exchanges is slow compared to a hard drive, you for Windows. ClarisWorks and Apple File between the clone and the LCII were not should try saving to cassette tape. That's a Exchange (AFE) team up to allow me to all that successful. I then called whole other story.) Theni upgraded to a exchange disks with the Mac... to an ClarisWorks and found out that a revision 11+ and latertraded for a He. I used extent. Actually, the process of exchanging to the file translators had just been Visicalc and tried some of the look-alikes, a file from the PC to the Mac or vice versa released. If you have troubles make sure but several years ago, started using is a two step process using the software I you have CW VI .0r3 or later. The AppleWorks and added to it several of the have. First, you spin up AFE and insert upgrade was free, by the way. Time Out extensions. It was this positive the DOS floppy in the superdrive. This experience with AppleWorks that led me step converts the data storage format from I have not had an opportunity to use all to purchase an integrated package for the MS-DOS to Mac-ese. The next step in the the translations, but according to the Mac. conversion process happens within the manual, you can import the following application on the Mac, in this case CW. into CW: After briefly looking at the available {I might add that I would hope there arc integrated software I setded on smoother, easier paths to use, but I have • MacWrite, MacWrite II, MacWrite ClarisWorks. As you may be aware, CW not yet discovered them. I have had the Stationery has many of the desirable features built in: LCII for about six months at the time of • Microsoft Word, Write, and Word spreadsheet, word processor, database, this writing (Early January 93), but it PC. communications, and graphics. The spell seems that there is so little time to use • AppleWorks (WP, SS, and DB) checker and thesaurus are available to all it...} To transfer files to the clone is just • AppleWorks GS(WP only) but the communications module. It is easy the reverse. Save As to a WordPerfect or • Acta to cut and paste between any of the SYLK file then use AFE to convert the file • Microsoft Works (WP, SS, and DB) modules. The integration is so smooth format to MS-DOS. • WriteNow, WriteNow Next that sometimes it is difficult to tell which • Word Perfect, Word Perfect PC (but module you are really using at the time. AFE will display the directory of the see below) • ASCII text (tab delimited) floppy and one other drive (suppos- * File Edit Formal Rrrange Options Ulem _ edly the Mac's hard drive directory, • PICT and Encapsulated PostScript Book of the Month (GR) but if you had two floppy drives...). (EPS), TIFF Based on the file type AFE will • DIF and SYLK. (This allows MS Excel attempt to convert the file to either a file transfers) word processor or text format on the target drive. The tendency is toward Also according to the manual, you can the word processor format, however. export the following formats from CW: To get the text translation, one must • MacWrite 5.0, MacWrite II (text) explicitly tell AFE to use text conver sion. CW translates from several other • AppleWorks 2.0, AppleWorks GS word processor formats to its own (text) format. Some of the translations take a • WriteNow 2.0-2.2, WriteNow Next fair amount of time. For a 20 page • WordPerfect 1.0.2, WordPerfect PC document, there is time to get your (text) favorite beverage. • Text (text-only ASCII)
As an aside, when I was attempting to My experiences haven't been all that move data from my He to the Mac, it rewarding. I have found that the is not necessary to use AFE as WordPerfect translator converts all the The draw module ClarisWorks has built in translators to text but misses most of the formatting commands. The basic paragraphs and copying essentially a tab ruler to a be copied into any of the other modules headings are there but attributes like secondary clipboard, if you will. This ruler (except the communications module) and indents, changes of margins, holding, font can be then applied to highlighted resized to fit the document. The earlier changes, etc. are missed. This seems to be paragraph(s) throughout the document. comments about importing graphics from the case either from the Mac to other computer systems apply here. WordPerfect or from WordPerfect to the The database is super easy to set up and Mac and CW. use. The fields are positioned like graphic The communications module also has all objects - much easier than counting the features of the Apple // terminal Using SYLK, Excel documents convert spaces or trying to guess at coordinates. It emulator Talk Is Cheap (TIC) and then quite well, only a few formulas (formu reminds me of the labels format set up in some. You select the modem brand, lae?) do not convert. Those are the ones AW. Although it is a flat file, it is useful number(s) to call, speed, and the like that are not supported by the particular for most applications at home, and in my once. Then just click on Open Session package. opinion, most uses at work as well. and watch. I was a little disturbed at first with all the gyrations the Graphics are another problem. t File Edit Format Calculate Options Uleui _£_ program goes through to set TIFF is not a standard in the Quarterly Earning! ISSI up the modem. All the PC world. There are many PC A modem commands are sent programs that save in TIFF but % twice even though I cannot read one another's □ specified half duplex. The TIFF files. I have not been able CD module will emulate a VT- O to read a TIFF file translated 100 (monochrome text from the PC with the Mac or a. 3 M I T I A S M I M G I ■1, Co.t U Goo* IoH 111,39 116,024 I30.2W terminal) and one or two i.Hi»C » Mmi>Bir«™ U.W3 » , « 7 < » , M 7 vice versa. I have successfully writ* •I.2M 4 f M 5 . 