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I came much closer this time than the first go-around. Who knows, maybe by 1992..... WAP Group Purchase program. The best communications program for the /// is called Com Manager from On Three. Or you can try TerminALL, soon to be in the PD library. FINALLY A belated thanks to all of you who voted for me during this last WAP Boee separate systems of 32 boards each. Our /// SIG board is on System #1. If you haven't joined up, it's only an additional $6.00 per year and a good way to learn the fun of telecomputing. Remember, you can get a good, cheap 1200 baud modem through the I'm happy to announce that we have a new Sysop for our /// SIG board on the WAP TCS. SIG member Jim Suthard has agreed to take over the board's helm and work to get it back up to speed. The TCS is a fantastic resource for members, containing thrtwo more Foxware programs and Daryl Anderson's PowerKeys DM+. We continue our efforts to get other, former commercial programs placed into the PD and can report some luck in the past month or so. Watch The Trail for future announcements! WAP TCS es, utilities and much, much more. This month, I am happy to report that the final three disks in the Taylor Pohlman series are finished and now available in our library. This brings the /// PD offerings up to a full 30 disks. Coming next month will be ll. Ink Well was recently placed into the PD by Foxware and is an excellent Basic-based word processing program. 1029 is the manual and 1030 is the actual program. That should get you started. The library also contains gam have a couple of offerings: 1006 Word Processing and WPL. This disk contains the 4.1 version of Apple Writer which was never issued by Apple. It includes a set of ///-SIG developed help files and other information. 1029/1030 Ink We3 Diagnostics. If your /// has a headache, this disk may help you find out the source. 1014 Basic Boot Disk. Developed by member Jim Salerno. It contains a number of fine utility programs. For those interested in word processing, we30C$="N"C$="n"1160;:=23:=0::"79C";"PRESS ANY KEY TO HALT LISTING": $1020.202 8::Z=1B::=23:=0::"79C";"WOULD YOU LIKE A PRINTED COPY?":1C$:C$<>"Y"C$<>"y"C$<>"N"C$<>"n"1170*C$="N"C$="n"y the time you read this. mal cost is $75.00 but they have sales throughout the year. FINALLY Speaking of Sun, they have come out with a new "Apple /// Do-It-Yourself Troubleshooting Guide" you might want to get ahold of. Cost is $19.95 and it should be available b it, as well as a tutorial on WPL. I would also strongly recommend you get the 2.0 manuals from Sun Systems Recycling, which are excellent (they come with the 2.0 version, the last official /// version of AppleWriter). Sun's number is 1-800-821-3221. Noright care to make. WPL is really a great addition to AppleWriter (one reviewer said it made the difference between being a good program and a great program). For more information, you can get our PD disk 1016, which has the 1.41 version of AppleWriter on___S_c_r_e_e_n___c_o_m_m_a_n_d___( ) and the pathnames for the disks, since the Apple // uses slot,drive designations. 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It's $89.95 from On Three complete with Driver and the Trackball itself (that verses $160.00 for a //e mouse)(whicAU. Articles and other material from early editions of the Third Apple User's newsletter, TAU Tales. 1015 The Best of ///'s Company. How-tos for hardware and software, and other information from the ///'s Company BBS. 1013 A3 DiagBest of MAUG. This disk contains a wealth of information from the /// section of CompuServe. Good, basic information. 1009 The Best of The Source. More basic /// information, from the old /// SIG on the Source. 1010 The Best of Te and other functions. It also contains the System Configuration Program needed to set up your SOS.Driver file for your system. Includes additional drivers, character sets and other items. 1005 New Member Disk. 1008 The s contains a detailed list of all our PD offerings and what each disk contains. 1004 System Utilities and Data. If you do not have this disk, it is a must-have. This disk allows you to make copies, format disks, set the timNew Member Disk. It contains a wealth of information about the Apple /// from a basic description of what it is, to how to set up your SOS.Driver file. Beyond that, here are my recommendations for some initial disks to purchase: 1000: PD Catalog. Thiprogram directly or read any text file directly. And in our latest version, you can even print a file during or after reading that file. So which PD disks should you begin with? When you become a member, you get one of the best disks around, our brary even has manuals, technical information, magazines and other information. On the software side, our PD disks are spectacular buys at $3.00 each. Most are self-booting and double-sided. Our excellent Menu.Maker program allows you to run any eo tape tutorial for the ///, as well as a set of tutorial cassettes you can use. They may both be taken out with a deposit. There are also textbooks, like the McGraw Hill Guide to the Apple ///, that are an excellent source of basic information. The liwork.) SOFTWARE SOURCES For our newer members who may not know, the best place to start looking for software is right in the WAP library. It can provide the help you are looking for. On the "hard copy" side, the WAP library offers a videring dust in a closet somewhere. The /// does not deserve the closet. It deserves to be used and the home is the best place for it now (but don't get me wrong, there are still a number of folks, like member Joe Brown, who continue to use it at specially for someone who has never owned a computer before). The cost is certainly right. Whole systems can be had for $500.00 and less. In many cases, I hear of or talk to people who were able to get a /// from work for free, since it usually is gathget folks up and running. We also helped one member, Jim Jentzin, get 3EZ Pieces set up properly for his system. I know how difficult it is to get a system up and running, but I continue to believe that the /// remains an excellent home machine (eility. JULY SIG MEETING Our final SIG meeting of the summer was one of the year's best. Certainly the best turnout, with nearly 10 people in attendance, including some new ///ers. Much of the evening was spent answering questions and helping h also works in the ///). Uses one slot. Dale also reports that he is nearly finished with a GS version of the Trackball driver! He has not indicated who will market that for him, but we would also suspect On Three. Watch this column for availabnostics. If your /// has a headache, this disk may help you find out the source. 1014 Basic Boot Disk. Developed by member Jim Salerno. It contains a number of fine utility programs. For those interested in word processing, we have On The Trail of the Apple /// by David Ottalini /// SIG Co-Chairman Has Frank Moore returned? It seems that way, at least to a point. In the mail this past month, many ///ers received a two page flyer from an "assistant" to Moore, the Presidl a much better buy, as it is now usable with essentially ANY Apple /// program. Those folks who bought the Trackball directly from Sykora can get the upgrade from him as well for an additional $8.00. Check with On Three about the availability of the nech now allows it to work with On Three's Graphics Manager and all other mouse-driven software. He also has patched the driver onto .Console for use specifically with Catalyst (but is also works very well with Selector). These upgrades make the Trackbalam was announced in the flyer, and others notified FASTBACK's publisher inquiring about possible copyright infringement. LET'S MOVE ON On a happier front, Lt. Charles (Dale) Sykora has just come out with a modification to his Trackball driver whiburned. They are not likely to forget anytime soon, even with the need for more Apple /// vendors. One individual, in fact, /// SIG member Dr. Al Bloom even wrote his own ASCII to DIF format converter program for the public domain after a similar progrjuvenated vendor with a great deal of skepticism (and even derision). As I've said in the past, if there was a problem, it would have been very simple to tell people about it and they would have more than understood. That did not happen and people got As your /// Co-Chairman, I must tell you that I remain very skeptical of Pair and warn you in the strongest possible terms that this company's commitment to the /// Community remains questionable. The /// Community on CompuServe met this newly ren Way, Carmichael, CA. 95608). Pair has also added a new BBS, at (916) 929-4845. The flyer also claims to have a new backup program for hard disks on the way (named after a PC program of the same name, FASTBACK) and a couple of other programs. hardware items, and has had to discontinue other lines, such as ThreeWorks, GoForth and all the D.A. Datasystems programs (at least as commercial products).To make use of the credit, contact Pair directly by phone (916) 485-6525 or by mail (3201 Murchisochrum says this plan "would almost certainly be authorized by the court." 2nd class subscribers will receive $40.00 credit, 1st Class $50.00 credit and overseas subscribers will get a $60.00 credit. The cutback means Pair will no longer be sellingganization plan and "as you are aware, in a bankruptcy the normal payout to creditors in the proceeding is usually small, if anything. Fortunately for subscribers, Pair Software has decided to provide a credit to the company's software library. Sow back to work on a part-time basis with hopes he'll be back to 100% in March. The flyer also confirms that Pair went bankrupt, making a continuation of The Three Magazine an impossibility. The flyer says the company is currently under a re-or8:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHent of Pair Software. The assistant, Byron Schrum, says that the initial reason The Three Magazine ceased publication one year ago was by "over-commitments" on Moore's part, followed by an "unfortunate deterioration" of his health. Schrum says Moore is nwly revised drivers if you want to buy it from them. I've also been putting a beta version of the SOS Driver Optimizer through its paces. It still has a few bugs, but I think it will be an excellent addition to your /// library. NEW PD DISKS Our /// SIG PD offerings continue to grow. While continuing our work to bring the Pohlman disks together, we've moved ahead to get some of the D.A.Datasystem disks into our library. This month, we add disks 1022, 1023 and 1024. All are double-sidthe keyboard to the case. 3) Pop out the keyboard. 4) Carefully remove the old lamp. 5) Mark the positive side of the lead. 6) Trim the new lamp's wires to match the old lamp's. 7) Insert the new lamp into the socket (it may require a little t one from Radio Shack. The number is 276-036B. To make the repair follow these basic steps: 1) Turn OFF your ///'s power (better yet, unplug the power cord), and remove the disk in .D1. 2) Turn your /// over and remove the five screws holding oblem. The easy way is to simply hit the RESET key. That will complete the circuit and allow the /// to boot. The second fix is more permanent and involves replacing the light. Your WAP /// SIG has some of these in stock if you need one, or you can get might seem innocuous enough, but it can keep your SARA from booting! If the light is burned out, a circuit is broken and the /// doesn't think the keyboard is hooked into the system. Thus, the machine won't boot. There are two fixes to this pr/ Community over the past six months or so. It has the new Menu.Maker program on it, an updated bibliography of WAP Journal articles about the ///, and an updated A3.Information file. KEYBOARD LIGHT PROBLEMS Your Apple ///'s keyboard "ON" lighnto the COPY of your old PD disk. To change the disk name on the bottom Menu bar, simply retype line 260, letting d$ equal the name of the replacement disk. Finally, I have also updated the New Member disk to reflect the many changes in the //d to better reflect the options available to the user. And the program now directly returns you to the menu after reading a text file. If you want to update old versions of the Menu program from earlier disks, all you have to do is copy the new version oefix. then type in the new one and hit (RETURN). All these disks, by the way, have a newly updated version of our Menu.Maker program which I think you'll find a bit better than the older versions. Among the changes, the top menu bar has been fixe programs, disk 1024 is NOT self-booting. But it does contain Menu.Maker and the Text.Dump program. Remember Menu.Maker will make a menu of any disk in .D1 simply by changing the prefix. Hit the (ESCAPE) key and use the left arrow key to erase the old prit for your printer to finish. The drivers come in different sizes so you can use only the amount of memory you need. I've been using one of these drives for quite a while now and have found it to be a great time saver. Due to the size of theseally, disk 1024 has the parallel and serial versions of Power Print ///, a series of device drivers that set aside some of your ///'s memory as a buffer for printing purposes. In this way, you can print a document and continue working without having to waic if your program needed that ability.) Complete User Manuals are provided for both Basic XT and Basic Utils. Disk 1023 contains "The Retriever", a program that will let you undelete deleted files. The User Manual is extensive and easy to use. Finides a version of System Utilities from within Basic. Daryl Anderson wrote the Utility program so that it is self-contained. But you can use the various parts in your own Basic programs if you need to (for example, you could format a disk from within Based and 1022 and 1023 are self-booting. 