A.P.P.L.E. Magazine Article Database

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PEEKING at Call -A.P.P.L.E. Val J. Golding user group CA P 78 w a valuable reference work and compendium of 1978 Call -A.P.P.L.E. articles / the birth and growth of the Apple Puget Sound Program Library Exchange
For the Apple Widows Cindy Rogers poetry CA P 78 y (P/79p163) Attention ladies … I’m in distress! My eyelids are twitching My head’s all a mess (and so on…)
A Brief History of Apple “Michael M. Scott, President” company / history CA P 78 y “Apple was started by two gentlemen, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak”
Applesoft II Extended Precision Floating Point Basic rb Val Golding language Apple CA P 78 y “$20 (supplied free with new 16-48K Apples), $99 (ROM version)”
Price Wars and Cutthroat Sales Val J. Golding industry Editorial CA P 78 y cutting overhead
Bootlegging Programs Val J. Golding industry Editorial CA P 78 y we happen to believe that the author/owner of software is entitled to renumeration for his efforts
BASIC Programming Manual / MICRO / Dr. Dobbs Journal rb Val Golding reference CA P 78 y a book and two magazines
Apple Source Mike Scott and Randy Wigginton / transcribed by Mike Thyng technical CA P 78 y “the question and answer session at Computerland / Apple disk drives,” “Applesoft LOMEM, initializing disks, Pascal, memory allocation for ROM” “cards, hires colors, writing to disk, disk format, CONTACT, commmas and” “the communications interface, Apple DOS above 256, Apple II case design,” “files without a disk, EXEC file, serial and parallel card, color monitor”
Round off Calculations / easy(?) way to run Basic programs tip CA P 78 y
Loading Hi-Res in Integer BASIC Mark Cross / S.H. Lam tip CA P 78 y
Applesoft ROM card language CA P 78 y how to set it up
technical level of articles Ted Oom / readers magazine CA P 78 y some readers are frustrated by the technical level of articles in Call -A.P.P.L.E.
aligning numbers Wilbur C. Andrews technique CA P 78 y
the WAIT and DRAW Richard F. Suitor tip CA P 78 y undocumented commands
“POKE 33,33” tip CA P 78 y helpful for editing program lines
System Monitor “Apple Computer, Inc.” technical / tutorial Apple CA P 78 p “store, examine and execute assembly language programs with a minimum of” time and effort
Apple II Mini-Assembler assembler CA P 78 p a programming aid aimed at reducing the amount of time required to convert a handwritten program to object code
An Apple II Memory Test Bob Huelsdonk utility CA P 78 p test your memory chips
Apple II BASIC Structure “Steve Wozniak, Apple Computer” language / technical CA P 78 b the internal representation of a BASIC program
Applesoft II Pointers & Tokens Val Golding language / technical CA P 78 b how Applesoft uses memory
Printing neatly tip CA P 78 b “easily print up to 104 characters without “”broken”” words”
Applesoft Zero Page Usage language / technical CA P 78 b chart of zero page addresses
Routine to Print Free Bytes Bob Huelsdonk tip CA P 78 b displays the number of free bytes of memory available
“Apple II, Integer BASIC interpretation of memory” Val Golding & Don Williams language / technical CA P 78 w token values
Memory Map — Apple II with Applesoft BASIC Loaded language / technical CA P 78 b reserved sections of memory
Loading Machine Language As Part of a BASIC Program “Contact No. 1, May, 1976” technique CA P 78 b move the PP
A Patch for Double Loops Bob Huelsdonk tip CA P 78 b jumping out of a double loop do not correctly reset the counters
Editing in INTEGER or APPLESOFT tip CA P 78 b “use CALL -936, POKE 33, 33, and the ESC key”
“The Program that Apple Said “”Couldn’t be Written”” !!!” Ron Aldrich utility CA P 78 b converts a saved Integer BASIC program into an Applesoft program (non- compatible commands still must be changed)
Appending Applesoft Val Golding technique CA P 78 b simple routines to allow you to append programs in Applesoft
Converting Applesoft I to II utility CA P 78 b
Linkage Routines for the Apple II Integer Basic Floating Point Package by Don Williams technique CA P 78 b understanding floating point numbers “mantissa, square root”
Applesoft Tone Routines John B. Cook technique CA P 78 b (P/79p173) “tone routine from the “”Red Book”” is relocated for Applesoft”
Save Memory On A String Don Williams technique CA P 78 b Integer Basic a program to save memory in a Basic string assignment (in the absence of the DATA statement)
“PEEKS, POKES and CALLS” tutorial CA P 78 b these commands permit you to wander through the passageways and corridors of your Apple’s memory hexidecimal
Resurecting a Dead FP Program technique CA P 78 b finding the proper POKEs to recover a lost program in memory
Format Decimal Numbers Bob Huelsdonk technique CA P 78 b (2/80p48) rounded off to two decimal places and right justified
Routine to format remarks lines and print statements Val Golding technique CA P 78 b
Routine to display Applesoft program tokens Val Golding and Bob Huelsdonk utility CA P 78 b
Apple Software Bank software CA P 78 b ask for User Contributed programs
Mystery Program Contest programming CA P 78 b the object of this contest is to write an Integer Basic program that does nothing whatsoever Bruce Tognazinni
Wig-Wiz Contest programming / contest CA P 78 b figure out what this program does
“& Now, the Ampersand” technique CA P 78 b (1/84p74) “when Applesoft encounters a & at the beginning of a statement, a JSR to” $3F5 is executed
“& Now, The Further Adventures of the Mysterious Ampersand” reference CA P 78 b some Applesoft routines that Mr. & can use in the ROM version
Applesoft I Patches language / patch Apple Patches CA P 78 b “fix bugs in array indexing, long lines, END statement, FRE(0) statement”
The Poor Man’s Hex to Decimal Converter technique CA P 78 b a table to assist you in converting hex to decimal (and back)
“””POKE”” This In Your Apple!” Bob Huelsdonk and Val Golding technique CA P 78 b subroutine creates BASIC POKE statements for a machine language program
HTAB patch for Applesoft II language / patch CA P 78 b “POKE (HM-28), 202”
“List of Handy “”CALL’S””” reference CA P 78 b some machine language subroutine addresses
Routine To Find Page Length technique CA P 78 b determine the length of a screen page of print statements PEEK(37)
Some BASIC Entry Points reference CA P 78 b “LIST, RUN, SAVE, LOAD”
Execute monitor commands from > BASIC S.H. Lam technique CA P 78 b POKE in and run machine language instructions S.H. Lam technique
Use of Apple II Color Graphics In Assembly Language technique CA P 78 o calling lo-res graphic routines in ROM
Use of Color Mask BYTE in Hires Darrell Aldrich technique CA P 78 o (P/79p171) “specifies an 8 bit pattern of plottable X coordinates, with the pattern” repeating itself every eight coordinates
Hires Capabilities and Limitations Darrell Aldrich graphics CA P 78 o even numbered bars are violet and odd numbered bars are green
Video Display Organization Dan Chapman technical CA P 78 o “how the high order bit controls INVERSE, NORMAL and FLASH”
Uses for a floppy disc Mike Thyng disk drive Apple MASH CA P 78 g floppy performs program storage and data storage Persci 277 eight inch floppy
Arrays Mike Thyng programming / tutorial Apple MASH CA P 78 g numerical arrays and dimensioning of single variables
More Arrays Mike Thyng programming / tutorial Apple MASH CA P 78 g “alpha string arrays, integer and floating point arrays, and multi-“ dimensioning
Disk II and You John Covington disk drive CA P 78 g connecting a disk drive and using INIT
Basic File Handling Mike Thyng programming / tutorial Apple MASH CA P 78 g commands necessary to get data to and from the diskette
Sample File Handler Bob Huelsdonk technique CA P 78 g demonstrates file handling commands
HELLO program tip CA P 78 g “a sample “”Hello”” program”
Disk II and Applesoft ROM Val J. Golding hardware / language CA P 78 g some shortcomings of these new products
Identifying Binary Disk Programs Val J. Golding technique CA P 78 g Integer Basic finds the starting address and length
A Disk Utility Program Val J. Golding utility CA P 78 g save 6 named disk files to tape in one operation
Checkbook Changes For Disk Gene Jackson home finance CA P 78 g
Using Game-Paddle Buttons Steve Paulson technique CA P 78 g “changes to “”Klingon Capture”” and “”Pin Ball”” to support the paddles”
Printer Driver Fixes Bob Huelsdonk printer driver CA P 78 y handling problems with printer drivers
Card Shuffling Caution hardware CA P 78 y turn off the power!
