Call–A.P.P.L.E. World’s Largest Apple User Group Magazine Volume 27 Number 1 January/February 2017 www.callapple.org Steve Jobs’ Secret Life as a Quiet Philanthropist Applesoft BASIC Web Server Review – Swift Be My Playground Akalabeth: The Beginning of a Legacy Sierra Patcher for Older Macs Call-A.P.P.L.E. 1979 Compendium Virtual II 7.5.4 GBBS Pro – The Official Archive Brutal Deluxe – I’m fEDD Up 2.2 Apple PugetSound Program Library Exchange Volume 27 Number 1 January/February 2017 www.callapple.org A.P.P.L.E. Board of Directors A.P.P.L.E. Staff Chairman – Bill Martens Editor-in-Chief – Bill Martens Director – Brian Wiser Managing Editor – Brian Wiser Director – Jim Maricondo Staff Writer – Javier Rivera Data Digitization – Antoine Vignau Production & Design Bill Martens Contributing Authors Brian Wiser Rick Sutcliffe Frank Petrie Cover Photo Bill Martens Call-A.P.P.L.E. 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We offer brand names are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the in-magazine, on-site, and full sponsorship for prospective United States and other countries. All other brand names and advertisers. trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange – 540 E. Emerald Lake Dr, Grapeview, WA 98546 i A look back at the year past and the goings on within A.P.P.L.E. Last year went by really quickly and this month has gone by the tools they need to program in any language they wish on in a flash with a number of things going on in the Apple the Apple II, and to have not only the software but also the computing realm. The first item is the fact that February best-possible version of the manual, and in some cases marks the 29th anniversary since the founding of the making a physical manual available for the first time. A.P.P.L.E. user group by Val J. Golding. You can read more about our history at: www.callapple.org/about/history These new manuals are licensed from and coordinated with the original authors and benefit the original authors of the My first order of business to cover this month is to welcome packages. We have made it a goal over the past few years our new members and to thank our returning members. to ensure that the original authors continue to benefit from Also, just a public service announcement, but KansasFest is their software being available. And while they do not cost only half a year away now and we are already hard at work near what they did at the height of the Apple II industry, preparing for the 2017 rendition of the event. sales of the manuals still provide a benefit to both the consumer and the authors. One of the things I wanted to talk about this month is the return of the A.P.P.L.E. Programming Tools. We have been While there are some people now producing fakes on eBay working on bringing these tools back once again to the without regard for the authors and respecting copyrights, all forefront. of our books and software utilities / games are completely coordinated with the original authors in order to protect both With Robert Gallup’s Turtlesoft being our first package to our members and our users – and to do the right thing. return in its full glory with a new ProDOS version and These projects take a good deal of time, even prior to the redesigned manual, we also have GPLE, ProBASIC, software being produced. Our opinion is that all good Ampermanager, and DOS 3.3.5 among others making a software should be available with both the manual and the return to the A.P.P.L.E. library in the coming months – software and that the author should be remunerated. Sadly, exclusively for A.P.P.L.E. members. too many people do not see it this way. The goal of these items returning to the library is to ensure In the case of books such as What’s Where in the Apple: that the next generation of Apple II programmers have all of Enhanced Edition and Nibble Viewpoints, these projects took 2 far more time than almost any others we did because we had to re-scan the original materials to a quality which allowed for the best possible, yet still imperfect OCR quality. And after that, seemingly endless amounts of editing, creative expansion, and correcting legacy mistakes and omissions took a vast amount of time. While we here at A.P.P.L.E. do not take on any project lightly, our goal is always that we want whatever the project is to be a benefit to our readers, our members, and to the retro- computing community as a whole. With 2016 completed, we looked back and found that the number of new books and manuals were were able to introduce this year was greater than any year – five new books (What’s Where in the Apple: Enhanced Edition, Nibble Viewpoints, Colossal Computer Cartoon Book, Call-A.P.P.L.E. 1979 Compendium, Monitor Peeled), one updated book (The WOZPAK: Special Edition), and one redesigned manual (Turtlesoft). Whew! Oh, and let's not forget the retro game Structris for iOS! A.P.P.L.E. Presents: This was a wonderful accomplishment and great credit must Call-A.P.P.L.E. In Depth go to Brian Wiser for his production, design, editing, and steadfast checking for those nasty little mistakes that creep in. We have a number of other projects in the wings for 2017. Many of the new projects will be announced to our members through the members mailing list. If you are not getting your members mailings, be sure to check your SPAM filter. We have received notices of SPAM filters catching all of our emails and are currently working to resolve this issue for the long term. This year, we are expanding our software library as well. You will find both the new titles and legacy items in the library under the "Software" section of the website. Stay tuned for more as we continue releasing new issues of Call-A.P.P.L.E. magazine, more books, programs, and other exciting projects. Available to A.P.P.L.E. Members Join Today at: www.callapple.org/members 3 Sierra Patcher for Older Macs Many Mac users who still use their older Mac Book Pros and However, if you have any one of the following Macs, the other older Macs found a nasty surprise when recently Apple macOS Sierra Patcher will not work. decided that Sierra would no longer support these models. Unsupported Models: Well for some users, this just will not do. If you are one of 2006-2007 Mac Pros, iMacs, MacBook Pros, and Mac Minis those Apple users who needs the latest OS on your (MacPro 1,1 and 2,1, iMac 4,1, 5,1, 5,2, 6,1 and 7,1, computer, there is now the macOS Sierra Patcher. MacBook Pro 1,1, 2,1, and 3,1, Mac Mini 1,1 and 2,1) The patcher allows those users with the older machines to * The 2007 iMac 7,1 is compatible if the CPU is upgraded to successfully install Sierra on their 2008 and 2009 Macs. a Penryn-based Core 2 Duo, such as a T9300. While this is fine for the supported machines, there are some machines and hardware from the same time frame that is not 2006-2008 MacBooks (MacBook 1,1, 2,1 3,1 and 4,1) supported by the patcher. 2008 MacBook Air (MacBookAir 1,1) Supported Models: Early-2008 or newer Mac Pro, iMac, or MacBook Pro We recently decided to upgrade several Macs at A.P.P.L.E.