1022 contains Basic Extensions and Basic Utilities. Basic XT provides a series of Invokable Modules that allow you to use Call, Peek, Poke and other language add-ons from within Business Basic. Basic Utils provsqueezing.) making sure the positive side is aimed towards the #3 key. 8) Turn on your ///. If the lamp does not come on, turn off the power and reverse it. 9) Replace the keyboard, hook everything else up and you're back in business! If you have any other questions about how to do something on your ///, please feel free to write me in care of the WAP office, or call me (or Co- Chairman Tom Bartkiewicz). Our numbers are listed at the front of the Journal. FINALLY Reports are that On 2120 PRINT CHR$(16);CHR$(1) 2130 PERFORM GRAFIXON 2140 FOR X=1 TO 2000:NEXT X:TEXT 2150 HOME:PERFORM RELEASE:CLOSE#5 2160 GOTO 120 Note that once you've loaded a different FONT file, you're stuck with it until you load another one ay$) 2050 PERFORM loadfont(@array$) 2060 GOTO 120 And secondly to load, and display, a FOTO file: 2070 OPEN#5,".GRAFIX" 2080 INVOKE".D1/BGRAF.INV" 2090 D$=MID$(B$(I),16,B) 2100 name$=CHR$(34)+D$+CHR$(34) 2110 PERFORM GLOAD.D$ly, at the very end of the program, you have the subroutines themselves. First, to load the FONT file: 2000 INVOKE".D1/download.inv" 2010 C$=MID$(B$(I),16,B) 2020 array$="C%" 2030 name$=CHR$(34)+C$+CHR$(34) 2040 PERFORM getfont(@name$,@arro recognize FONT and FOTO files you add these instructions at the appropriate places: 420 A$="FONT 0":GOSUB 130 430 A$="FOTO 0":GOSUB 130 790 IF INSTR(B$(I),"FONT 0") THEN 2000 800 IF INSTR(B$(I),"FOTO 0") THEN 2070 And final numbers should be.): 190 DIM A$(1000),B$(1000),C%(511),C$(20),name$(20):VPOS=10:HPOS=0 C%, C$ and name$ all set aside the proper amount of memory for the FONT file so it may be loaded and executed by the program. To get Menu.Maker tto establish the Array is to do it while the program is setting up the Arrays for Menu.Maker itself (Note the program numbers may not match your version of Menu.Maker but if you list it, it will be obvious where these lines should go, and what the new linebasic things you have to do within the program to A) let it recognize that a FOTO or FONT file exists, B) Set up an Array to hold the fontfile, C) Have the appropriate Invokable's available and D) Have the appropriate subroutine available. One way JLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[. As I was discussing, member Tim Boquet asked about using the program to show FOTO files or change fonts automatically. That got me thinking and, after a little research found that it really wouldn't be all that difficult to do. There are some ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE /// By David Ottalini Apple /// SIG Co-Chairman MENU.MAKER (CONTINUED) Since some of the column got eaten by the printing goblin last month, I thought we might continue our discussion of Menu.Maker this monthon its merits. Three's new spelling checker for /// EZ Pieces is not selling well. If you need a spelling checker, this product is, by all reports, excellent and well worth the $69.95 cost. I'll be getting a copy soon and report back to you on its merits. k to you (the default FONT is called "Standard"). The Graphics subroutine displays the FOTO file for a short time and then returns you to the menu. The two invokables needed, Download.Inv and Bgraf.Inv are on disk 1002 and other disks. You'll also need to add the Graphics Driver to you SOS.Driver file using the System Configuration Program on your Utilities Disk. That driver is on side B of disk 1004. MENU.MAKER TAKE TWO We continue to fine-tune this useful program and have recently been working to lear 8192:HL = 300 320 PRINT CHR$ (4);"Bload";FL$;",A";BS;",TAWP" 330 HOME : SPEED= 70: INVERSE 340 PRINT "DISPLAY FILE: ";FL$: NORMAL : POKE 34,1 345 REM Lines 360-400 form MAIN BODY program 350 START = BS + HL 360 Y = PEEK (START + 1) 370 INT "with AppleWorks Word Processing files" 230 PRINT "from Applesoft Basic Programs." 240 PRINT : PRINT "Select a small word processing file" 250 PRINT "and enter the filename here: "; 270 INPUT " ";FL$ 300 REM BS= File starting point 310 BS =1986 60 REM 70 REM This program demonstrates the logic of reading 80 REM Appleworks wordprocessing files from Basic.System 90 REM 100 ONERR GOTO 20000 200 TEXT : HOME : VPOS= 5 210 PRINT "This program will show you how to work" 220 PRI The program (with a tiny bit of conversion) looks like this: 10 REM Program by William A. Boyd 20 REM Donated to the Public Domain 30 REM Through the Atlanta Apple Users Group. 40 REM All Commercial Rights Reserved 50 REM Copyright (c) /3EZPs adds information at the top of each file. There are plenty of Peeks and Pokes in this one, more than I can handle. So any help in converting this over to Business Basic would be appreciated (You GS Basic folks might want to give it a try as well).e for me and I've decided to throw it out to you real "Business Basic Programmers" out there. I was able to find an AppleSoft program that will read AppleWorks or 3 EZP's Wordprocessing files. These are different from straight ASCII text files because AWubs and for you ///ers out there, makes these disks an even greater value. Most /// SIG disks are double-sided and many are unique to our library. Why not give some a try! READING APPLEWORKS/3 EZ PIECES TEXTFILES FROM BASIC This is a tough one for you to look at. PD TAKE TWO With little fanfare, the cost of 5 1/4 inch PD disks was reduced this past month from $5.00 to $3.00. 3 1/2 inch disks remain at $5.00 each for members. These prices bring WAP more in line with other clhere and there), we now have PD disk 1000 in stock. It contains a complete catalog of all our disks! There's been a number of requests for this disk and I'm pleased it is finally becoming available. A hard-copy version is also available at the WAP officContest" on the front. The winner will be announced in the November Journal. NEW PD DISK! While we're on the subject, we do have a new PD disk to announce this month. Thanks to the efforts of John Ruffatto (and a little editing by your's truly Send me a new name for this program. The winner will receive the latest copy of my ThreeWorks disks (Version 6-1-88). Send your entry (a postcard would be fine) to me in care of the WAP Office no later than September 19th. Be sure to write "Menu.Maker ked on. We also hope to add a disk with Apple // Emulation programs. Any other suggestions are welcome! By the way, a suggestion was recently made to change Menu.Maker's name. So, to have a little fun, we'll try our first-ever /// SIG contest. program, a compendium of this author's columns, Daryl Anderson's PowerKeys background Utility and many more. Additionally, to honor the one year anniversary of the Phase /// Conference, a transcription of some of the sessions is being worn more about fonts as a way to "jazz up" the program. You'll be seeing the results in our new disks to be announced this fall. Current projects include the final three Taylor Pohlman disks, Foxware's Basic Extension and TerminALL disks, a wonderful font F Y > = 208 THEN GOSUB 10000 380 IF Y < 208 THEN GOSUB 19000 400 GOTO 360 10000 REM Sub handles lines & Command Lines 10010 IF Y = 208 THEN PRINT CHR$ (13): GOTO 11000 10020 IF Y = 223 THEN PRINT "----justify----": GOTO 11000 10030 IF Y = 224 THEN PRINT "---unjustify---": GOTO 11000 10040 IF Y = 225 THEN PRINT "----center----": GOTO 11000 10050 IF Y = 255 THEN POP : SPEED= 255: TEXT : END 10060 IF Y = 230 THEN PRINT "----single space----": GOTO 11000 10070 IF Y = 231 THEntil there was more software and the bugs were worked out ("I'm sure it will be a useful machine some day"). /// user Mark Cheren wrote the following month ("Here So Slowly Comes The Apple ///") that he had gone through three Apple ///s (due to early prod mention of the Apple /// occurred in February, 1981 when Burton S. Chambers III wrote an article entitled "Flavors: Little Tidbits." Orange was the color of his /// comments. He said that he wanted to wait before making a final decision on the machine u to be a replacement for the Apple ][, which Apple was afraid would not continue to sell well. The /// was specifically designed as a business machine and Apple sold it in "bundles" with software and hardware. For Washington Apple Pi, the first\^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrsroots within the club. WAP was barely a year and a half old when the Apple /// was introduced at the National Computer Conference in Anaheim in May, 1980. The /// was the first computer to be designed in-house by Apple Computer. It was supposed ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE /// By David Ottalini Apple /// SIG Co-Chairman HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY WAP! As Washington Apple Pi celebrates its Tenth Anniversary, I'd like to take a little bit of this column to look back at our own a meeting place and access to someone's ///, so let's hear from you folks! folks! Bethesda to attend meetings. What would you think of having a SIG meeting on your end of the world every other month like some of the other SIG's do? If this is an idea whose time has come, please let me or Tom Bartkiewicz know. We would obviously needor the /// and GS. It appears a major timing problem has been solved and things are moving forward at a quickened pace. We'll keep you informed. FINALLY I need some feedback from you Virginia SIG members. I know how difficult it is to get intoNT 19070 START = START + SL + 2 19080 RETURN 20000 REM Error Handler 20010 SPEED= 255: TEXT : END SYKORA UPDATE Lt. Dale Sykora reports he (and his brother) are spending all their free time these days on their Apple graphics card f9010 SL = PEEK (START): REM Length of string 19020 Z = ( PEEK (START + 3) > 127) 19030 FOR I = START + 4 TO START + SL + 1 19035 IF PEEK (I) < 31 THEN 19050: REM SPECIAL CHARS 19040 PRINT CHR$ ( PEEK (I)); 19050 NEXT 19060 IF Z THEN PRIN PRINT "----double space----": GOTO 11000 10080 IF Y = 232 THEN PRINT "----triple space----": GOTO 11000 10090 IF Y = 233 THEN PRINT "----new page ----": GOTO 11000 11000 START = START + 2: RETURN 19000 REM Subroutine handles Standard Text 1uction problems) but still felt the machine had excellent potential. He wrote: "So, have I made a mistake? Frankly, I don't know yet." The first call for a /// SIG within Washington Apple Pi was made by Charles N. Dow, in the April, 1981 Journal ("The Not-Too-Slow Apple /// Is Great!). Dow, untainted by the Apple ][, was a bit more exuberant over the /// and its possibilities, writing that "the Apple ///, I have confidence, will be a great business asset, developed from the experiences gained fromrices are excellent compared to what new equipment and software costs today. Here are some of my hardware choices: * 512K Memory Upgrade (ON THREE). Sold now with options of 0K of memory, 256K and 512K. ($159.95/$299.95/$399.00) * Seikosha Color Since my good friend (and fellow CNN co-worker) Ralph Begleiter offered his holiday gift-guide for the MAC folks last month, I thought it only right to do the same for our /// members this month. The universe of Apple /// products is still large and the pinue to gain new members as companies sell their ///s to home users. Providing support is our best opportunity for service and we look forward to working with all /// SIG members in the future, as we have in the past! /// SIG CHRISTMAS LIST We now have a total of 40! We've also gotten three Apple ///s donated to the club for use by the SIG along with additional hardware and software. The Apple /// may be an orphaned old lady, but she continues to work just fine, thank you. We conticle each month! By 1986, the author had also taken over for Bill Rosenmund as co-chair and Jerry Chandler quit. Tom Bartkiewitz ultimately agreed to co-chair. In July, 1986 SIG Librarian Al Lambert announced our first four public domain disks.reat computer. Over the course of the year, the club continued to meet, held a few tutorials and even surveyed members by mail. June, 1985 marked the debut of this author in the WAP Journal. Since that time, he has not missed publishing at least one artd as co-chair. Throughout 1985, SIG Secretary Charlene Ryan kept the ///'s flame burning in the Journal. She reported in January that despite the bad news about the /// being discontinued, the SIG was alive and well and members felt the /// was still a g He also reported that an Apple Rep assured the members of Apple's "continuing commitment to the ///." Midway through 1984, the SIG had gained a Co-Chairman in Jerry Chandler. And in January, 1985 Bill Hershey officially made way for Bill Rosenmunor an upgraded emulation disk to handle 64K and upper and lower case. By May of the following year, Bill Hershey had been elevated to SIG Chairman, the first "official" leader of the SIG. In July, Hershey reported that the SIG now had 73 members! es It Merit A Passing Grade? was written by William C. Jacobson. The bottom line for him was that the (now) two-year-old Apple /// got a "qualified passing grade." He was particularly upset that the /// had such a poor implementation of CP/M and called f virtually every important article, ad and publication referencing the Apple /// and relevant