“Here’s An “”OOPS FIXER””” J.A. Backman hardware CA P 78 y stop accidental keying of RESET
Integral Data IP 125-225 Driver printer driver CA P 78 y (P/79p115) modifications to the Apple Red Manual teletype routine
Return to TEXT from GRAPHICS Alan G. Hill technique CA P 78 y handy routine to return to text mode while working on graphics programs
Documentation Package (WOZPAK) Randy Wigginton reference CA P 78 y $12.50 “disassembler, cassette file handling, using color graphics, integer” “floating point package, Sweet Sixteen, renumber-append, read-write” “track sector (RWTS), Apple II Trek, lower case, system monitor”
Modifying Programmer’s Workshop technique CA P 78 y running the renumber routine
Danny’s Text Editor / Library Pak 2 / Programmers Workshop software Program Library CA P 78 y
Routine to SAVE an ARRAY “Apple Stems, Vol I, No. 2” technique CA P 78 y use of the STORE and RECALL functions of Applesoft II
Apple-Sharing Jeffrey K. Finn technical / communications CA P 78 y (P/79p181) “the Apple’s master management program, modems, and using the Apple” Communications Card “RS-232, ACIA”
Transient Voltage Protectors Steve Paulson electronics CA P 78 y “protect against “”spikes”””
Key Klicker Routine Don Williams utility CA P 78 y (2/80p25) audible feedback when typing clicker
The first edition of CALL -A.P.P.L.E. Val J. Golding user group CA P 78 w “the letter that announced the formation of A.P.P.L.E., February 7, 1978”
The Second Volume of Peeking at Call -A.P.P.L.E. Val J. Golding magazine Introduction CA P 79 2 all the relevant material from the 1979 issues
Life On A Magazine Patricia A. Boner magazine / poetry CA P 79 2 working on a magazine is really quite a chore but with such variety never becomes a bore …
Playing Card Generation Jim Hilger technique / utility Apple Gaming CA P 79 4 (1/80p39; 11/82p31) use playing card shapes in your programs
The Talking Apple: Apple Audio Processing Dr. Mark Cross speech synthesis / hardware / homebrew CA P 79 11 read your voice data from a microphone connected to a game paddle
How To Modify A Val Golding Program From 40 Lines To 4 Darrell Aldrich technique CA P 79 11
Call -Apple Dick Sedgewick novelty listing CA P 79 13
“Keyboard Modifications To Get “”[“” “”\”” and “”_”” Characters” Dan Paymar hardware CA P 79 14 (p167) requires four printed circuit etch cuts and four jumper wires
Benchmarking Sweet-16 With 650 Assembly Language “Randall Hyde Editor “”AppleSauce””” langauage / benchmark The Assembly Line CA P 79 15 “6502 codes runs about 5-7 times faster, but Sweet-16 requires only about” half the memory
Life With An Apple Ross E. Cox program development / simulation CA P 79 20 tracing the development of a machine code program from conception to completion (the Game of Life)
IMA “Sedgewick, Dick” language Microversity CA P 79 24 Applesoft firmware card “allows the use of Integer Basic, Machine Language, and Applesoft in the” same program
Exceeding the Speed Limit (With Your Apple II) Roger Wagner technique CA P 79 25 (p136) execute line referenced commands more quickly
Sargon II “Spracklen, D & K / rb Michael Weinstock” strategy game (chess) Hayden Book Co. CA P 79 25 $35.00 SARGON has been improved
Programmer’s Aid Notes Dave Garson technique CA P 79 26 “using code-relocation XDRAW “”COS”” table music” / use of & in tone subroutine in Applesoft ROM version
Apple Disk Operating System Richard F. Suitor operating system CA P 79 28 a trip report to find the length of binary file without BLOADing it
Multiple Disk Catalog Gary A. Foote / Fred Merchant utility CA P 79 29 read CATALOGs off a disk and build a data base file that File Cabinet could use
Change CATALOG To CC Bob Neulen & Val Golding tip CA P 79 “31 (p140, 157; 6/80p39)”
Chaining Programs In Applesoft R. Wigginton utility CA P 79 31 chain between programs and retain all variable values
Simulating An Applesoft Chain “Craig W. Vaughan, Peripherals Unlimited” technique CA P 79 35 BSAVE the pointers then RUN the next program
Disk-Disk Transfer Program Ron Aldrich utility Ron’s Pages CA P 79 36 “selectively transfer Integer, Applesoft and Binary programs using two” drives
Disk Access Utility Dan Paymar utility CA P 79 38 Integer Basic “reads a disk, track by track and sector by sector” lower case chip
Checkbook Changes For Disk / Deactivate/Reactivate DOS Gene Jackson / Charles Compton home finance CA P 79 40
The Mystery of Text Files Darrell Aldrich technical CA P 79 41 sequential access and random access
Change from DOS 3.1 to DOS 3.2 tip CA P 79 41 OPEN files before UNLOCKING
A Note Or Three About BINADR 3.2 Val J. Golding utility CA P 79 42 “Integer Basic, DOS 3.2” outputs address and length of disk binary programs in decimal form
BADR.CREATE Darrell Adrich utility CA P 79 42 gives start and length of a previously BLOADed file
So Who Needs Applesoft technique / programming CA P 79 43 “special material for us Integer Basic diehards or, how to do Applesoft” tricks in Integer
Internal Structure of Integer Basic “Woz and others / compiled by Sandy Greenfarb, Washington Apple PI” technical / language CA P 79 44 “memory map, line representation, variables” “BYTE, TOKEN, ADDRESSING, WORD, POINTER”
Integer Basic Entry Points Val J. Golding technical CA P 79 48 program generates entry point addresses
Integer Basic Token Table Bruce Tognazzini (and S.G.) technical / reference CA P 79 49
Why Variables Val J. Golding programming / technique CA P 79 50 why use variables instead of constants
Simulating A Two-Dimensional Matrix From Integer Basic James L. Hockenhull technique CA P 79 51 (3/80p7) “hi-res, HIRES, root beer”
Basic Memory Move Val J. Golding utility CA P 79 53 (AAL:1/81p2) move data to another location
Sedgewick Plays It Straight Dick Sedgewich technical CA P 79 54 explore the operation of the Integer Basic interpreter
So Who Needs Applesoft Darrell Dunmire and Val J. Golding technique CA P 79 55 (p56; 6/81p28) “simulating the CHR$, STR$, and VAL functions”
So Who Needs Applesoft? (Revisited) Val J. Golding technique CA P 79 56 (p55) “different versions of the CHR$, STR$, and VAL functions”
Decimal Division Richard Verlaque technique CA P 79 58 Integer Basic
Appelock Dick Sedgewick N1EX technique CA P 79 58 “write protect or “”lock”” the program”
Peeking At Numbers Val J. Golding technique CA P 79 59 print numbers > 32767
Faster Integer Basic Mark Cross technique CA P 79 59 don’t search for line numbers and avoid searching through the symbol table
Debugging As A Learning Aid Val J. Golding programming CA P 79 60 (p142:Slow List) “TRACE, DSP, and breakpoints are handy when trying to figure out a” program Apple II Trek
HIGH CRIMES (and how to commit them) Val Golding technique CA P 79 61 “putting direct commands (DEL, LOAD, SAVE, RUN, NEW, CLR, HIMEM:, LOMEM:)” into your program
Getting Down To Basics language / programming CA P 79 63 “not a word about machine language, except hex conversions”
Hiding Out In Basic / BASIC-6502 Linker Val J. Golding / Andy Hertzfeld technique CA P 79 64 (p144) methods of imbedding machine code in Basic S.H. Lam
Logical Variables In Apple II Basic Lee Reynolds tutorial / programming CA P 79 69 both Integer Basic and Applesoft implicitly allow logical variables Fortran
Format R A Huelsdonk utility CA P 79 71 (2/80p48) subroutine to format decimal numbers rounded off to two places and right justified
Right Justify S Sawyer utility CA P 79 71 print a column of figures with unit digits in line
Constructing A Menu Val J. Golding technique Exploring The World of Apple CA P 79 72 “APPENDing in Integer Basic, reading the keyboard, and the ASC function”
Poor Mans Print-Using David B Garson utility CA P 79 73 decimal places may be specified
Zap! maintenance CA P 79 74 watch out for static electricity ground
Prime Factors Dan Paymar math CA P 79 74 (p141:algorithm) compute the prime factors of a given number
Hex/Dec Conversion Ken Smith utility CA P 79 74 convert hex addresses to BASIC CALLs
Applesoft From Bottom To Top Val J. Golding technical CA P 79 “75 (All About Applesoft, p5)” “a “”road map”” of Applesoft / memory allocation statement structure “ “appending, variables, arrays, literal strings, tokens”
Flash Cards Rick Williams education CA P 79 81 simulates a deck of flash cards
Flash Card Modifications Val J. Golding education / technique CA P 79 81 EXECing DATA statements
Self Writer Vince Corsetti technique CA P 79 83 control your Apple without DOS
Auto Number Gerald Cahill utility / programming CA P 79 84 (3/80p20) Applesoft similar to Integer Basic’s AUTO
A Hex On Thee: The Numbers Racket Val J. Golding technical / tutorial Exploring the World of Apple CA P 79 88 “binary, octal, 6502 microprocessor, hexadecimal numbers, hex-dec” converter
XYZZY Peter Schug demo CA P 79 90 an interesting two-line program
The Great Hello Program Mystery Aloysis T. Burgerking puzzle CA P 79 91 what does the program do?