0 4 7 $□ Ptptiitfr.1 2,]«8 2,350 2,2« generic equivalents. The saved GIF files on the Mac, IS DIMM Exjtait keyboard equivalents are JE »' used the Mac to convert them ■; <■; total iiriniii •UIJM »«.1>1 ctn displayed on demand for the to MS-DOS format and \* 2 function keys. Data may be M.2M W.007 20.11! 25. IW loaded them on the MS-DOS captured into a text file if computer. The other way isn't MIT IAMMIM6M mm »!»• desired. File transfers can be always successful, probably set up before logging on and because of AFE's tendency to thus saving some on-line save into word processing time. Of course, file formats. I have several GIF files transfers do not end up in on the Mac that 1 converted the capture buffer. from the PC but are unrecognizable with The spreadsheet is very much like a GIF Watcher. Looking at the files with trimmed down version of Excel. Column The integration is a big plus for CW. For only the native tools, I can see no widths and row heights are adjustable by instance, a mini-spreadsheet can be differences between them and 'good' GIF moving the marker to the desired size. It inserted in a word processor document by files. takes a short time to remember to begin just clicking on the tool bar and any spot formulas with an equal (=) sign rather in the document. All SS functions are I was disappointed with the translation to than the plus (+) sign as in AppleWorks. available then. Graphics may be originated AppleWorks. How long has AW 3.0 been Similarly, the at (@) sign is not used for in the WP document as well. The WP and around and CW supports transfers only to functions. Most of the often-used DB can work together in mail merge. 2.0 ???!! functions are available. Text flows much Some of the above are also available in the easier in the CW spreadsheet than in 'high end' word processors, but CW is The translators in ClarisWorks are AppleWorks. If you want to make available for less than $200. For a while, serviceable for word processing, but they indented subheadings, just overlap the they were offering CW for $100 if you are far from 100%. When I called the columns and start typing. One shortcom upgraded from other Claris products. support number, the fellow on the other ing of CW verses Excel I found was that That offer may have expired as I haven't end was most helpful in explaining the the user cannot select multiple columns seen it advertised in the latest mags. problems although I'm sure he would (or rows) that are not adjacent for the have liked to recommend other software same operation such as format of the cells. Color adds a lot to the capabilities and to do the conversions. No matter how you The graphing capability is easy to use, makes the finished documents more might wish for better translators, the AFE although I have not found a way to enjoyable if not easier to read. All in all, and CW combination is a lot more than is annotate the x-axis. ClarisWorks is a very useful package. I available in the Messy-DOS world. have compared it to dedicated single The graphics module is a functional function packages that each cost much There is no capability in the word drawing program. I would like to see a more than the single integrated package. I processor to create an index or table of lasso tool, but the included features are feel that it is a very good investment, contents automatically. The word otherwise adequate to create line art. especially for the home office. processor module can handle multiple Again, color may be added via tear off paragraph styles - one at a time by pallets. Once a graphic is created, it may Screenshots courtesy of Greg Carlsont Crash DTP Survival Course
by Bill Dickson - [email protected] ing, to read, and David explains the concepts that apply to the entire field, concepts deady and simply. The book is regardless of what software you use. Before, I couldn't even kern "Desktop well-organized, covering a single major Publisher. "Now I are one. topic in each chapter and breaking down As far as I'm concerned, the Typography concepts within each topic into easily and Styles & Codes chapters are So there I was, in a mild state of panic, digestible chunks. One could say that sufficient reason for you to buy David a babbling semi-coherendy at Adam over David is the intestinal enzyme of choice lot of beer if you run across him. They the phone. The manager of the Kinko's for the novice desktop publisher, except were all I needed for my immediate at which I work had decided to make the that he might take it the wrong way. concerns. I found a wealth of useful desktop publishing position official, Major topics indude: information in the other chapters of the which meant I could apply for it and try book as wdl, with the exceptions of the to escape boredom, bad hours, and • Graphic files - different types, how Scans & Halftones and Color chapters, poverty in a single stroke. Sadly, the they work, what they're good for which I didn't read past their first pages. extent of my desktop publishing ability To me, at least, those subjects are far was a general competency with the Mac • Fonts - similar issues more complex than the others, and even combined with a working knowledge of David was unable to simplify them to Microsoft Word 4.0. Not exacdy the • Word Processing - concepts, do's and the point where a total novice could foundation of an empire. don'ts, how-to's, and copy editing understand