Feb 7 2012
We have been upgrading our servers here at A.P.P.L.E. in the hope of providing more resources and a faster server for our users. During our migration yesterday, we hit a snag with services on the primary server being pinged out so we decided to go ahead and do the migration by hand which will take a few days longer than planned.
Stay tuned for more as we go through this upgrade.
Jan 17 2012
In preparation for a major website overhaul and server upgrade, we have changed all of the categories on the website. All of the Vintage Apple computing platforms are now under Vintage while the more modern items such as the iPad, Macintosh, iPhone and other items are under Apple Computing. Also, external companies from Apple which make Apple related products are now under Other Companies.
If you find items which are suddenly orphaned on the website, please let us know as we will be streamlining even further as we prepare to move into the next phase of upgrades to the website.
We will be performing our server migration in February 2012. We have allocated a 2 week window for the migration but will adjust according to how quickly we manage to get the websites transferred. During this time you may see minor service interruptions on A.P.P.L.E. hosted websites. However, the migration is necessary to give us access to the most up to date software systems and also to provide more hard drive storage for our expansion. These migrations are normally performed in September every other year, however, this upgrade was delayed by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
Dec 15 2011
Sandvox is an easy to use Website Creation package produced by Karelia Software. The package allows the user to produce high quality websites with a minimum of effort and knowledge, yet has all the tools for even advanced web site creators. Currently at version 2.2.3, Sandvox has a number of updates each year and has evolved to become one of the most powerful Website creation pacgaes available.
Our Users group has used this package in house here at A.P.P.L.E. now for about the last 4 years. We are happy to announce that Karelia Software has graciously agreed to provide a 20% discount on the Sandvox packages to all Mac and Apple User Group members through March 1, 2012.
For information about the Sandvox package, check out the Karelia website at:
http://www.karelia.com/sandvox/
This discount is available to A.P.P.L.E. members and members of other Mac and Apple Users Groups. For members of other groups, please check with your user group Ambassador to recieve the discount code and URL. A.P.P.L.E. Members can log into the members section and check out the current discounts page. To join A.P.P.L.E., check out our Members page at:
http://www.callapple.org/members/
Jan 1 1987
The Catalog
Our new catalog should be sent to you around the first of this year. It will contain our latest products for the Apple II, Macintosh, Amigo and MSDOS compatible computers. We also want to remind you of the questionnaire that will be included with the catalog. The purpose of the questionnaire is to determine whether or not we should publish a catalog of products for all the computer systems we support or should we publish separate catalogs for these systems. Please, take the time to fill it out and send it back to us.This kind of feed back will help us determine how we might better serve you.
On-Line Catalog
If the new A.P.P.L.E. Co-op catalog has not yet arrived, do not be discouraged. You can now purchase the latest Co-op Apple II products via our new on-line catalog service on GEnie. The catalog is listed in the American Apple Round Table bulletin board category.
Discount Coupon
The expiration date of the 5% discount coupon, that was on the dust cover of the November issue, has been extended to February 15, 1987. Remember, this coupon is worth 5% off the purchase price of any regularly priced products included in the catalog. This coupon does not include specials. The order must be a mail order and the coupon must accompany the order.
Goodies from APDA
The first beta version of the Apple IIGS development system is now available. It is called Apple IIGS Programmer’s Workshop (APW). Included is a command shell, full-screen text editor, linker, utilities, 65816 assembler, plus macro interfaces to the Apple IIGS Toolkit. Also available is the Apple IIGS Toolbox Reference, Vol 1 & 2. For those of us with Macintoshes, there is Macpassport v.l.a a1. This is a generic “shell” for doing file conversions. MacPassport allows you to read/write ProDOS 3.5 disks on your Mac.
We have a Winner
Congratulations to John S. Jordan of National City, CA for winning the Reader’s Choice drawing at our December 16th meeting. John will receive $100 credit towards the purchase of any A.P.P.L.E. product.
Welcome Aboard
We welcome Rich Knapton to our Co-op staff. Rich is our new Marketing Manager. He has five years marketing experience, plus an MBA in Marketing from the University of Puget Sound. His background is in research, analysis, product development and direct marketing. Welcome aboard Rich.
Jan 1 1987
in the lead:
Communication has changed through the years. The Greeks were known for their runners, who hand delivered important messages. Our native Indians used smoke signals, Africans used drums, and then … Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. Today we use computers and telecommunication packages to send words and graphics across the wires.
Although this subject has been covered in Call-A.P.P.L.E. before, things have changed considerably with the passage of time. Cecil Fretwell’s Telecommunications Software Review examines five products: COMMWORKS, Modem MagiCian 5.13, MouseTalk, Point-toPoint, and PROCOM-A. Rather than reviewing each product separately, he examines all of them in a comparative manner. Topics such as hardware support, configuration of the modem and printer interface, HELP features, automatic macros, modes of operation, text, line, and screen editors are all discussed. You’ll find this review of interest no matter
what version of the Apple II you own.
and … close behind:
Bob Bishop, in his article subtitled A “Dazzling” Start, helps us to create a lo-res module which you can use within your own programs. Bob also wrote a separate article, Using EDASM To GenerateRelocatable Code, for those of us unfamiliar with the concepts of relocatable code and subroutine libraries.
Keith Nemitz is back with a report on the second day of The IIGS Developer’s Conference. Among other things he discusses the memory map in the GS, the control panel and the necessity of using the entry points.