Goodbye To The Great Hello Program Mystery Ken Smith / Rosalie Scharen puzzle CA P 79 91 two solutions to the puzzle
Time Alan B. Winston technique CA P 79 94 time requirements of a computation are not always directly proportional to the apparent complexity of the problem
Clear GR Screen To Any Color Mark Cross utility listing CA P 79 95
Monitor Calls research by Darrell Adrich technical / reference Monitor CA P 79 98
Apple II System Monitor Cross Reference technical / reference CA P 79 99
Apple II Memory Map researched by Darrell Aldrich technical / reference CA P 79 101
DOS 3.2.1 operating system Apple Computer CA P 79 101
Scrunch “Konzen, Neil / by Darrell Aldrich” graphics CA P 79 102 (1/80p28:ZOOM) load four pictures into the second graphics page and scrunch them onto the first screen
High Resolution Graphics Routines graphics CA P 79 103 same routines that are now in the Programmer’s Aid #1 ROM
Multiply Demo David B. Garson technique CA P 79 104 the use of the multiply routine in the Apple monitor
The Autostart ROM is here!! by Darrell Aldrich firmware CA P 79 105 keeping the old monitor while adding the new one
Zero Page Usage By Monitor researched by Darrell Aldrich technical / reference CA P 79 106
Hi-Res Screen Dump Routine for Integral Data IP – 225 Printer Ron & Darrell Aldrich printer driver Ron’s Page CA P 79 108 (p142) “IP-225, Paper Tiger”
Running the Integral Data From The Game I/O and High Speed Serial Card Darrell & Ron Aldrich technique / printer / hardware CA P 79 108 (p145) a simple two-wire hookup
Integral Data/Parallel Card Fix Tom K. Lewellen hardware CA P 79 113 (p142) slowing down the Apple Parallel Card
Lower Case Routine For Integral Data Printer Val J. Golding utility / printer listing CA P 79 114 (2/80p7)
Integral Data Printer Driver for Apple Game Paddle Port Darrell and Ron Aldrich printer driver CA P 79 115 (2/82p51) “modified from the “”Redbook”” teletype driver”
Using Page 2 Text and Lores “Tim Aaronson and Andy Hertzfeld, Lawrence Hall of Science” technique CA P 79 120 (p143) printing text and plotting
Plotting to the Lo-Res Text and Graphics Screen Bruce Freeland and Val J Golding technique CA P 79 121 locating the address of a screen location according to the row and column
Applesoft II Firmware Card Hi-Res Routines Steve Alex technical / reference CA P 79 122
Color 21 Darrell Aldrich technique CA P 79 123 15 additional hires colors
Bowling “Jeff Koftinoff, age 10” game / arcade CA P 79 124
Fireworks R E Ray graphics demo CA P 79 125
Lores Color Picture / Hires Demo Jeff Koftinoff graphics demo CA P 79 126
Hi-Res Colors Mark Cross graphics CA P 79 126 CALL $F3F6
A Fast GR Screen Clear Roger Wagner technique CA P 79 126 utilizes the Monitor’s binary move routine
Monitor String Writer Val J. Golding technique CA P 79 128 a disk-based means of automatically entering machine language into your Basic programs
Illegal Control Characters in REM Lines Ron Aldrich technique CA P 79 129
Disk Free Space Darrell Aldrich utility CA P 79 129 (9/80p23) Applesoft
File Restore Vincent S. Corsetti utility CA P 79 130 “looks through the directory for the name of the DELETEd program, then” restores the pointers so that the title appears on the catalog
Routine To Center Titles Val J Golding tip CA P 79 131 Integer Basic
Split Catalog Routine “Ron Aldrich, Andy Hertzfeld” utility CA P 79 132 with free sector count
Hide Mark Capella utility CA P 79 134 hides program names from appearing in the catalog list
Soul Searching With The Apple David B. Garson utility CA P 79 135 go through memory looking for occurrences of hex or ASCII strings that the operator specifies
Hidden REM Formatter Val J Golding and Ron Aldrich utility CA P 79 136 Applesoft / Integer
Speeding In Applesoft Roger Wagner technique CA P 79 136 (p25) the Integer technique implemented for Applesoft
Text Aid Terry Mitiken utility CA P 79 137 Integer Basic formats PRINT statements
Allow Prohibited Characters In String INPUTs John Crossley utility CA P 79 137
Routine To Format REM Lines In Applesoft II Val J. Golding utility CA P 79 137 Applesoft / Integer / Another Way To Skin A Cat
Stop List Function Darrell Dunmire utility CA P 79 138 “Integer, Applesoft, or Monitor” hit any key to stop list and any key to resume
“Simulated “”MOD”” Function” David B. Garson technique CA P 79 138 Integer
Bugs in AWARI and Battleship Jim Berube game / bug Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA P 79 140
Saving a shape table in an Applesoft program? Mark Cross technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA P 79 140 (p171)
DOS Location technical Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA P 79 140 DOS is located from 38400 to 49124 “if you wish to use the area below 38K, you must set HIMEM: down” sufficiently to protect this area
Star Wars on 32K David A. Simpson patch Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA P 79 141
Formatting 40-column text “Marc D. Schwartz, M.D.” technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA P 79 141
“Reactivating “”&””” Bob Neulen tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA P 79 142
Software Frustration Clarence Greathouse software / support Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA P 79 144 (p146:2 problems solved; 1/80p40) “frustrated with Sargon, Eric’s Talking Disc, and Dungeon Campaign”
“Handling “”end of disc”” Errors” “Marc Schwartz, M.D.” technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA P 79 145
Applesoft Auto-Run Side Effects Ross E. Cox tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA P 79 146 “POKing 82,213 makes any command run the program” you need to reset the MSB
“Input Strings With “”Quotes””” Jules H. Gilder technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA P 79 147 changing the prompt character
Apple’s-Eye View by Jim Hilger cartoon / experience CA P 79 148 what is happening?
“GMS “”BIG-EDIT”” System” “Garvey, Michael / rb Dick Hubert” program editor “Garvey, Martin & Sampson, Inc.” CA P 79 150 “a global text editor for use of modifying INTEGER, Applesoft, or TEXT” files
Apple II Reference Manual “Espinosa, Chris / rb Val J. Golding” reference / technical “Apple Computer, Inc.” CA P 79 151 $20? “replaced the “”Red Book”” / includes a main board schematic and ROM” listings
IP 125/225 Printer rb Val J. Golding printer Integral Data CA P 79 151 $799 to $1149 a 7 x 7 dot matrix printer with pressure feed or tractor feed respectively
AdventureMaze rb Michael D. Weinstock fantasy Holisting Data Systems CA P 79 152 $30.00 explore a maze of monster-ridden rooms
Applesoft ][ Basic Programming Reference Manual rb Dick Hubert reference / programming Apple Computer CA P 79 152 explains what the Applesoft commands do
ABACUS rb Val J. Golding newsletter Apple Bay Area Computer Users Society CA P 79 153 includes a half-dozen or so programs
APPLESAUCE rb Val J. Golding newsletter Original Apple Corps CA P 79 153 “good articles, but no programs or utilities” TED II
The Apple II Monitor Peeled “Dougherty, William E. / rb Val J. Golding” reference / technical CA P 79 154 $10.00 26 chapters (46 pages) cover virtually all of the monitor routines
MICRO (The 6502 Journal) rb Val J. Golding magazine CA P 79 154 $15/year covers all members of the 6502 family “””What’s Where In The Apple”” by Prof. William Luebbert”
The World’s Shortest Inventory Program Bob Huelsdonk technique CA P 79 154 an example of writing random access files
Apple II Forth “Moore, Charles H. / rb John T. Draper” language CA P 79 156 a computer language primarly used for very fast program development
The KYDE TYPE Project by Ted Perry education An Apple For The Teacher CA P 79 157 federal grant funds project to convert large computer CAI to micro- computer format
Amazing Mystery Program “Jerry Rivers, Apple-Gram” puzzle CA P 79 157 what does this program do?