them. concepts "So what's the problem?" Adam asked On the other hand, after three months me. I explained that I had to learn • Typography - how to make it look on the job, I'm ready to go back and read PageMaker, FreeHand, and The Rules in good, and why you should make it those chapters. Not only will I now approximately four days. "Don't worry look good understand what they're talking about, about it," he said. "Come over tomorrow but it's getting to the point where I need night and I'll help you out." • Styles and Codes - how to make your to understand that information. Yes, life a whole lot easier that's right; I got the job, and I can What sort of hdp could he give me, I honesdy say that I don't think it would wondered? A crash course without pause • Scans and Halftones - how they have happened if not for the "Desktop for sleep? Self-hypnosis tapes? Incrimi work, how to work with them Publisher's Survival Kit." Before, I was a nating photographs of the interviewers? I measly weekend shift supervisor with no arrived, curious, and he handed me... a • Color - different kinds, how it night life, no money, an old Apple IIgs, book. displays, how it prints vast debt, and a cupboard full of Mission Macaroni and Cheese dinners. Now, I'm "This'll tell you everything you have to • Printing - different output devices, a desktop publisher with a Duo 210, lots know," he told me. I looked skeptical. It setting up, dealing with service of friends, a good social life, and enough was quite small, and a fairiy sickly shade bureaus, and much, much more money to brew a little beer on the side. I of green to boot. "Not everything you'll think I may be losing weight and gaining ever want to know to be a desktop • When Things Go Wrong - what can a deeper understanding of the cosmic publisher," he explained, notidng my go wrong, why it might, how to try to truths as wdl. expression. "Everything you absolutely fix it, and The Strangest Bug He's must know if you plan to be one. No Ever Seen (which you must see to Will the "Desktop Publisher's Survival more, no less." believe) Kit" do all this for you, too? There's only one way to find out. Damned if he wasn't right. • Software - the book also comes with a disk full of handy utilities, and David Peachpit Press - 800/283-9444 - 510/ David Blatner, author of the "Desktop explains what they are and why 548-4393 510/548-5991 (fax) Publisher's Survival Kit," (Peachpit they're useful to you. Press, ISBN# 0-938151-76-2, $22.95) from TidBITS, Copyright© 1990-1993 has successfully compacted a wealth of Note that the book does not give you Adam and Tonya Engst. vital information into a short, quick- instruction in any particular software reading volume. Despite the density of package. It's not meant as a software submitted by Peter Fleck ft information, it is easy, often entertain tutorial or a manual. It explains the Using Rules Above and Below
by Terry Wilson Rather, use Rules Below and if necessary the rule so that 30% of the space between make the header a special case if it needs a paragraphs, from descender to ascender, is Why make life tough by ignoring one of Rule Above, since it's a unique line on the object paragraph's side of the rule. the better features of page layout software? already. Good luck, if you choose this method. I'm referring to Rules Above and Below. Length But you don't have to work that way. Even a small four-line chart becomes a Simply specify a unit to define an absolute nuisance if you use the fine tool to draw The first choice you have to make is offset Most people are used to typing just lines. If you have to adjust your leading, Length. Choosing Indents makes the Rule the number, since in other dialogs Quark or change the width, you have to move as wide as the Left and Right paragraph assumes the unit. It never occurs to many your lines, one at a time, drag out some indents. If your indents are set to zero and people to type the unit here, and they sticky guides, adjust, eyeball, then select your text box has a zero text inset (bottom never even know you can work in absolute everything as a group if you want to move left field in the Modify box), then the offset values (unless they read the it. Who needs that nonsense? rules will be as wide as the text box. manual). Adjusting the width is as easy as resizing Setting Rules Above or Below takes no the text box. The other choice here is Once you enter a unit, Quark learns it, longer than drawing lines. But when it Text, used often for subheads. The rule and you can just enter plain numbers comes to making changes, there's no will be as long as the actual type in the afterward (for that particular paragraph) contest. Not only that, but a page full of adjacent (first or last) line of text. for fine tuning. drawn lines is a more complicated document and taxes the software, slowing The next choice is 'From Left:' and 'From An absolute offset measures from the down screen redraws. Use the Rules Right:'. These controls are to the rule's baseline (in both above and below) to the feature, and you simplify your construc Length as paragraph indents are to their rule. If you're using particulady thick tion and speed things up. And of course, if text box. If you type lp into these fields, rules, you should know that it measures to a chart is within a column of text, the the rule will start a pica late, and stop a the nearest (top or bottom) edge of the whole thing rides along when copy pica eady. This applies to either Indents rule, not the center. Use the Apply button reflows. or Text lengths, as covered above. Usually to see how you're doing.