hardware and software." In March, 1983 came the first, and only, complete review of the /// done in the WAP Journal. "A Report Card On The Apple ///: Docle came from Ronald Askew. He reported the third meeting of the SIG occurred April 15th at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, adding that 11 of the 20 ///ers in WAP had attended. Askew also reported that SIG librarian Michael Konvalinka had "collectede unilaterally establish a group and invite all of the members who are interested in learning more about the newest APPLE and the smallest Users Group (there are six members that I have been in touch with personally). The June, 1982 Apple /// arti the Apple I, II and all other sources." It took ten months more, but in February, 1982, Dow (the first "Pro Temp Chairman) gave the official announcement that a /// SIG within WAP had been formed ("Update On the 'Big Apple' ///"): So herewith wPrinter with Interface Card and Color Graphics Manager (ON THREE). At $259.95 this is a great buy for ///ers interested in an inexpensive way to print in color. * Titan ///+//e (SUN REMARKETING). The Titan cards are an excellent investment in the future, allowing you the luxury of running most //e software on your Apple ///. RAM disk software in our PD library makes it even more useful. ($299.00) * Hard Disk Drives. Your Apple /// was made to sing with a hard drive. Many are sti ///'s COMPANY BBS Ed Gooding's ///'s Company BBS has been down of late. Ed wanted to upgrade to a 2400 baud modem and change BBS software. But Infonet, the new BBS program, couldn't handle 2400 baud. So, Ed had to do a little hacking to makegram that makes heavy use of fonts, some additional disks by Dr. Al Bloom, two Apple // emulation disks, more Basic utilities programs and much, much more. I am also working on a disk with Apple /// repair articles, tips, etc. Any contributions welcome! number of foreign language fonts. The 1040 disk includes many of the early articles this author published in the WAP Journal. More compilations will be forthcoming. Looking to the future, the new year will bring with it CAP'N MAGNETO, a game pro create custom fonts for your /// and (with specified printers) even print them out. The Font disk will let you see on screen all the different fonts we've included for you. There are two sides full of fonts, including some converted Apple ][ fonts and a038 CUSTOMFONT Program Disk * THREE.SIG.1039 Font Disk #1 * THREE.SIG.1040 Ottalini Articles Disk#1 All are available now in the WAP office for only $3.00 each. I think you'll find CustomFONT to be a fun program to use. It will allow you to library grows by four disks this month. That brings our total offerings up to 40. The additions this month are described in detail in a separate article. But in the meantime, here's what you'll find: * THREE.SIG.1037 CustomFONT Manual * THREE.SIG.1aw On /// and Graphics Manager graphics programs. A new offering is Sideprint, a program that will print spreadsheets sideways. Also, for new users, the Beginners Pack is an excellent buy at $99.00. NEW PUBLIC DOMAIN DISKS Your /// SIG PD the excellent manuals for the program. 4.1 version is available in our PD library. * ON THREE sells a number of excellent programs, including the Desktop Manager background utility, Selector /// for hard disk users, a number of games, Dron on four double-sided disks. Requires 3EZ Pieces or (on the Apple //) AppleWorks. (ON THREE $39.95) * SUN REMARKETING sells a number of commercial Apple /// software products at discount prices. Among them is AppleWriter 2.0 that contains allms. (ON THREE $89.95) On the software side of things, my choices would include: * Just about any disk from our /// SIG PD library (the best bargain in town at just $3.00 each!) * ThreeWorks. This is an encyclopedia of Apple /// informaties Compatable" would be best. Check the WAP Office for their group sale price for a 2400 baud modem. * Trackball ///. Developed by Dale Sykora, this is a Mouse substitute that will work within ANY Apple /// application. Great for graphics prograh software (also ON THREE) that lets you hook up any 2 MAC 800K, 400K or Apple // 140K drives ($399.00). Card and software alone also available ($149.00). * Modem. Any modem now on the market will work with your Apple ///. One that is "Hay drive instead? ON THREE sells both the Apple // UniDisk drive with interface card and software ($499.00)(or just the driver alone if you want to buy it locally)($50.00). A better deal may be the Central Point Software 800K drive and card witll available, including 5 and 10 MB ProFiles, the Quark QC20, and the Sider 20MB (SUN REMARKETING/ON THREE). Check the papers and the back of Computer Shopper for better deals. * 800K Disk Drive. If a hard disk is too expensive, how about an 800K it work. He says things are back to speed now and you can logon without any problems. It was going to take a bit longer to port (move) all the old ///'s Company files over. That should have been accomplished by the time you read this, however. BASIC EXTENSION REVISITED Our PD Disk 1031 contains a number of useful Basic utilities that can help you speed up and improve your Business Basic programs. As relayed on the /// section of MAUG (Micronetworked Apple Users Group) on CompuServe, they arcally the same program found on our Profile at the office. From the BASIC.Boot menu, you can automatically handle a number of utility operations, all from BASIC. For you folks trying to learn how to program, this disk can give you a number of ideas. On S listable but will copy and boot without any problems. THREE.SIG.1014 : BASIC Boot Disk This two-sided self-booting disk has a number of programs on it. Side One contains the BASIC boot menu and programs as written by /// SIGer Jim Salerno. It's basi program so you can print the instructions from BASIC. The SOS.Driver file also contains the .ATTACH Driver that lets you dump what you see on the screen to a printer as well. Side Two has the actual Diagnostics program. You will discover that it is NOTtvwxyz{|}~ : A3 Diagnostics This is a double-sided disk that includes the latest version of the Apple /// diagnostics program. Side One has the instructions and is bootable, since it contains our Menu.Maker program. As with other disks, we've included a Text.Dump ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE /// By David Ottalini Apple /// SIG Co-Chairman NEW PD DISKS! /// SIGers, I am happy to announce that we have added FOUR new disks to our growing Public Domain offerings. Here's what they include: THREE.SIG.1013y 1989. The WAP has a number of challenges to face in the coming months. Let's all work to ensure the health and future of our user group! r user group! ned in past Trail articles, Pair has had its troubles over the past couple of years. I would appreciate any feedback from SIG members who gain "new" experience with the company. FINALLY I want to wish everyone a joyful holiday season and a happ public domain software (although prices are higher than from other sources) as well as commercial software products. For more information, write Pair Software, 3201 Murchison Way, Carmichael, CA. 95608. Phone number is (916) 485-6525. As I have mentio 19 seconds. The disk also contains a number of other invokables you'll find very useful. Speaking of Pair Software, the SIG recently received another flyer that indicates continued support for the Apple ///. Pair offers a long list of data file for 100 records, then READ back in. The results were as follows: MATRW.INV DATA File (WRITE 100 RECORDS) 13 seconds (!!) 47 seconds (READ 100 RECORDS) 6 seconds e powerful utilities you Basic programers should get to know better. As an example, Pair Software's Frank Moore says he "set up the MATRW.INV module, which writes BINARY files, to write 100 records to disk, then read them, followed by a WRITE for aide Two, we have put a number of printer control programs and programs that will make labels for you. Some changes to the programs may have to be made to a particular program so that it will work with your printer (that is, you will have to change the control codes, etc.). THREE.SIG.1015 : Best of ///s Company Another double-sided disk with a ton of basic information about your Apple /// and how to get the most out of it. This disk is self-booting on Side One and includes tutorials on how to put a batte the Taylor Pohlman disks mentioned above. So I wrote a program, called "PD.CON" that I think you'll be able to find very useful. The first thing you have to do is decide how you want to format the text. For example, to use a text file within theis WPL, Word Processing Language. The programming language allows you to automate many of the tedious word processing chores, like mail merge, etc. you do on a daily basis. For me, I discovered it could also help with the formatting chores involved withchine, how you developed a program, etc. They don't have to be long, but are of interest to all. Anyone interested in giving a program during a SIG meeting would also be welcome. WPL ON THE MOVE One of the most powerful features of AppleWriter ne way is to contribute a program or two that you may have written, or adapted in some way, to the PD library. We will collect these and put them onto appropriate future offerings. We are also very much interested in short articles on how you use your maen gleefully running away from Bart's table with programs bulging out her arms. Bart, who had just made a big sale, was also seen smiling a bit!! At our SIG meeting in December, by the way, we discussed ways members could contribute to the SIG. One with WPL programs. Former /// SIG member Bart Cable donated a number of programs to the SIG. Bart, by the way has gone over to the MS DOS world (we won't hold that against him) and was the hit of the recent Garage Sale. /// SIGer Trish Babylon was seoting. The rest will have the Menu.Maker program resident, so all you have to do is boot the first disk (or any /// SIG self-booting Business BASIC disk) and at the prompt place the proper disk into .D1. Also in the future, a disk with fonts and oable to announce the first release of disks next month. To maintain the sequence, all five Pohlman disks will be released one after the other, as disks 1017-1021. It has also been decided that to conserve space, only 1017, the first disk, will be self-boogram to read ProDos files and as a stand-alone ProDos program (for the GS). FUTURE DISKS I have made excellent progress in getting the Taylor Pohlman Solftalk articles on Business BASIC ("The Third Basic") formatted properly, etc. I hope to be that information was taken from the manual for SOSTRAN, a Sun Remarketing product (available but no longer advertised) which has a treasure trove of information about converting from one BASIC to the Other. Efforts are underway to try and convert this pre instruction manual. Your's truly has also included other information designed to help in the conversion process. That includes PEEK-POKE and CALL translations, as well as information about converting other Applesoft Keywords to Business BASIC. Much ofple in 1981. It will read an Applesoft program from a DOS 3.3 disk, and convert it (to a point) into Business BASIC, saving the result onto a SOS/ProDos disk as an ASCII text file. Both sides are self-booting (Side Two is in Pascal). Side One contains th Gooding's ///'s Company BBS in Richmond, Virginia, the best source of /// information in the US! THREE.SIG.1016 : AppleCon As mentioned last month, this is the Applesoft to Business BASIC conversion program originally placed into the public domain by Apry backup in your ///, install a clock kit, upgrade to 256k, etc. There is additional information on the emulation mode, getting information from a Mac to a /// and back, laser printers, many reviews, etc. These were all downloaded from /// SIG member Ed Menu.Maker program, it must be 78 columns long. 79 is too long (it will wrap to the next line). For readability, it should also be continuous text with no big spaces between pages. The way to do this is set up a Print/Program menu that can be loaded into memory and which will format the text file properly. Here's how mine looks for the PD.CON WPL Program: Print/Program Commands: Left Margin (LM) = 0 Paragraph Margin (PM) = 0 Right Margin (RM) = 78 Top Margin (TM) = 0 Bottoreviewer said it made the difference between being a good program and a great program). For more information, you can get our PD disk 1016, which has the 1.41 version of AppleWriter on it, as well as a tutorial on WPL. I would also strongly recommend you for the disks, since the Apple // uses slot,drive designations. This is one of the programs we'll place on the upcoming WPL disk and would welcome any other contributions you might care to make. WPL is really a great addition to AppleWriter (one rogram for my system. If you type "Y" it heads you back to begin the process all over again. You Apple // AppleWriter users can adapt this program quite easily for your own use. You'll need to change the Clear Screen command (\) and the pathnames, cleaned up a bit and automatically saved back to disk for you. Now that's convenience! At this point, we erase the .Ram/FILE file and ask if you want to format another text file. If you don't, the program automatically re-runs the WPL STARTUP pted, that file is loaded and the processing begins. It is printed to disk, allowing the file to be formatted properly according to the print/program commands you set up. Memory is cleared and then the newly formatted text