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Calendar of MAY 1992 Events M T W T F 1
4 5 6 Mac Main Meeting 7 8 Bloomington Educational Center 90th St & Portland Ave. So. 7.00 p.m. Rooms 210-211 Subject: Video Spigot Mike Carlson: 866-3441 Melvyn Magree: 559-1108
11 12 13 14 15 Apple II GS and ^mini'app'les Apple II Main Meeting Board Meeting SWAP MEET Washburn Com. Library 7:00 p.m. 5244 Lyndale Ave. So.Mpls. Lexington Branch Library Saturday May 16th Subject:: Genealogy Programs University & Lexington Aves. Tom Ostertag: 488-9979 St. Paul, MN, 7:00 p.m. Apache Plaza David Laden: 488-6774 10 - 3 p.m. —> ** FileMaker Pro SIG *21 18 MacCAD/E SIG 19 20 22 Micro Age Computers Highland Park Library Fourth Dimension'" SIG 5909 Baker Rd. Suite 530 7-9:00 p.m. Autoline, 2714 Patton Rd, Minnetonka 7:00 p.m. Steve Wilmes 450-7448 St. Paul, 7:00 p.m. Bill Langer: 937-9240 North Shore MacCIG Ian Abel: 824-8602 Daron Applequist: 938-7001 Bethlehem Lutheran Church MircoSoft Works SIG Grand Marais, 7:00 p.m. Highland Br. Library, 7:00 p.m. Jim Ringquist: 218-387-2234 25 26 27 28 29 AppleWorks0 SIG Mac Programmer SIG Mac Desktop Murray Jr. High, 2200 Buford Murray Jr. High, St. Paul, Publishing SIG St. Paul, 7:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. Subject:: Think-C Jefferson El. School, Rm 201 25th St & Hennipin Ave So Subject:: Maceos/Task Gervaise Kimm: 379-1836 Files - What.How.Why Bob Grant: 827-6294 Jim Shields: 434-9836
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Coordinators, please call Dick Aura (941-1198) by the 1st to have your meeting listed correctly. THE CALENDAR FOR JUNE IS ON PAGE 4 The Minnesota Apple Computer Users' Group, Inc. mini'app'les P.O. Box 796, Hopkins, MN 55343
Board Members: 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 © by mini'app'les. Articles may be reproduced in other non-profit Board of Directors User Groups' publications except where specifically copyrighted by the President David E. Laden 488-6774 author. (Permission to reproduce these articles must be given by the author.) 675 West Wheelock Pkwy, Please include the source when reprinting. St. Paul, MN 55117 Questions — Please direct questions to an appropriate board member. Vice-President Tom Lufkin 698-6523 Users with technical questions should refer to the Members Helping Mem 2078 Highland Parkway bers section. St. Paul, MN 55116 Membership — mini'app'les Secretary attn: Membership Coordinator P.O. Box 796 Treasurer Hopkins MN 55343 All members receive a subscription to the newsletter and all club benefits. Publications New members receive a package of member lists and software catalogs. Rand Sibet 560-8103 Membership eDOMs At Mail Software Greg Carlson 544-8252 Meetings Order Operations & Resource Allen Mackler 424-8889 M e m b e r s : 5 1 / 4 " e D O M s S 3 . 0 0 Add SIG: Macs Tom Shaff 225-1191 5 1 / 4 " S y s t e m $ 1 . 0 0 $1.00 SIG: Apples Tom Gates 789-1713 3 1/2" Apple/Mac eDOMs S5.00 Director At-Large Jason Mooney 894-3778 3 1 / 2 " S y s t e m S 3 . 0 0 per 3 1/2" System 7.0 (9 disks) S15.00 disk, Coordinators Non-Members: 5 1/4" eDOMs S6.00 $4.00 maximum. Beginners Consultant Earl Benser 884-2148 3 1/2" Apple/Mac eDOMs Si0.00 Dakota County Tom Michals 452-5667 Make checks payable to: mini'app'les Shows &. Conventions Mail to Mini'app'les: Attention: CDOM Sales Volunteer Coordinator P.O. Box 796, Hopkins, MN 55343 866-3441 Mac Users SIG Mike Carlson (days) Dealers — mini'app'les does not endorse specific dealers. The club Melvyn Magree 559-1108 promotes distribution of information which may help members identify best 4tli Dimension SIG Ian Abel 824-8602 buys and service. The club itself does not participate in bulk purchases of CAD & Engin. SIG Bill Langer 937-9240 media, software, hardware and publications. Members may organize such DeskTop Pub. SIG Bob Grant 827-6142 activities on behalf of other members. FileMaker Pro SIG Steve Wilmes 450-7448 Newsletter Contributions - Please send contributions directly to HyperCard SIG Peter Fleck 370-0017 die Newsletter Manager, David Undlin, 6670 West 133rd St., Apple Valley, Mac Computer Art. MN 55124 or upload to David on the mini'app'les BBS or DTP Exchange & Design SIG Joy Kopp 440-5436 BBSs. You can also reach Dave at 432-0913 (voice & FAX). Mac Novice SIG Tom Lufkin 698-6523 Deadline for material for the next newsletter is the 1st of the month. An Mac Programming SIG Gervaise Kimm 379-1836 article will be printed when space permits and, if in the opinion of the MicroSoft Works SIG Ken Edd 631-3679 Newsletter Editor or Manager, it constitutes material suitable for publication. Jim Ringquist North Shore Mac Users (218) 387-2234 Meeting Dates — Please phone calendar dates and changes to: Dick Aura at 941-1198. Apple II Users SIG Tom Ostertag 488-9979 Apple UGS SIG Mark Evans 935-7251 mini'app'les BBS - 892-3317,24 hours: 8 data, 1 stop, 0 parity AppleWorks SIG Jim Shields 434-9836 mini'app'les Voice Mail -229-6952 Apple II DTP Beginner's Basic SIG Tom Alexander 698-8633 Advertising — this position is vacant Languages/Tech SIG Wesley Johnson 636-1826 Tech. Adviser (hdwre)
Software Director's Staff Newsletter Publication Staff Mac eDOMs: Jacque Gay, Jim Spencer & Mary Publications Director Kosowski Newsletter Manager David Undlin 432-0913 Apple eDOMs: Bill Job, Randy Peterson & Tom Gates Editor Michelle Parks 571-3788 eDOM Sales: Mac - Allen Mackler & Mary Kosowski Advertising Apple - Les Anderson Production Manager Earl Holdridgc 922-7311 Liaison Contacts (Contact with non-mini'app'les SIGs) Layout Layout Jane Vandcn Plas 537-4384 Genealogy Melvyn Magree 559-1108 Dick Aura 941-1198 Medical Stewart Haight 644-1838 Calendar/Delivery Contributing Editor/Layout Tom Edwards 927-6790 CP/M Jim Rosenow (414)261-2536 PACER Center Karen Samuels 827-2966 Contributing Editor Peter Fleck 370-0017 TC/PC Gervaise Kimm 379-1836 Contributing Editor Steve George 935-5775 Circulation this issue: 1000 VOL. 15, NO. 5 CONTENTS May 1992 I N T H I S I S S U E
Welcome New Members 5 Mac HyperCard SIG News 5 Notes From the Mac Programmer's SIG 6 m& • • ' System 7 Upgrades in the Workplace 7 Exploring the Apple/IBM Alliance 9 A New Macintosh, the LC II 12 TidBITS#112/13-Mar-92 — Another New Mac Virus 13 Please accept my 14 Apple II Frequently Asked Questions mini'app'les MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION. System Software Listing 17 IIGS Terms: Excerpted From the "'Beginnes' Notebook" 18 Please Print or Type: It It's Going to be Called a Profession, Then It... 20 1. Name From the Desk of Our Software Director
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Macintosh Main Meeting . Thur., June 4 BtommirigtonEckal)C^(^r^90th&Port^ Note 6 * Apple II &GS Main Meeting Mon., June 8 Washburn Library, 5244 Lyndale Note 11 Board Meeting Thur., June 11 Lexington Branch Library, St. Paul Note 1, Members welcome Fourth DimensionSIG Mon., June 15 Autoline, 2714 Patton Road, St. Paul Note 2 Micro Soft Works SIG Tues., June 16 Highland Br. Library, SL Paul Note 10 MacCAD/ESIG Tues., June 16 Micro Age Computers 5909 Blake RdMtka. Note 8 & 19 FileMaker Pro SIG Thur., June 18 Highland Park Library, St. Paul Note 20 (a new SIG) North Shore CIG Thur., June 18 Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Grand Marais Note 15 HyperCarcTSIG Mon., June 22 801W 771/2 Street, Mpls. Note 5 Mac Novice SIG Mon., June 22 Highland Park Library, St Paul Note 9 Macintosh Programmer SIG Tues., June 23 Murray Jr. High, 2200 Buford, SL Paul Note 18 Mac Desktop Publishing SIG Wed., June 24 Jefferson El Sch Rm 201,25th & Henn. Note 3 AppleWorks® SIG Thur., June 25 Murray Jr. High, 2200 Buford, St. Paul Note 10
1. Dave Laden 488-6774 6. Melvyn Magree 559-1108 11. Tom Ostertag 488-9979 18. Gervaise Kimm 379-1836 2. Ian Abel 824-8602 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 Rtngquist (218)387-2234 20. Steve Wilmes 450-7448 4. Mke Carlson 866-3441 9. Tom Lufkin 698-6523 16. Tom Michals 452-5667 5. Peter Fleck 370-0017 10. Jim Shields 434-9836 17. John Hackbarth (715) 246-6561
Coordinators - Please Call Dick Aura (941-1198) by the 1st of the month preceding the issue month to have your meeting listed correctly. Members Helping Members
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Mac HyperCard SIG News by Peter Fleck No May meeting SIG Coordinator Wanted
Next Meeting: June 22, 1992 at the East Lake Effective with the June 22 meeting, I am resign Library in Minneapolis, 2727 E. Lake Street, ing as the SIG Coordinator for the HyperCard near Minnehaha Mall, Target, Rainbow, and group. I hope to devote more time to writing (in Podany's. cluding writing for the club newsletter) and to Times: 6:30-8:45 volunteering in other ways for the club. Duties: The bottom line is to schedule the meet Directions: From 1-94, take the 25th Ave/River side exit and go south on 25th (becomes 26th) to ing site, get the club computer and the projection equipment to the meeting, and announce the site Lake Street, then left 1 block. There is a parking and time in the newsletter. Extras include sched lot behind the library, on-street parking (you don't have to plug the meters after 6 p.m.), and a uling speakers and demos. church lot just east (don't use the church lot if it If you are interested in becoming the coordinator, looks like something is going on at the church, please call me at 370-0017. You can also leave a please). message for me on the BBS. A look at some new (and maybe some old) Hyper I've enjoyed my time as coordinator and want to Card stacks. Bring questions about HyperCard. thank all who helped with various chores. Jacque Gay, Tom Edwards, and Roy Sorenson have been especially helpful in hosting meetings and shuf fling equipment, ft
May 1992 Notes from the Mac Programmer's SIG ^
The March meeting of the Mac Programmers SIG tionship involving SQL, Oracle has developed a Mac was held at Murray Junior High School on March front end based on Plus, the HyperCard work-alike 24 at 7 p.m.. The meeting dealt mainly with (but with color). Programmer's OracleCard on the Mac. Oracle will run on microcomputers as well as SIG meeting The meeting started with discussions about the minis, Jeffs demonstration platform was a Mac Ilci just released LC II and rumors of $700 Classic running both the Oracle server and the OracleCard clones which were rumored to become available front end. This really is not the optimal configura this summer. On the software front, The Open tion. The Oracle server needed 6 of the 8 MB of Collaboration Environment (OCE) is coming along memory, leaving very little for System 7 and according to schedule for release as a system exten OracleCard. (The programmers at Oracle showed a sion later this year. OCE will provide systems ser certain amount of humor, the server started with vices for networking, especially security the sound of an engine starting and getting revved enhancements such as authentication , encryption up.) The particular application which Jeff demon and decryption abilities. Apple has also published a strated was a custom real estate database. He had specification called the Virtually Integrated Tech designed the format with color machines in mind, nical Architecture Lifecycle (VITAL). The impact of so that colors were used as well as a gray scale by Steve VITAL is to provide automatic network protocol palette for the screen frame of the display. A nice Axdal handling, leading to transparent mail list handling touch was that though the specifications had as and easy linking of networks. VITAL is just a re sumed a color screen, the display was carefully port at this time, but OCE should show up as a sized to fit a 9-inch monochrome screen, and the system extension by the end of the year. Quick gray scale selected to generate nice gray patterns. Time upgrades are expected before that, particu This is the sort of thing a user won't notice if done larly codecs (coder - decoders) for the Kodak Photo right, but will complain vehemently about if not CD format, affording lossless electronic storage of done right. A further design feature guaranteed your very own slides and pictures (about 100 35 that all the screens could