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The Call-A.P.P.L.E. In Depth CD-ROM

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Star Trek: Nemises Trailer available in QuickTime

For many years since that fateful pilot release of the Star Trek, many millions of fans around the globe have been glued to their screens waiting for each new release of the continuing sagas created by Gene Rodenbery. Once again, Paramount Pictures has listened to those fans and released another Star trek movie named Nemesis. This movie based on Star Trek: The Next Generation and starring the cast and the crew of the same is dues to be released on…

A Call-A.P.P.L.E. Special — Reflections: The Passing of GNO/ME

There have been many flavors of Unix type systems for many platforms over the years, but there have been few for the Apple II. However in this world of bleak shortsightedness, there has been one project that gained the recognition of many in the Apple world. GNO/ME What is GNO/ME? It is a nice Unix style system for the Apple II GS which ran on top of the Apple II GS OS allowing multitasking of text based windows and was…

A.P.P.L.E. Web Site of the month

While this month’s web site is not specifically an Apple site, it is an important web resource for users of many platforms. Snackey Pete’s is a nice web site for those interested in the Inform format of Interactive Fiction games. The site, which is produced by Helikon Technologies, is a nice simple web site and has man compilers, interpreters, games, and even documentation for the Inform format. As many of the older users may know, Inform is the format in…

Vintage Micros to Auction Apple Lisa-1 Computer for Sale on EBay

Seattle – 21 June 2002 0545am – Vintage Micros of Marietta, South Carolina is offering a rare Apple Lisa 1 “Twiggy” personal computer online. The machine, which is among the uncommon machines of the Apple Computer, Inc., is expected to draw in the range of $15,000 based on past online auctions for similar items. The Lisa 1 sold originally for nearly $10,000 when it was released in 1982, however, due to the number of problems with the machine, very few were…

Programming on the Apple IIgs

with APW and Related Products A Survey of APW productsBy Mike Westerfield Like myself, many of you have been programming on the Apple II since it really was the Apple II – no plus, e, c, or GS. The first assembler I used on the Apple II was actually tape based. I break out in hives every time I remember that. As the Apple II grew, so did the languages that were available for it. First, better assemblers appeared, starting…

LanceGS Network Card: First Looks

By Eric Shepherd www.A2Central.com About the Author Eric Shepherd is the webmaster of A2Central.com in Tracy, California and is also the director of Syndicomm.com. He is involved primarily in bringing many of the software packages from the 1980’s into the freeware realm by writing to the individual authors to gain the releases. Please note that A2central.com is not related to the magazine from the early 1990’s. The Card I wandered by my mailbox yesterday, as I do just about every…

Star Wars Episode II Trailer in Quicktime 5.0

The latest of the Star Wars Episode II (Attack of the Clones) trailers was recently added to the official Star Wars website at www.starwars.com. The latest trailer shows much-improved cohesiveness between the scenes and a few a different twists on the plot being shown to the public. Although the scenes are fluid and nice, the free version of Quicktime only allows a medium sized view of the clips. In order to truly experience the power of the Episode II clips,…

A.P.P.L.E. Glimpses

A.P.P.L.E. Glimpses is a product introduction article. Each month, we will be introducing items which we think are noteworthy here. Although items are listed here, it does not mean an endorsement. It only means that we figured the item was interesting enough to be noted to the Apple community. This month we have a nice variety of items. We hope that you will find them as interesting as we did. If you do decide to purchase a product we mention…

Terra Soft Ships YDL 2.2

Extend the life of your PowerPC machine with Linux Loveland, Colorado — 26 March 2002 — Terra Soft Solutions, Inc., the leading developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions announces shipment of Yellow Dog Linux 2.2, the most mature and complete PowerPC Linux distribution available. Yellow Dog Linux 2.2 offers an array of improvements over v2.1 with the most advanced, stable release of the 2.4 kernel, improved support for the Apple ADC monitors, and accelerated video. The screen brightness and volume…

An A.P.P.L.E. Exclusive: MacWorld Expo Tokyo 2002

21 March 2002 Tokyo Japan Steve Jobs opened Mac World Expo in Tokyo, Japan today with a keynote that seemed to draw something back to Apple that had been missing for a while.. Although he had given a speech just over one month ago in San Francisco, Jobs came to Tokyo with goodies in hand. His keynote brought cheers and applause from the crowd with his introduction of the 10gb iPod and the Cinema Display HD or High Definition as…