file is brought back into memory loads the new print/program commands and then clears memory. The empty file FILE is saved to the RAM disk (since you can't print to disk unless there is a file present first) and you are prompted for the text file you want to format. Once designarwise, reload the "startup" values and quit. PCS/$C/Y/ PGO START PCS/$C/y/ PGO START PPR NY PDO.D1/STARTUP PPR QUIT PQT This is basically how the program works: It firstn it up and save P it back to the proper location. B F///A S $a Y OE.RAM/FILE NEW P PPR PIN Another File?: =$C P If you want to convert another file, hit "Y" or "y" P Othehis is the body of the program. It loads the file, then prints it P with the proper settings, as contained in the Print/Program file. B PNP NY L.RAM/FILE P Now, load the converted file back into memory, clean Program PPR===================================================================== PPR S.RAM/FILE PIN Load which file?: =$a NY L $a PPR PPR Hold on now...I'm working as fast as I can! P TOAD P PD.CON by Dave Ottalini; WAP /// SIG PND QCPD P Load the Print/Program file. START PPR NY PPR===================================================================== PPR PD Format Conversioset the print destination for a RAM disk with a file name of FILE. You can change the print destination (disk drive or hard disk) to match your system's setup. Now, with the Print/Program Commands set, lets get to the actual PD.CON program: PD.L (UT) = \ Print Mode (LJ,FJ,CJ,RJ) = FJ Top Line (TL) : Bottom Line (BL) : Note that the printed lines and page interval lines are the same, that the right margin is set to 78 and the print mode is full justify. For speed, I have m Margin (BM) = 0 Page Number (PN) = 1 Printed Lines (PL) = 66 Page Interval (PI) = 66 Line Interval (LI) = 0 Single Page (SP) = 0 Print Destination (PD) = .RAM/FILE Carriage Return (CR) = 1 Underline Token get the 2.0 manuals from Sun Systems Recycling, which are excellent (they come with the 2.0 version, the last official /// version of AppleWriter). Sun's number is 1-800-821-3221. Normal cost is $75.00 but they have sales throughout the year. FINALLY Speaking of Sun, they have come out with a new "Apple /// Do-It-Yourself Troubleshooting Guide" you might want to get ahold of. Cost is $19.95 and it should be available by the time you read this. _r_a_m___a_n_d___a___g_r_ailable that will allow you to insert each of your Boot Disks one after another. The program will read in the SOS. DRIVER file on each disk, Optimize it, and write it back out. 5)The program automatically updates each Boot Disk to the 512K versi know that re-sorting isn't required if several Boot Disks use the same Interpreter). This minimizes, and, in most cases, completely eliminates the 'hole' in memory that most programs cannot employ usefully. 4)An 'Auto-Optimize' option is avlimit of SCP. 2)You may directly control the order of your Drivers, if desired, with a 'Move a Driver' command. 3)The program will 'Optimize' or sort your Driver Configuration for each of the different Boot Disks you use (it is smart enough toby Lt. Charles Sykora, whom you will remember wrote the Trackball driver mentioned in last months column. He recently wrote me and described exactly what the SOS Driver Optimizer will do: 1)It allows Driver files up to 60K, rather than the 51K designed to replace the System Configuration Program. So far, early reports of Beta-testers indicate it will be a must-have product. Originally scheduled for release by Pair Software, the program will now be marketed by On Three. It was written ob of getting the word out and of helping! New Products 1 Perhaps one of the most eagerly-awaited products ever to come out for the Apple /// is reportedly going to make its appearance this month. It's called the SOS Driver Optimizer, a programe AppleWorks compatiblity) still makes our wonderful machine a useful tool THAT MANY OVERLOOK. I think that in too many cases, people give up on the machine before making a real effort to find someone in the /// Community to help. We need to do a better j large software library and the support to get you started. Given the fact that you can get //e emulation for about $200.00, can upgrade to 512K, can use an 800K Unidisk and many harddisks, (not to mention use programs like /// EZ Pieces that havThe fact that prices for a used /// have basically hit "rock bottom" now means 1) that (if you already own a ///) you can now afford to buy a second machine for back-up purposes and 2) (if you don't own a ///) you can now buy a good starter computer with a off Apple's assembly lines. Yet the /// continues to do an excellent job for the purpose for which it was intended: a good, basic business machine that can help us write our correspondence, balance our books, and even provide a little fun now and then. ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE /// By David Ottalini Apple /// SIG Co-Chairman Happy 1988! We're off to a new year, /// SIGer's and I think it's going to be an exciting one for us. It's been nearly four years now since our ///s stopped rollinge_a_t___p_r_o_g_r_a_m_)_._____F_o_r___m_o_r_e___i_n_f_o_r_m_a_t_i_o_n_,___y_o_u _c_a_n___g_e_t___o_u_r___P_D___d_i_s_k___1_0_1_6_,___w_h_i_c_h___h_a_s___t_h_e___1_._4_1___on of SOS 1.3 (i.e. SOS+). Thus, your disks will work with either a 256K or 512K machine equally well. 6)The program allows the installation of the .DESKTOPMANAGER (TradeMark of On Three) and its removal, updating the Boot Disk for the special Boot Tracks required for use with Consorti's utilities. 7)You can generate compact archival versions of Drivers, Fonts, and Keyboards that take up much less disk space. 8)When you remove a Driver from your Desktop, the memory is freed up board would cost $300-$400 (plus $50 for the analog RGB inter-face, if desired), and the second board $250-$350 (plus whatever the on-board optional computer costs). Resolution The C3RGB uses a family of special purpose chips from Hitachi, the h boosts the resolution capability by a factor of two, includes another 512K of RAM, plus an optional 65C02/65C816 character generator and programmable graphics controller. Although it is still early to make precise predictions, we believe that the basic ve entry-level option, the C3RGB (as we are currently calling it) project uses two boards, the second of which piggy-backs to the first. The first board contains the computer interface cir-cuits, monitor drivers, and 512K of RAM. The second board, whicfar, we have not tried to contact anyone for commercial applications for the board. Rather, we are developing it for the use of the orphaned Apple ///'ers out there. To realize the ultimate capability of the design, while offering a less expensi, are also working on a new graphics card for the /// and GS (yes...the /// AND the GS). Here's how he describes that project: The design features have been finalized, and, as you read this, we are testing the computer interface circuitry. So Windows-oriented user interface concept as the Optimizer. There's no word on price yet, but I hope to have more details by the January SIG meeting. Stay tuned! NEW PRODUCTS TAKE 2 Lt. Sykora and his brother, by the wayl easily on Selector and Catalyst. It is not copy-protected. It is infinitely easier to use than SCP and, at the same time, is the most powerful program ever written for the ///. Future pro- grams for the /// that I develop will use the samene or more Drivers as 'Destroyed'. Then, when you need them for another Driver arrangement, you may restore them using a simple Menu option. 16)The program is written in Pascal and Assembly language and comes on 5 disk sides. It will instalemory Address, size, and many other items is readily available. All of these Displays may be printed. 15)You may read many Drivers onto your Desktop and select those Drivers that you don't wish to include in a particular output file by marking ording to your own defined User Level. System information such as memory size, version of SOS, size of Driver Desktop in both the disk and booted formats, and type of Boot Disk is displayed in a Window. Information on Drivers, such as mdit the Device Subtype. 13)You may 'Anchor' those positionally-sensitive Drivers such as PowerKeys (trademark of Pair Software), so that they will not be moved by the 'Optimize' function. 14)The Optimizer displays much more data than SCP, acco and defaults, for example). A compre- hensive Printer setup feature allows you to control printer output with unprecedented precision. Most printers can be selected quite simply from a Menu. 12)For those Drivers that require it, you may eehensive and easy-to-use on-line Help system. 10)DCB editing may be done in either Binary, Decimal, Hexadecimal, or Char- acter Modes. 11)A Program Environment feature saves the settings you use with the pro- gram (FileName prefixes, suffixes,for use by other Drivers, eliminating one of the primary frustrations with SCP. 9)A context-based Help system that occupies 3 full disk sides is constantly available. No program (not even for the Mac II or Big Bad Blues) has such a comprcentral part of which is the graphics coprocessor itself.The single primary board is capable of 640X480 resolution with 4 bit (i.e. 16 color) pixels with VGA/ PGA quality monitors, such as the Mac II's (trademark Apple) or SR12-P of Princeton Graphics. The board will also be capable of using the IIGS analog RGB monitor at standard resolution with 8 bit (i.e. 256 color) pixels. A color palette RAM on the board allows the colors to be selected from a 4096 color maximum or (optional for about $20-$30 exs to be updated a bit, since it will only recognize programs on DOS 3.3 formatted disks. It's not that difficult to move programs from DOS to ProDos or SOS-formatted disks, but an option within Apple-Con would make the program easier and quicker to use (smentioned to him that there is a Public Domain program called Apple-Con that will convert (up to a point) Applesoft programs into Business Basic. Since the program was written in Pascal, it should be fairly easy to convert and use on the GS. It also needase, drive, and new analog card. I'll have more on this as it becomes available... BUSINESS BASIC AND GS BASIC I spoke with GS SIG Chairman Ted Meyer recently to let him know about the similarities of the two Basic languages. I also (They) will soon be selling 20 and even 40 meg Profiles!!! The 20 meg'ers will be $800 and the 40 meg'ers will be $1400. He's also fitting a 3.5" drive INSIDE the /// case to use as the internal drive!! This will cost around $375, including new cgraphics card may be ready for actualy production, but we'll keep you up-to-date on this as well... NEW PRODUCTS /// SIG member Ed Gooding told me recently about a contact he's made with a vendor called The Lisa Shop in Minnesota. According to Ed: . Hopefully, someone will write a graphics program to use the new board. By using the advanced features of the graphics coprocessor to Zoom, flood fill, etcetera, sophisticated CAD/CAM could be done with comparative ease. Hard to say when this te with flashing, inverse, half-tone, boldface, underline, and overline. Four programmable fonts will be standard, with additional fonts possible, depending on additional memory. Software The board will, of course, come with a new .GRAFIX Drivery scrolling operations and windowing. Text may be placed on the Graphics screen with bit-mapped characters. With the 65C02/65C816-based character generator computer option, direct ascii characters can be written to and read from a graphics screen, complemands to handle 98% of typical graphics requirements, including CAD/CAM. The main limitation will be the transfer of data from the computer to the graphics board. Data- minimal tasks (i.e. graphics-intensive) should rival the Mac II in speed, especiall cannot take direct advantage of the board's graphics capability (which is, sadly enough, all known /// programs), the memory could be a devoted RamDisk, if nothing else. Capabilities The graphics coprocessor, which runs at 6MHz, has built-in comapid scrolling by using graphics processor commands. Also, the extra memory could be used for non-graphics data, and we are considering providing a .RAM Driver will as part of the new .GRAFIX Driver Module that will support this board. For programs whichB board offers 512K (1Meg with the second board), almost two entire screens (three if only 4 bits/pixel are used) with the 512K memory. The extra space could be used to extend the logical screen past the limits of the physical screen, allowing extremely r480 resolution with 8 bit pixels. By using a multiple-synchronizing analog monitor such as the NEC MultiSync or Princeton Graphics UltraSync, the resolution can be extended up to approximately 700X500 with no hardware changes. Memory Since the C3RGtra) 16 million different colors. Without the analog RGB interface option, only 4 bit pixels can be used, with the resolution depending on the monitor (TTL RGBY monitors only). With the second board, analog RGB monitors can realize the full 640Xee the GS column this month for more info on this). I am also interested in a similar project to take the current version of Apple-Con for the /// and upgrade it to read ProDos/SOS as well as DOS 3.3 Applesoft files. Any SIG member willing to take this on, please give me a call. I am also looking for contributions of programs converted from Applesoft to Business Basic. Specifically, I would want both the Applesoft and the Business Basic programs, so that the two can be compared. Any tips for convned previously, the Trackball (by Wico) is a great substitute mouse (much cheaper than a //e mouse). It got a rave review in the May issue of On Three and is available from them for only $89.95 (includes the Trackball, interface card and new driver)(The Ap it do any of this) generate the keypad functions nor any of the Macro keys (closed apple combinations). It still will not generate any interrupts, but I know of no /// software which takes advantage of this mode of the Mouse. As mentiother than just the bottom button as before. I believe it also works in the Catalyst Menu, but I have not checked this. This brings the TrackBall to the point that it works with just about every application the ///. It cannot (and I have no plans to makeyst users. Here's how Dale describes the update: First, the TrackBall now works in the cut-and-paste mode of DeskTop Manager; second, it works in the cursor mode of BASIC; and, finally, improved button debouncing is employed for both buttons, ra On The Trail of the Apple /// By David Ottalini WAP /// SIG Co-Chairman SYKORA SOFTWARE UPDATE Lt. Dale Sykora has now issued an updated Trackball driver (v 1.31) that takes care of a few lingering bugs, including a separate version for Catal the merrier! 