Author: A.P.P.L.E.
By Bob Huelsdonk Some protocol is a must if you use a printer with greater than 40 columns with your Apple. This comes about because it tries to write beyond the screen area and into the variables area in Integer BASIC or into the operating system in Applesoft. The following fix will help prevent this problem: Start your printer driver routine with a JSR FC58. This will home the cursor and clear the screen. Do not return to the screen…
Coming up in the July issue of Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine: Annotated Memory Test by Bob Huelsdonk Using Color Mask in HIRES by Darryl Aldrich Mystery Program — A Contest by Val Golding Programming Hints from Apple to Z Integer Basic Floating Point by Don Williams Reviews, New Product Announcements, Etc.
by Val J. Golding This routine will allow you to format Applesoft REM and PRINT statements on screen without having to worry about the lines being different. One item to take note of: This program only works in 40 column mode in this format: 10 REM ROUTINE TO FORMAT REMARKS LINES AND PRINT STATEMENTS IN APPLESOFT II BY VAL GOLDING – 5.20.1978 20 REM APPLE PUGETSOUND PROGRAM LIBRARY EXCHANGE 6708 39TH AVE SW SEATTLE, WA. 98136 90 HOME:VTAB4 100 PRINT…
Computerland and Empire Electronics are now offering Apple II related hardware and software classes at their stores. For more information, contact the individual store nearest you.
COMPUTER COMPONENTS (Formerly Computer Playground) of Westminster, Ca. now offers an Apple II/S-lOO bus interface. The price for the interface is set at $100. They also offer other i/0 cards and software
The OMEGA STEREO Bellevue store has now added Vector Graphics and Axiom to their current line of available computer products.
For Applesoft users, a fix decimal point routine by Bob Huelsdonk and a floating point foutine for Integer Basic by Don Williams, along with YOUR programs and YOUR articles. Our pay scale is pretty low (nothing!), but the rewards are gratifying… By submitting your programs to our library, you have helped another member with your contribution!
The library is now assembling games and other applications into module form, 2 or three programs on a menu. So far, we have Gamepak I with Anne Apple, OneArm Bandit and an updated version of Zot!; No 2 contains Hurkle, Multiply and Biorhythm while “Programmers Workshop” is composed of Append, Examine Basic, Renunber, List by Page, Poke Routine Write’ and Pick a Base From… Blackjack Checkers and Craps will be in the next Gamepak, while other new programs include Appleodian,…
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.