be reached in only two mm photos on a rewriteable CD); and Ricoh JPEG mouse clicks. The initial screen was all in gray, software. The Ricoh software is purported to be which became highlighted in color when the pass about ten times faster than the current QuickTime word was accepted. The next screen was a map of JPEG codec. Once past rumors and the announce the world, and clicking on a portion brought up a ment of the 'INIT 1984' virus and new versions of list of properties owned in that area. Most of the virus handlers (Disin screens were designed fectant 2.7.1, for simple data entry or Gatekeeper 1.2.5+, OracleCard appears to offer a relatively predictable searches. Provision was made for VirusDetective 1.19t), painless way to access a Oracle server, Jeff Brown proceeded and clicking the query generator invoking the with an explanation of OracleCard SQL query relational database certainly beats typing the commands by generator. This is a theory and a demonstra hand! way to select a table to tion of OracleCard. get data from, relate fields in separate Oracle is a company which produces a relational tables, and define selection criteria. It was star database called Oracle. Oracle (the database) gen tling to see the length of the SQL command gener erally resides on a mainframe or minicomputer and ated by half a dozen mouse clicks. is searched using Structured Query Language (SQL, pronounced sequel). Similar products are One of the consequences of Oracle's background as Sybase and Ingres and all use a client - server *big iron' software is its fragility on microcomput model. The server software sits on a machine on a ers. The software, both server and client, assume network and waits for requests from clients. The that once set up, they won't be changed. This may client is a program running on your computer sound trivial, but gains importance if folders are which displays the results the server provides, but casually moved around. Nonetheless, OracleCard doesn't manipulate much data locally. While SQL appears to offer a relatively painless way to access is supposed to be a product independent standard, a Oracle server, and clicking the query generator in practice the vendors add their own niceties certainly beats typing the commands by hand! which restricts common use of front ends. 4th Di mension and Sybase are developing symbiotic rela- by Steve Axdal
mini'app'les t System 7 Upgrades in the Workplace
Upgrading system software can returning to the older version of ing hours upgrading individual System 7 be a challenging task in large system software that was once DOS and VAX systems recently. organizations. Read on to learn so familiar to them. Most agree "If they were all Mac™ systems, Software how workplace User Group that while the transition took my job would be a whole lot leaders have made the transi time and effort, it was a worth easier," he says, noting that tion to System 7 smoothly and while investment in overall 95% of the company's installed successfully. productivity. Macintosh computers are now running System 7. By nature, most people are Logistics hesitant to change anything Audrey Myers, User Server familiar to them — including Bringing thousands of users Analyst at Amdahl Corporation submitted by their user-friendly Macintosh™ over to System 7 was a task in Sunnyvale, CA distributed that took months of planning Rand Sibet computer. That's why we were the software by travelling from curious to find out the results of for workplace UG leaders, many site to site, armed with a remov the System 7™ software up of whom also serve as comput able hard drive loaded with ing service administrators in grade process in workplace their daily jobs. For some, the System 7 files (see sidebar, sites, and what changes have page. 3). At the University of occurred since the transition. transition is a responsibility Notre Dame in South Bend, IN, We recently asked User Group that still continues, nearly a Media Lab Manager and UG leaders in corporate, govern year after the software's launch. leader Tony Van Hoof used a ment and higher education UG leaders reported that they similar approach, setting up settings to report on their expe used three basic approaches to student "attack" teams with riences in upgrading to System conducting the upgrade process large hard drives filled with 7, and their efforts in bringing in-house: by network, by remov System 7. "The student System their users "up to speed" on the able hard drive, and by floppy 7 teams visited dozens of faculty new operating system software. disks. Whichever choice, leaders and staff offices, and updated small departmental sites, too," If you've already completed the highly recommend doing some research and planning before he reports. "It was an efficient migration to System 7, their beginning. A first step is to run way of covering the campus," he answers will give you a chance adds. to compare your organization's the System 7 Compatibility Checker supplied by Apple, Those who upgraded from upgrade process. If you're still which notifies the user of any considering the move to System installed software that may be floppy disk sets reported that 7, their comments will give you the upgrades went well, but the valuable insights into making incompatible with System 7 and copying and distribution of the transition a smooth and provides telephone numbers of disks to UG members became a successful one. developers to call for informa burden for some groups. "It was tion on software updates. Spe a nightmare for us to reproduce Since its debut nine months cial INITs and printer drivers that many disks," says Cliff ago, System 7 software has should be checked, too. Bernath of the Pentagon Macin been adopted by thousands of tosh User Group, in Washing Macintosh computer users in John Grabrick, UG leader and Network Manager at 3M Corpo ton, DC. The group workplace environments. They have acclaimed the new operat ration in St. Paul, MN, particu compromised by filling orders larly liked the speed and ease of for members who wanted per ing system's improved Finder™, sonal sets, but also created sev with additions such as aliases the network version of System and easier desktop manage 7. "Upgrades were a snap on eral master sets that circulated ment. They are also beginning the network," he says. "The among the group. to explore the potential of ex average upgrade time was un Timing panded features, such as der 20 minutes, start to finish." Interapplication Communica With responsibility for an in Staggering upgrades over sev tion (LAC) and Publish and stalled base of over 26,000 per eral months was a common sonal computers on the 3M Subscribe, within their organi approach to the System 7 tran zations. Workplace users report campus — of which 60% are sition, according to most of the that they are pleased with the Macintosh — Grabrick was UG leaders we interviewed. "We new power from their Macin keenly aware of the time sav wanted people to make the move by choice, rather than tosh, and wouldn't consider ings, particularly after spend
May 1992 feeling like they were roped and tied," says UG to the new software. Some sponsored hour-long leader Joanne Larrabee, a consultant in Com briefings for savvy users and half-day classes for puter Support Services at MIT in Cambridge, novices. Schools such as MIT developed new in MA. To encourage upgrades, the group hosted a troductory Macintosh courses that include a Sys day-long demonstration last May during the ini tem 7 component. tial System 7 rollout period. Six Macintosh sys tems were on Nearly all leaders agreed that while most users can intuitively figure out how display, each to navigate within System 7, one highlight some reading or training is ing some new ... the expanded features of System 7 feature of the are enabling users to reach higher needed to discover the full software. Visi levels of productivity. potential of the new software. tors could see "Our past Mac experience has the power of the trained us that it's almost new software, and learn how to upgrade. Lunch- embarrassing to read manu time brown-bag meetings on System 7 were also als," says Cliff Bernath of the Pentagon MUG. "Now we know that users who proudly hold up popular at 3M, John Grabrick reports, particu the shrink-wrapped manuals for System 7 prob larly the ones featuring "live" upgrades conducted ably aren't getting all the potential they could out during the meetings. of the software," he adds. Some system administrators were much more adamant about bringing all their users over to Expanded productivity the new system at the same time, in order to Across the entire workplace spectrum — corpora streamline the upgrade and reduce complications. tions, government, education — the expanded Audrey Myers at Amdahl conducted scores of features of System 7 are enabling users to reach upgrades in a very short time frame, but admits higher levels of productivity. UG leaders report her three months of planning and research made that small improvements such as the "Find" com this possible. Some machines were upgraded mand are having a big impact in workplace sites, overnight, she says. "Users came back in the next particularly where there are several large server day and they were running System 7. The new volumes mounted on a network. The Balloon features were so appealing, there were few com Help™ application provides valuable assistance plaints," she adds. for novices, who comprise a growing segment of One novel approach to bringing over hesitant their membership, UG leaders observe. Aliases users in workplace sites is to give them a new are giving users new ways of accessing informa computer, since Apple is shipping most of its tion, both on their desktop and across a network. machines with System 7 pre-installed on the hard Workplace sites are also pleased about elegant drives. "Once someone in a department has a and money-saving solutions such as Personal File machine running System 7 and users can see the Sharing. advantages, we can more easily convince the The larger potential of System 7 features such as others to upgrade," observes Chuck Wilcher, LAC and Publish and Subscribe is only beginning Information Center Manager at the University of to be tapped, but UG leaders reported many ideas San Francisco and leader of the Golden Gate Mac and plans. University of San Francisco's Chuck User Group. The question of how long to support Wilcher looks forward to the day soon when the System 6.x is a complex one, Wilcher admits. school phone book will be a dynamic, online docu "While we made the decision long ago to upgrade ment — a welcome substitute for the one-page to System 7, at this point users still have a updates circulated between the two years of the choice," he says. "But change is inevitable, and by publication's printing. "We can provide a tem this time next year, we will probably be telling plate and every department could publish and people that they must be on System 7, update their own listings. We'd be tied together particularly if they are on a network." through one common area, and current, accurate Training listings would be accessible campus-wide," he says. Members of the university's personnel de Getting users up and running on the new System partment are already using System 7 and its 7 software was done mostly through in-house Data Access Language (DAL) capabilities to tie seminars and onsite departmental training, UG into the school's mainframe databases, Wilcher leaders reported. The Apple training materials on states. "Instead of buying expensive software a CD-ROM distributed by the User Group Con packages or learning cryptic commands, the nection™ received high reviews. One leader used Macintosh systems use applications that are Sys the certificate maker included on the disk to rec tem 7 savvy," he adds. University staff create ognize those who had completed the training. monthly budget reports that bring together main Most groups circulated documentation, placed it frame data, spreadsheets and graphics, all from in libraries, or created their own in-house guides one Macintosh on a desktop, Wilcher explains.
