Author: Bill Martens
10 REM ROUTINE TO FORMAT DECIMALNUMBERS ROUNDED OFF TO TWO PLACES AND RIGHT JUSTIFIED BY BOB HUELSDONK 15 REM 4/27/78 20 REM APPLE PUGETSOUND PROGRAM LIBRARY EXCHANGE 6708 39TH AVE SW SEATTLE, WA. 98136 70 FOR I • 1 TO 10: READ A: P= A : GOSUB 6000 75 PRINT P$: NEXT 80 END 90 DATA 56.2,23456.1,5,1.186,345.70,23,678.0123,-99999.889,.2389,789S67 100 REM 110 REM ” A.’ WAS CHANGED TO ‘P’ 120 REM TO KEEP THE SUBROUTINE 130 REM ANONYMOUS. 140 REM WORKS FOR…
By Val J. Golding Is the ugly head of price wars and cut-throat sales about to raise itself? We sincerely hope not. these are bargains in which no one gains. If a dealer can move enough data in a given period of time, he can make money, even with a profit margin as low as 10%. But in order to do this, he must also cut overhead. This is usually accomplished through reductions in sales staff and services to customers. …
The meeting got off to a prompt start at 7:25 (after the secretary arrived, ed.) and the minutes were approved as stated in the May issue of Call-A.P.P.L.E.. There were 24 members present. (Note the continuing increase). Val started the usual introductions around the room….and some names are now becoming familiar. And then it was on to business. Val announced, that a tentative agreement been reached with Softech, Inc., to sell memberships and software to the club on a greatly…
June 1978 To all A.P.P.L.E. Members: please note that our library now has a LCOS (Limited Cassette Operating System) for all of our cassette based programs.
NOTE:Values 00 to 7F (0 to 127 decimal) are used by the standard Ascii character set. As in Integer BASIC, Apple II outputs last two rows (60-7F) as uppercase. This table is a complement to “Applesoft II Pointers and Tokens on Pages 6 & 7, and should be saved as a permanent reference chart.
The Apple ][ is country’s best seller? This is what Phil Roybal, Apple Computer’s marketing manager expressed to us when we asked him recently. Apple’s new Shuggart mini-floppy has now been officially announced at an unbelievably low $495. The Delievery is scheduled to commence in lat June. This drop of $200 was enough to influence our decision to buy. The Applesoft II ROM board will be available at $100 for an introductory period only, running through July 31st, at which…
COMPUTER COMPONENTS – formerly known as COMPUTER PLAYGROUND offers some large storage for Apple users in the form of PERSCI floppy drives. This is the first in a series of articles about the “large” floppies available for the Apple ][ The drive is the PerSci Model 277 dual diskette drive. this means it has two eight inch floppy disk surfaces with approximately 256,000 bytes for storage. Half a million bytes of disc storage per drive! optionally selectable is the dual…
We must thank Randy Wiggington of Apple Computer, Inc. for letting us bug him (no pun inteded) both by mail and by phone, and whose help was invaluable in helping to prepare the special Applesoft issue of Call-A.P.P.L.E Magazine (1978 June Issue)
By Darrell Aldrich While written for Applesoft II, this article is also applicable to Integer Basic HIRES graphics mode. The High Resolution Graphics screen is composed of 280 vertical bars (X coordinates), by 160 units high (Y coordinates). The even-numbered bars are violet in color, while the odd-numbered bars are green. The color white is produced by plotting adjacent green and violet bars. (Green+Violet=White. ) By plotting only on even bars, (even X coordinates), violet plots can be made. However,…
The Assembly Language classes are now scheduled to start June 1 at Empire Electronics. Cost $35 per persorn including Synertek manual. To sign up, call Tom Geer at (206)244-5200 or Don Williams at (206)242-6807. The course includes Number Systems, Boolean Algebra, 6502 Instruction set and Programming.
We will have available sometime within the next month the Applesoft II version of Programmers Workshop, with most of the same routines, Append, Renumber, Examine Basic, Pick a Base, Poke writer. Pricing has yet to be determined.
By Val J. Golding Here are simple routines that will allow you to append programs in both version of Applesoft. While appending can be done under program control in App. II, it is really simpler to do it without. The routines are the same in both versions; only the pointers have been changed (to protect the innocent!). A word of caution: Apple soft programs store in memory just the opposite of Integer Basic, i. e., from the bottom up. Therefore,…
We would like to extend a welcome to two new Computerland stores in Bellevue and Tacoma. Tom McConnell. manages the new Bellevue store at 14340 NE 20th, phone (206)746-2070, which opened April 28th and Dennis Griswold is in charge of the Tacoma store at 8700 S. Tacoma Way , scheduled to open May 5th. The phone far Tacoma is (206)581-0388. Welcome Aboard!
By Bob Huelsdonk I wrote this simple program to test new memory chips I bought. Just store the correct end address for your Apple in locations 4 and 5, run 300G and display 800 to the end. 300.32A 0300- A0 00 A9 55 91 02 D1 02 0308- D0 1D A9 AA 91 02 D1 02 0310- D0 15 20 18 03 90 EB 60 0318- A5 02 C5 04 A5 03 E5 05 0320- 3A FF 00 – 4C…
By Don Williams One of the minor deficiencies in Apple Integer BASIC is the omission of the Data statement. In search of a remedy for this, I wrote a program to save memory in a BASIC string assignment. This is listed as program lines 1020 through 1190. Upon embarking on the first routine, I quickly found a second omission in the language; a way to store a non-string variable into a string, the remedy for which is shown as program…
By Val J. Golding At the top of the list is Apple Computer’s new Basic programming manual. This falls just short of being a masterpiece. It is well written and easy to understand, even for a novice like this writer and is printed in a small, easy to handle spiral binding. It starts by introducing simple Basic commands in program format and in each simple program, goes on to bring a new command into action. If you have not yet…
by Dana Redington = Apple Computer, Inc. More word on the utility Rom. In addition to the routines previously mentioned, this Rom will have new high-res operating routines, including a SHAPGEN command that will eliminate the need to manually write HIRES vectors. You will be able to directly address a d0t matrix, and there will also be a HIRES Ascii character set, displayable concurrently with the graphics. The Applesoft Rom board is scheduled for release to dealers July I st…
18 April 1978 Meeting Time: 1905 Place: Omega Stereo in Bellevue The meeting was held at Omega Stereo in Bellevue. Val Golding called the meeting to order at 7:05 and led the introductions to the 22. members present. Mike Thyng read the March minutes, which were then approved. Val reported he had contacted a Sottech representative concerning club use of their software. They appear to be willing to work with us on royalties, and we voted to ask Val to…
To set HIMEM at locations above 32767, use minus figures, i.e., HIMEM (-32767-1) would set it at 32768; -32766 sets 32770 .
For a limited time only, Computerland Federal Way has sets of Apple 16K chips available to members. This is a rare oportunity to get these chips for just $300.00, which is about 40% off the Apple list price. Call Max Cook at 206-838-9363 for details.