The (West Coast) Computer Faire And The Apple by Darrell Aldrich trade show CA P 79 158 “Charlie Kellner’s bowling program, DOS 3.2 Manual, California Computer” “Systems boards, Corvus hard disk, Malibu printer, Applesoft 3, Pascal,” “Lisa, Sara”
The Winner “Dick Sedgewick, N1EX” novelty CA P 79 158 Integer Basic a self-modifying program that does nothing pointers
Faire Enough by Val J. Golding trade show CA P 79 159 “Malibu printers, Corvus hard disk, Alf music synthesizer, Mark Cross’s” “””Planets”” character generators Andy Hertzfeld Dave Garson Ed Avilar “ “apple pie “”comedy”””
Hires Dump printer utility CA P 79 159 mod for centering with parallel card
Z = 33 / Z = -2222 / Microversity Dick Sedgewick – N1EX novelty / programming CA P 79 160 CALL -2222
A Review of: A 6502 Macro Assembler/Text Editor “Moser, Carl / rb Richard F. Suiter” assembler Carl Moser CA P 79 162 “not only has macro capability, but conditional assembly, relocatable” “object code, and a relocatable loader”
Programmer’s AID No. 1 “rb David Garson, New England Apple Tree” utility CA P 79 163 Apple II “Renumber, Append, Tape Verify, Relocate, Ram Test, Music, and Hi-Res”
Ode To A Computer / Answer To The Apple Widow Patricia poetry / experience CA P 79 163 But I am stuck on Apple…
A Consumer’s Guide to Apple II Assemblers (with historial digressions) rb Andy Hertzfeld assembler various CA P 79 “164 (1/80p18,40:Microproducts assembler)” “mini-assembler, TED/ASM, Micro Products 4-character Assembler, Randy’s” “Weekend Assembler, Aresco Assembler, LISA, Microproducts 6 Character” “Label Assembler, E.A.T. (or Apple II Text Processing System),” “6502 Macro Assembler, UCSD Pascal Assembler, TED/ASM Revisited”
Club Meetings user group Editorial CA P 79 167 “the dealer is your friend, don’t abuse that friendship”
Reprinted Programs software / user group Editorial CA P 79 167 please leave the credits intact
Documentation David Alpert / Apple Computer support Editorial CA P 79 167 Apple computer’s documentation is sadly lacking (due to growing pains says Apple) “red book, WOZPAK”
OOOPS !!!!! Val J. Golding novelty CA P 79 170 Integer Basic what does this program do?
So What Did You Expect Dept. Dick Sedgewick puzzle Microversity CA P 79 170 what happens when you CALL -APPLE / and changes to try
Space On Disk / Random Access Messup / Catalog to text file by Darrell Aldrich tip The Apple Doctor CA P 79 171 “KEY In and CHARACTER Out switches / DRAW S AT X,Y / Color Mask Byte?” Initializing with MASTER.CREATE / HIMEM: / Control Characters in CATALOG “saving variables to disk (Applesoft, p172)”
Saving A Shape Table along with an Applesoft Program by Darrell Aldrich technique The Apple Doctor CA P 79 171 (p140)
“String Manipulation “”Clean”” Phase” by Darrell Aldrich tip The Apple Doctor CA P 79 171 “how to avoid those delays: use FRE(0), decrease HIMEM:, increase LOMEM:” garbage collection
Apple ASCII Character Set by Darrell Aldrich technical The Apple Doctor CA P 79 172 “code repeats itself after 127 / Inverse, Flashing, and Normal characters”
Connecting More Than One Device to RS-232 by Darrell Aldrich technical / hardware The Apple Doctor CA P 79 172 3 diagrams are presented
Verifying ROM / Hi-Res Screen Dump Problems / Serial Card Problems by Darrell Aldrich tip The Apple Doctor CA P 79 172 *** 16 GOSUBS ERR
Revised Applesoft Tone Subroutine Gene Jackson technique / music CA P 79 173 (P/78; 6/82p15)
Apple II Disk by Mike Thyng disk drive AppleMash! CA P 79 174 how to use that new Apple II disk
Disk Problems & Cures by Mike Thyng tip AppleMash! CA P 79 174 “eliminating “”Volume Mismatch Error””; early DOS problems with line” numbers greater than 255; debugging programs with PRINT and INPUT; having the operator enter the disk volume number
Program Planning by Mike Thyng programming AppleMash! CA P 79 175 “making a plan, in other words, a flowchart”
Business Planning by Mike Thyng software development AppleMash! CA P 79 177 documentation and your responsibilities to your client
Apple Talks To Imsai by Mike Thyng hardware AppleMash! CA P 79 178 what it took to get the Apple II to talk to the IMSAI VDP-80
DIP Switches by Mike Thyng hardware AppleMash! CA P 79 179 (p182) the problem of getting the IMSAI to talk to the Apple (the other way)
Apple CRATE Jeffrey Finn (guest host) bulletin board AppleMash! CA P 79 179 what is a Bulletin Board System BBS
Vendor Relationships Mike Thyng industry AppleMash! CA P 79 181 you want to cultivate a two way trust between yourself and your vendor
Replacing the IMSAI with the Apple Mike Thyng computer CA P 79 182 “converting IMSAI Basic to Applesoft: data names, PRINT USING;” “disk storage: 8″” floppy drives and hard disks”
Languages by Alan B. Winston language The Multi Lingual Apple CA P 79 183 “other languages besides BASIC: PILOT, FORTH, FCL65E (FOCAL), XPLO (poor” man’s Pascal?)