mini'app'l New members 3. Turn on the user's Macintosh and then JfP^N In addition to increased power and productivity, backup the user's data and applications by copying it over to the administrator's hard UGs have discovered another benefit from Sys drive. tem 7 — new members! The lure of software, documentation and training attracted many Mac 4. Reformat the user's hard drive. At the end users to join their UG, leaders observed. (Many of the formatting, click the "update" driver button. Apple UGs are licensed by Apple to distribute System 7.0 to members.) Audrey Myers reported 5. Install System 7 from your hard drive, us that she added 200 members to the Amdahl UG ing the installer script. database in just three weeks. Groups who sold 6. Copy back data files and programs needed disk sets, sometimes bundled with third-party on the user's hard drive. books, were able to raise funds for group programs. Because System 7 gave Macintosh 7. Shut down the Macintosh and remove your systems a new look, many UG leaders said the hard drive. upgrade brought back feelings of the early 8. Reboot their system. Configure their LNITs Macintosh spirit of adventure. "Upgrading to or Personal File Sharing, if needed. System 7 made me remember my first experience with a Macintosh," says Pentagon UG leader Cliff 9. On to the next Macintosh! Bernath, "but it was better. Because this time it was new, but still Macintosh." Obtaining System 7 Software Apple System 7 software is available in a variety Exploring the of ways from several sources. 1. Personal Upgrade Kit, available from Apple Apple/IBM Alliance resellers or Apple directly. This kit is de Last October, Apple Computer and IBM an signed for a single user. nounced a series of comprehensive agreements 2. Group Upgrade Kit, available from Apple that will have a significant impact on computer resellers. This kit is designed for upgrading users in workplace environments. Although the groups of up to 20 users. full effect of this alliance won't be felt for some 3. Apple User Group System Software Licens time, the venture already has created great ing Program. Apple offers a system software interest among computer users, particularly in licensing program to registered Apple User workplace settings. Groups. This program, available at no charge, gives licensed User Groups the right In this issue, we explore the Apple/IBM alliance to copy and distribute each new version of and what it means to User Groups in the system software to all members. Call 408/ workplace. We asked UG leaders in corporate, 974-4060 to request an application for your government and higher education sites to share their thoughts on what impact the alliance will group. have on their organizations. They also discuss 4. Online services. System 7 software can be what steps they are already taking to build stron downloaded from some online services, such as the AppleLink™ network or America ger relationships with IBM User Groups in their Online. organizations. First, a brief overview of the agreement. Al System 7 Upgrade Strategy though details are still being finalized, five dis Faced with upgrading numerous Macintosh tinct technology initiatives have been targeted for computers in your organization to System 7? joint development efforts. Three expand the com Here's an approach that several UG leaders panies' current technologies, and two focus on the adopted to facilitate the process. Consider how creation of new foundation technologies. you might adapt it to suit your in-house needs. Expansion of Current Technologies 1. Interview each user and reorganize their hard drives, listing all application programs The first agreement initiative is the expansion of and moving documents to organized folders. Macintosh and IBM systems networking options. Through new development, and technology and 2. With the Macintosh turned off, attach a software licensing, Apple and IBM will add to the removable hard drive containing a fresh range of customer options for integration of copy of System 7 software. You may also Macintosh personal computers into IBM want to have fresh copies of all standard networks. application programs and special INITs to reinstall on their drive. The second initiative is the development of a new
May 1992 products. The operating envi Tony Van Hoof, an Interactive Media Consultant ronment is planned to be "plat and leader of the MadMacs User Group at the form independent," meaning it University of Notre Dame in South Bend, IN, will work on many different says that the alliance "can't come a moment too Patronize hardware platforms, such as soon" for his needs. Van Hoof is in the process of IBM's RISC POWER architec coordinating the technical details for a major new ture, Motorola's 680X0, and classroom building on the Notre Dame campus Our Intel's 80X86. The fully object- that will become a national model for technology oriented environment is ex use in higher education. Each of the building's 85 pected to be available in the classrooms will be equipped with a video delivery mid-1990s. system, and 15 classrooms will have multimedia Advertisers computer workstations linked to color overhead The other firm, Kaleida, will projectors. A computer cluster of 85 workstations create and license multimedia will feature various platforms, including Macin technologies for a wide range of tosh, IBM, SUN and NeXT machines. "Kaleida family of Reduced Instruction companies and industries. holds a lot of promise, and we're looking forward Set Computing (RISC) micro Products resulting from the to incorporating their new technologies into our processors optimized for per joint venture will be available facilities," says Van Hoof. "Well have the hard sonal computers and entry-level in the mid-1990s. ware to use their products in exciting new ways workstations. Derived from A new era in the classroom," he adds. The building — IBMs single-chip implementa funded by a major donation tion of its POWER RISC archi The alliance between from Edward J. DeBartolo, tecture, the new PowerPC chips Apple Computer and a Notre Dame alumnus and will be designed in Austin, TX IBM has generated Most UG leaders look San Francisco Bay Area by Motorola and IBM engineers. interest and specula forward to joint business leader — is sched The PowerPC chips, to be used tion from Apple com technologies that will uled to open in the Fall of in some future Macintosh and puter users in the improve their daily 1992. IBM products, will be manufac workplace at every work lives, from level. "Our members' Making connections tured by Motorola, and are ex improved networking pected to be available in two to reactions ranged Some Apple User Groups from skeptical to solutions to new three years. multimedia standards. are already creating stron philosophical to eu The third area of the agreement ger ties to other User phoric," says Cliff ~™~"~ Groups in their organiza focuses on the creation of Bernath, President of tions. Cliff Bernath explains that the Pentagon PowerOpen, a new open-sys the Pentagon Macintosh User tems environment made pos Macintosh and PC groups have a good relation Group in Washington, DC. ship, and that they are discussing plans to host a sible through licensing "Many of us feel that it's similar agreements. PowerOpen derives to glasnost or the Berlin Wall joint show. At the 3M Corporation in St. Paul, from ALX, IBMs industry-stan MN, Macintosh and PC users are part of a combi coming down. It's the beginning nation group, according to UG leader John dard version of UNTX; the of a new era, and we're excited Grabrick. To address widespread interest, Macintosh interface; and the about the possibilities," he adds. POWER architecture. The envi monthly group meetings focus on general comput ronment enables a system to Most UG leaders look forward ing issues such as piracy or software licensing. to joint technologies that will Meeting demonstrations often showcase products run both Macintosh and ATX that can work on multiple platforms, such as applications on RISC-based improve their daily work lives, hardware from both companies. from improved networking solu desktop publishing software, or networking solu It is expected to be available in tions to new multimedia stan tions. In contrast, Grabrick explains, monthly two to three years. dards. Audrey Myers, UG Macintosh SIG meetings zero in on specific Mac leader and User Server Analyst topics, although they are open to anyone who New Foundation Technolo at Amdahl Corporation in wants to attend. gies Sunnyvale, CA, anticipates that Other UGs are incorporating DOS and Windows the new alliance will bring ad Apple and IBM also announced software demonstrations into their Mac User the formation of two new inde vanced Mac-to-mainframe tech Group meetings as a way to start a dialogue be pendent companies from their nologies. "We're hoping that the tween individuals using different platforms. At a Macintosh will become much recent meeting of the Golden Gate Mac User joint venture. One company, more network-sawy, so that Taligent, will develop a next- Group in San Francisco, UG leader Chuck generation operating system linking to mainframes will be Wilcher showed a Windows-based product as part based entirely on object-ori come much more intuitive," she of the program, highlighting the similarities and ented technology. The joint says. differences to its Macintosh counterpart. This venture will license the technol approach offered several benefits, explains ogy widely, and both parent Wilcher, who also serves as the Information Cen companies will use it in future Multimedia potential ter Manager at the University of San Francisco.
10 mini'app'les "We wanted to attract people to the meeting who Audrey Myers, Amdahl Macintosh User Group, still think the Macintosh is a toy," he says. "At Amdahl Corporation, Building 16, Mailstop 222, the same time, Macintosh users had a chance to 2231 Lawson Lane, Santa Clara, CA 95054,408/ take a look at the best that Windows software 746-6901, AppleLink: MYERS4 has to offer. PC Windows users were able to com pare how a program runs on both platforms," he Tony Van Hoof, MadMacs User Group, Univer adds. sity Computing, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, 219/239-5153, AppleLink: Shifts in perception A0374, Internet: [email protected] Perhaps the greatest immediate effect of the alli Chuck Wilcher, Golden Gate Macintosh User ance announcement is a shift in management Group, University of San Francisco, Room H223, perception about Macintosh as a viable part of 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA 94117, business computing solutions. "It has really 415/666-2978, AppleLink: U0574, Internet: opened up executive eyes," observes John [email protected] Grabrick of 3M Corporation. "Macintosh is now These articles appeared in the January I February given a more serious consideration as a comput 1992 issue of Quick Connect PS, the Apple News ing alternative," he adds. letter for Apple User Groups in the Workplace. Most leaders agree that direct benefits from the Quick Connect PS is printed as a supplement to joint venture will depend upon new products that Quick Connect, the Newsletter for Apple User will fill specific needs in their organizations. They Groups. These articles may be reproduced in other know that the challenges of working in mixed User Group publications not sold for profit. We computing environments will be with them for require only that credit be given to The Apple years to come. Their hope is that the alliance will Computer User Group Connection and that we offer efficient and easy solutions — the kind receive a copy of any publication in which re they've come to expect from Macintosh products. printed articles appear. The Apple User Group "Computers are going to play a bigger and bigger Connection, Apple Computer, Inc., 20525 Mariani role in our work lives," says Cliff Bernath of the Avenue, MS:48IAA, Cupertino, CA 95014. Pentagon. "If this alliance can keep the fun and © 1992 Apple Computer, Inc. personal touch in computers, it will make a big difference in the quality of an individual's work Apple, the Apple logo, AppleLink, Mac and experience," he adds. Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple The Apple/IBM alliance also will bring positive Computer, Inc. Balloon Help, Finder, Quick Con results and unity within workplace organizations, nect, System 7 and User Group Connection are many UG leaders feel. "When there is physical trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. AIX, connectivity between diverse computer systems, PowerOpen and PowerPC are trademarks of IBM there will be organizational connectivity, too," Corporation. observes Joanne Larrabee, a consultant in MIT's Submitted by Rand Sibet # Computing Support Services in Cambridge, MA. As the details and products of the joint venture emerge, UG leaders will be watching closely to see how their organizations can take part in this new era of personal computing. Contributors System 6.0 is here for the We thank the following individuals who contrib uted to this issue of Quick Connect PS: Cliff Apple IIGS as a six-disk set Bernath, Pentagon Macintosh User Group, PO Box 46867, Washington, DC 20050-6867, 703/ for $10.00. 697-8959, AppleLink: UG0120 An updated Disinfectant John Grabrick, 3M Mac SIG, 3M Corporation, 42- 6E-01, 900 Bush Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55133- (v2.7.1) is now available on 3331, 612/778-5358, AppleLink: MMM.ELEC, AOL: Grabrick eDOM #815. This disk may Joanne Larrabee, MTT Macintosh User Group, either be purchased or ex MIT Information Systems, Building 11-221, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, changed for an old 617/253-8422, AppleLink: A0275, Internet: [email protected], Internet: #815 eDOM. [email protected]
May 1992 11 A New Macintosh, the LC II
