Tag: 1978

Erie Apple Crunchers Users Group Posts Meeting Dates

The Erie Apple Crunchers Users Group has posted the dates for all of their 2012 meetings.  The group serves the Erie, Pennsylvania and surrounding area and has been serving Apple users since 1978.  For more information about the group or for the complete schedule, check out the website at: http://www.erieapplecrunchers.com

Bytes from the Apple

The BIG NEWS for this issue is APPLESOFT WORKSHOP is here! The cost is S6.41 postpaid, and orders will be accepted, subject to the following conditions: This preliminary version will be updated several times over the next few months. Updates will be available at $2.00 postpaid. This version is disk-dependent in that it requires disk for certain routines, including Append. Every attempt has been made to debug it, but some may still remain. Please allow 30 days for delivery on…

A.P.P.L.E. Dues Decided

For those who have missed the last two A.P.P.L.E. Members meetings, Annual dues for the group have been established.  Dues for 1978 will be $4.00 USD and are payable now.

Mike’s Thing

A collection of tidbits worth nothing What is a color monitor worth to you? One of our number has access to same and will consider all serious offers… If you want 16K chips, tell us. We would have to buy a large quantity, true, but we have to know how many we can handle before we approach a manufacturer. We feel we could do something for under $250. Speak now or forever hold your chips. We have to get moving…

Meeting Minutes

A.P.P.L.E. Meeting Minutes

February 1978 MeetingDate: 21 February 1978Time: 7pmLocation: Computerland Federal Way Minutes: We met at Computerland in Federal Way, and Val Golding called us to order at 7:05 PM. A motion was approved to call ourselves A P.P.L.E., standing for Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange. Val was unanimously elected president and Mike Thyng was elected Secretary. Other duties will be shared between them. Informality was stressed in the meeting, in order to best follow the purposes of the group: to exchange…

Program Submission Guidelines

As we indicated last month, we need your software for our library, in order to make it available to others. You can help cut down on our processing time by observing the following guidelines. All programs should be completely self-prompting. This means all user instructions should be embedded within the program as “print” statements, so the user can run the program Without any additional information at all. Please state the language the program is written in, i. e., Integer BASIC,…

Apple Source

by Dana Redington,Apple Computer, Inc. A number of exciting software/firmware items will be forthcoming shortly from Apple. Included are a number of revised demo tapes and an extensively modified Star Wars program, which will have many new features, including more areas of action and additional sound effects. All will be available from your local Apple dealer, as well as from the club. In firmware, a utility ROM has been scheduled for production in the next six weeks and will feature…

Cassette Special Offer

DAK Enterprises has a special price on cassettes, valid through March 10th, 1978. Order from Val Golding. Prices do not include shipping. HEC60 (Top of the line, cobalt) $.66 eachEC-8 (Four minutes .per side) $.68 each

Applesauce

The following recipe will save you loading time on your Applesoft programs. 1. Load Applesoft 2. Do not “RUN” it. 3. Using the DEL command, delete lines 0,940, inclusiv. 4. Enter this line: 950 POKE 18,255 This will give you a preset version of Option 1, Applesoft graphics mode. 5. “SAVE” this at the beginning of a blank cassette and follow it with saves of programs written in Option 1. For Option 2, do the same except make line 950…

Tones Dress Up Programs

Users can dress up their Apple II program with a simple tone subroutine to direct attention to error messages and other items of importance. From BASIC, you simply need a Call -1050 ($FBE6).  This will produce a 1·000 cycle tone to be emitted from your computer.

BASIC for Beginners

A recent letter from Apple Computer announced the publication of a new manual scheduled for late March, designed to teach Apple BASIC to those with no prior programming experience. We look forward with anticipation to its publication. Editors Note: We need it!

IP+E=OP

Loosely translated, this means there can be no output without input and effort. In order to make this group a success, we need, member input in the form of both articles for the newsletter, and programs for the library. Have you found a sneaky thing your Apple does that is not in the manual? Let us in on the secret with a brief description or  storyfor the newsletter. We also need to build our program library. If you have written…