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December 1989 Vol.5, l'kI.11

ISSN 0885-4017 newstand price: $2.50 A______journal .______and excbange .______of Apple ._._. H discoveries ______.______photocopy charge per pag 0_'-e: $0.15 the new systems III meet orders. Another example is the market-wide slump which occurred before the inlrodudion of the IBM i'Cjr as buyers Year of the rumor waited to see what IBM would offer (it seems laughable now, of course). For At the 1989 World Science fiction COnvention. respected science fireon IhJs reason. Apple and many companies have adopted the "vow of sil"';ce" and fantasy author OlSOn Scott Card conducted a panel session titled "A that IBM has long held: "we do not comment on unannounced products . Thousand Ideas An Hour'. The purpose of.the session was III take somes­ Apple's use of this veil is not ahvays consistenL Apple oIIen discusse.s lions from the audience and use them III build a frnmework for a SUlly. At fuhae directions for Macintosh technology (such as for Mac System SoII­ every step the stooy, though Ilct:ionaJ. had III exhibtt a certain conformity III ware 7.0). but does not treat the Apple It equivalently: new feaIures ri kl!FcaI ·e.. news from opinions, and readers need III be analytical about what they III 1989 we've heanI ~ stories ranging from a new a1I-powerful read. Let's analyze a few of the rumors of this year. and do some qualified IIgs that will undermine the Macintosh, III a powerful, inexpen<;ive Macin­ guessing about what It means working with what we currently know about tosh that Mac proponents within Apple will use to persuade the company III Apple and its users, drop the Apple II. Impetus for the rumOIS comes from the rather confusing state of Apple's actions over the past few years, and possibly (only possibly) from occasional "leaks" within the company. Mostly. they are helped along by the determination of each camp's (Mac and Apple II) "faithful" to seize upon any excuse to lambaste the other Apple itself hasn't done a good job of tJ}ing III allay the anlagonism. which has even divided some user groups. Some of the most damaging rumor mongering has been among the media where the "reporting' of rumOIS seems intent on creating the very etlect that they speak Ill. An example is the December 1989 HacUser "report' that the Apple II division will be spun off with steve Woznial< at the helm. and a Mac SE with 20 meg hard disk will be released for $995. These "Journalists" are not reporting news. they are repeating statements not clear­ ly based on facts and then adding an edilllriaJ opinion as if the rumor WaApple displays, none were higlHesolution color RGB monitor). Does it 1001< credible that Apjlle will running a ~QJlIl.Ii!:ation. At Apple's boOth at tli 1989 Apple f1esta, build a color Macintosh ;!lJ1#.iWill.J» cost competitive witlj'-'!ippIl!'lf(5j- MS­ the lIc Plus lfjey'were using for demonstrations was not even set up proper· DOS systems when the video· display alone comes in at $15OO? This pr0- Iy; it was laid flat on a tabletop with no ventilation!) jects Apple building the most expensive enby~evel system of the last The conclusion is that Apple needs amass-market alternative, and this decade, or On the rase of a dramatic cost reduction) devastating the rev· started the 'cheap color Mac' rumors. But we've already discounted the enue they've been malApple I>iI be conductiDg several holiday proIIICIIions through the the Mac (the I~ requires an Apple II SCSI Interface card; the Mac's SCSI end of 1989 that include the I!P- interface is built in), The cost of adding a color monitor ilself is much Jess: The first is an opIion for a "Free Tt1a1 Run or Cash Back" on a quaJiJYing Apple or Macintosh system from October 14 through December 31 , the IIgs mon~or Is Jess expensive and requires no expensive interface. The Ilgs cost of adding the video disk player is the same: unlike the Mac, where you 1989. Customers thai meet Apple financing riltena and purchase a IIgs sys­ would need to buy a separate monitor for the videodisk player, you can tem with Apple monrror and disk drive can gel $t5O cash back on an Im~eWriter II printer. LaserWrlter IISC, or III'!fX prirter, elect to spend the money on an Apple II Video Overlay card for t/je II~ and or LQ 1I1'!1', externaJ use the IIgs monitor. Notice the latter option allows You to overlay video and Hard Disk 20SC, AppleCD SC ([}.ROM disc drive, Apple scanner, or Apple oomputer displays for enhanced eIIects! Apple cuts the price of the hyper· Personal' Modem (notice that IIgs·specific drivers .for the lmageWriter LQ. media engine in hall, possibly at the loss of some capabilities, but with the LaserWriter IISC, and Apple Scanner aren't available at this time: they addition of some others. appear to be there for Mac partidpants). Or the customer can shun the Where does this leave Hype!StudkP. Probably with supfflor features; rebate for a peripheral and instead take the system horne for a Free TriaJ I'nger Wagner himseff says that HyperSludio was not designed as a done of Run. to be returned without cost between Januaty ] through 15, 1990, at HyperCmd for the Mac, which we have postulated is the tac an Apple no cost if the customer elects not to pun:hase the system. If a decision to HyperCmd as must take. As mentioned, a representative Macintosh audio pun:hase is made before December 3}. 