Product Description als such as high-capacity CD- Macintosh LC II 4/80. Order from the ROM drives, scanners, and Number M1707LI7A. Includes: modems. A processor-direct slot Macintosh LC H personal com news wires Copyright 1992, Apple Com assures fast access to high puter with 4 megabytes of RAM, puter, Inc. speed expansion cards if you 512K of VRAM, built-in 1.4- need additional capabilities megabyte Apple SuperDrive, Affordable color and full Macin such as Ethernet networking. and internal 80-megabyte hard tosh performance — the Apple And you can use the Macintosh disk drive Macintosh LC II personal com LC II to run virtually all appli puter offers both in a sleek, cations developed for Apple He Macintosh LC II Upgrade Kit*. modular design so easy to set Order Number M1710LL/A: systems with the addition of the Macintosh LC n logic board. up and use, you can put it to Apple He Card. work in minutes. And youll System software. Complete enjoy higher performance and Features: Power and speed; 16 learning and reference docu greater flexibility than you'll MHz 68030 microprocessor runs mentation submitted find in comparable systems. applications more than twice as fast as the Macintosh Classic *Dealer installation required. by Rand With the Macintosh LC II, you Sibet can run more than 4,000 Macin New Apple Products, Macintosh Memory: 4 megabytes RAM, LC II CPU, 23-March-92 tosh applications, including expandable to 10. Virtual many for business and educa memory [Submitted by Rand Sibet] G tion. And your Macintosh LC II can run them at more than Expansion: Seven built-in ports twice the speed of the Macin for peripherals such as printers, Technical Specifica tosh Classic, thanks to its built- scanners, modem, and micro in 16-megahertz 68030 phone. Processor-direct slot for tions additional expansion card microprocessor. In addition, the Macintosh LC Features Built Into Every Copyright 1992, Apple Com II makes it possible for you to Macintosh: Usability. Runs puter, Inc. work with documents created in thousands of Macintosh applica tions. Easy to set up, learn, and Microprocessor: MC68030 16- different computing environ megahertz clock speed ments. It comes standard with use the Apple SuperDrive, which is System software: System 7, Memory: Both versions of the capable of reading from and with multitasking, file sharing, Macintosh LC II come with 4 writing to MS-DOS, OS/2, and Balloon Help, TrueType, and megabytes of RAM on the logic ProDOS disks. more board and 2 memory expansion slots for SIMMs (Single In-line You'll especially appreciate the Networking: Built-in AppleTalk Memory Modules). Expand to many built-in capabilities of the networking. File sharing with up to 10 megabytes of RAM* Macintosh LC II. You need not out a dedicated server buy a separate video card to *Dealer installation required. support a monitor because the Compatibility: Reads Macin Macintosh LC II offers built-in tosh, MS-DOS, OS/2, and Disk Drives: Built-in Apple ProDOS disks SuperDrive 1.4-megabyte support for a variety of Apple floppy disk drive. Internal 40- and third-party monitors. And or 80-megabyte Apple SCSI the Macintosh LC II comes with Ordering Information/Product Description: hard disk drive. Optional ex built-in networking and file ternal Apple SCSI hard disk sharing capabilities, so there's Macintosh LC II 4/40. Order no need to buy additional hard Number M1701LI7A: Includes: drive (many capacities avail ware if you want to share scan Macintosh LC II personal com able) ners and printers, send puter with 4 megabytes of Video Display. Supports sev electronic mail, or share files RAM, 256KofVRAM, built-in eral color and monochrome with others. 1.4-megabyte Apple Super- monitors, including: Macintosh Drive, and internal 40-mega- 12" RGB Display, Macintosh Multiple ports allow you to ex byte hard disk drive pand the system with peripher Mac CPU continues on page 17
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May 1992 13 Apple II Frequently Asked Questions
by David Kopper Address: Nibble Apple II Q&A Additional editing by Rand Sibet MindCraft Publishing Inc. 5 Boyce Farm Road Part one in a series. Lincoln, MA 01773-0256
Table of Contents: inCider/A+ is a monthly Apple H/Macintosh Ql: What Apple II magazines are currently magazine. being published? Address: inCider/A+ Q2: Some solutions to some very common problems P.O. Box 58618 Q3: Apple H resources Boulder, CO 80322-8618 submitted by Subscription: $27.97/year $43/2 years Rand Sibet Ql: What Apple II magazines are HyperStudio Network is a quarterly newslet currently being published? ter about HyperStudio. Membership in HSN will get you the newsletter (HyperStudio Forum), an GS+ is a bi-monthly magazine for the Apple HGS annual 'Best of HyperStudio' disk of stacks and published on an Apple IIGS. This magazine is not availability of discounts on HyperStudio as polished as some magazines, but they are accessories (including HyperStudio). This honest and put together very good reviews and network seems to be a great place for teachers to software. Their idea is to show what an get information/stacks. Apple nGS can do and they succeed very well at Address: HyperStudio Network doing exactly that. Box 103 Some of their software is just downright great - Blawenburg, NJ 08504 their EGOed NDA editor is great, I also like their Phone: (609) 466-3196 Shuffle Init (shuffles the active window between all open windows). Subscription/Membership: $29 for 1 year, $55 for Address: GS+ Subscription Services 2 years. Institutional Membership available. c/o EGO Systems Resource Central publishes several Apple H P.O. Box 15366 magazines: A2-Central - The Apple H newsletter, there is an Chattanooga, Tennessee 37415-0366 optional disk version. This is a monthly publica Voice: (615) 870-4960 (Mon-Fri 9 a.m.-6 p.m. tion. 12 issues/year, $34/year, $60/2 years, $84/3 EST) years. Optional disk version is $90/year, $168/2 (800) 662-3634 (orders only) years, $240/3 years. FAX: (913) 469-6507 All of their other publications are 3.5" disk based Email: JWANKERL@UTC\nV[.BITNET only and run 6 issues/year, $48/year, $87/2 years, (Internet or Bitnet) $123/3 years. Subscription Price: magazine $15/year, Studio City - HyperStudio-based disk. Each disk+magazine $36/year, magazine $3/issue, issue is a collection of HyperStudio additions. disk+magazine $8/issue. First class mail service TimeOut Central - all about TimeOut additions for $1.50/issue, $9/year. and AppleWorks. Includes UltraMacros Macros, Templates, etc. Nibble - is now a subscription only publication of Hyperbole - This disk based publication is not 32 pages. It is still an AppleSoft based publica about computers. It is HyperStudio based stories, tion with four or five programs per issue. poetry, etc. /^i\
14 mini'app'les Script-Central - This is sort of like Studio City, Q: Can my Apple read IBM/MAC disks, and but for HyperCard HGS users. It is bi-monthly take High Density disks? and comes on two disks that MUST be installed on a hard disk. A: Yes. 800KMac disks can be read with several PD programs including A2FX for the lie and GS/ Address: Resource Central OS System 6.0. You can also transfer programs P.O. Box 11250 directly onto ProDOS disks with the Apple File Exchange program (comes with all newer Macs). Overland Park, KS 66207-1250 With Apple's new SuperDrive and disk controller, Voice: (913) 469-6502 Apple ][e's and Hgs's will be able to use Apple's FAX: (913) 469-6507 High Density disks (2x the storage of Double density disks, which hold 800K). If you want to read IBM disks, it is only possible with the disk The Road Apple - An Apple // "End Users" Un controller in the PC Transporter. derground Newsletter published six times a year. Address: 1121 NE 177th, Suite B Q: Can I hook up a LaserWriter, DeskJet, Portland, OR 97230 etc. to my Apple lie? Telephone: (503) 254-3874. A: Yes, all the above connections have regular Subscription price: $9.95 per year (6 issues) serial or parallel connections. The tricky part is getting them to do what you want. The DeskJet, for example will print very nice looking text with Computist - a publication devoted to gathering regular old "PR#1". But if you want to change the and distributing information on removing copy font or print graphics, you may have to purchase protection from Apple H software. some software. One excellent program for these types of printers is Publishlt 4. You won't believe Address: P.O. Box 110846 the output you can get from a lie. For Tacoma, WA 98411 AppleWorks fans, there is the program called SuperPatch. Among its patches is a cool DeskJet 500 printer driver. You can print sideways, and Softdisk and Softdisk GS - monthly disk maga change fonts with normal AppleWorks commands. J^\ zines containing a variety of software. Softdisk is available on 5.25" or 3.5" disks. Softdisk GS is available only on 3.5" disks. Address: Softdisk Publishing Q: Can I hook up a LaserWriter, DeskJet, etc. to my Apple IIGS? P.O. Box 30008 A: On the GS, you can hook up a LaserWriter via Shreveport, LA 71130-0008 AppleTalk or direct serial connection. A GS pro Phone: 1-800-831-2694 gram can typically print to a LaserWriter if it's 1-318-221-8718 connected to the GS via AppleTalk. If you get a DeskJet, or PaintJet, etc., you can hook them up Subscription: Softdisk: $19.95/3 months. Softdisk via the serial port. But in order to use them effec GS: $29.95/3 months. Both: $39.95/3 months. tively, you will want Harmony from Vitesse (bet ter) or Independence (cheaper) from Seven Hills. With either of these, it's just plug and chug, but Q2: Some solutions to some very you will want LARGE font sizes (which the printer driver will reduce to get smoother looking common problems output).
Q: I want to find out about something at Apple. Whom do I call? Q: Can I hook up a scanner up to my fie? Can it do OCR? A: Apple - Customer Support Assistance: 1-800- 776-2333 "To Resolve issues about Apple policies, A: Yes and Yes. There is the Quickie (by Vitesse) programs and products" which is the same hardware as the LightningScanner, but better software. Basically, you scan 4" columns (you must have 512K to 1 Q: Are there any dealers/user groups around Meg) and can even paste them together to make me? 8" scans. If you want Optical Character Recogni tion (allows the computer to "read" text so you A: You can find out from Apple: call 1-800-538- can load it into your word processor) then 9696 Ext. 500, and tell them your ZIP code.
May 1992 15 WestCode has the product for you. It's called Quality Computers Main num Q: What Apple II hard disk In Words. ber: 1-800-443-6697, (313) 774- drive controllers are avail <*^v 7200, Fax number: (313) able? As for the Hgs, the same above is true. Also, Sys 774-2698, Tech Support: (313) tem 6.0 will be including a SCSI driver for the 774-7740, 20200 E. 9 Mile Road, A: The oldest is the Apple SCSI Apple Scanner. Perhaps some flatbed scanning Box 665, St. Clair Shores, MI Card (Revision C is required by software will then become available. 48080. the current system software). This controller will only allow you to access 64 megabytes of a Q: What is an Enhanced He? Do I have one? hard disk (i.e.: Two 32 mega Q: What HyperMedia pro byte partitions). I am not sure A: Apple has two versions of the lie. The best way grams are available? this is still available. to tell is to watch your computer as it boots. It A: For the IIGS: HyperStudio The Apple DMA SCSI Card will will say "Apple (3.0 was ][" if it is not allow GS/OS to see lots of parti just re tions This controller uses DMA enhanced, or leased) and "Apple//e" if it The basic reason for upgrading is (Direct Memory Access to trans is. You can compatibility with programs that require HyperCard fer information from the disk HGS. For controller directly to the upgrade for an Enhanced lie. If you have a lie or other Apple about $70 with GS, you have Enhanced lie memory where the CPU wants Hs: Tutor- it read into or written from. The the Enhance compatibility. Tech. ment kit. It current version of ProDOS 8 contains a new can only access the first two Basic ROM Gets you type lower case basic com partitions (a shareware pro mands), a new video ROM Gets programs display Q: What desktop publishing gram SCSI Part can get past neat text symbols) and a new microprocessor (the software is available? this limitation). 65C02, with 10 new instructions). The basic rea A: IIGS: GraphicWriter IH (rev The RamFAST/SCSI controller son for upgrading is compatibility with programs 1.1 was just released), can access up to twelve parti that require an Enhanced lie. If you have a //c or AppleWorks HGS. For other tions under GS/OS or ProDOS GS, you have Enhanced lie compatibility. Apple Hs: Publishlt! 4, 8. It also uses DMA to transfer AppleWorks with some data to and from the disk drive. TimeOut utilities such as: This controller is the fastest Q: What programming languages are avail TimeOut Graph, TimeOut hard disk drive controller (it able for the Apple ][? SuperFonts, and TimeOut has between 256k and lmeg of A: Oh, boy, here comes a can of worms. (+ means SuperForms. memory on it and there is a 10 free/shareware, ? means I do not know) Forth: Mhz CPU to process the I/O Purple Forth+, Q Forth+ and Mad Forth?. Full C: requests on it). Another feature Orca C, APW C, and Manx Aztec C. The first 2 Q: What Apple II computers of the RamFAST is that you can are GS only. Small C: Hyper-C+ and a Small C are currently being sold? write-protect and/or disable access to each partition. that comes as an add-on package with one of the A: Apple HGS, Apple He, Laser assemblers. Basic: AppleSoft, which can be ex 128, Laser 128EX, Laser tended with several utilities in commercial and 128EX/2. non-commercial form. Beagle Brother's AppleSoft Q3: Apple n Resources Compiler. TML Basic, Micol Basic, or Z-Basic, which are BASIC development packages. Pecan Q: Can the Apple II connect To find the closest Apple II User Power System Basic. GS-Basic, available through to SCSI devices? Group near you, contact: APDA Pascal: Complete (formerly TML) Pascal, Orca/Pascal, Apple UCSD Pascal and Quick A: Yes. There are several cards The Apple User Group Connec Pascal via APDA and Pecan Power System's Pas that will allow you to do this. tion, Apple Computer, Inc., cal. Assemblers: Orca/M, Orca/M GS, APW, Mer The standard one is the Apple 20525 Mariani Avenue, MS:36- lin 8/16 Plus, Lisa+, EDASM. Other: Pecan Power High Speed DMA SCSI card. AA, Cupertino, CA 95014, (800) Systems Fortran. Lisp, Logo, Promal. GS You will need an enhanced He or 538-9696, extension 500 Scheme+ GS. For more speed, try the The Apple H Guide is a 1990 RamFast/SCSI from CV Tech resource guide for Apple H own nologies. For un-enhanced //e's, ers. Apple has given this guide Q: Is anybody still supporting the Apple 11? try finding an old Rev C SCSI away at Applefest and it is card. This card only supports available from Mini'app'les for A: Yes, one company is: Quality Computers. Call regular hard drives and CD them and they will put you on their Enhance only $5, but order now! We are ROM. The other two also sup almost out of these. mailing list for free. Enhance is chock full of ar port ejectable media and tape ticles about the Apple // in education, new prod backup. In order to find an Apple II ucts, and (of course) contains the QC catalog. dealer in your area then call the •^i$y
16 mini'app'les Apple Dealer Relations toll free This article was reprinted with Mac CPU continued from page 12 number: 1-800-538-9696. Apple permission from David Kopper. now has two types of computer It was obtained from 12" Monochrome Display and dealers: Apple II and Macin Comp.sys.apple2, a Usenet tosh. An Apple dealer may be of newsgroup that works by users AppleColor High-Resolution RGB either type or both. If you call Monitor. Supports several VGA moni posting a message via special tors. Supports other Apple and non- Apple to find an Apple dealer, ized software to a local file on ask for an Apple H dealer. their system, and that message Apple monitors when equipped with a being passed along to all of the video expansion card Video RAM If you are having problems with 30,000+ other systems around (VRAM) a dealer in your area then call the world that share Usenet the Apple Customer Service 256K supports: 256 colors on the Center toll free number: 1-800- files. Macintosh 12" RGB Display, 16 colors 776-2333. The author can be reached on the AppleColor High-Resolution RGB Monitor and 16 shades of gray on through the following e-mail Last edited on March 20,1992. addresses: the Macintosh 12" Monochrome Dis play I would like to thank Larry W. Internet: Virden and Dan DeMaggio for [email protected] or: 512K supports: 32,000 colors on the their help with this document. dave%[email protected] Macintosh 12" RGB Display, 256 colors - David Kopper GEnie: D.Kopper on the AppleColor High-Resolution RGB Monitor or 256 shades of gray on Submitted by Rand Sibet # the Macintosh 12" Monochrome Dis play Interfaces: One Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) port, supporting a keyboard, Current Apple System Software Available mouse, and other devices. Two serial Through tf mini'app'les (RS-232/RS-422) ports. Video port for color and monochrome monitors of Software Version Date Format various sizes and resolution. SCSI Apple n,n+//c,//e interface for connecting up to 6 exter D O S 3 . 3 S y s t e m M a s t e r n / a 0 9 / 1 0 / 8 5 5 . 2 5 " nal peripheral devices. Sound port for Apple II System Disk 3.2 07/16/90 5.2573.5" external audio amplifier or head ProDOS 8 2.01 1992 5.2573.5" phones. Sound-in port for monaural sound input (microphone included). Apple HGS Internal expansion slot, supporting one GS/OS System Disks 6.0 3.5" LC processor-direct slot expansion card Macintosh Sound Input: Monaural 8-bit sound System Tools 6.0.7 10/09/90 3.5" sampled at 22 or 11 kilohertz Printing Tools 6.0.7 10/09/90 3.5" Utilities 1 6.0.7 10/09/90 3.5" Microphone: Hands-free omnidirec Utilities 2 6.0.7 10/09/90 3.5" tional electret microphone included HyperCard is discontinued Sound Generator: Monophonic 8-bit Upgrades are only available through Claris digital-analog conversion using 22- kilohertz sample rate — capable of ImageWriter LQ Disk 1 2.0 07/18/88 3.5" driving stereo headphones or other ImageWriter II/LQ AppleTalk 2.0 07/18/88 3.5" stereo equipment through the sound Communications Toolbox 1.0.1 03/20/90 3.5" jack 32-Bit Quick Draw 3.5" L a s e r W r i t e r 6 . 0 3.5" Keyboard and Mouse: ADB keyboard with numeric keypad — Two-level tilt Apple System Software disk prices are as follows: adjustment. ADB Mouse 3.5" System disks $3.00 each. 5.25" System disks $1.00 each. Disability Access: Close View, Easy Access, and visible beep included with Notes: system software. These built-in solu * The Macintosh System tools and Utilities disks are available tions and third-party options provide only as a set of 4 disks. alternative input and output devices * GS/OS System Disk and System Tools are available only as a for people with disabilities. set of two disks. * ProDOS requires 64K of memory on the Apple II and II+. Apple Products, New Apple Products, Macintosh LC H CPU, 23-March-92 Submitted by Rand Sibet fk
