Author: Bill Martens

We would like to welcome the following staff to the A.P.P.L.E. fold:  Steve Paulson who will be assisting with membership files and John Backman, who has also contributed an article for this months issue of Call-A.P.P.L.E..

Documentation has been cited by Apple Computer as a cause of delay in shipping both the new ROM board and the Disk II. Discs have been rescheduled for shipping during the first week of July, while the Applesoft ROMs should follow within two or three weeks. Well worth waiting for!

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.

This handy little subroutine can be used in two manners; to fill a screen page with repetitive material or to determine the length of a screen page of print statements. Assume line 100 is a print statement with which you wish to fill the page. 100 PRINT” “:GOSUB 400 400 IF PEEK(37) < 18 THEN RETURN 410 POP:PRINT “FOR NEW PAGE HIT ANY KEY”:CALL 756:GOTO 000 Line 400 reads the cursor and finds whereitis on the page. If less than…

For those members that have paid their $10 annual membership but have not returned the Softech membership form •…. These forms must be turned in before your application can be processed. If you have not received your application, please let us know right away at 932 -6588.

Don Williams will be our instructor again for two levels of Integer Basic Programming classes available to our members.   Beginning and Intermediate classes will be available, with the beginning class starting sometime in August. Details will be available in the next issue of Call-A.P.P.L.E.

If you have a newer Apple with the silent keyboard, Don Williams has written a short and sweet machine language routine to solve your problem. 0300:  48              PHA 0301 : A9 20        LDA #$20 0303: 8D 30 CO   STA $C030 0306: 20 A8 FC    JSR $FCA8 0309: 8D 30 CO   STA $C030 030C: 68              PLA 030D: 4C 1B FD   JMP $FDIB 0038: 00 03 Once you store the address ($0300) in location $38 and hit return, your keys will click…

Date: 20 June 1978 Time: 7:07 pm The meeting got off to a flying start at 7:07 PM as we introduced ourselves. Our official membership now stands at about 64, with 31 present at this meeting. (And in the two weeks since the meeting, has increased to over 100!) Val reported that the new Call -A. P. P. L. E. “Hot Line” has been installed and that the number is 932 -6588. (Where have we heard that number before?) This…

By Val J. Golding A problem that arises in any such organization as A.P.P.L.E. is that of “Bootlegging programs.” We have a number of programs in our personal library which we have purchased from a software vendor,and when a friend says: “Gosh, that’s a neat program .. will you run me a copy off?”, we have to decline. Not because we don’t want to pass the program on, but because we happen to believe that the author / owner of…

This issue is devoted to you, and particularly those that live without the Seattle metropolitan area. We have recently received tremendous amounts of mail, largely a result of being mentioned in the club columns of some of the major computer periodicals. Letters have been coming in at the rate of 6-12 per day, and it has certainly solved any problem as to what to do in our spare time.! Those members who live out of state are at a distinct…

We would like to announce the installation of the Apple “Hot Line”, (206) 932-6588. This number is now available so your club can assist you with questions, problems, etc. If we don’t have an answer immediately available, which is quite likely, we will either attempt to find an answer or refer you to another member who can answer. If might be well to mention at the same time (especially for distant members who may tend to overlook time zones), call…

We are pleased to report the formation of an Apple user group south of the border, Apple Portland Program Library Exchange. We attended their organizational meeting in May and spent an enjoyable evening in Portland as the guest of Terry Ashton of Computerland of Portland, who also hosted the initial meeting. We are happy to see that their membership now numbers in the 30’s. Their dues and program rate structure approximate sours, and we anticipate a good deal of interaction…

By J.A. BACKMAN If you have dumped a program by hitting “RESET” when you meant to hit “RETURN” and Ctrl-C wouldn’t bring the program back – – I’ll bet the air was as blue around your APPLE II as it was around mine! – ! – ! A sweet little fix is a simple gadget that stops accidental keying “RESET” but does not stop its operation when it is needed. It does not hide the key, and doesn’t require lifting…

For all owners of the A.P.P.L.E. Library Pak 1A, please note: There is a partial dropout in program No. 8 (Color Game Pak) in early copies. Try loading at a higher volume setting. If this does not work, let us know and we will replace. The same issue occurs with our early copies of Basic Tutorial.

Last issue I talked about the general specs of the PERSCI 277 eight inch floppy disk drive. This issue I want to discuss some of the uses for a floppy disc and why anyone would even want one. But first, let me digress. Since Apple has announced its own Disc II, why should I be telling you about the Persci floppy? Two reasons. 1) Computer Components announced its own floppy as available before Apple did, and 2) I’m using one…

By Val J. Golding APPLESOFT I I Extended Precision Floating Point Basic. $20 from Apple dealers or direct from Apple Computer, 10260 Bandley Drive, Cuptertino, CA 95014. Supplied free with new 16-48K Apples. A ROM version is expected to be released about July 1st for $99. One’s first impression might be that charging for this updated version of Applesoft is unfair, which was our snap judgement. However, consideration must be given to other facts, the first being that Apple Computer…

A complete program listing is given below to convert a program written in Applesoft I so it will load in Applesoft II.  This program is available from the club library, as is a version of Applesoft I with corrections made. Load the converter program in Integer BASIC and RUN.  The program will instruct you when to load your Applesoft I program.  When the conversion is complete and you have re-saved your Applesoft I program, load it into Applesoft II and…

The May 1978 Contact! newsletter from Apple Computer, Inc. contained a number of required patches to repair bugs in Applesoft I. Array Indexing Problem Fix Long line Fix “END” Statement Fix FRE(0) Function Fix

……is the name of a new monthly newsletter published by Apple Computer, Inc.  The first issue (May 1978) was literally packed with good information and programming hints. If you did not get your copy int he mail, be sure to contact your Apple dealer.

By Val J. Golding Applesoft & Applesoft II store in memory from the bottom up, unlike Integer BASIC, which is just the opposite, storing from the top down. Although pointers and characteristics of Applesoft I and II are similar, they are different. Therefore we will limit ourselves to APII in this discussion. Programs store startirlg at decimal location 12289 upwards, at’Id variables are located starting at the high end of program storage. Where there is no program present, theh the…