Let's walk through the Quark procedure, The rest is cake and iron out a few misunderstandings. □ Rule Hoove IS Rots BolotB Stglo: Once you've gotten this far, you can coast Lengttt: Indents| Rules... the rest of the way. Style, width, color and From Left: Op UJWth: rf.pt | FromMgtit: Op Cater: shade are all self evident. You can type in Under the Style menu, choose Rules... or Offset: P3 suede: ▶ |icox | any width up to 7 inches in Quark type Command-shifr-N. Click the box - "^*^ I ( C a n c e l ] "OP'fr) (although I can't imagine why you'd go so indicating whether you want the rules wide). above or below the paragraph. When you dick the box, the dialog expands. these fields stay at 0, but there's an Tips and things to know important discussion on this later. Above or Below? Reversed heads. By using Rule Above and Offset can be confusing setting a negative offset value, you can get I choose Rules Below for charts, because the rule to lay behind the type. This only often the header doesn't need a rule above Offset is the next field, and is probably the works on a one line paragraph, of course, it, but the last line always needs a line after biggest reason people throw up their and there's a limit to how negative you it. If you chose Rule Above, you would hands and say "Forget id" In Quark, the can go (half of the rule width value). For have to make a special case out of the last default value is 0%. If you type a number, more than one line of type, be unpure and line and add a Rule Below. This would Quark assumes %, and you get an offset use hard returns between lines. You'll have make this line not identical to die other value that's vague, and only works when to play with different rule widths and lines in the body. This is not pure. (You there's a paragraph on the other side of offsets, and maybe leading, to get it right, wouldn't want to have to throw in a blank your rule. (If your paragraphs break but just use the Apply button with trial line just to get a rule at the end of your between columns, you don't get your rule and error technique. (This doesn't work chart, either. That's really unpure.) then, either.) A 30% value would place with Rules Bdow, because you can't raise the rule high enough.) Make sure the top line doesn't jam into between paragraphs to accommodate your the box by either starting out with a tiny 2 rules, you have to jump into the Para Charts in boxes. If you make a chart in a point return, or be a real purist and go graph Format dialog. box with a frame, you need to approach into the Modify box again and set the things a little differendy. First Baseline to a value that works. Try If you turn off a previously set Rule Above the same size as the type size of the first or Below, Quark remembers the settings Normally when you put a frame on a text line; this will give you a little space. (This in case you want to get it back. box, you also specify a text inset in the feature is most definitely Quark's vaguest.) Modify dialog so there's breathing space The next time you're tempted to draw between the text and the box border. Remember shift-return. Sometimes a line lines all over the place, take a few seconds When you do this, Rules will not in a chart has to take up two lines because to figure out Rules - it's not as hard as encroach on that text inset, so there's no the text in the first column is too long. you think. way for them to reach the sides of the box. Use shift-return to make a line break, retaining the paragraph's integrity. If you ©1993 Terry Wilson. Reprinted from But there is a way. Set the text inset to 0. hit return instead, besides not being pure, PMUG Dialog, newsletter of the Princeton Set you paragraph margins (Left and you have to deal with an unwanted rule. Macintosh Users Group. Right Indents) to whatever your inset would have been, say 6 points (expressed Further paragraph adjustments. The Rules as p6). Now in the Rules dialog, set the dialog is separate from the Paragraph Width to Indents, and the From Left and Format dialog in Quark. It's a little From Right to -6 points. inconvenient, but if you need more space
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restart), the PDS files may be bad (trash them, they are in Q What are files in the image format? the File Sharing folder inside Preferences), the invisible A They are files in the DiskCopy format. Get DiskCopy or AppleShare PDS file may be corrupted (make it visible with DiskTop or ResEdit and then trash it), or there may be a Mound mage to work with them. bad block, which means you'll have to backup your files, reformat the hard disk, and restore your files. Q How do I do a network install? General Questions A Make a "Network Install" folder on your hard disk. Then insert each disk necessary for the install, and drag the floppy Q Why don't I get 8-bit icons for floppies and CD-ROMs? icon on top of the "Network Install" folder. This will create folders inside the "Network Install" folder. Move the A Because of the way the drivers are written. Then why is Installer and install script out of the "Install 1" folder to the there an 8-bit icon for floppies? For dialogs like the one used top level of the "Network Install" folder. Then share the in the Installer. Look