May 1992 17 IIGS Terms: Excerpted from the "'Beginners' Notebook *> In Apple Spice Newsletter of Delvac/GS from GS/OS for information into a command that IIGS Terms emulates the ProDOS operating system is what There are many "buzzwords" used in GS/OS allows us to read and write to standard ProDOS which may be mysteries for the beginning IIGS disks. If Apple had created a DOS 3.3 FST, we user. Michael McConnell, author of this article, would also be able to directly read and write to ISIIMB has made sense of many of these, and they are that now almost forgotten disk format. A bright presented herewith. spot in the future of the HGS is a rumor that Starting at no place in particular, we have: Apple will soon release FSTs which will allow the HGS to easily read and write to standard Macin NDA - New Desk Accessory, is a short program tosh and D3M disks as easily as it handles or utility that gets loaded into your system at ProDOS disks, thus making it child's play to boot time and remains out of the way until you transfer files from one format to another. Cur specifically call for it by clicking on the little rently, FSTs are included with GS/OS that allow submitted by Apple in the left side of the menu bar. This you to talk to ProDOS, Character devices Gike Rand Sibet means that NDA's can only be accessed while you the console), and CDROM disks. FST's live in the are running true GS/OS programs that display a /disk name/System/FST folder of your boot disk. menu bar. For instance, an NDA cannot be used while running AppleWorks Classic, but can while CDEV - Control DEVices. These are rather diffi running AppleWorks GS. When activated, an cult to explain. The HGS was designed to be very NDA can perform a specific task like view a pic versatile, and that necessitated the ability to be ture or initialize a disk, or it can modify your flexible and easy to change. Many types of exter system by turning on a screen clock or change the nal gadgets can be connected to the GS, and each color of a menu bar. The only limit to the number may have special features or abilities that can be of NDA's you can have on your system at one turned on or off. The GS comes with a selection of time is the amount of space on your boot disk and CDEVs that duplicate the options in the Control the amount of memory in your machine. NDA's Panel. You can control things like: how fast your are located in the / mouse moves, the Disk Name/System/ colors of the desktop Desk.Accs folder of background and your boot disk. The IIGS was designed to be very text, and pitch of versatile, and that necessitated the your error beep. You CDA - Classic Desk can also control the Accessory, while very ability to be flexible and easy to function of the I/O similar to NDA's in change. Many types of external slots and the size of what they do, CDA's gadgets can be connected to the GS, your RAM disk. differ in the way they and each may have special features or Some of the third- are accessed. To use a abilities that can be turned on or off. party CDEVs you C D A , a c c e s s t h e c o n - ^ ^ — ^ — ^^~^~^^^^ may find are those trol panel from AE and Zip (OA&Control&Escape) Technology which then select the CDA from the list displayed. Be allows you to control the speed of their respective cause CDA's are accessed from the keyboard, they speed-up cards, and shareware CDEVs to control can be used whenever you need them, regardless things like fancy error beeps and screen blankers. of which program is being used. CDA's are lo CDEVs live in the /Disk name/System/CDEV cated in the /Disk Name/Desk. Aces folder of your folder of your boot disk and are controlled by boot disk. accessing them by clicking on the Apple in the FST - File System Translators. GS/OS by itself menu bar, then opening the Control Panel NDA. has no idea how to speak to the outside world. It DRIVERS - A small piece of software whose knows nothing about ProDOS (or any other disk purpose is to control a specific device. GS/OS by architecture), the screen (known as the console), itself has no idea how to read or write anything to or the keyboard. Apple created things called anywhere. All it knows is that if it hands a FST's to handle such mundane tasks. One of the 'packet' of data to a drive, it is sent someplace to reasons the IIGS can emulate an Apple lie is be stored. A driver takes care of sending and because there is a thing called a ProDOS FST. A retrieving data to or from the device it controls. segment of software that translates a request Special circuit boards that allow you to connect
18 mini'app'les hard drives need their own drivers, as do MIDI were only able to control two drives. The control devices, internal modem cards and special floppy ler built into the HGS can manage up to four (two drive controller cards. As an example of special 3.5" and two 5.25" drives) by logically mapping drivers, AE designed a 1.6 megabyte floppy disk the 3/5" drives into slot 5 and the 5/25" drives drive and was able to make it work with the GS into slot 6. by creating a driver that told GS/OS how to talk to it. You will find drivers for everything from FOLDER - Another name for subdirectory. A 3.5" and 5.25" disk drives to SCSI drives and disk can be divided into logical sections called CDROM drives. Every device on your system folders. Apple likes its desktop metaphor. Think must have a driver to work. With the appropriate of a subdirectory on a disk like a folder in a file driver, anything can be hooked up to the GS. drawer, both contain information that has been Drivers can be found in the /Disk Name/System/ divided up into some logical group. A hard drive, Drives folder. because of the way the information is stored, can only contain 51 file or folder names in the main INTTs - INTTialize files. These are little "run (or root) folder of the drive. By creating folders, once" programs that are designed to be executed and folders within folders, as many levels deep as at boot time. They are stored in the /Disk Name / you can type, you can save an almost unlimited System/System.Setup folder of your boot disk. number of files on the disk. A folder can save a There are two basic kinds of files. One has a file practical limit of around 250 entries. The struc type of PD? and is called a Permanent Init File. It ture of a hard drive can be somewhat intimidat usually adds some feature to the operating sys ing to a new user of hard drives. There are many tem such as a special sound for the error beep, or strategies on structuring your hard drives' direc modifications to the mouse pointer. The other has tory. Anybody care to expand on that thought, a file type of TD7 and is called a Temporary Init tell us what YOUR favorite way of structuring is? File. This file is executed when it loads and then is thrown away. An example would be an INTT =-=-=-ACES-=-=-= that loads a picture or plays a sound while your [The Apple Computer Enjoyment Society is a not- system is booting. StartPIC and StartSOUND are for-profit users group which has been helping two popular TD7 files. Apple and clone computer owners since 1979. 8 BIT - The HGS is unique in that it can act like A.C.E.S. reserves the rights to all materials an Apple He or a HGS. The processor chip in the // printed herein. All articles that are not protected e was called a 65c02 and processed data that was by copyright may be reprinted by Apple User made up of groups of 8 bits (a bit is a one or a Groups and other non-profit computer organiza zero). Any program that runs on a lie are 8 bit tions. Such reprints must give credit to the author programs, such as AppleWorks Classic, Publish It andA.C.E.S., Inc. PO Box 291557, Ft. Lauder or CrossWorks. Most 8 bit programs use the text dale, FL 33329.] interface. Submitted by Rand Sibet ft 16 BIT- The processor in the HGS is an im proved version called the 65816 which can handle information exactly like the older version proces sor, but it has the ability to work with data that consists of groups of 16 bits. Any program that claims to be GS specific is a 16 bit program. Al most all of the programs that display a menu bar are also 16 bit programs. For 24-hour SCSI - Small Computer System Interface (pro nounced Scuzzy), an acronym adopted as a word, refers to the characteristics of the interface that ^mini'app'les connects the HGS with a hard disk drive, or any device that talks the SCSI language. Apple was among the first computer manufacturers to en user group and dorse this particular interface. It is known for its ability to quickly transfer information between devices, with up to seven devices on one control meeting ler card. When someone says they use a Scuzzy disk drive, you'll know now they don't mean it hasn't been washed for a month! information call SMARTPORT - Apple calls its built in floppy drive controller a smartport. Actually the first 229-6952 disk controllers used by Apple in the earlier IFs
May 1992 If It's Going to be Called a Profession, Then It Needs to Start Acting Like One "" The explosive growth of the electronic pre-press surprise to me was the fact that the artist abso Issues in and publishing industry has been no less chal- lutely refused to repair his work. He denied any _ lenging to those who make their living in it than wrong doing and claimed his work to be correct, Computing ^ those who are trying to understand the impli without even looking at the proofs which demon cations of this new technology on both their busi strated his errors. Scrutiny of his work had deter nesses and/or their careers. As the capabilities of mined that, among other things, he had failed to this new technology grows, so too do the demands properly set the black generation curve in on those who make their living as electronic pre Photoshop, causing a shift from all the approved press professionals. colors. Our company employs free-lance computer art Setting aside what might be considered either a ists, for page lay-out, illustration, and photo im moral or professional responsibility on the mat aging, to produce full color catalogs and ter, the artist also had signed a contract that brochures. We have discovered a rather curious guaranteed his work. Not only did he have no phenomenon in this industry, which is that it intention of abiding by this written agreement, takes very little education, training or even expe- but he had absolutely no idea what he had done by Teri ROSS rience for someone to buy the necessary equip- wrong or how to fix it. We went to court, where he m^^^^^^^^ ment and hang out their shingle as a computer told the judge that either the faulty computer professional. In recognizing that a potential em equipment had changed his work or that the ser ployer of these services may know little or noth vice bureau who had output the job didn't know ing about the process of electronic publishing what they were doing. We, on the other hand, in itself, a situation can therefore be created which addition to the proofs and his original files, had a might be described as the blind leading the blind, page from the Photoshop manual, which fully and which fosters less than professional results. documented that what happened can happen when the parameters are not set properly. The industry has certainly come a long way since MacWrite and MacPaint were the only software Though we won the case, the incident pointed out available for the Macintosh. Back then, knowing what I perceive to be a glaring flaw in the indus how to properly operate your computer was rela try. When one hires a professional, be it a lawyer, tively simple and required relatively few skills a doctor, an accountant, or even a car mechanic, beyond basic typing and drawing with straight they know that in addition to their education, lines, boxes and circles. The state of the industry these people have passed standards established today requires not just a knowledge of highly by their respective industries, and received their sophisticated computers, but knowledge about certificates which qualify them to practice their page lay-out and design, typesetting, and other trade. Why is it that in the profession of elec graphic arts, and encompasses many professions tronic pre-press and publishing, where in many previously covered by the printing industry alone. instances the dollars being spent are much greater than those on the professions mentioned, My question is this: What is being done to estab that no such certification process exists? lish a level of professionalism or quality stan dards that assures an employer of electronic As purchasers of electronic pre-press services, we pre-press services that they are getting the qual are interested in creating a variety of four or ity of talent they are paying for and expecting? more color printed pieces which revolve around a core of products, including but not limited to I would like to cite an example. As our company newsletters and brochures, which utilize the cre produces catalogs for the apparel industry, color ative arts of typesetting and lay-out, illustration accuracy is critical to the job. Consequently, we and photo imaging. Wouldn't life and business be do all our color specifications and create all the much easier and stress reduced if we knew that formulas, with proofs, before the projects are the electronic pre-press professional we were even begun. These color formula specifications hiring to accomplish the required tasks had a are given to the artists for use in the development certificate of qualification issued by the software of the projects. manufacturer or manufacturers that the artist On one particular project, we were shocked when proposed to use on a given project? Don't we have at the matchprint stage we discovered that on the right to some sort of assurance that the per over 100 illustrations, virtually none of the colors son to whom we are most likely paying $40.00 or were as they had been specified. Of even greater more per hour to perform a skill is in fact quali fied to perform that skill?