3 are double-sided) be sure to bring it back to the WAP office for an exchange. If you have a friend who has a ///, tell them about WAP and our /// SIG. We currently have the largest /// group on the East Coast, and the more members the merrier! received. I have not always made things easy for the Urbans, but they continue to care and it is very much appreciated. Finally If you recently purchased a /// PD disk and discovered Side Two was blank (all our disks save #1002 and 100ant to once again say thank-you to the WAP Board, and specifically to Bernie and Gena Urban for their support of our SIG this past year. Despite the "orphan" nature of our computer, I have been thrilled at the amount of support and encouragement we have onvert the Preschool Gameroom PD offering into Business Basic. Anyone interested in helping should give me a call. I am also starting to gather Business Basic Foto Files and Fonts for PD disks. Any contributions welcome. A Thank You I werting from Applesoft to Business Basic would also be appreciated. These would go into a new /// PD disk offering, with the upgraded Apple-Con on one side and the programs on the other. Concurrent with this, I am also working on a project to cple //e Mouse and Driver is $160.00). Sykora also reports that my earlier column about possibly using Port A as an RS232 Serial port was only partially correct. He IS working to make Port A available for use by the Trackball, so that it does not have to use a slot. But apparently Port A can not, as such, be used as an RS232 serial port. In any case, if we could use the trackball as a mouse operating out of Port A, ///ers would not only get the convenience of the mouse but save a slotEW PUBLIC DOMAIN DISKS Our PD library just keeps on growing! This month I am happy to announce FOUR new disks. 1026 and 1027 are more D.A. DataSystem disks. 1026 is double-sided and self-booting. It includes two programs. On side one is Data L owners, Sun continues to expand its offerings and officially announced in this catalog its MacWorks Plus program that allows the Lisa to use Hypercard and newer Mac programs. Sun's Customer Service number is 1-801-752-7631. To order: 1-800-821-3221. Ngrams as Desktop/PLAN for financial and business planning and VisiSchedule for project scheduling needs. Sun has also agreed to carry ThreeWorks, my set of /// EZ Pieces/AppleWorks data bases full of information about the ///. For you Lisa/MAC Xine is 1-800-443-8877. AND OVER AT SUN REMARKETING Bob Cook and crew have also been busy. Their latest catalog is the best looking yet and contains a number of Apple /// specials. Their list of /// software has also expanded to include such prod the availability of a new Super Accessories Disk #3 for Desktop Manager. Cost is $29.95. It includes a new Accessory Manager for customizing your TDM menus, a character ruler to help align text, a powerful new block editor and more. On Three's order lee appears back on track and that's good news for the /// community. Speaking of On Three, look for a contest announcement in the next few months that should give you budding /// Business Basic programers a real workout. The magazine also announce of the best magazines produced in months. On Three has been cleaned up a bit with a new format and better attempt to meet criticisms about too many On Three ads. There's still a need for more articles and there was a call for more submissions, but On Thrress: Lt. Charles Dale Sykora 39 Ibis Lane Groton, Ct. 06340 ON THREE NEWS The big news at On Three is, as reported last month, Bob Consorti taking over again as Editor of the magazine. The result (May) was onede. The program will handle all necessary relocation of addresses. With the program (PROM-Grammer), you may read, write (burn), verify, erase check, and copy EPROMs. For anyone who wants it, just have them send me two blank disks and $5. Here's the add60 from JDR MicroDevices (it is an Apple ][ card) and will fit into the /// just fine. With my program and Driver, you can then burn data onto an EPROM (2716, 2732, 2732A, 2764, 27128, including CMOS versions) or use the Pascal Assembler to create 6502 colows you to program erasable ROM chips using an EPROM programming card from JDR. The card must be "filed" a bit for it to fit, but works very well. For those of you wishing more information, here's how Lt. Sykora describes it: The EPROM burner card is $bit. Despite hopes the SOS Driver Optimizer would be finished (it was originally to have been ready last January) it remains in beta form and still needs some work. But for anyone interested in working with EPROMs, Dale now has a program available that aluct might become available (Sykora's working with the Apple Three Users of Northern California on this one). On other fronts, Dale and his brother continue working on their color graphics card, but the lack of an oscilloscope has hurt progress a for other things. Sykora says the connection to Port A would be through a "black box" that would be made available in kit form to keep the cost as low as possible. The Trackball would hook into the black box. No indication if or when such a prodWindow ///, a utility program that will provide a standard formatted "dump" (that is it will print the information) of Apple /// RAM or of any Apple /// file. On side two is Source Window ///, a powerful reverse assembler (that is, it takes a program and brakes it down to its machine language origins for printing). Both should be used by experienced ///ers. Disk 1027 is also self-booting and contains a VERY useful utility program on side one called Power Cat that will catalog any number of disks a%120,%120) 440 PRINT#1;tttt$ 450 REM DATE of the year - JULIAN 460 jd=0 470 FOR i=1 TO mm:jd=jd+a(i):NEXT i 480 jd=jd+dd 490 REM pop per year day hour min sec 500 ppy=1000000000/14 510 ppd=ppy/365 520 pph=ppd/24 530 ppm=pph/60mm$=MID$(DATE$,4,2) 340 mm=VAL(mm$) 350 dd$=RIGHT$(DATE$,2) 360 dd=VAL(dd$) 370 d2$=dd$+r$(mm)+"19"+yr$ 380 HPOS=2 390 tttt$= TIME$ 400 REM PRINT d2$," ",Tttt$ 410 PERFORM moveto(%90,%140) 420 PRINT#1;d2$ 430 PERFORM moveto(PERFORM moveto(%90,%188) 250 PRINT#1;"WORLD POPULATION" 260 PERFORM grafixon 270 FOR I=1 TO 12:READ A(I):NEXT I 280 FOR I=1 TO 12:READ R$(I):NEXT I 290 ON KBD GOTO 740 300 VPOS=4:HPOS=1 310 yr$=LEFT$(DATE$,2) 320 yr=VAL(yr$) 330 150 name$=CHR$(34)+a$+CHR$(34) 160 PERFORM getfont(@name$,@array$) 170 PERFORM loadfont(@array$) 180 CLEAR:PRINT 190 DIM A(12),R$(12) 200 OPEN#1,".grafix" 210 INVOKE"bgraf.inv" 220 PERFORM fillport 230 k=0:VPOS=1:HPOS=28 240 100 REM 110 HOME 115 REM Be sure to set your prefix (location of disk with this 116 REM program on it before running. For example: 117 Prefix$=".d1" 120 INVOKE"download.inv" 130 DIM a%(511),a$(20),name$(20) 140 a$="byte":array$="A%"40 REM B) World population will be 6 billion by 2000 50 REM 60 REM AUTHOR grants copy permission to Washington Apple Pi 70 REM Author Bouquet retains all other rights 5/22/88 80 REM 90 REM Author wishes to thank WAP for programming ideas!! our PD disks). We'll also make this available on a future SIG disk. The program goes like this: 10 REM world population program by TIM BOUQUET 20 REM based on facts from the Washington Post 30 REM A) World population reached 5 billion in 1986 ing count of the world's population. To run it, you will need the BYTE font (which is in the Character.Sets subdirectory on side two of /// SIG disk 1004 (System Utilities and Data) as well as the Download and Bgraf invokable modules (they are on many of on our reference disk 1000, which will include information on all our disks. Watch this column for its availability. POPULATION GROWTH /// SIG member Tim Boquet submitted a great little program this month for all to enjoy. It gives you a runnn two more programs for the library. One is a great game. The second is a wonderful font generation program. Watch for details in upcoming Trail articles. Also, to update you on another project, SIG member John Ruffatto has finished initial workWriter is proving too complicated for you, give Ink Well a try. The price is certainly right! I also mentioned last month that we were working to get other commercial programs into the public domain. I can tell you this much so far: We have gotte easy to read and use. As I mentioned last month, Ink Well is a "What You See is What You Get" (WYSIWYG) word processing program written in Business Basic. This is the last official release version, although Pair Software sells its own upgrade. If Applem. Very useful for the Basic programmer. Disks 1029 and 1030 contain the manual and program disks for Ink Well, the word processing program recently placed into the public domain by FoxWare of Salt Lake City, Utah. Both disks are self-booting andnd then sort them. Wondeful for hard disk users or anyone wanting a way to put your disks in some sort of order. Side two contains Basic XRF, another utility program that will produce a sorted cross-reference of all variables in any Business Basic progra 540 pps=ppm/60 550 REM time of day 560 hh$=LEFT$(Tttt$,2) 570 hh=VAL(hh$) 580 mm$=MID$(Tttt$,4,2) 590 mm=VAL(mm$) 600 ss$=RIGHT$(Tttt$,2) 610 ss=VAL(ss$) 620 REM current population 630 pd&=CONV&(jd*ppd):ph&=CONV&(pph*hh) 640 pm&=CONV&(ppm*mm):ps&=CONV&(pps*ss) 650 dhm&=pm&+ph&+pd& 660 py&=CONV&(ppy*(yr-86.0))+CONV&(5.0E+9) 670 ppp&=dhm&+py& 680 HPOS=30 690 REM PRINT ppp&+ps& 700 PERFORM moveto(%100,%170) 710 PRINT#1 USING"13&";ppp&+ps& 720 IF VPOS>2's information on everything from Apple /// books, vendors, public domain offerings, tips, repair sources, bulletin boards and clubs, and much more. For you Three Easy Pieces/AppleWorks users, there's a separate data base listing all known books dealing you who don't know, ThreeWorks is designed to be a tremendous resource for all Apple ///ers. Using Three Easy Pieces (AppleWorks), these databases include bibliographies of more than 15 hundred Apple /// articles going back to 1980. In addition, there ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE /// By Dave Ottalini /// SIG Co-Chairman THREEWORKS UPDATE It's been a year in coming, but the latest version of my Apple /// databases, ThreeWorks should be available by the time you read this column! For those of at there will be NO August SIG meeting (there will be a Trail article, though). Attendance has been poor of late and hopefully a little breather will be good for the /// soul. Until September, then, have a safe and fun summer! ent demand for our "How to Use the Apple ///" video tape, we have added a second copy in the WAP office. Remember there is a $20.00 deposit required before you can take out the tape. The summer is once again upon us, and that prompts a reminder thou could adapt the font download routine in the above program). By the way, remember we are now up to the 3.0 version of Menu.Maker, which is available on the latest PD disks. We are working to upgrade older disks as well. FINALLY Due to reclt to let it recognize a foto file and display it on the screen (our "Run.Side.Two" program on disk 1012 does that). And you could adapt the Newdownload program to run from within Menu.Maker to change fonts depending on which one was displayed (in fact, yd. Both are possible, but add to the overhead for the program, since it takes more invokables and disk space (which for SIG disks means less program space). The neat thing about Menu.Maker however is its adaptability. It would not be that difficurman Tom Bartkiewicz has a Pascal program in Beta form now to do that, but you can't run Pascal programs from Basic or Basic from Pascal). Tim would also like to see Menu.Maker be able to display foto files, and change fonts when font files are highlighteont utility on disk 1002 to change the font). Booting a new program, by the way, will usually load the Standard Character set. Tim also had a few wishes for SIG disks including "a version of the menu.maker which will run pascal programs" (Co-Chai JULY ** "," ** AUGUST ** " 790 DATA " ** SEPTEMBER ** "," ** OCTOBER ** "," ** NOVEMBER ** "," *DECEMBER* " Note that once you've run this program, you'll be stuck with the BYTE character set while in Basic (or you could use the Newdownload f0 THEN VPOS=4 730 GOTO 310 740 REM: RUN"hello" here if you wish. 750 END 760 DATA 31,28,31,30,31,30,31,31,30,31,30,31 770 DATA " ** January ** "," ** february ** "," ** MARCH ** "," ** APRIL **" 780 DATA " ** MAY ** "," ** June ** "," **with those wonderful programs, and the vendors list includes sources for templates. Business Basic users will find a complete list of Keywords as well as information about converting programs from Applesoft (something GS Basic users might find worth looking at). New additions with this update includes a data base of programs and information found in the DL7 and DL8 sections of MAUG (The Micronetworked Apple Users Group) on CompuServe. The Glossary DB has been greatly expanded and you'll find earingen did say he was willing to give readers of the WAP Journal a break if they'd like to order the program directly from him. Originally $29.95, the program is now available for $15.95. There are four additional disks with tunes on them (including I recently talked with author Ron Swearingen, to see if he might be interested in placing "Tune" into the public domain. But he indicated there's still the possibility of converting the program into versions for the GS, MAC or other computer. But Swringen Software came out with a fun Business Basic game called "Pick That Tune." The program plays the first few notes of a given tune and the player gets points if the guess is correct. There are a number of disks with additional tunes available as well.and still lurks on CompuServe to see how his Apple /// friends are doing. Anderson now owns an Amiga, by the way, and says he loves its color and multi-tasking capabilities (we won't hold that against him!). A few years ago, a company called Sweafferings) has agreed to send the SIG a complete set of his Power Keys background utility and its many modules. We'll be placing those into our library in the next few months. Daryl says he's working now for a software company in the Buffalo area sappeared. In any case, ATUNC's Newsletter remains a good source of Apple /// information under its new editor, Li Kung Shaw. Daryl Anderson, whose D.A.Dataystems recently placed all of its programs into the public domain (check the /// SIG PD oe Users Group International) and have now accomplished that, adding new disks and numbering them according to the AUGI system. Unfortunately, in the process, their excellent selection of printed Apple /// materials (originally given to them by Apple) dioo much (some SIG members have already found out the hard way). The Apple Three Users of Northern California has revamped its Public Domain library. As previously mentioned, they decided to bring their library in-line with Joe Dobrowolski's (Appl /// product supplier. We continue to get flyers from Pair Software, as it works for a come back into the /// market. Your illustrious SIG Co-Chairman gives Frank Moore some credit for keeping at it, but once again warns readers not to expect tversion of the Desktop Manager and other GS products. Recent flyers have extolled the /// community to purchase products, and to renew subscriptions or face losing On Three as a vendor. I would urge all SIG members to help keep On Three as a viable Applered as has a bookkeeper and there are no plans to replace Tim Harrington, who recently left to work for Apple. Renewals for On Three Magazine have not been good the past few months, and sales have been lagging, despite attempts to market an excellent GS no longer owned outright by Consorti and has been on a cost-cutting binge lately. Although Consorti said on CompuServe that Wolff had been fired for incompetence, his salary will be a savings. In addition, "Doc" Christenson, the On Three tech has been fiAIL articles for addresses). APPLE /// NEWS More problems for On Three, where magazine editor Olaf Wolff was fired in late March. He had barely come on board. Publisher Bob Consorti will take over those additional editorial duties. On Three is information about the chips in your /// (and where to get replacements). ThreeWorks can currently be obtained from three sources: On Three, TAU (Third Apple Users Group) and Apple Users Group International (check your new member disk or prior TR one with Christmas tunes) available for $9.95. Order directly from Swearingen Software, P.O. Box 650338, Houston, Texas 77065. When ordering, mention you saw the offer in the WAP Journal. We also continue looking for other Apple /// programs that can be placed into our PD library. Look for another announcement in an upcoming Trail column! WAP BOARD ELECTION our /// SIG Co-Chairman is once again running for the WAP board. Any and all support greatly appreciated! APPLE /// CLOCK SPEErimary reason...well, let's let him give us the reason, as described on CompuServe recently: Since my one commercial distributor (!) has gone the way of all flesh (or at least all California /// publisher flesh (!)) I figure all the unpaid royalties const ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE /// By David Ottalini Apple /// SIG Co-Chairman The BIG NEWS this month /// SIGers is that Daryl Anderson of D.A. Datasystems has decided to place ALL of his excellent set of programs into the public domain! The pis also a video tape describing how to use the ///, along with a series of tutorial cassettes, which you can take out and use at home. take out and use at home. this column on one right now). And in June, we'll be demonstrating the new update of ThreeWorks for the Apple ///. Remember too, that the WAP office has a number of Apple /// reference books and texts you can take out or read in-house. There fourth Wednesday of each month in the WAP office. We demonstrate programs, help new users and discuss burning questions and news of the Apple /// world. During the May meeting, we'll be discussing the use of a Laptop computer with your /// (I'm writing really different. For one thing, it will let you name memory devices, such as hard disk drives and RAM disks, instead of always referring to them by "slot and drive" or the "ProDos pathname." FINALLY Please join us at our /// SIG meetings, the RS LATER This "Apple Bit" from InCider's June, 1988 issue (page 19) once again indicates how advanced our Apple ///s were/are and how long it's taken the Apple // family to catch up!: We hear Apple's next version of ProDos for the //GS will be article on how to use this program in next month's WAP Journal. You may notice we've reserved disks 1026 and 1027, which will contain more D.A. Datasystem programs currently being worked on. Look for an announcement on them in the near future. EIGHT YEA Also being released this month, Disk 1028A/B, ASCIDIF, by Dr. Al Bloom. This is a program designed to convert an Apple /// text file to a standard DIF file (used by Visicalc, 3EZ Pieces/AppleWorks and other spreadsheet programs). We will publish an y. It does contain enu.Maker and a utility that will allow you to get hard copies of the rticles. To use this disk, boot any disk with Business Basic and (with the new disk in .D1) type "Run .d1/Menu.Maker". Hit return and you're in business. library this month, we add disk 1018 A/B, the second disk of our Taylor Pohlman Business Basic series from the old Softalk Magazine. This disk contains articles 6-9 and a host of associated programs. This disk is NOT SELF BOOTING as mentioned previouslthis program: 10 VPOS=20:HPOS=10:Print TIME$;:GOTO 10 This will give you a continuous time print-out on screen, allowing you to adjust the clock potentiameter against a time source of your choosing. NEW PUBLIC DOMAIN DISKS New to our PD D If you're having problems with the speed of your Apple /// clock, it's relatively easy to fix. The clock adjustment "pot" is located on the keyboard chassis, approximately under the "L" key. Remove the keyboard, and, using Business Basic, run itute at the very least a violation of the terms of our 'exclusivity' agreement and I presume full control over distribution of my stuff. So... I have decided to release all of the D A DataSystems commercial software to the Public Domain and to upload as ailian programmer three years ago??). Price is $69.95. On another front, On Three has written a driver for the new Central Point Software disk controller card that allows you to use any two 400 or 800k 3.25 inch Apple-compatible disk drives (Mac, EZ Pieces file! And it can save the checked file as any other text file type you desire. The Apple // version of this program has been around since 1983 and Consorti says it took the programmer only about a month to convert it over (where was this Austrthe long-promised spelling checker, On Three has announced StemSpeller ///, written by the same Australian programmer who wrote the StemWriter word processor. The best part about StemSpeller is that it can check any ASCII, Pascal Text, StemWriter OR Threerepair manuals. He replaces Paula Sheppard, who quit to return to Wyoming with her husband. Also lost, On Three's programmer Tim Harrington, who followed his predecessor, Rob Turner to Apple. There are no current plans for a replacement. As for prompt place the desired disk into .D1, hit "Return" and you're set. ON THREE NEWS The new year brought with it a new editor for On Three magazine. He's Olaf G. Wolff, who has edited a number of other magazines and books, including many auto f-booting with our Menu.Maker program. Future Pohlman disks (there will be a total of five) will NOT be self booting for space reasons. All will have Menu.Maker, however. So all you have to do is boot 1017 (or any other /// SIG PD Basic disk) and at the, 1017 A/B, is now ready and has been placed into the /// SIG PD library. It's a double-sided disk and contains the first five articles and associated programs from the Business Basic series in the old Softalk magazine. Again, this first disk will be selfor the Titan cards, Disk Window (a disk editor) and a few others. For more on Daryl Anderson and D.A. Datasystems, see my accompanying article in the Journal. POHLMAN DISK ONE! I am pleased to announce that the first Taylor Pohlman diskas PD offerings. Sun Systems has also indicated they will offer them. Look for others to follow. Given the great body of programs, the WAP /// SIG PD library will, at this point, offer only some of the programs, probably including Power Keys, the Ram+3 addition to the Apple /// public domain. As a user of many of Daryl's programs, I can say that /// users have a real treat awaiting them. TAU, the Third Apple Users group, which has sold some of D.A. Datasystem's programs for some time will add the rest owing me to be a contributing part of the /// community over the years. For you and the whole new batch of "I got mine for $200" ///ers this is my legacy - enjoy... -da. While it saddens me that this had to happen, these programs are a tremendous of you have been friendly correspondents and supporters over the 5 years since I got into the /// biz. 1987 was (as you can imagine) a terrible year professionally but a very positive one personally and I thank you all for the friendly support and for alles such as PC-COPY, RAM+3, TWO-N-FRO ///, LEGEND++. I will be uploading full user manuals and eventually, where possible, complete source code. I would be delighted to have you modify and improve and pass along to another ///er any of these programs. Manymuch of it as possible to CompuServe over the next few months. This will include the 10 Tools Time Three packages plus Power Keys and the complete set of 17 modules and roughly a dozen other packages that were limited or custom releases or not-quite releasUnidrive, you name it) or 5.25 inch drive! The original controller card was way too big to fit in our ///s, but a redesign made it small enough to work. Cost for the driver is $50.00. You can get the controller card from Central Point or On Three. If you havn't subscribed to On Three magazine, by the way, now is the time to do it. Their subscriptions are way down from previous years and they need the support of the /// community to continue. This is the only ///-specific commercial magazine lefen the membership base to include other Apple users (he's also had problems getting people to resubscribe). He's already begun adding Apple // disks to his public domain library. AGUI still offers the largest single Apple /// PD library in the w. FINALLY The Apple THREE Group International, a user group based in Norfolk has changed its name and focus a bit. As of January, the club became Apple Users Group International. President Joe Dobrowolski says the name change was to help broadt 1-800-342-5246. Since they are getting out of the outlet business, prices will be set with one idea in mind...to move merchandise. So this is the time to get that program you always thought you might like, but never really wanted to spend the money on itl mailing, due about now, AIM has decided to call it quits. AIM is a great way to pick up software (and some hardware) at very reasonable prices (especially because they have been more and more willing to dicker of late). If you have a need, call them aIM The Association of Independent Microdealers has been operating a clearing house for software and hardware for more than a year now. Starting with the ///, the trade group added programs for the //, MAC, IBM PC and Commodore. But with one finay interested in a project to exchange an 800K drive for .D1 in our ///s. Sun continues to have the Titan ///+//e cards for sale, by the way. Cook says Titan makes them in lots of 25 for him as needed. Price has gone back up to $299.00. AND AT A8 13th Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN. 55404. Phone number is 612-874-8596 and the owner is Frank Freeman. Among other things, he works on Profiles