1989, and the pun:hase Is 00: part digitizer is $295. On a 1Igs, you can buy H}]JeI5tudio ,,1th a digitizer includ· of an Apple Operating Lease program, a $100 bonus is given off the price ed for Jess than half thai. and have an enhanced hypermedia product to of the system. boot. HyperSllJdio will lJ'ObabIy remain the premiere IIgs hypermedia tool Several companies are also offering money·back offers on software titles for schools wanting to specialize in applicatioos tailing fuU advan~ of the in ccnjunction with the promolion. The software can be purchased or 11gs. HyperCmd as would primarily be of interest to educalDrswho are returned directly to its manufacturer if the Apple system is not kept: if the using Macintosh and Ilgs oomputers in a shared environment it would allow system is kept the purchased software must be kept them to cross

ing sales are news to Apple; this will be a test for Evangelism, who should at Jbe 'oomplete" ...mOD of JIypeIStudio is obipping to registered least correct any mistaken impression on SoftView's part, and (if they are use,,; who have bought the previous vo,,;ions. If you haven't registered your mistaken) ask that Softview not make misleading and potentially damaging copy with Roger Wagner Publishing, send in that warranty card! comrrients reg;Irding the Apple II market We believe IIyper5Iudio may be the program that ' makes' the IIgs, as If you want to use AppleWorks to do your taxes, 1040Works is a package VisicaJc did for the Apple II, AppleWorks did for the llejllc, LoIus I ·2·J did of AppleWorks templates, macros, and other utilITies thai can compute for the IBM pc, and Pagemaker (and other desktop publishing programs) form 1040, Schedules A, B, C, D, E, f, R. and AE, and Forms 2106, 2441, did for the Mac. (See this month's catalog for an important announcement.) 4562, 6251, 8582, 8606, 8615, and 8914 along with the~ worksheets. Applied Engineering has a new 300/1200/2400 modem called the 1040Works has been updated for AppleWorks 3.0, runs on a 12811 ma­ DataIlnk Express. Irs an external model that has a unique Une Engage indio chine, and costs $24.95. J04OWorks-X includes some enhaocements but cator .to tell' you if the phone line the modem is connected to is in use, a requires at least a 001\ (expanded) desktop, it costs $27.95 (both priers are velY handy Item if you're using the modem on an extension. The modem for 5.25 disks; for 3.5 ve"",,ns, add $3). Both are available from Peoonal includes telecommunications software for Apple II, Macintosh, and M~ financial SeIVices, P. O. Box 140 I, Melville, N. Y. 11747. systems, has a five·year warranty, and retails for $249. Options include aaris aDIIOUDCeS a long-awaited upgrade to AppieWotb as. Ver· MNP4 error correction ($89) and a sen or a patch to the fi.nal ADB file rather than move them Apple· Baudot code. This is a five·blt code. make AppleWorks running on a lI·Plus do some· Works 3.0 automatically converts enllies going Instead of going to all the trouble to modIfy thing. we don·t know where to send you ". into date fields to the appropriate format. I his modem and write his own communications I just want to menUon lhat I used Llnk's don't believe this feature . is mentioned in the sofiware, he could try to lind an old NovaUon SuperPatch J.I to modify AppleWorlle Valley Road 50 at the beginning of block. Block I contains ate whether compatibility problems of their lIauiesha, Iliac. 53189 own doing are contributing to some consumer the code for the color changing. An uncorrupted When the IIgs was introduced, Apple Com­ resistance. Programs that don't run with Apple­ block 0 begins with the bytes $01 38 BO. In this puter sent some develope" a Hac utility ca/led case block 1 is either empty (containing all Share and currenl system software versions get FOllt MUDger that could be used to prepare OO's) or has reference to the SOS operating sys· shelved fairly quicldy here: this includes prod· fonts to be copied to a IIgs disk and used, but tern 01 the Apple III. ucts that use copy protecUon schemes that it was never released as a product. It fell into preclude hard disk or network installation (for The virus installs in RAM and can be deleted the limbo of copyrighted products that were single user, within the product's terms only by shutting down the system power or by a of never released, and therefore can 't be dis­ initiating the bullt·ln self·test routines of the