An Interview with D. Proni

By Walker Archer D. Proni is the founder of Econ Technologies and the creator of the pegasus Internal SCSI hard disk drive, AE FAX, Signature GS, AutoArk, and Universe Master. II ALIVE: By the way, what does the “D.” stand for? D. PRONI: Duilio. A fine Italian name. But people have so many problems with it that I’ve just been going by “D.” for several years now. II ALIVE: How did you first become involved with the Apple II? D….

Mail Merge It!

by Richard SpitzerII ALive Volume 1 Number 1March / April 1993 After writing a letter or two in AppleWorks’ Word Processor, you’ re then stuck with the problem of addressing the envelopes. It just seems inelegant to use something as archaic as a digital encoding device (also known as a pen) to do it after writing the rest of the letter on the computer. Yet the labels produced from AppleWorks’ Database aren’t really worth the effort for one or two…

Apple IIe’s help researchers unlock the mysteries of the human mind!

by Phil Shapiro II Alive Volume 1 Number 1March / April 1993 Apple IIe computers have long been a favorite of experimental psychology researchers. It’s easy to write short Applesoft BASIC computer programs to present information in a random fashion. And you can use the IIe’s eight slots to hook up all sorts of external electronic devices. (The external devices can either be controlled by the Apple IIe. Or the lie can gather and analyze data generated by the device.)…

A Classroom Test Shell

by Don Grout II Alive Volume 1 Number 1March / April 1993 Computer software exists for almost every educational application. There is software for science simulations, math drills, word processing, accounting simulations, history tests, geography, music, art, and foreign languages. But is there something inexpensive (or free) that an ordinary classroom teacher, with minimum computer skills, can use for one-on-one computer study or review in virtually any subject area? Absolutely-if you can enter data and have a little familiarity with…

What Mistakes?

II Alive Volume 1 Number 1 March / April 1993 Sneak Peek, Page 9: “Drift Dodgers” subhead, fourth paragraph: A page length of 2.1″ does not mean 2 inches and one line (at ‘1/6’ or ‘1/8’ depending on the lines per inch setting) as implied in this article. AppleWorks instead takes your request of 2.1″ and uses the closest page length your printer supports with the current lines per inch setting. (Actually, AppleWorks keeps track of the total length of…

No Excuses for Ugly Output – Part I: Imagewriter Innards

By Bill Carver II Alive Volume 1 Number 0January/February 1993 If your printouts don’t look quite as good as you’d like them to, do something about it! Simple things like a printer cleanup or a good ribbon can help immensely, and there are also software solutions that can make your printing look its best. In the end, you may decide you need a new printer to replace your ImageWriter- today’s latest mode ls make laser-quality output surprisingly affordable. This is…

Operation Database Storm

by Don A. Hoyt II Alive Volume 1 Number 0January/February 1993 Even if thunder rumbles from your database reports thanks to their massive accumulations of accurate facts, your readers may respond with gaping yawns. After all, some people sleep better in a storm. It’s lightning that does the trick. To put lightning into your reports, don’t create a new Tables format. There’s a better way! AppleWorks’ greatest strength is its integration- the ability of the word processor, database, and spreadsheet…

Mathematica – The Most Appropriate Application for Arithmetical Computations Yet

by Jim Flanagan The computer, if I remember my history lesson correctly in this, our baroque age of computing, was born of a need to do arithmetic computations at high speeds — speeds which are affable by contemporary measure. Today, while computers are able to fit upon our desktop, they are still far too large, while they are orders of magnitude faster, they are still too slow, and while they store compar- atively incredible amounts of data, it is not enough….

Tutorial-Creating External Functions with CDEFs

by Mike Smith LAMIR Software Corporation The hot word in programming these days is modularity. HyperCard is a good example of an application that is designed to use modules of code written in another language to extend the limited functionality of HyperTalk: hence the names of these modules (XCMDs, or external commands, and XFNCs, or external functions). You can do much the same thing for any application through the dialog box calling method — adding code to documents in the form…