Keith also contribues a short recap of our meeting with Dr. Alan Kay at the Pacific SCience Center on November 18. Alan Kay is an Apple Fellow, one of three select scientists who have independent charters to pursue unusual ideas for Apple’s future. He had a substantial influence in the development of Smalltalk, the high-level object oriented programming language, He also created the Alto computer which was the forerunner to the Macintosh. It was a meeting to remember.
This topic leads right into another feature worth mentioning, Silicon Intelligence: Smalltalk Part 1 by Michael and Lisa Storrie-Lombardi. The Lombardi’s give us some background on Smalltalk-80, a version of the original language which can be used by the Macintosh. So, in a sense there is a lot of communicating going on in this issue. The modes of travel and the languages used vary, but each idea, package, and language is of value.
new article rating system:
In the past, we have asked our readers to rank the articles on the Readers Choice Card. We have decided that rating each article on its own merit as opposed to a comparative ranking would be more statistically valid. Please rate each article by Circling the appropriate numbers on the Reader Service Card. Maybe we’ll draw your card at one of our meetings and you’ll receive $100 credit towards A.P.P.L.E. Co-op products.
Jan 1 1979
We’re a little late, so that’s all for now! But seriously,’ folks, we are still suffering growing pains, and putting out this growing magazine is no small job, despite the everincreasing assistance we are receiving. When Call-APPLE is under preparation, all other works ceases. This means that for certain periods of time, growing longer each month, orders do not get mailed out promptly, new Library Paks do not get created, etc . . ,…. All of this is by way of justification to explain why, when we announced library Pak 3 in October, it is still not finished. Library Pak 4, however, has been finished, and we will be shipping the first copies right after Christmas. It contains an 18 program Financial Pak, a neat HIRES game, “APPLEWARS,” “SPIROLATERAL,” a HIRES demo, an Applesoft LO-RES shape table using the mysterious & command, a program called Poet and an excellent LO- RES birthday greeting.
Of equal importance is the fact that library Paks 3 and 4 will also be available on disk at a $15 price tag. library Pa~s 1 Band 2 will be available also on disk, but later on in the year. Many other new items are in the offing. An update of the popular Programmer’s Workshop adds the INTEGER command, which permits the user to execute any Integer Basic function without ever leaving the confines of the Workshop. This and an update of the new Applesoft Workshop will be available in the near future on disk for $17.50 or $25 if ordered with two Library Paks.
And then, wait till you see APMAIL, a superb mailing list program which will print labels or all data to screen or printer, and search or sort on any of the nine available data fields. We expect to release this about January 15th at $7.50 on tape or $12.50 on disk. But we haven’t finished! Around February first, we expect to have a complete text editor/word processor program.
Two new names have been added to our staff box on Page 1: Mike Weinstock of R. Walton Beach, Aorida, who joins us as Advertising Manager and who is also in charge of the PEEKing at Call-APPLE project, and Dave Garson from Southern California, who, as Assistant Program Editor, will be helping assemble the Library Paks and modules that we have been so slow to release.
WElCOME to both of you!
Sep 1 1978
The September meeting will be held on the second Tuesday of September instead of the usual third Tuesday. The occasion for this being an appearance “on the scene” by Mr. Randy Wiggington of Apple Computer, Inc. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Randy for his interest in the group and also to Bob Huelsdonk who was instrumental in arranging for Randy to appear.
We are not certain just what will go on at the meeting, other than many questions. But there can be no doubt that it will be a most interesting one. Plan to attend. 7:00 PM September 12th at Computerland of Bellevue, 14340 NE 20th Street.
Aug 1 1978
And now a word from our sponsor …, you! Look elsewhere in this issue for an as yet untitled letters to the editor feature. We are now actively soliciting your letters and will reproduce in part some of the interesting ones. H you have a question or a problem, and we can’t find the answer in time to print it, we’ll throw it open to our readers for solution.
Money talks. Unfortunately, we have a number of words on that subject. As you will see in other stories, the prices on the Apple Box, software and dues are all to be increased. We don’t like to see this, particularly since one of our prime objectives is low cost software, but it is a necessary evil, if we want to adequately support Call -Apple, the cost of’which has grown to over $100 per month, not counting postage. Your understanding will be appreciated.
New software. Library Pak 2 should be ready for release as you read this. It contains many new color games and demos, music programs, a Greeting Pak which has a variety of Xmas and other greetings, a nifty game called “Nightmare No.6″, which in its opeing title states “The object of this game is to figure out the object of this game! “ You take it from there. Also available now is “Disk Workshop”, a new version of Workshop II, designed to work with Disk II and adds two new commands: DSAV saves an appended program to disk and CONNECT appends a Disk program to the Workshop. This is available at $6, postpaid, and if you have previously, ordered Workshop as a separate program,
we will send you this one for just $2.
Aug 1 1978
Apparently, quite a few. You can look forward in the near future to receiving a questionaire in connection with your medical and other applications for Apple II. It would seem that about 10% of our current membership is in the profession, and our objective is to put this large minority in contact with one another. You will also be receiving names and addresses. This also will apply to any other special interest group; we will attempt to put you in contact with others of similar interests.
Jul 1 1978
Here is a patch to correct one of the few bugs found in Applesoft II. The HTAB function will space 2 places further to the right than intended unless corrected with this patch:
POKE (HM-28), 202
where HM = the value of HIMEM: for your Apple. This should be done after loading & prior to running.