GOING FORTH by Alan B. Winston language The Multi Lingual Apple CA P 79 185 “a language in which you can add your own operations, do without” “confusing variable names, and write programs making use of previous” “programs / Apple Forth (by John Draper), 6502 Forth 1.2 (Programma” International) / symbolic disassembler “word, stack”
CHR$ Pseudofunction and GET C$ function by Alan B. Winston technique The Multi Lingual Apple CA P 79 186 (6/81p28) Integer Basic
DATA HANDLING by Alan B. Winston technical / language The Multi Lingual Apple CA P 79 187 “data structures: data elements, data types, floating point numbers,” “complex numbers, alphameric types, matrix (arrays), queue, list, trees” “/ DOS 3.2, AUTOSTART ROM” “mantissa, Pascal”
Apple Pascal by Alan B. Winston language Apple Computer CA P 79 188 offers a wide variety of features “UCSD, structure, turtle graphics”
WOZPAK has arrived! by Val J. Golding software Bytes From The Apple CA 00-Jan-1980 5 Books originally was a thick stack of Apple Computer documentation and “application notes, much of it in the original handwriting of Steve” Steve Wozniak
Bugs and fixes by Val J. Golding software The Editor Bytes Back! CA 00-Jan-1980 5 A.P.P.L.E. Just some odds and ends about current goings on in the group “Neil Konzen, Lee Reynolds, Bob Clardy, Ted Perry, Jim Hilger”
Understanding Hi-Res Graphics “Loy Spurlock (reprinted from AppleSauce, vol 1, no 7)” graphics / technical From The Very Core of Apple CA 00-Jan-1980 6 (2/80p50) Integer Basic (and how to include text in your Hi-Res Graphics) “three areas are covered: how the screen is formatted, which RAM is used” “to get the picture you want, and how the RAM is used to get the picture” you want
Apple-Doc “Wagner, Roger / rb Robert C. Clardy” utility / programming Southwestern Data Systems CA 00-Jan-1980 17 Applesoft $20 “makes a cross-reference of every variable, GOTO, and GOSUB in a program” “/ globally change any variable name, command, or string of characters”
Assembler Maxi-Reviews “rb Randall Hyde Editor — “”AppleSauce””” assembler various CA 00-Jan-1980 18 (P/79p164; 5/80p23) assembly “the MicroProducts Assembler (p41), S-C Assembler II, ASM/65,” “””EAT”” (Edit and Assemble Text) LISA (pronounced LI ZA) UCSD assembler”
The Fantastic New World of Apple Pascal rb Keith S. Walls language Apple CA 00-Jan-1980 25 Pascal “a few other advantages to Apple Pascal: extra 16K of RAM, 140K disk” “capacity, 80 character and lower-case support, powerful editor” CHANGE (to lower and upper case) (2/80p36)
Converting Integer Basic Programs to Applesoft Robert C. Clardy technique / language CA 00-Jan-1980 27 Applesoft “4 steps: convert program lines to Applesoft with text files, correct” “syntax errors, correct logical errors, relocate page 0 machine language” programs
ZOOM Neil Konzen utility / graphics listing CA 00-Jan-1980 28 assembly “reverses SCRUNCH, expands a 93 by 64 Hi-res screen area to fill the” Hi-res screen
Simulating Applesoft’s SPEED=N Statement in Integer Basic Lee Reynolds technique So Who Needs Applesoft CA 00-Jan-1980 33 Integer Basic a machine language routine which uses the character output routine hook at $36 and $37
A CAI Author Language Ted Perry education / language Apple For The Teacher – Part II CA 00-Jan-1980 35 CAI a description of the author language “Kid Tyme Project, Pilot”
Paper Tiger (IP440) Mods printer / hardware CA 00-Jan-1980 36 (2/80p50) Printers pinouts to make the IP44 operate from the game I/O part
Applesoft String Swap Randy Wiggington utility CA 00-Jan-1980 37 (6/82p74; AAL:2/81p14) Applesoft avoids garbage collection
A Fast Shuffle In The Big Apple Jim Hilger technique Apple Gaming CA 00-Jan-1980 39 (1/83p72) Integer Basic algorithms for shuffling and dealing a card deck
No Color on RCA XL-100 Rolf A. Deininger television / technical Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jan-1980 40 (2/80p24) Monitors apparently Apple output is not EIA standard
Microproducts 6 Character Label Assembler Peter Karp assembler Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jan-1980 41 assembly a reply to Andy Hertzfeld’s review
Printers & Forms Mike Thyng printer AppleMash! CA 00-Jan-1980 43 Printers “varieties of printers: impact, daisy wheel, thermal, dot matrix, laser” / forms management
International Apple Corps Ken Silverman user grup CA 00-Jan-1980 44 IAC a group composed of representatives of the major Apple user groups
Meeting Minutes: 10/16/79 and 11/20/79 A.P.P.L.E. Staff club meeting CA 00-Jan-1980 46 A.P.P.L.E. new documentation file / WOZPAK is complete / club programs and documentation are COPYRIGHTED
“Revision 0, Revision 1, and Apple II Plus differences” Darrell Aldrich hardware The Apple Doctor CA 00-Jan-1980 47 Apple II “color killer, four or six colors, power-on reset, speaker and cassette” “interface, Applesoft Basic, Autostart ROM”
Text Screen Dump “Golding, Val” utility listing CA 00-Jan-1980 48 (6/80p51; 2/82p37; 11/82p71; 12/82p12) Integer Basic dumping the text screen to a printer
Anthology Volume II is now available by Val J. Golding news Bytes From The Apple CA 00-Feb-1980 5 Software Anthology Volume II is now completed and available. “At 11.00, it contains most of the programs published in Call-A.P.P.L.E. for the latter half of 1979”
Notes and Observations From An Editor’s Hospital Bed Val J. Golding news The Editor Fytes Back! CA 00-Feb-1980 5 A.P.P.L.E. like a scene from a Jackques Tati comedy film
Lower Case and Graphics Printer Routine Val J. Golding technique / programming Exploring The World of Apple CA 00-Feb-1980 7 Applesoft / Integral Data printer “the intent of this article is not so much how to write a program, but” how a program was written flowchart
Solutions to Video Problem “Michael L. Robins / Frederick M. Remley, Fr. / Jim Hockenhull” electronics Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Feb-1980 24 Monitors three different solutions to getting color from the Apple to the RCA XL-100 color burst
Print Using Routine Ray Cadmus utility listing CA 00-Feb-1980 25 (2/80p48; 5/80p38) Monitors for $ and cents format
“Interfacing NEC “”SpinWriter”” with SSM AIO” C.J. Welman hardware Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Feb-1980 35 Printers reader willing to answer questions
ANA1 (Analysis 1) “Tarkany, Frank / rb David B. Garson” investing Galaxy CA 00-Feb-1980 29 Software $50 “a stock market analysis program that does moving averages, trend line” “analysis, and much more”
Apple II Disassembler Nelson R. Capes disassembler listing CA 00-Feb-1980 31 assembly performs a disassembly without pausing
Pascal and the Hayes Micromodem II Craig Vaughan tip / communications Keeping On Top of the Apple CA 00-Feb-1980 32 Pascal a boolean function to detect carrier and to detect ringing / Pascal lower case with Paymar adapter (3/81p67) / the Source Information Utility “ABBS, Bill Blue”
APPENDectomies in Integer and Applesoft Roger Wagner technique CA 00-Feb-1980 34 assembly how to delete appended binary data from programs
Routine To Print Numbers >32767 In Integer Basic Val J. Golding technique listing CA 00-Feb-1980 34 Pascal
Apple Pascal Problems Alan B. Winston language The Multi Lingual Apple CA 00-Feb-1980 35 (3/80p28:listings) Pascal using lower case and single drive systems / the care and feeding of units / machine language subroutines
From BASIC to Pascal Claudia M. Vaughan tutorial / language Bridging The Gap CA 00-Feb-1980 36 Pascal converting an Applesoft menu to Pascal
Random Drill Tutorial Rick Williams education listing CA 00-Feb-1980 38 (5/80p53) Applesoft a multiple choice or flash card drill
“File Cabinet Improvements, Ad Infinitum” by Keith Barnes and Gary Foote data management CA 00-Feb-1980 “40 (5/80p41,42)” Software 13 program fixes to Apple’s File Cabinet
Printer Output from Pascal “Randall Hyde, Editor, AppleSauce” tip The Apple Doctor CA 00-Feb-1980 43 Pascal achieved by declaring a FILE variable of type INTERACTIVE / Turnkey Pascal? / 3D Graphics from SubLogic / Paul Lutus’s database / Programming the Apple II Using 6502 Assembly Language
So What Did You Expect Dept. Darrell Aldrich puzzle / contest CA 00-Feb-1980 43 Integer Basic
“If elected, I will not accept” Val J. Golding industry President’s Message CA 00-Feb-1980 47 A.P.P.L.E. more and more effort is required as Call -A.P.P.L.E. has continued to grow
Formatting Revisited Bob Huelsdonk utility listing CA 00-Feb-1980 48 (P/79p71; 5/80p38) Applesoft another PRINT USING routine
Writing the Wrongs! The Wrongdoers listings CA 00-Feb-1980 50 Integer Basic This issue there is a correction to typesetting on Page 36 of the January issue and a reprint from Page 15 which was illegible.