20 mini'app'les For those who might wish to argue that the bur all of the manufacturer supplied tutorials of the den of proof for qualification should be left at the required software. We want the people who be level of the potential employer, as we all know, yond that have had a combination of work experi many people in the general population who em ence or internship in the industry where they ploy computer professionals are quite intimidated have actually produced work from imagesetters themselves by computers. Asking the employer to and gone through the learning curve of the real qualify an electronic publishers' talents would be world of computer graphics and printing. In the tantamount to asking your doctor to prove his same way we expect that the pilot of an airplane knowledge before he takes care of you. Would you has had more than simulator training when he even know the right questions to ask for an ill takes control of the pilot seat, we have the right, ness you don't even understand? as passengers in this ultimate of flying machines which they call a computer, to be confident that I hope that electronic pre-press professionals can we stand a reasonably good chance of being see that the burden of proof should be on them and that a certification program would enhance landed safely at our final destinations. their careers by virtue of the improved perception If handled correctly, a certification program could of both their talents and the industry. An artist's have an additional significant benefit for the soft certification in particular applications would ware manufacturers themselves. By creating a facilitate much needed areas of specialization and certification criteria that required a potential niche marketing by talent, as opposed to the cur candidate to either own or be employed by the rent trend of attempting to be everybody's every owner of the software application, the ability for thing. In the same way that buying paints does an individual to make a living on pirated soft not make one a watercolorist, simply purchasing ware would be greatly diminished. The software an application should not and cannot continue to manufacturers could even establish a dual certifi be the only criteria for being an electronic pre cation program under this plan, giving an em press professional. ployee of the software owner one type of certification, and allowing that employee another Rather than go into further detail as to why I feel should they elect to go out on their own and so strongly about the idea of certification for elec therefore buy their own registered copy of the tronic pre-press professionals, I would like to software. Under this plan, an associate certifica propose how the task tion while as an em might be accom ployee of a software /Bf^A plished. —— owner would need to be In recognizing that As the capabilities of this new upgraded to a certifica many electronic pre technology grows, so too do the tion as an independent press and publishing demands on those who make their by simply the purchase professionals utilize of the designated soft living as electronic pre-press ware. more than one soft professionals. ware application in the ——~^^~^™—"^"~ With the impending production of their merger between Apple work, a certification and D3M, it couldn't be program must be addressed by the industry as a a more appropriate time to address the profes whole. One option might be the establishment of sional standards of the people who utilize the programs by local or regional professional organi very sophisticated equipment that these two gi zations, such as electronic artist groups or elec ants, as well as other computer hardware manu tronic publishing alliances. facturers, have and will undoubtedly continue to Another option would be for each software appli produce. cation manufacturer to develop its own set of Teri Ross is the owner of IMAGINE THAT! Publi requirements, qualifying an individual based on criteria ranging from education and experience to cations, a company which serves the electronic examination of their work products and testing. pre-press and publishing needs of the apparel and footwear industries. She is also the author of a The different software manufacturers would work new book soon to be released, Tipping the Scales together as a whole, establishing the major set of of Justice Without any Weight, Lessons in Preven standards to be established as an industry, while tive Law, in which she has challenged the stan each company could create their own program, dards of the legal profession. based on these standards, and allowing a poten tial candidate to prove his or her proficiency in a All rights reserved. No part of this article may be particular software application. reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any As employers, we are not interested in the gradu means, electronic or mechanical, including photo ates from the local vocational-technical schools copying, recording or by any information storage who obtained their degrees by running through and retrieval system without written permission /jPN from the author. 4
May 1992 From the Desk of Our Software Director
Well, we have had another busy month ... we better. Icons are stored in a personal "Icon Gal New eDOMs have for your viewing entertainment the follow lery", exactly tailored to your hard drive and its ing rundown of new eDOMs: applications. Freeware from the Morgan Davis Group. Folder Icon MakerJ Macintosh eDOMs This utility creates folders with custom icons under System 7, and will create folders from al Mac eDOM #836 - Icon Utilities, Copyright © most any file. To use the program, just drag an 1992 Mini'app'les, MAR 1992 application or document onto the FIM icon. A This Mac eDOM #836 contains the SunDesk new folder will be created in same directory as INIT, color icons, and a related utility SunDesk the original file. Requires System 7. Freeware by Gregory M. Robbins. submitted by Strip, all of which combine to place three-dimen sional color icons on your desktop under System Mac eDOM #837 - System 7.0 Icons! Copyright Greg 6. © 1992 Mini'app'les, MAR 1992 Carlson Included is Folder Icon Maker, a utility to create Customize your desktop with the icons provided custom folders with icons under System 7. in this Mac eDOM #837, for use with System 7.0. A Mac with color capability is required for use These icons are distinctive, attractive, and most with all these utilities. have a three-dimensional look. Use them to cus tomize the appearance of your folders and, in SunDesk some cases, to change the icons of your favorite SunDesk is an INIT for use with System 6.x. To applications. With two exceptions, you will need use it, drop it into your System Folder and reboot. ResEdit to use these collections. Launch ResEdit It allows your Mac to use cil8 resources, the color and follow the procedure in the text that accom icons the Macintosh Finder uses for display of panies the program. application, document, and other icons on the You may also use these icons in System 6 with desktop. Freeware by Fr#d#ric Miserey. SunDesk, provided on the Mac eDOM #836. SunDesk Icons The icon files included on this disk are: Unless an application already has a cil8 resource Visage 1.0 in its resource fork (many older ones do not), the Finder will default to the usual black and white This is a small application which allows you to icon. However, if you have a special SunDesk change the icon for a volume (usually a hard disk) Icon File stored in your System Folder, the to a color icon. It comes with a limited number of SunDesk INIT will substitute a color icon for the icons for you to use, primarily some cartoon char one the Finder would normally use. The file pro acters (Calvin and Hobbes, the Simpsons, the vided here contains hundreds of color icons for mermaid from the RAM Disk application,) and an many major commercial and shareware software. assortment of generic hard drive icons. Instruc Put this icon file in your System Folder along tions are included for creating your own color icon with the SunDesk INIT, and all will display in files to use in changing your hard drive's icon. color, provided there is a match in the Icon File. This is $25 shareware by Scott Searle. SunDesk Strip John's Folder Icons Color icons can take up a lot of room on your hard This file contains 30 color icons for several com drive. If you don't own some of the applications mercial programs and some shareware. whose icons appear in the SunDesk Icon File, you Freeware. are wasting space by storing their icons. SunDesk Steve's 7.0 Folders Strip will search your drive, extract the icons you need, and create a custom color Icon File, saving Color icons intended for folders, covering most you a good deal of disk space. SunDesk Strip major commercial and shareware programs, as allows you to add color icons of your choice from well as whimsical and attractive icons for general applications not already in the Icon File, or re use. Some other icons include a desk drawer, a place existing color icons with others you like folder enclosing several "documents", folders with ^