for a freeware extension from Andrew "Network Install" folder and launch the installer over the Welch called Discolour - it will give you nice icons for network. floppies. Q What printer driver do I use with my LaserWriter IISC Q How do I avoid rebuilding the desktop files when switching under System 7? between System 6 and System 7? A The 7.0 Personal LaserWriter SC driver on the Printing A Get the Desktop Manager extension and load it in your Tools disk. System 6.0.x System Folder. It's part of AppleShare 2.0.1, part of the Oscar package at ftp.apple.com, and part of the Q Why does Virtual Memory create a file the same size as total Eudora mail package. If you don't have FTP access, get memory? Why not a file the size of the difference between someone that has FTP access to get it for you or get physical RAM and total RAM? AppleShare 2 (which is no longer sold). A Because it's a gazillion times faster. [Connectix does not Q What's the email address for Apple? agree and Virtual 3.0 has a Disk Saver mode that uses only the space you request.] A There is no general email address. For bug reporting you can send email to
A ftp.apple.com, some user groups or APDA (800/282-2732 A It's a feature of Easy Access, a Control Panel that allows from the US, 800/637-0029 from Canada, or 408/562- people allergic to mice to use the keyboard instead. 3910 for international). APDA = Apple Programmers &C Developers Association. Q I have System 7, should I upgrade to 7.0.1?
Q I've heard there is unused space on my Apple HD? How can A For 98% of people - don't bother. The changes are minor I use it? Why is there unused space? and the new SANE routines which speed up a very few math-intensive applications only help people with Ilci's or A With Apple HD SC Setup you can see some information better and only help applications that use the SANE about the hard disk. Click Partitions, click Custom, and routines rather than using the FPU directly. If you really then click Details. There is usually unused space on Apple want it, it's available dirough ftp.apple.com, dealers, user hard drives; you will see gray space in die bottom of your groups and online services. More importandy, get the partition map with the size to die left. If you reformat your System 7 Tune Up 1.1.1. hard drive you can use this unused space. Backup your entire disk then boot from a floppy containing Apple HD Q Should I upgrade to 7.1 ? SC Setup, click Partition, select your main Macintosh volume and delete it, click Custom, click and drag from just A Yes, if you like die idea of a separate folder for fonts, instead below the top partition all the way to the bottom, select of storing them in the System file. Yes, if you don't want to Macintosh volume in die resulting dialog and then you will worry about what version of Tune Up you have installed not be wasting any space on your hard drive. There is since 7.1 includes the various Tune-Ups built in. Yes, if you unused space because Apple gets hard disks from various are excited about future add-ons (like OCE and vendors (various sizes) and wants them to look the same AppleScript) and want to be ready now. No, if you have a after the default formatting. So all 40 MB hard disks are 32-bit dirty Mac (like all, Ilex, Ilx, or SE/30), use more formatted at a certain size; if the drive happens to really be dian 8 MB of RAM and don't want to worry about what 42 MB, there is 2 MB of unused space. software to use in order to access all of your RAM (see TidBITS #167 for more info). No, if you don't want to pay Q Sometimes I see a folder named Move&Rename at die top for die upgrade. No, if your Mac works great now and you level of my hard disk. What is that? don't need any of the Yes reasons just yet.
A It is a folder created and used by System 7 File Sharing. If from TidBITS, Copyright© 1990-1993 Adam and Tonya Engst. you turn off File Sharing the Macintosh will delete it. Just submitted by Peter Fleck #
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lale, from page 16 would probably have blown over, had keeping them under some semblance of the so-called inflammatory messages organization? How do online services fit per on this issue, was quoted as saying simply been ignored). into the over-all user group mission? there was no censorship, just ddetion of What is this mission anyway? User "disruptive" and deliberately inflamma As computers become more a business groups need to come up with good tory messages by people using the system tool and less a homebrew hobby, many answers to convince people they're worth for personal, and juvenile, grudges. user groups are having a hard time the price of a membership. However, since Grenoble himsdf doesn't defining roles and rules. Can one group use bulletin boards or email, he probably meet the increasingly diverse demands of from TidBITS, Copyright© 1990-1993 failed to understand what a passionate the corporate user, the home user, the Adam and Tonya Engst. response the message deletions would novice user, the power user? How do you evoke (or how quickly the whole issue attract and keep volunteers, while submited by Peter Fleck fl Ife been centuries since working with numbers was this easy
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