So What Did You Expect Neil Konzen puzzle CA 00-Feb-1980 50 Applesoft
Crawler Val J. Golding technique listing CA 00-Feb-1980 52 (6/80p32; 2/81p40) Applesoft words move slowly across the screen
Smaller Issue The Editor magazine The Editor Bytes Back! CA 00-Mar-1980 5 IAC this issues appears despite the first issue of Apple Orchard
Apmail ][ by Val J. Golding mailing list Bytes From The Apple CA 00-Mar-1980 5 A.P.P.L.E. $20 complete mailing list system is nearly at hand ApMail II
Multiple Dimension Arrays In Integer Basic Lee Reynolds technique From The Very Core of Apple / So Who Needs Applesoft? CA 00-Mar-1980 7 (5/80p53) Integer Basic manipulate a singly dimensioned array
Integer Basic Post Editor Ray McVay utility listing CA 00-Mar-1980 13 (7/81p41) Integer Basic inserting illegal statements into Integer Basic programs “Illegal Statement Writer, Bruce Tognazzini”
Meeting Minutes 1/15/80 and 2/19/80 A.P.P.L.E. Staff club meeting CA 00-Mar-1980 16 A.P.P.L.E. “Bank deposits reached 57,000 primarily dyue to membership renewals” officers were elected — 764 ballots returned
Personify Darrell Dunmire utility listing CA 00-Mar-1980 17 (5/80p53:DOS 3.2.1; 9/80p44) DOS 3.2 modify DOS on a disk so that it displays a word of your choice on bootup
A Base Program Bob Huelsdonk tutorial / programming Making Basic Behave! CA 00-Mar-1980 “18 (All About Applesoft,p59)” Applesoft how to write programs in a structured way starting with a base program / a time clock module and a module which allows easy saving of the program to disk
Auto-Number for Applesoft Wayne Throop utility listing CA 00-Mar-1980 20 (P/79p84) Applesoft improves the initialization of the first number
Modifying the Program Line Editor Escape Table Val J. Golding tip CA 00-Mar-1980 24 Integer Basic entering untypable characters Neil Konzen
Menu Val J. Golding utility listing CA 00-Mar-1980 26 Applesoft an easily-modifiable Applesoft menu written for club use
Fix for Applesoft Sort by Dan Morris bug fix CA 00-Mar-1980 27 Applesoft fixes for the sort routine contained in Apple’s Basic Programming Reference Manual
Pascal Program Listings Alan B. Winston utility The Multi Lingual Apple CA 00-Mar-1980 28 (11/80p65) Pascal listings for the February 1980 article turtlegrpahics
Stock Market Data Retrieval On The Source Hersch Pilloff investing CA 00-Mar-1980 30 Online Service downloading stock market data
Assembly Language / Applesoft Conflicts tip CA 00-Mar-1980 31 Applesoft assembly language programs written to originate at $800 can be bombed with an FP or NEW command / change ORG to $803
Benchmarking The Micros by Val J. Golding computer / benchmark various CA 00-Mar-1980 33 Applesoft “fastest to slowest: IBM 370/115, Apple II Integer, Apple II Applesoft,” “Cromemco Sys 3, Rockwell Aim 65, OSI Challenger 1m42, Commodore Pet,” “Exidy Sorceror, Compucolor II, Radio Shack TRS80, SWTPC MP68 (8KV1.0)” GIGO
“California Computer Systems Asynchronous Serial Interface, part 7710A” rb Alan B. Winston hardware CA 00-Mar-1980 36 Serial Cards includes a wide variety of features
Shape Display Utility Major Peter M. Beck utility listing CA 00-Mar-1980 39 Applesoft displays the shapes in a shape table Wozpak
Ron’s DOS Command Finder Ron Aldrich utility listing CA 00-Mar-1980 41 ??? command names and addresses
Drawing on Hi-Res Pages Terrell T. Gibbs tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Mar-1980 41 ??? POKE location 230 ($E6)
lowercase FOR APTYPE Dale Flanagan tip CA 00-Mar-1980 42 Applesoft conversion for use with Paymar’s lower case chip
A Bug In The AUTOSTART ROM by Paul Stadfield firmware CA 00-Mar-1980 42 Applesoft the polarity of the annunciator during RESET is reversed in the manual
A.P.P.L.E. Word Processing Comparison Dr. Dave Lingwood software Announcing the A.P.P.L.E. Word Processing Comparison CA 00-May-1980 3 Software A.P.P.L.E. will be conducting a comparative evaluation of Word Processing
The Editor Bytes Back Val J. Golding hardware The Editor Bytes Back CA 00-May-1980 5 Video Cards About the authors in this month’s issue
Program Line Editor update Val J. Golding news Bytes From The Apple CA 00-May-1980 5 Software relocatable RAM version of Integer Basic / improved version of Ted ][ + Editor/Assembler / Diskpak 7: 13 game programs by Jim Hilger
Andy’s Switch “Hertzfeld, Andy” utility listing CA 00-May-1980 7 (6/80p43) DOS 3.2 or 3.2.1 Master Diskette allows you to have two completely different CATALOGs on a single diskette “INIT Command, SWITCH Command”
Extra Disk Space Val J. Golding tip CA 00-May-1980 7 (6/81p56:DOS 3.3) Disk Zap gain the use of two to four unused sectors on a standard diskette
Applesoft Program List Formatter Mark Capella utility listing CA 00-May-1980 18 Applesoft sends a program to a printer and formats the output for readability
Assemblers: Reviewers Review The Reviews “by Darrell Aldrich, Val J. Golding, and Randy Hyde” assembler CA 00-May-1980 23 assembly “Darrell reviews the LISA and MicroProducts assembler, while Randy” rereviews the MicroProducts assembler
The Telephone Software Connection “Magnin, Ed / rb Val J. Golding” software / communications CA 00-May-1980 24 Software “Ed sells software via the phone lines, including the telephone transfer” program itself
The Doublevision Card rb Bob Huelsdonk 80-column card CA 00-May-1980 25 Video Cards Word Weaver
The Return of the Mysterious Mr. Ampersand by Dave Lingwood technique CA 00-May-1980 26 Applesoft a disk-based version of Applesoft’s STORE and RECALL commands
Catalog Printer Vince Corsetti utility listing CA 00-May-1980 30 Integer Basic “print a catalog of your disk, along with your name, address, phone” “number, disk number, and date”
Faire Enough: a report on The Fifth Annual West Coast Computer Faire by Val J. Golding trade show CA 00-May-1980 32 Events “Programma International, International Apple Core, printers, Silentype,” “Z-80 Apple board, 80-column boards, Apple Computer missing, Easywriter,” “The Sounding Board, Modifyable Data Base, Higher Text, Program Line” “Editor, hard disks, Applesoft compiler, DOS 3.3, Apple III” Woz and Jobs
The Fifth Annual West Coast Computer Faire by Ron Aldrich trade show CA 00-May-1980 33 Events “Z80 SoftCard, 80-column boards, SilenType printer, X-Y plotter”
Computer Theft Michael Thyng industry Applemash! CA 00-May-1980 35 Security there has been a rash of computer thefts south of Seattle
Rank Order Sorting J.D. Patten technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-May-1980 36 Applesoft prevents garbage collection
Printer Fix For Parallel Interface With a Centronics Printer “Jules H. Gilder, Hayden Book Company” printer driver Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-May-1980 36 assembly the Centronics Printer ignores a carriage return if it is the first character on a line
Another Floating Point Formatting Routine Phil Hempfner utility Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-May-1980 38 (7/80p47:negative numbers) Applesoft a one-line subroutine PRINT USING
Meeting Minutes 3/18/80 Val J. Golding club meeting Meeting Minutes CA 00-May-1980 38 BBS “A.P.P.L.E. Crate News, Editorial Review Board Establishment” “Jeff Finn, Darrell Aldrich”
“””Uncopyable”” Disks” Val J. Golding industry Editorial CA 00-May-1980 40 Copy Protection copy protection can cause serious problems for the user
File Cabinet Corrections Steven M. Kipperman data base CA 00-May-1980 41 Software selecting totals in report formats
File Cabinet Fast Sort Gary Foote data management listing CA 00-May-1980 42 Applesoft
File Cabinet Improvements R.C. Meyer data management CA 00-May-1980 42 Applesoft more corrections and changes
“Adding Input Data Editing To “”File Cabinet””” Nelson R. Capes data management listing CA 00-May-1980 44 Applesoft back up and edit a field after it has been entered
“Initialization, Titles, and Menus” Bob Huelsdonk tutorial / programming Making Basic Behave! Part II CA 00-May-1980 48 (7/80p33) Applesoft “continuing with the base program; adding initialization, title, and a” menu routine
Single Drive Copy Steve Adams utility CA 00-May-1980 51 DOS 3.2 copy a diskette with one disk drive
Booting Binary Programs Roger Wagner technique CA 00-May-1980 53 DOS 3.2 modify DOS to BRUN a binary program when the diskette is booted
CAC News “Sol Schmaz (From The Core, April 1, 1980)” news / humor CA 00-May-1980 53 Humor “Val Golding has skipped the country with the $30,000+ club treasury” April Fool
Anthology Diskette No. 3 by Val J. Golding new products Bytes From The Apple CA 00-Jun-1980 5 Software “Ted ][+, Peeking at Call -A.P.P.L.E., Volume II (1979)”
Text Output On The Apple II “Roger Wagner, Southwestern Data Systems” technical From The Very Core of Apple CA 00-Jun-1980 7 Applesoft a general outline of how text is output to the screen and an example machine language routine which will scroll either page 1 or 2 both up and down the screen “page, refresh, scratchpad”