use). tributed legally except by the copyright holder. The fST's (lile system translators) are IIgs. If in RAM the virus installs itself on every Chris Budewig (a.l<.a. Iievin I'lynn) has writt en unaffected 3.5 disk In the drive with every as/os's method of communicating with vari· a BASIC program tWed fO/YT,JIIlIIY(jfiR that can ous devices in a standard way. You need to open-apple-control-reset. It seems it installs only assist in converling a Hac font once you isolate have the fsrs for the liIe system(s) you use on the disks in the boot drive . J have some data the resource fork from the Hac file containing disks which I usually put into the second 3.5 (normally ProDOS: possibly AppleShare or oth· the font to a ProDOS disk using a utility such ers) and for the devices that may need support drive which were not affected, although the pro­ . as John Wolfs Jlfac1i'an.s. You will have to sup­ (CtfAR.fST for chal3cter devices, such as the gram disk was. ply some information to fO/YT.JIIlIIY(jfill. you keyboard), Normally, Installer should install the To eliminate the virus from .the disks is rather can ext13ct most of this information from the ones you need.-DJD simple. Just use a sector editor (like Copy II . font resourr:e using Chris' ImSUST utility. Plus) to overwrite blocks 0 and I with the same Joy(stick) with a mouse Chris' flies include the basic instructions with blocks from an unaffected disk. the program, But. if you want a fpnt number Udo tluth You might advise Mr. Pagani (5.38a) that from the AZ·CeDtral font Clearinghouse, you Witt mar, West Germany Happ Electronics, 3850 N. Main Street (or 4640 will s/iJI need to contact Hark.-DJD The virus does seem to be relatively innoc­ Island View), Oshkosh, Wlsc. 54901. (4 14) 23t· 5128. make several "socket extenders" for COUS; overwriting blocks 0 and I but leaving Affordable(?) laser printing the res/ of the disk una/faded. When It "goes Apple II Plus, lie and IIc models. These include I was seriously considering purchasing a off" it forees you to boot from an uninfected ones t~at allow more than one joystiCk or I.aserWriter SC for my IIgs tiust to play around). diskette and restore the boot blocks of all mouse to be attached to the lie at once. While Iypically sold to allow more than one joystick to But I found out that il was not a Post&ript infected disks: it's an irritant more than any· device. thing else. We 've induded a fix on this be active at once for multi·prayer games, they Would an older I.aserWriter (used) at $1895 month's disk which was provided by Brian would probably work for what he wanls. Con· tact Rick Napp, president of the company, for be a better buy? Or a LaserWriter Plus (used) at f'fcCaig. who was one of the flrst to report the $23957 Or the· I.aserWriter SC at $ t 980? virus in the V.5. more information and current pricing. I have been using one of the extenders they Joe&hmidt To explain the difference in the contents of West Milford, N.J. block I : originally, the boot code blocks 0 and make for the lIe/llgs for a couple of years now I contained code to allow the disk to boot on with no problems, and 'my experience with sup­ Do you recommend the LaserWriter NT to an Apple II using ProDOS or an Apple III using port for other programs they sell has been print with Apple Works as and Publish·JtJ 2.0, or SOS. When as/os arrived, the boot code was excellent. I recommend them highly. should one wait and see what develops in modified .-DJD Jack Countlyman terms of higher-quaJity printing? Greenburg, Ind. tlorst Moehr1

We have been (very happily) using a Laoer· layo~t be .thrashed? Will I lose all graphics graphics uWity program, tlren print everything Writer 1ft but tire price will scare off most images? Will the fonts be the same? condensed, or to not use condensed print and people. We have seen a $695 cartridge adver­ . Alan Hansen live witlr tall letters. (See the february issue for tised for the Hewlett·PacJ ers such as the one Adobe supplies for down· isted m::utiy sn:e JiInWy 19E6,. ~ I'i::es (rl us. tda;s; aimaI loading its (commercial) printer fonts. The It's serious, folks 00IMxy iQ.decI aI 00 IIIi:i'U'oaI d'age~ S2B b 1 ~ $54 br:l pan;; $78 lor Thanks for your continuing tenilic work. 1 3 )'8ift. AI badI issues aro WIll!ItlIy MiaH9 b S2 &adI; bcu1d. mexoo eo. place you go to print may have such a program IOns rJ III !!sL bs...aumes ere $1 4.95 eam. \tlMTIes en:! wI1 [he JalJary available. have a IIgs, which I use extensively in my law is9Je; an l mbr lhe ~..wr. . I ~wfl the Febuay issoo. practice (mainly business litigation). I what .. The lui text of each issUIl 0( A.l..cnrtralis aYallabiE! on 3.5 disks, ~rg You'll a/so need a way to transfer tire file ~ a se\ecliol1 of Ihe beSl Il8\ll pt,Ibic domain and shareware fi les!lo'l! pro­ from a ProDOS disk to the Mac. Apple file heartedly agree with your view that the Apple II SI1I m~ lor $84 a yeal lfIIl'