and can do hard formats (as opposed to a System Utilities "soft" format) on them. He's also the one reportedle paper's lawyers wrote a letter requesting a change. Soooooo...next time 'round it'll be something like "Sun Systems Recycling News" or maybe the "ST Gazette-Intelligencer". Another source for Lisa/Mac XL owners, by the way, is The Lisa Shop, 243uld also be in your hands by the time you read this (call them for a free subscription at 801-752-7631). This will, however, be the last time they can send out a publication under that name. Seems the Chicago Sun Times didn't take too kindly to it and thurrently available), Cook says a new version of MacWorks will turn the computer into a MAC Plus, enabling it to run HyperCard and other advanced programs (with the appropriate memory). The latest edition of Sun's Sun Times publication showith upgrades for the Lisas donated to the club. Sun has been very active in the Lisa/Mac XL remarketing effort, and says it now accounts for more business than the /// line does (but /// support remains as strong as ever). Along with HFS for the Lisa (cays there may also be opportunities for other projects as well! MOVING RIGHT ALONG Bob Cook at Sun Systems had a chance to meet our esteemed Journal Editor Bernie Urban at the recent MacWorld in San Francisco and has apparently agreed to help . (Hopefully it will be available by the time you read this). As for Sykora, he continues to work on that new graphics card for the /// and GS and appears to have found a party (not On Three, however) willing to help with its manufacture. Sykora st and we need it. Cost is $40.00 per year. Finally, as I mentioned in a previous Trail column, On Three is now carrying Dale Sykora's Trackball (a mouse substitute) and driver ($89.95), and plans to offer his SOS Driver Optimizer as wellorld with more than 160 disks. Call for a free sample of the newsletter, News and Views at 1-804-865-7520. Dobrowolski is the Editor and Publisher as well and always tries to cram a lot of information into five or six double-sided sheets. Membership dues are $15.00. My thanks also to /// SIG member Jim Salerno who helped upgrade our Menu.Maker program. He's also been working to prepare more PD disks for our library (you'll see some more of his work next month). AND MORE ON THE PD FRONT I'm also happy toill be constantly updated as we add new disks. This should also help ensure that all /// SIG PD disks are of uniform quality, are copied correctly and will work as advertised. We also hope to send some version of the hard copy listing to new members ing duties for our PD library and is currently cataloging and researching all our disks. That way, we can provide SIG members with hard copy listings at the office, and on disk (it will become number 1000) that includes information on each PD disk. It wfinished. And at at least one member's suggestion, I will soon be putting together a disk with back Trail columns on it. Watch for its availability in this column. NEW HELPER New /// SIG member John Ruffatto has volunteerd to help with copyery dangerous...so use carefully!). It has powerful editing features as well. As with other D.A.Datasystem disks, this one has complete documentation (on Side one). Side two contains the actual program, and will return you to Menu.Maker when you are so introducing PD disk 1026A/B, which is another in the Daryl Anderson Tools Times Three series. This program is called Disk Window /// and will allow you to look at and even change the internal code of just about any program you might like (this can be vded disk. Side one is self-booting and has our Menu.Maker program and the user manual. Side two is also self-booting (in this case Pascal) and will run the actual program. Look for an article next month describing how to use Footnote ///. We're als a result, we are also introducing a new PD disk 1003, called Footnote ///. It's a Pascal program that will allow you to merge text and footnotes into one file. Thanks to /// SIG member John Chapman Jr. for providing this program. It's on a double-siel! While the review process is going on, we've gone ahead with plans to combine Basic Utiliiies disks 1002 and 1003 into one disk, which now becomes 1002A/B. It should be available as you read this (see accompanying article on this new disk). Adisks and begun the process of updating them a bit. Specifically, we're now looking to replace older versions of Menu.Maker with the newest version, 3.00, which makes it's debut this month. Among its new features is a running clock at the main menu levOn the Trail of the Apple /// by Dave Ottalini /// SIG Co-Chairman PUBLIC DOMAIN DOINGS Our /// SIG PD offerings have grown so fast in the last year or so its time for a breather of sorts. This month we've taken a look back at some of our older announce this month that we will soon be getting four new fantastic PD programs in the near future. Three come from Foxware in Salt Lake City. This company offered three excellent programs during the early days of our ///, but discontinued support in 1986, after Apple decided to discontinue production. Your /// SIG Co-Chairman called them up recently, and for a small consideration fee, was able to get all three programs, with source code and user manuals on disk, placed into the public domaour computers for some time. In fact, some reports say they are actually destroying machines! But don't fear...there are still a number of third party vendors who have everything from whole Apple /// motherboards to memory cards, chips, etc. The list bel ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE /// By David Ottalini Apple /// SIG Co-Chairman WHERE DO I FIND PARTS FOR MY APPLE ///? Finding parts is becoming more and more important for the Apple /// community. The reason, of course is that Apple has not made actually be one of its major strengths. y be one of its major strengths. isadvantage. Recent reviews of DTM missed the mark a bit, complaining that it was not as good as the others because it had been ported over from our /// version. But because SOS and ProDos 16 are in many ways alike, the fact that it was ported over may check into the DTM GS version. It really is excellent and will, like our version, work from within ANY program running on the GS. Other "Background Utility" programs like Pinpoint or TimeOut are restricted to working only from within AppleWorks, a major d screen, an Accessory Manager designed to make loading and managing DTM modules very easy, and a new, more powerful Print Screen utility. The disks should be available about the time your read this. By the way, any of you with GS's should really getting rave reviews from its beta testers. Created by Earl Brelje, Disk #3, containing programs you can call up with a few keystrokes from ANY program includes a Block editor, a ruler that allows the user to measure the X and Y position of a character onsince all it would take is a specific driver and proper cable to hook up a second serial device (printer or modem)...without wasting a precious slot! A new set of utilities for use with On Three's Desktop Manager are in the works and are already program available to us. MOVING ALONG Lt. Dale Sykora continues to work on a number of projects. Recently on CompuServe, he said he has figured out how to configure Joystick Port A to be used as a serial port! This could have immediate impact, c domain during the Phase /// Conference last year. But it's been considerably upgraded since then and we'll be placing a copy of that into the library in the near future as well. Our thanks to Bill Roady, a ///er on CompuServe for making the upgraded ll allow the user greater flexibility when working with our Business Basic. Watch The Trail for an update. A fourth program, Infonet, is a Bulletin Board program originally sold by Sun Systems. President Bob Cook placed the program into the publiin! The three programs are: Inkwell, a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get ( WYSISYG) word processing program; TerminAll, a telecom program that can emulate a number of computer terminals, and Basic Extensions, a set of Business Basic Invokables that wiow, with some additional notes, should give you a good idea of where to start looking. COMPANY/NAME: Computer Service Experts ADDRESS: Box 70698 CITY/STATE/ZIP: Sunnyvale, CA. 94088 PHONE: 408-338-4339 CONTACT: David Rowe Computer Service Experts s$,2)) 70 IF correct.time%>12 THEN correct.time%=correct.time%-12: time.of.day$="PM":ELSE time.of.day$="AM" 75 new.time$=CONV$(correct.time%):IF LEN(new.time$)=1 THEN new.time$=" "+new.time$ 80 SUB$(correct.time$,1,2)=new.time$ 90 VPOS=1:HPOS=70particular program will display the time in the upper right hand corner of your screen and could be incorporated into other programs fairly easily. 10 HOME:legal.char$="AaBbCcDdEe" 50 correct.time$= TIME$ 60 correct.time%=CONV%(LEFT$(correct.timeall for latest information. They have a free quarterly publication you can order. TIMELY PROGRAM Here's another program with will display the correct time for you if your /// has a time chip (and its been set properly using System Utils). This un Remarketing ADDRESS: Box 4059 CITY/STATE/ZIP: Logan, UT. 84321 PHONE: 800-821-3221 CONTACT: Bob Cook Sun is another long-time Apple /// vendor that offers parts, including hard-to-find Apple /// chips. They tend to have chips others don't have. Cve Systems ADDRESS: 845 Lark Ave. CITY/STATE/ZIP: Shreveport, LA. 71105 PHONE: 1-800-227-3971 I discovered Shreve in the back pages of Computer Shopper as well. Contact them for a complete list of offerings. Has some software too. COMPANY/NAME: S6851 Another Computer Shopper advertiser, Pre-Owned Electronics also offers a wide range of /// parts ranging from /// motherboards, 12 and 5 volt memory boards, even analog disk drive boards. Call or write for more information. COMPANY/NAME: Shrer chip upgrades (cheaper from Jameco), interlace kits, clock kits and some other items. Check their magazine for the latest offerings and prices. COMPANY/NAME: Pre-Owned Electronics ADDRESS: P.O. Box 644 CITY/STATE/ZIP: Lincoln, MA. 01773 PHONE: 617-891-tion. COMPANY/NAME: On Three ADDRESS: 8920 Yolanda Avenue CITY/STATE/ZIP: Northridge, CA. 91324 PHONE: 800-443-8877 CONTACT: Bob Consorti On Three has been a long-time vendor for the /// community. By way of parts, they offer 65C802 microprocesso: 214-750-9889 N.D.R.C. advertises in Computer Shopper and offers a number of /// parts products. That includes motherboards, memory cards, power supplies, etc. Decent prices, in line with what Shreve and others are asking. Call for latest informats of Apple /// parts, including motherboards, chips, cases, etc. They had so much stuff, in fact the guy asked if I knew anyone who wanted to take it off his hands! COMPANY/NAME: N.D.R.C. ADDRESS: 8511 Manderville CITY/STATE/ZIP: Dallas, TX. 75231 PHONEem and have received excellent service. Prices are good also. COMPANY/NAME: Morris Horn and Associates ADDRESS: Box 330876 CITY/STATE/ZIP: Ft. Worth, TX. 76163 PHONE: 817-292-3432 CONTACT: Morris Horn Last time I talked to them, Morris Horn had loNAME: Jameco Electronics ADDRESS: 1355 Shoreway Road CITY/STATE/ZIP: Belmont, CA. 94002 PHONE: 415-592-8097 Jameco is an excellent source of chips for your ///, like the 6502B microprocessor, clock chip, etc. I've ordered a number of things from thiscounts. COMPANY/NAME: Electrovalue Industrial ADDRESS: P.O. Box 376-CPC CITY/STATE/ZIP: Morris Plains, NJ. 07950 PHONE: 602-428-4073 These folks say they have "Genuine Apple Parts" so they may also carry parts that will work in your ///. COMPANY/ays it has Apple /// ROM chips. Check the Apple /// Service Manual for more information about this chip (in the WAP library). Call for more information and availability. The last information I had indicated they were going for $5.00 each with quantity d:PRINT correct.time$;" ";time.of.day$ 100 ON KBD OFF KBD:POP:GOTO 120 110 GOTO 50 120 char$=CHR$(KBD):IF NOT INSTR(legal.char$,char$) THEN PRINT CHR$(7);:GOTO 50 130 END NEW PD DISKS We are pleased to offer two new PD disks this month. The first is disk 1035 and is called "THE BEST OF BLOOM". It includes Dr. Al Bloom's set of recent articles from TAU Tales explaining how to transfer data from an Apple /// to other computers (and back) in various ways. There's also information about ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE /// By David Ottalini Apple /// SIG Co-Chairman NEWS AND NOTHING BUT... Happy Halloween, /// SIGer's! On the Apple /// news front this October, our first stop once again is On Three. Last month, I detailed On T That's all for this month. Have a great Thanksgiving. anksgiving. ter mail/merge, ASCII text, Name:Value, and DIF. 7. MLMUPLD uploads (creates) MLM files from other systems and programs. MLMUPLD accepts four input formats: ASCII text, Name:Value, DIF, and "comma separated value." ENDIT een two output files for easy record insertion. 6. MLMASCI converts MLM files to formats that can be loaded into other systems -- AppleWriter, Keystroke, PFS, /// Easy Pieces, etc. MLMASCI has four output formats: Apple Wri fields, combine and split fields, and create new fields. 5. MLMERGE merges the records of a two-disk MLM file. Dupli- cate records are not merged into the resulting output file. The result may be combined or equally divided betwformative layout of your own choosing. 4. MLMCNVT allows you to respond to changing needs by convert- ing an MLM file into another layout. You may rename and reorganize the data in an MLM record, delete obsolete using any of the up to 14 data fields in an MLM record. 