Applesoft Program Splitter William Reynolds III utility listing CA 00-Jun-1980 “19 (9/80p45; 10/80p45; All About Applesoft,p81; 12/82p82)” Applesoft moves programs lines in order to protect HGR page(s)
Is Three A Crowd? (Apple ///) rb Val J. Golding computer Apple CA 00-Jun-1980 22 Apple III Apple’s new computer is designed as a sophisticated business machine / SOS (Sophisticated Operating System / Business Basic
Use of STROUT Routine “Golding, Val J.” technique listing CA 00-Jun-1980 24 Applesoft print a string of a specified memory location
The Videoterm 80 Column Card rb Bob Huelsdonk 80-column card Videx CA 00-Jun-1980 25 Video Cards $345 a summary of features
Input Anything Subroutine Eric E. Goez utility listing CA 00-Jun-1980 28 (7/80p47) Applesoft enter untypable characters and see control characters
Into Integer! Val J. Golding and Darrell Dunmire technique / programming CA 00-Jun-1980 31 Integer Basic DIM up to 99 elements of LENgth 255
Crawler II Steve Lawson technique listing CA 00-Jun-1980 32 (2/80p52; 9/80/p44; 2/81p40) Applesoft scroll a message across the screen
CP/M for Apple II by Dick Curtis operating system Digital Research CA 00-Jun-1980 33 CP/M what’s available “Z80, CP/MUG”
“Input, Edit, File Write and Read” Bob Huelsdonk tutorial / programming Making Basic Behave! Part III CA 00-Jun-1980 35 (10/80p43:bad boo-boo) Applesoft “Input routine, Edit routine, File Write, File Read”
EXEC Files on the Apple II Lee Reynolds technique CA 00-Jun-1980 39 (P/79p31; 10/80p34; AAL:8/81p3) Applesoft GETLO (print out value of LOMEM) / RENUM (renumber lines of program) / FINDLINE (find address of line number) / DECHEX (dec/hex conversion) / CAT (instead of typing CATALOG) / EXEC printing to screen
SWITCH and INIT “Hertzfeld, Andy” utility listing CA 00-Jun-1980 43 (5/80p7) DOS 3.3 hex dumps for the May article
BSAVING Applesoft arrays Wayne Throop technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jun-1980 44 (1/81p58) Applesoft
Disabling CATALOG Pause qb Bill Dufresne tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jun-1980 44 DOS 3.2 “POKE 44601,234: POKE 44602,234: POKE 44603,234”
Meeting Minutes 15 April 1980 and 20 May 1980 A.P.P.L.E. Staff club meeting Meeting Minutes CA 00-Jun-1980 45 A.P.P.L.E. “BBS, merchants, publications requirements”
Alphabetize “Verlaque, Richard” technique listing CA 00-Jun-1980 47 (7/80p43) Applesoft sort words
DISK I/O In Pascal Jay Hewitt technique CA 00-Jun-1980 48 Pascal translating file I/O from BASIC to Pascal
Applesoft Text Screen Dump “Golding, Val J. (with help from Rog Wagner)” utility listing CA 00-Jun-1980 51 (1/80p48; 10/80p33; 2/82p37) Applesoft BASCALC
World’s Shortest Hex/Dec Converter “Golding, Val J.” utility listing CA 00-Jun-1980 51 (11/80p32) Applesoft convert numbers from 0 to FFFF
World’s Shortest Hex/Dec Converter “Golding, Val J.” utility listing CA 00-Jun-1980 52 (11/80p32) Applesoft 1-liner / converts numbers from 0 to 255
A.P.P.L.E. Opens Offices “Golding, Val J.” club news CA 00-Jul-1980 3 A.P.P.L.E. “new offices have been opened in Renton, WA”
Fitting Everything Together The Editor magazine editing The Editor Bytes Back! CA 00-Jul-1980 5 A.P.P.L.E. “on occasion a single article may be “”in”” or “”out”” of the magazine a” half dozen times
Higher Text (generate text on the Hi-Res screen) by Val J. Golding new products Bytes From The Apple CA 00-Jul-1980 5 Software Diskpak 6A (disk utility diskette)
Directory Title Formatting Clifton M. Howard M.D. utility / technical From The Very Core of Apple CA 00-Jul-1980 7 (5/81p9) DOS 3.3 a double column display with free sector count / use with Alan G. Hill’s MASTER CATALOG “/ Lawrence Hall of Science Utilities, PLE, Disk Helper, Super Copy” “VTOC, track sector list, track bit map”
Types of Memory Moves Lee Reynolds technique / utility listing CA 00-Jul-1980 25 (AAL:1/81p2) DOS 3.3 “the Monitor move routine “”backward”” memory move “
Fast Moves In Applesoft Roger Wagner technique CA 00-Jul-1980 27 Applesoft using the Monitor move routine from Applesoft
Trix To PEEK and POKE in Pascal Christopher P. Anson technique CA 00-Jul-1980 28 (5/81p57) Pascal without assembly language
The Printout Routine Bob Huelsdonk tutorial / programming Making Basic Behave! Part IV CA 00-Jul-1980 33 (10/80p43:bug) Applesoft display tables of text and data
Converting Reconstruct VTOC For Apple II+ A.P.P.L.E. Staff utility CA 00-Jul-1980 35 Software patch for program on Diskpak 6
The Synergistic Modifiable Database rb Tom K. Lewellen data management Synergistic CA 00-Jul-1980 36 Software $79.50 fast and flexible
Meeting Minutes 17 June 1980 A.P.P.L.E. Staff club meeting Meeting Minutes CA 00-Jul-1980 37 A.P.P.L.E. “Word Processing COmmittee, New office in Downtown Renton” “300 Main, Suit 203 opening”
Indexing Video Cassettes Rick Connolly home / entertainment listing CA 00-Jul-1980 38 (9/80p45) Applesoft “a computed listing of time elapsed, time remaining, and index count for” “1, 1.5, 2, and 3 hour tapes” VCR Timer
A Subroutine Becomes A Program Val J. Golding technique listing CA 00-Jul-1980 43 Applesoft learn to program by modifying another program (in this case Alphabetize)
Jim Hilger’s Syntax Errors Donald E. Kahler tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jul-1980 44 Software “changes 1 “”tricks”” to 1 “”trick”” in TRIK 1.0 Bridge game”
Inverse & Flashing Modes for Apple Pascal Text Display Ron DeGroat technique CA 00-Jul-1980 46 (3/81p63:Pascal 1.1) Pascal assembly language procedures to give Pascal the power of Basic
Using the old monitor ROM with the Language Card Alan H. Robinson tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jul-1980 47 Apple II put the Old Monitor on the language card and the Autostart Monitor on the motherboard
Applesoft INPUT Nearly Anything Subroutine Val J. Golding utility listing CA 00-Jul-1980 47 (11/80p50) Applesoft based on a program by John Crossley and allows inputting of a string “containing characters like “” and ;”
Hi-Res Screen Switch “Huntress, Wes” utility listing CA 00-Jul-1980 48 (9/80p45) assembly moves a scene from on Hi-Res graphics page to another
GET Has Still Got Our Goat David Deever tip / bug CA 00-Jul-1980 49 (11/80p65; 7/81p70) Applesoft bug for the first GET in a non-DOS environment change HIMEM to 49151 or use A$ = A$ VAL
How To Have Your Cake and Eat It Too by Val J. Golding technique Into Integer! CA 00-Jul-1980 50 (11/80p50) Integer Basic PRDEC ROM routine / enhancing the Integer Basic VAL function “/ Integer Basic and 32767 / Binary Converter (dec, hex, binary table)”
Beyond Integer Basic Douglas Carner technique Into Integer! CA 00-Jul-1980 52 (p50; 6/81p28) Integer Basic “Integer Basic VAL, CHR$, SQR, DIV functions”
DEC Add/Subtract for Integer Basic Val J. Golding technique Into Integer! CA 00-Jul-1980 53 Integer Basic
Compare Applesoft Programs For Differences Charles Boody utility / programming listing CA 00-Jul-1980 “54 (All About Applesoft,p78; 9/80p45; 10/80p33)” Applesoft “compares two Applesoft programs and lists additions, deletions, and” changes
Adding Cursor Control To ApType Dale Flanagan word processing CA 00-Jul-1980 58 Software “adding left, right, up, and down movement”
Integer Basic+ Corrections Val J. Golding bug fix CA 00-Jul-1980 58 (9/80p45; 3/81p14:Muffin; 6/81p55) Integer Basic fixes for the Integer Basic+ Plus Ted II+ diskette
DOS 3.3 Bugs A.P.P.L.E. Staff operating system CA 00-Sep-1980 3 DOS 3.3
A Tribute to PATRICIA BONER The Editor news The Editor Bytes Back! CA 00-Sep-1980 5 A.P.P.L.E. and the addition of Kathyn Hallgrimson
DOS 3.3 Val J. Golding operating system Bytes From The Apple CA 00-Sep-1980 5 DOS 3.3 $60 “package contains a new manual, two PROMs for the disk controller card,” “a master diskette and a diskette called “”Basics”” / Copy Boot 13 FID “ Muffin / 140K(!) / DOS Toolkit also released
Game Sounds Ray McVay utility listing CA 00-Sep-1980 7 (3/86p12) Integer Basic a set of speaker interface routines which expand your Apple’s audio “repertoire into the realm of hisses, swoops, and other less describable” sounds that can drive pets and spouses to utter distraction
Memory Saving Techniques In Apple II Basic Lee Reynolds technique CA 00-Sep-1980 15 Applesoft “reducing data space, reducing code, reusing data space, and reusing code” NEM (Not Enough Memory)
Word Processor Evaluation Guide David A. Lingwood word processing CA 00-Sep-1980 19 Software a comprehensive checklist of word processing features
Automatic Free Space With Catalog Mark Pump and Val J. Golding utility listing CA 00-Sep-1980 23 (P/79p129; 4/82p65) DOS 3.2 or 3.2.1 Master Diskette print the number of free sectors each time a disk is CATALOGed
Make Yourself A Column Ruler C. Edward Walter tip CA 00-Sep-1980 26 Apple II ever write a program where your one line print statements spilled over to the next line?