mini'app'les color scenery, and abstract designs. Very attrac 1991.) Includes descriptions of all popular antivi #£N tive and useful. Freeware by Steve Snider. ral programs and tells you which ones are out of date and no longer upgraded. Tells you how to More Steve's Folders achieve complete protection by combining differ Thirty more color icons for use on folders. Most ent programs. (Even has a script to put in your major programs not included in "Steve's 7.0 Fold Home stack to protect against the Dukakis Hy ers" are included here, including PageMaker and perCard Virus.) The stack is very easy to use and MS Word. Freeware by Steve Snider. navigate. Freeware. HyperCard vl.2. B&J'sSys7Icons YAM One of two color icon files on this disk comes as a YAM means Yet Another MiniFinder. This stack scrapbook, so you don't need ResEdit to use it. installs buttons for your applications and docu Many are repeats of icons included in the other ments in HyperCard. You are then able to launch files on this disk, a few are unique. To use these them directly from HyperCard. It even copies the icons, move your regular scrapbook out of your icon. Free. HyperCard vl.2. system folder and drop this one in. Open the Bird Anatomy 1.2 scrapbook and copy an icon; paste it into the Get Info window of the folder or application of your My all-time favorite HyperCard stack! Open it choice. Freeware by Brad Sanders and John and birds start singing. The author (Pat Lynch) Calhoun. provides excellent methods of navigating through the stack. If you want to know about the eye, New 7.0 Color Icons click on it. The wing? Click on it. Bird sounds are The System 7.0 Scrapbook File within in this everywhere (check out the screech owl). Origi folder contains 55 colored icons that may be used nally designed to go with a video disk. Free. Hy or modified to make your files, utilities, etc. more perCard vl.2. colorful. Directions are included for using the Proportion Wheel 2.1 Scrapbook File to transfer icons to the desktop. Another nice file that doesn't require the use of Proportion Wheel allows you to scale photos and ResEdit to access the included icons. There is no pictures for publication. Just type in the original information dimensions and one new di available mension and proportion wheel about the will calculate the percentage of author or This eDOM features HyperCard stacks reduction or enlargement. In shareware fee. selected and described by Peter Fleck, cludes a fraction to decimal Mini'app'les HyperCard SIG coordinator converter. Free. HyperCard Mac eDOM vl.2. #838- Stackware 9, Meyer-Briggs Personality Test Copyright © 1992 Mini'app'les, MAR 1992 ISTJ or ENFP? Find out with this test in a Hy This eDOM features HyperCard stacks selected perCard stack. Prints out a graph of your person and described by Peter Fleck, Mini'apples Hyper ality. Free. HyperCard vl.2. Card SIG coordinator, and owner of pf Hyper, a Mac eDOM #839 - Stackware 10, Copyright © HyperCard/Macintosh training and consulting business. 1992 Mini'apples, MAR 1992 Most of these stacks are in version 1.2 of Hyper Mac eDOM #839 is another disk of stacks se Card so if you haven't upgraded to 2.0, you can lected and described by Peter Fleck, Mini'apples still use them. All can be converted to HyperCard HyperCard SIG coordinator, and owner of pf 2.x unless otherwise noted. They have been com Hyper, a HyperCard/Macintosh training and pressed with Compact Pro and an extractor pro consulting business. gram is included on each disk. These stacks are compressed with Compact Pro. The Mini'app'les HyperCard Special Interest The Extractor utility is included on the disk to allow you to decompress the files. Group meets the fourth Monday of the month and is open to the public. All are welcome from begin FingerSpell ners to advanced HyperCarders. Check the Mini'app'les newsletter for location and program Created by Apple itself, FingerSpell teaches you or call Peter at 370-0017. how to fingerspell in American Sign Language. Shows how to make individual letters and actu EduVirus 2.0 ally spells words for you while pronouncing let All you've ever wanted to know about Macintosh ters. You choose how quickly words are spelled and whether the words are spelled with visual j»Fn viruses, worms, and trojan horses (as of January,
May 1992 and/or audio reinforcement. Very easy to use. Im ages are from the book RA Basic Course in Ameri can Sign Language by Humphries, Padden, O'Rourke, and Paul (T. J. Publishers, Inc., 1980). Macintosh Free. HyperCard vl.2. Handbook Update System Software Update document for first edition HyperCard 2.0 QuickTime™ Extras - Vl.l(2 Disks), © 1992 Handbook by Danny Goodman. This will fix all the Apple Computer, QuickTime*, Macintosh System little things that got missed or changed from the Software Extension time that Goodman wrote the book to the time that QuickTime is a Macintosh system software exten the original HyperCard 2.0 was released. This is a sion — a program you can add to your system Word 4.0 document. software to extend the capabilities of the com Car Record Stack puter. Keeps track of oil & filter changes, tune ups, and The QuickTime extension adds capabilities that tire rotations. You can also keep track of gasoline let applications integrate graphics, sound, video, costs and it calculates m.p.g.. Handy if you use your and animation into documents of all types, such car for business (and own a Power Book!). Buttons as spreadsheets and word processing documents. flash with special icons when you're overdue for By providing a standard way for all Macintosh maintenance. Free. HyperCard vl.2. applications to integrate these dynamic elements, QuickTime ensures consistency, compatibility, Song Stack 1.0 and greater ease of use. Besides playing digitalized sounds, you can also The QuickTime extension manages script music in HyperCard. This stack has over 80 • how applications let you view, control, and songs. Categories include Christmas, Children, Folk, Patriotic and Classical. Includes an explanation on edit QuickTime movie files (a QuickTime how to write music in HyperCard and has a key movie can include any combination of video, board card so you can compose your own songs. animation, and sound) Free. HyperCard vl.2. • how applications control the compression of movies and still images NeuroTour • how applications control hardware that Get into your head! NeuroTour takes you into the interacts with QuickTime (for example a brain and explains the different lobes and how nerve video recorder) messages are passed. Stunning visuals. Free. Hy perCard vl.2. By making it easy to integrate high quality still images, sound, and movies into ordinary docu Crazy Dice, HyperCard v2.x only. ments and applications, QuickTime brings multi media capabilities to all Macintosh users. Many games have been created in HyperCard stacks but few are interesting enough to be played over and SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS over. Crazy Dice is fun, has good sounds, and you can play against the computer or other humans. The QuickTime Extension will work on any Shareware: $5. Macintosh computer having a 68020,68030, or 68040 central processor, at least 2 MB of HomeCheck 2.2.2, HyperCard v2.x only. memory, and a hard disk. If you are looking for an alternative to Quicken, here The system software must be version 6.0.7 or it is. HomeCheck is a basic checking account pro later. If you are using System 7, Apple recom gram but it does everything you could ask for. Keeps mends at least 4 MB of memory. (QuickTime will a running balance, allows you to create automatic run on a Macintosh using System 7 and 2 MB of monthly payments, balances the account, creates memory, but little space will remain for applica auto enter items, and prints a report. Add to that a tions.) beautiful design and easy to follow instructions (Oh yeah, and a phone support number!). Shareware: $8. Complete instructions are included on the disk. El Verbo Simple Cost for the disk - Members Only $6.00 When I studied Spanish, I carried around a stack of System 7 Tune-Up © 1992 Apple Computer index cards with conjugations for study purposes. System 7 Tune-Up is a set of software enhance This stack does the same thing in HyperCard. 250 ments that make your Macintosh computer work Spanish verb conjugations (all tenses) with transla better with System 7 (version 7.0 or 7.0.1). Once tions. Click on a button to switch tenses. Free. Hy you have installed System 7 Tune-Up, you will perCard vl.2. mini'app'les notice that: For just $10 you can legally own this Combina • Memory is managed better, resulting in tion Slide Show picture Viewing program. © fewer Rout of memory messages. Copyright 1991 by DreamWorld Software. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED United States of America • Printing is faster and more reliable. and Foreign. • There is more memory available for applica tion programs on computers that are not Graphics included with this slide show are really connected to a network (such as a great. Those that have viewed it have said "I like PowerBook computer being used on the that new computer the Mac 2CS! road). Complete information for installation and use is GS.42 - Games 'n Stuff. included. GS.42 mainly contains two programs,— Galactic Conquest and Transprog v2.2 — but since there was some room left over, I have added a few Apple IIGS items. See the following for descriptions: Galactic Conquest, Copyright 1991 by David eDOMs Hallwas. This game is dedicated to Bill Wutz, Don 6S.GEM.25 - Graphics Westcott, Gary Mason, David J. Galbraith M.D. Another 46 super-hi-res graphics suitable for (a.k.a. PedDoc), Michael J. Mullaney, Tommy AppleWorks GS, or your favorite graphics paint Melton, and Bob Shofstall (Nite Owl Produc program (may need conversion — you can use tions). Thanks for paying for MageMaze guys! I SHR.CONVERT). hope you enjoy your free copy of this one. GEM.GS.26 For your gaming pleasure, Galactic Conquest — my version of a computer "board" game. You (and Yet another fine job of five more MEAN-18 golf up to three more of your closest friends) can com courses, review courtesy of Bill Job; the reviews pete to become Supreme Emperor of the Galaxy. are as below: You each begin on your lowly home planet with Ocean Hills 36/36. Some green located next to the 20 cash credits. From here, conquer the galaxy. beach. Lots of water, Sounds simple, right? Wrong. but it won't bother a You must amass a straight shooter. fleet of ships to do For your gaming pleasure, Galactic Oak Hollow 36/36. The your dirty work — name implies lots of Conquest — my version of a computer trading, fighting, "board" game. You (and up to three boarding ships, and of trees: you won't be dis course conquering the appointed. Not too more of your closest friends) can much water or sand. compete to become Supreme Emperor planets. Fight Easy pars. of the Galaxy. amongst each other ^^^^_____^^_____ as well as the four Mt. Pleasant 37/37. A computer opponent pond in the middle of scout ships from sur the fairway? You bet! Lots of water to shoot over rounding galaxies. See who can build and main or alongside. You must shoot very straight to tain the greatest galactic empire. avoid the water. Sometimes it's better to aim for Last of all, this game is shareware. See the sec the rough: The fairway is harder. tion entitled HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY The Monster 36/36. Narrow at times. Some 90 below. degree doglegs with trees guarding the corner. You can tame the monster. Another good course. REQUHIEMENTS • An Apple Hgs with minimum 1 Meg Monarch 39/37. Some very short par 4's. Eagles memory. possible. If you feel daring- or lucky - take a short • System Software v5.04 or higher. cut. The water will swallow your ball if you don't hit accurately. • Talking Tools from Byte Works recom mended but not needed if you don't want GS.41 - Slideshow.3200 - DreamVoir. speech. DreamVoir is a combination Slide Show picture •Color monitor HIGHLY recommended. Each viewing program for 3200 type graphics, complete player race is represented by it's own color. with music capability. DreamVoir is Shareware.