3. MLMLIST is a flexible and sophisticated list facility for attractive and meaningful display of MLM data. This utility allows you to list any MLM file data items in an in MLM file on a single page -- your file's content, structure, sort fields, and print-control specifications. 2. MLMSORT adds the power of a general-purpose sort to your MLM system. It resequences a file in any order you desire, limit. We will be adding these to our PD library in the next few months, so stay tuned. In the meantime, here's a list of the 7 programs and a short description of what each does: 1. MLMINFO consolidates all the important information about an place more of his great programs into the public domain. Namely, they are his excellent set of utilities of use with Mail List Manager. Any of you who have this program know its limitations. But with these utilities, you'll be able to push MLM to their h programs. Next month, in time for Christmas, we'll be offering the long-promised CustomFONT program, with its associated manual disk AND a double-sided disk full of fonts! DR. BLOOM STRIKES AGAIN SIG member Dr. Al Bloom has decided to o Catalyst or Selector once you've run the ///+//e emulation program. This is a beta version and works...to a point. See Jim Suthard's comments about it in last month's Journal. This disk is self-booting on side one. Full documentation included for bot self-booting on side one. Disk 1036 has two more of Daryl Anderson's gems. On side one you'll find RAM+3, a set of VERY USEFUL RAM drivers for those of you with ///+// or ///+//e cards. Side two has 2NFRO, a program designed to let you return tall the articles he's written and where to find them as well as descriptions of all his programs offered by WAP and other Apple groups. They are both provided in ASCII format and 3EZP/AppleWorks Data Base files. As with many of our other disks, this one ishree's move to essentially two locations. While I gave their order line, I neglected to give you their new address for placing orders (if you do not order by phone): 11235 80th Ave., N.E., Kirkland, WA. 98034. Their order line again is 1-800-443-8877.  ht programs, like Draw On Three or Business Graphics wouldn't be able to fill an entire 640 x 384 screen. He also says the video monitor must be able to handle high-frequency bandwidths and interlacing, such as the Monitor /// (which is not a color monitoGRAF.INV, the .HIRES driver, a Pascal library unit and utilities and cost between $30.00 and $60.00. Estimated cost for the hardware will be around $200.00. Olbrys stresses this will be most useful to ///ers who write their own programs, since store-bougsible. With the 128K on-board memory, it can provide 8 pages of 640 x 192 graphics resolution; or 4 pages of 640 x 384 resolution. I've seen some printouts from this card and they look great! The package would include a Basic invokable module, HIv1.2a (as it now stands) can do everything .GRAFIX can do while also allowing for definable line patterns and create what he called a "dithered half-tone" for fillcolors 0 though 15 that approximates a gray scale. User-definable fill patterns are also pos To get the card to work with the ///, Olbrys says he had to disassemble the .GRAFIX driver and insert the appropriate Apple /// code. It has 128K of on-board memory and uses an NEC PD 7220 Graphics chip. On the technical end, the driver, .HIRES with enough interest. Olbrys says he began the project for the /// a few years ago, but problems with his SARA caused a lengthy delay. The hardware is a commercial Apple // product and comes in kit form. It also requires some connection modifications. the mouse. He plans to work on that project during his stint at sea as well. Another Graphics Board? /// user Erik Olbrys says he has developed a driver for an Apple // hires graphics card, and might be willing to put a package together for it rd and will be able to process both SOS calls and ProDos 16 calls (it's being developed to work in both the /// and the GS). As for the Trackball, Dale is now converting it for use on the GS under ProDos 16. As such, it would work in addition to! Up in Groton, Connecticut, Lt. Dale Sykora headed out for a month of sea trials on a new Trident submarine. He took a new GS with him, to continue work on his hi-res color graphics board. Dale says it will have a 65816 co-processor chip on boauld work with the Seikosha printer. This is an exciting product, since it brings low-cost color printing within reach of many Apple /// users. Total cost for the driver, interface card, printer and special version of the Color Graphics Manager is $259.00 source code will be included. It's available now for #29.95. In its September issue, On Three also announced a device driver to be used with a Seikosha parallel interface card and color printer. Graphics Manager also had to be adjusted so it colarge spreadsheets. Side Print, as it's called will work with all Epson printers (or those that can emulate Epson codes), Okidata, Apple DMP and ImageWriter printers. Others may be included if there's enough interest. The program is Pascal-based and theIf you only want information about products or help with products already purchased, the number is 1-206-823-0516. Despite the move, On Three continues to work on new projects for our lovely orphan. One is a native-mode sideways print program for r however). The caveat here is that, as with other Apple /// products these days, there would have to be enough interest to push this thing along. If you would be willing to spend the money on this, please contact Erik Olbrys on CompuServe. His number is 71236,1245. Or you can write to him directly at: 41 Pepper Ridge Road, Stamford, CT. 06905. AND FOR YOU MUSIC LOVERS For Al Lambert and other ///ers who wish there was a way to provide a MIDI interface for your machine, look no longer! test. If you haven't heard, the contest will award prizes to the top three entrants who can develop a Mac-like interface for Business Basic. Apple's Taylor Pohlman, of Softalk Magazine fame, says it can, indeed, be done. And On Three's Bob Consorti eventhe kind of word processing, database and spreadsheet work available on a machine such as the Apple ///. ON THREE CONTEST At least one SIG member (our own SIG Co-Chairman Tom Bartkiewicz) has indicated plans to enter On Three's Business Basic con problem should arise -- then realize how luck you are and enjoy it for all it can do. It may serve you well for many years to come. All those bells and whistles you hear about are often just that! Add-ons that often do not materially change or improve ybody that owns a MAC, today's "new kind of the block" is always tomorrow's hasbeen. The only important question is "is the machine you currently own doing the job you bought it for?" If the answer is "yes" -- and you can still get it repaired if aing the capacities and possibilities of that machine as well as to cheer up some of those owners who keep worrying they have an "obsolete" computer that most others today have never even heard of. Obsolete? Hell, talk to the LISA owner, talk to anof encouragement for the /// community that I want to pass along: ...Much of my love continues to be lavished on that brilliantly well designed computer, the Apple ///. I will try when I can squeeze in the time to write some more articles concernof disks full of his programs, so stay tuned! WORDS OF WISDOM ///er Barry Downes, of New York City recently wrote me to say what a good job your /// SIG is doing. We appreciate that! Mr. Downes (who has six Apple ///s) added these words our continued support (oh oh...I am starting to sound like that wine cooler commercial....). We've received that great Apple /// game I've been talking about, called CAP'N MAGNETO and am working on it now. Dr. Al Bloom has also sent along another couple es and manuals on disk. In addition, we have updated our PD disk 1000 to reflect these new programs, as well as upcoming offerings to disk 1040! We are really proud of this PD library. Sales of disks have been good of late and we thank you for yf Salt Lake City, Utah. Disk 1032/1033: TerminALL is a telecommunications program for the ///, also from Foxware. 1032 is the manual, 1033 is the program. Disk 1034: PowerKeys DM+ is a background utility much like Sidekick on the PC. Includes all modulis provided for you in a separate article, but let me give you the rundown of what is now available to you in our PD library: Disk 1031: Basic Extension contains a number of useful Business Basic utilities placed into the public domain by Foxware, Inc. o any other information or music-type files anyone might care to contribute. Any takers? SPEAKING OF PD DISKS... We introduce FOUR new disks this month, including the long-awaited Power Keys disk from D.A. Datasystems. A full description NOTE ON/OFF and program and control changes." And there's a second program that "composes chord progressions (riffs) based on a given key." If there's enough interest, we can download these files and place them on a /// SIG PD music disk, including The same Erik Olbrys mentioned above has written a .MIDI driver and uploaded it to CompuServe. It needs a Passport compatible MIDI interface card to work. He's also uploaded a Basic program that "converts the MIDI data stream into english words such as uploaded a program in the Apple /// Data Library on CompuServe to provide some additional help. The contest's description and rules were all detailed in an article by your's truly in the July issue of On Three. Prizes include $100.00 in On Three products for first place, $50.00 in products for second, and $25.00 in products for third. In addition, the programs will be published and included on a future Disk of the Month. Deadline is December 1st, so you still have time to enter. APPLE /// t of folks by surprise, since many expected Claris to upgrade AppleWorks specifically for the GS. And while it seems that the action indicates a willingness by Claris to be more open to the // community, rumor has it that the purchase had less noble reaso year or $1.00 per month starting in March. For more information, you can contact Cowman at 732 Timor Court, San Jose CA. 95127. His phone number is 1-408-259-9036. FINALLY... Claris's purchase of StyleWare (the producers of GS Works) took a loCowman says there are 25 dues-paying members. They publish their own newsletter that is technically oriented, and are working on their own PD library to include 3 EZ Pieces templates and a Pascal-based lottery random-number generator. Dues are $10.00 per earlier it appeared that had been dropped). ATUNC's address is PO Box 1528, Mill Valley, CA. 94942. Dues are $20.00 annually. . And over in San Jose, there is a new Apple /// group, called The Apple ///ers Unanamous. President and Founder John n a strong Apple /// group. Their library is tied in with AUGI's, although they do offer some disks of their own. Their latest newsletter published a listing that includes a reprint service for many Apple /// manuals and technical information (I reportedn before moving to Japan himself. AUGI has the largest Apple /// PD library available at reasonable cost. Address is Box 913, Langley AFB, VA. 23665. Dues are $15.00/year. Out in "La La Land", the Apple Three Users of Northern California remai road in Norfolk, Joe Dobrowolski's Apple Users Group International also continues to publish Apple /// articles. Joe may have more time for the club now that his wife and children have moved to Japan! Rumor has it that Joe will spend a year in separatiothe rest of the Apple world. The newsletter is professionally done and TAU has a super Apple /// PD library. For more information, write to them in care of Lavona Rann at 1113 Wheaton Oaks Drive, Wheaton, IL. 60187. Dues are $30.00/year. Down theroup of Wheaton, Illinois has changed the name of their newsletter. Originally TAU Tales, the publishers have chosen a very wise course and renamed it "The TAU Journal." The publication remains an excellent source of information about the /// as well as ness Computers." All are now available for you to take out or read at the WAP office as you desire. With these additions, our library now holds EVERY book about the Apple /// that was not published by Apple! OTHER CLUBS The Third Apple Users Gs to Dr. Al Bloom, our WAP library now sports some new Apple /// books! They include the two texts by Eddie Adamis: "Basic Keywords for the Apple ///" and "Business Basic for the Apple ///." Dr. Bloom also donated Kenniston Lord's book, "Using Apple BusiAppleLink's Technical Information Library. I'm not sure if that's accessible from their new "public" version of AppleLink but I will explore ways to get at that information and then place it onto a PD disk or two for all to use. NEW BOOKS Thankoblems, using various pieces of software, etc. An Apple /// club in Colorado printed some of them a few years ago, but there's never been a complete set available. I understand, however, that there are a total of 42 documents listed by Apple on TECH NOTES One of my long-standing projects has been to try and get our SIG a complete set of the Apple /// Tech Notes. The Tech Notes included information on a wide range of Apple /// hardware and software subjects, included fixes to specific prns. That is, to provide Claris with an opening into the Mac integrated market! And now that GS Works (to be renamed AppleWorks GS) is apparently finished, programmers are rumored to already be at work converting the program over to the Mac.