May 1992 • Accelerator Card Recommended! (After all, if no key is pressed. the game is written in Pascal.) • Optional Password protection of the boot WOW, IT TALKS!! from your system disk. •And last but not least, direct quit from an Synthesized speech has been added to Galactic application to another, without having to Conquest to enhance the game play. Implement return to the Finder; and this with some ing the speech requires Talking Tools from Byteworks as well as a password. When I receive options like purging memory ... the shareware fee, you will be sent information as The TransProg set (Inits, Applications and docu to using the tools as well as the password. Which mentation) is shareware. The copy of this set is brings me to ... legal and FREE but if you like this product and HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY (About the want to continue to use it, send US $20.00 to us Shareware Fee) with your version number (check, Visa, Master Card accepted). You will be informed about future I have spent a very long time thinking about, versions. developing, and play testing this game. I ask that The TransProg set contains material from the you please send me $5.00 for my efforts if you decide to keep it. If not, please pass it on then ORCA/C Run-Time Libraries, copyright 1987- 1990 by Byte Works, Inc. Used with permission. destroy your copy (like you're really going to any way). The five dollars is to cover the cost of mail DISKTIMER GS - Hard Disk Benchmarking, © ing out updates to the program (if I ever decide to 1988 Joe Jaworski, 18405 Tamarind Street, do so) as well as to help cover my modem ex Fountain Valley, CA 92708 penses. This program is FREEWARE. It is copyrighted This game was written using ORCA PASCAL. I material but you may use it and/or distribute it would like to thank Mike Westerfield for answer free of charge to anyone for personal, non-com- ing some key questions about his compiler. Here's the legal stuff: This program contains material from the ORCA/ Like all benchmarks, test results cannot Pascal Run-Time Libraries, copyright 1987-1991 be strictly correlated to a drive's perfor by Byte Works, Inc. Used with Permission. mance in an actual application. How Byte Works also has a great new development ever, the key to a benchmark is the package called Talking Tools which allows you to comparison of results between different incorporate speech into your programs. The pack products. DiskTimerGS has been age includes 4 tools, source in Pascal, C, and As designed to eliminate as many system sembly, and a pretty decent program called variables as possible to insure accurate Speaklt. Mike told me that he is offering it for results in a wide variety of system $49.95, but most places are offering it for 2/3 that amount. The tools are well worth it! configurations. Special thanks to Parik Rao for his tool 69 which allows you to play Soundsmith songs in your mercial use. Licensing is required for including programs. Speaking of which, the music will be DiskTimerGS with any commercial hardware or better next time. This time was merely an experi software product. Contact me for licensing infor ment (Fm not a musician anyway). mation. I would also like to thank Gary Hammond for What is DiskTimerGS? It is a "Benchmark" or drawing some of the graphics for me. Always the performance rating program designed to measure artist. how efficiently a hard disk drive will perform on TransProg v 2.2 by Francois Uhrich & an Apple IIGS. It is designed to give you, the BrainStorm Software, April 12,1991 consumer, a rating system by which to measure the performance of hard disk drives and their The TransProg set only works with the GS/OS manufacturers claims. system 5.0 and above and offers the following possibilities: Like all benchmarks, test results cannot be strictly correlated to a drive's performance in an •Link between applications (GS/OS or actual application. However, the key to a bench ProDOS 8) and keyboard keys. The simple mark is the comparison of results between differ stroke of one of those keys at boot time, ent products. DiskTimerGS has been designed to during thermometer display, launches the eliminate as many system variables as possible to linked application! insure accurate results in a wide variety of sys • Definition of the default program launched tem configurations. DiskTimerGS is immune to
mini'app disk cache settings, controller cache memory, The original videoJAZZ was created, in Apple- partitioning, system interrupts (including mouse Soft, on an Apple lie. But it only used six colors. movement), and buffered drive seeks. Thanks to the Hgs's better graphics capabilities, this version, written in ORCA/C, picks colors at APPLETALK USERS: DiskTimerGS disables random from a palette of 4096! But that's not all! interrupts during the actual test periods. This will "hang" the network. Disconnect AppleTalk This version uses color cycling in two different before running DisktimerGS. DiskTimerGS oper ways. One is called "transform", and the other, ates through the ProDOS 16 interface under GS/ "move" (youll see why). When you see a pattern OS. It is not compatible with System Disks before you like, press a key and it will pause, still color version 4.0 and is not compatible with other mod cycling. You can use the number keys to vary its els of the Apple II. speed (1 is FAST, 9 is slow, 0 is stop). Any other key will continue, and [esc] will quit any time. DirMap vl.O, Copyright 1989 Jason Harper. Freeware: distribute but do not sell. PURPOSE: WE FORGOT ONE! To show the directory structure of any GS/OS- readable disk in a graphical format in which the Due to unusual circumstances, we inadvertently displayed width of each directory is proportional left out GS.35. Well, here it is, filled with inter to the amount of disk space taken by files in that esting stuff! directory, including all files in subdirectories. This makes it easy to locate any directories that IIGS.35 - ForumLink Disk - April 91, America are taking up more disk space than expected, Online User Group Forum. April 1991 Disk Of The Month compiled by Tom Gates. perhaps due to some large files that were placed there and forgotten. Apple.Rx (GS version), Copyright 1988-91 by REQUIREMENTS: Glen E. Bredon • Apple Hgs. This program is "virus medicine". It will read • 512K memory should be sufficient for han your system files (and any other types you dling any reasonable disk structure. specify) and create data files (one for each vol • GS/OS (System Disk 4.0 or higher). ume) that contains information on these files. At any time, you can run it in check mode and it will Optional (needed only for alternate methods of report any of these files that have been altered. use): For obvious reasons, I am not going to detail ex • APW or Orca/GS command shell (text based, actly what sort of data the program saves, but not Orca/Desktop). suffice it to say that it is virtually impossible to change any of these files without detection by this LIMITATIONS: program and it would also be very difficult to either alter this program or the data file it cre The amount of disk space taken by the directories ates without detection. The program also checks themselves isn't included in the displayed direc (and in some cases, corrects) some data on the tory sizes, since GS/OS doesn't support any file disk, the details of which shall go unspecified. system independent way of determining it (some file systems don't store directories as separate Complete documentation is on the disk. entities, therefore the size of a directory on such a file system isn't a meaningful concept). The ef Big Edit Thing vl.0a4. Revision of April 21,1991. Copyright © 1991 by Jim Murphy. All rights re fects of this should be negligible. served Any directories that contain less than l/320th of the total disk space used on the volume probably NOTE: The version of the software, Big Edit Thing vl.0a4 (BET), described herein is will not appear in the display at all. ShareWare. It may be distributed freely, but Disks or directories with a name longer than 32 those who use BET must register with the author characters will cause DirMap to abort. This can't for $10.00 (American). happen with any current or expected GS/OS File It is not guaranteed that any future versions of System Translators, but may be a problem in the this software will retain ShareWare status. future. videoJAZZ GS - version 1.8, by Zeb Hodge Big Edit Thing (BET) is a powerful New Desk Accessory-based word processor, designed to work videoJAZZ is to the eyes what musical jazz is to under Apple HGS System Software v5.0.3 or the ears!! newer. It supports loading, editing, and saving files in a number of popular file formats includ Introducing... yet another version of videoJAZZ! ing; Text, Teach, ORCA/APW Source Code, and
May 1992 AppleWorks (vl.O - 3.0). It currently only supports Jean Pierre Charpentier, 24 rue des Tilleuls, 78210 one ruler, but it allows multiple fonts, sizes, styles, Saint Cyr l'Ecole, FRANCE and colors throughout a document. Some of the other features include: GS.Spy has two functions: Disk Monitor & Virus • In-window menu bar w/ full keyboard menu Interceptor 1: GS.Spy puts a disk activity witness just in equivalent support the left of Apple logo in menu bar. This indi • Multiple ruler formats including in., cm, and cator is very useful for internal hard disk pixels owners of Vulcan or InnerDrive. Note: it will • Rulers automatically re-format to reflect show you all GS/OS calls. For example, if you printer setup access a remote hard disk through • Variable-interval auto save feature AppleTalk, GS.Spy will light even if you have no disk in your computer. • Powerful Find/Replace movable modal dialog 2: GS.Spy intercepts Erase and Format com • Document printing mands. Each time GS.Spy meets one of these • Optional live' character count commands it alerts you. GS.Spy cries out "- • Optional automatic word-wrap Alert Alert -" and stops all operations in your • Optional intelligent cut and paste computer. • Resource based interface At this time you have two choices: • You accept the command and you type RE CalcCDA TURN. This is a very simple calculator CDA that does • You refuse the command and you type ES everything you would expect a $0.99 calculator to CAPE. do. It can add, subtract, multiply and divide. Warn Now the dangerous command will be removed and ing: It does not use the proper order of operation. For example, 2+2*10 should be 22 but this calcula replaced by a Null command which does nothing on tor will tell you it is 40 just as any $0.99 calculator disk! Note: even if GS sound is low or off, GS.Spy would. This is the first CDA I have ever written (it sound an alert !It is a security choice I made. is much easier that I thought) and the first Orca/C Incompatibility: program I have ever written more complicated • PRIZM from Byte Works, Inc. (sorry Mike) than Hello World. I hope you like it. Please send • MultiSwitcher from a nice french guy (sorry any question, comments, bug reports or sugges tions to James C. Smith, 7100 W. Coldspring, Vincent) Greenfield, WI53220 • if you use TransProg from another nice CD.Database: A Database program for your com french guy, you MUST put GS.Spy in first place in */SYSTEM/SYSTEM.SETUP direc pact-disks. tory (sorry Francois) Checkbook.GS: A GS program for balancing your GSOS5.04.Docs: Documentation notes about checkbook GSOS5.04. Date.Calc.GS: AppleWorks GS for calculating dates Hardware.DB: AppleWorks GS hardware/software GS.Launcher: These programs are minimal desk database. Now you can catalog all your hardware top launchers. If the cancel option is chosen, then and software. Included is serial number, help they do an OSshutdown. #1 allows the user to ei phone number and address, date of purchase, etc. ther reboot or power down. headings. #2 reboots: If a RAM disk exists, then either pro HFS.Link: HFSLink Version B.3 (beta), © 1990 by grams reboot will leave it intact. Scott Blackman GS. Shutdown: This program does an OSshutdown, HFS Convert, as of this writing, converts files from allowing the user to either reboot or power down. If a Macintosh HFS volume into two ProDOS files: a RAM disk exists, then reboot will leave it intact. one for the data fork and one for the resource fork. Multiple file selection and directory conversion are GS.Spy 1.0: Another BabarWare Production. supported. GS.Spy is a Permanent INIT File. So copy it in the SYSTEM/SYSTEM.SETUP folder of your boot disk. Key .Find Version 1.0.1 by Al Velella, April 1991. This program is FREEWARE ! So you don't have to Freeware! pay any money. But if you like it, you can send me Most IIGS fonts have more than the standard anything (blank disks, a nice utility, digitized ASCII characters you're familiar with. They also photo of your girlfriend and so on ...). contain trademark symbols, a real division sign,
mini'app'les accented vowels, and other assorted goodies. Sys MenuTime is a program that automatically puts a tem Software 5.0 introduced the ability to access clock in the far right of the menu bar of any desk these special characters with option sequences as top based program that supports desk accessories. long as you set the keyboard translation to stan To use MenuTime, just put it in the System/ dard in the graphic control panel. Desk.Accs folder of your startup disk or install it with an NDA installer, such as Font-DA Installer Well, thafs great except it's not necessarily intui or IDOL. MenuTime requires System 5.0.2 or tive that option-s will produce the beta character. higher. To display the date, click on the time. To There should be a better way to look up and pro change parameters, select MenuTime in the Apple duce the desired characters. For the Mac, Apple menu. provided something called Key Caps but even that couldn't display all available characters. As for the MenuTime has only been tested with System 5.0.4 GS, I'm not aware of any such desk accessory. but should work fine with 5.0.3. MenuTime will Somebody should do something about that... probably work with 5.0.2, but it's not recom mended. Key Find is a new desk accessory that will display an 11 x 24 cell grid containing the complete charac Mines.GS - V1.01, © 1990 DriftWood Software by ter set of any IIGS font. It displays the key combi Tome Hoke nation needed to produce the selected character and it also allows a user to copy the character to Mines.GS is an NDA based on a Mac version writ the clipboard ten by Daniel Griscom. It is a game where you try not to find the hidden "bombs" Inventory - Vl.2, © 1991 by Tim Swihart Mortgage: Mortgage Calculation program. This is a HyperCard Stack. It is freeware. It is a simple household inventory system. Very good in my estimation. Launch.Pad: This product is classified "Jesus-A Apple //e - 5.25" ware". It is the equivalent of FreeWare. It is dis tributed the same as God's Love. That means it's eDOM free to anyone wholl accept it. It will be given to anyone, regardless of who or what you are, or have DOM 73 contains 4 different items: been. It's not where you've been, but where you're SIMPSONS - a text-based picture taken from our going! Mini'apples Bulletin Board displaying the ever- Everyone is free to use the "JesusAware" name. popular Bart Simpson. Spreading the Gospel message through Software. This product is freeware. Give it to everyone, even Silly .Bull - A BASIC program that is used for if they don't have a computer! This work is a labor teaching reading. It focuses on reading words by of love for my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! using syllables (silly-bulls). Great for beginning readers. Just as Jesus sets you on the right path, this CDev will do the same for your GS/OS applications. Story Tailor - a BASIC program that is used for teaching reading by getting the students involved Here is a Control Panel NDA Device (CDev) that in the stories. Their own names are used in the allows you to configure GS/OS applications so the stories. A few stories are provided, along with a data file location and the TransWarp GS speed will sample class list. Both can be changed or modi be set each time that application is launched. Are fied. Documentation is in the HELP menu while you tired of hunting for your data files every time in the program. you launch an application and you know the files are always in the same directory? They sure don't Stories are selected by the teacher and merged move on their own! Do you own some games that with lists of student names. Then they are require the Fast (2.8 Mhz) speed to run? You stand printed out, or used on screen. no chance of even getting past the first level unless Stories can be saved on the Story Tailor Library you change the speed before you begin? This utility Disk or any data disk formatted for ProDOS. is for you! It doesn't matter which GS/OS based program launcher you use (ProSel 16, Finder, SLOGRO & SOOT - two fractal-type BASIC pro Wings, etc..), Launch Pad will work for you. gram. Each simulated a random particle adher ing to either the center of a "pipe", or the outside. MenuTime version 3.32, Copyright © 1990-1991 by Be aware that large "pipes" may take a long time Jay Krell. All rights reserved. MenuTime may be for the program to complete. freely distributed, but this file must accompany it. MenuTime is shareware; if you like it, a small Submitted by Software Director Greg Carlson # donation is requested.
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