Apple SILENTYPE Fix C. Edward Walker printer / tip CA 00-Sep-1980 26 Printers fixing TAB problems
Print The Unprintables Bert Kersey technique CA 00-Sep-1980 27 (11/80p54) Integer Basic use graphics commands in text mode
“Error Message Printing For “”ONERR GOTO””” David A. Lingwood technique CA 00-Sep-1980 29 Applesoft print the error messages normally disabled by ONERR GOTO
File Burp Roger Curtis utility listing CA 00-Sep-1980 30 (1/81p47) Pascal will dump 512 byte blocks of data from any kind of file to your printer
“Review File, Search, Review All, Ordering Routines” Bob Huelsdonk tutorial / programming Making Basic Behave! Part V CA 00-Sep-1980 35 Applesoft additions to the printout routine
Lower Case For Apple Writer Using the Paymar Chip Sheila Widnall word processing / technical CA 00-Sep-1980 41 (1/81p55:Dan Paymar) Applewriter an adventure into assembly language: intercepting the code on the way to the video display
So What Did You Expect Department A.P.P.L.E. Staff puzzle CA 00-Sep-1980 43 Integer Basic
Crawler III? “Maurice Bernstein, M.D.” technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Sep-1980 44 Integer Basic this method uses PEEKs and POKEs
Transferring Binary Files qb Jack L. Espinal technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Sep-1980 44 (11/80p54) DOS 3.3 Peeks for Binary file address and length
Meeting Minutes 6/15/80 and 8/19/80 A.P.P.L.E. Staff club meeting Meeting Minutes CA 00-Sep-1980 45 A.P.P.L.E. Synthisizers and Computer Faire
Writing the Wrongs! The Wrongdoers listings CA 00-Sep-1980 45 Software “Bug fixes for VCR TImer, Hi-Res Screen Switch and Applesoft Program Splitter” August 1980 issue bugs Bug fix for TED II+
We are a Program Library Exchange Val J. Golding software Bytes From The Apple CA 00-Oct-1980 4 A.P.P.L.E. wanted submissions for a new Diskpak / Program Global Editor (a companion for Program Line Editor)
The Editor Bytes Back The Editor club news The Editor Bytes Back! CA 00-Oct-1980 5 A.P.P.L.E. Contents of the current issue and comments about the writers
Hexadecimal and Binary Number Systems Lee Reynolds tutorial “Elementary, My Dear Apple” CA 00-Oct-1980 7 Integer Basic an introduction to numbering systems
Comparing Ten Sort Algorithms David Weston technique From The Very Core of Apple CA 00-Oct-1980 13 (11/80p54:omitted code; 2/81p52) Applesoft “four methods: exchange, selection, insertion, and count” “ten sorts: bubble, selection, count, insertion, Shell, Shell-Metzner,” “Heapsort, Butterfly-Hart, QuickSort, and a Shell variation”
Demuffin! Scott Lee and Steve Rose utility CA 00-Oct-1980 21 (11/80p65; 2/81p16; NB:v2n2p49; NB:v2n3p87; NB:v3n2p135) DOS 3.2 transfer programs back to DOS 3.2
Apple FORTRAN: First Impressions rb Alan H. Robinson language Apple CA 00-Oct-1980 23 (11/80p41) Fortran changing some 300-400 line CYBER programs only required changing the I/O “statements / boot disk, system crashes, uncopyable compiler file” / A program to illustrate mvong data
Why Don’t You Watch Where You’re Going Kenneth Manly utility / technique listing CA 00-Oct-1980 25 (AAL:5/81p2; 10/81p43; 4/82p59) Applesoft “detecting shape “”collisions”” / Hi-Res SCREEN function” SCRN
A One-Line Screen Dump Program Albert P. Pinto technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Oct-1980 33 (1/80p48; 6/80p51) Applesoft
Use FID With DOS 3.2 A.P.P.L.E. Staff utility CA 00-Oct-1980 34 DOS 3.2 it works
80 Column Display Roundup A.P.P.L.E. Staff hardware CA 00-Oct-1980 34 Video Cards A call for comments about users experiences with 80 column cards
& CATALOG David M. Murdock utility CA 00-Oct-1980 34 (6/80p39) DOS 3.3 use & or CATALOG
Data Communications With The Electronic Systems Card Nelson R. Capes communications listing CA 00-Oct-1980 37 Serial Cards unload and download programs with the Electronic Systems Card terminal
Some Handy Utilities and Some Input Helps Bob Huelsdonk tutorial / programming Making Basic Behave! Part VI CA 00-Oct-1980 43 Applesoft utilities that make programming more convenient / making the computer do some work as you input data
Applesoft Program Splitter Mods Charles Kluepfel utility CA 00-Oct-1980 “45 (6/80p19; All About Applesoft,p78; 12/82p82; 1/83p53)” Applesoft fixing some difficulties
A Patch For 80 Column Video Boards and Apple Pascal Tom K. Lewellen tip / patch CA 00-Oct-1980 51 Pascal “fixing problems with the function Keypress, the system break key, and” the type ahead buffer
Decimal Packing & Unpacking Lee Reynolds technique CA 00-Oct-1980 55 Integer Basic shorten the number of bytes stored
GOTO A Neil Bronstein and Paul Eckert utility listing CA 00-Oct-1980 “56 (NB,2/84,p12; 11/80p58)” Applesoft GOTO A (where A is a variable) “/ suggested by “”Variable LIST Statements”” by Lee Reynolds [which appears” in the next issue!– mc]
Line Number Cross Reference “Lustig, Henry” utility listing CA 00-Oct-1980 58 Applesoft finds each GOTO or other reference of a line number in an Applesoft program
New Design The Editor magazine The Editor Bytes Back! CA 00-Nov-1980 5 A.P.P.L.E. Contents of the new style issue and new articles
Apfile “Huntress, Wes / by Val J. Golding” software Bytes From The Apple CA 00-Nov-1980 5 Software a collection of nine disk utilities
Window On The World Val J. Golding tutorial A Is For Apple CA 00-Nov-1980 7 Applesoft a discussion of the text screen window
Animation With Data Arrays Pat Connelly technique / utility / graphics listing CA 00-Nov-1980 11 (2/81p52) Integer Basic “create data array shapes with the program “”Hi-res Components”””
Overlaying In Applesoft David A. Lingwood technique CA 00-Nov-1980 19 (1/81p64) Applesoft how to get a 20K program to run in 8K
‘NFC’ A Non-Flashing Cursor For Your Apple II Dick Rettke utility / technical CA 00-Nov-1980 23 (2/81p52; 5/81p49:any character; 5/81p49:remove timer chip) Applesoft three implementations Program Line Editor
The Corvus 11AP Disk Drive rb Tom K. Lewellen hard disk Corvus CA 00-Nov-1980 29 Disk Drives “$5,000” 11MB(!) which may be used for DOS or Pascal
The Last WORD In Hex Converters “Val J. Golding / Mosier, Bob; Lilly, Roger” utility listing CA 00-Nov-1980 32 Applesoft a routine which uses ROM routines plus the five shortest converter routines
“DOS 3.3, the Language Card, and the Apple II” rb Stephen L. Billiard technique / utility CA 00-Nov-1980 37 DOS 3.3 booting up an Applesoft HELLO program on an Integer Basic Apple / Language Card Applesoft theory of operation
Fortran For The Apple Computer: Two Alternative Approaches “by Michael A. Caloyannides, Ph.D.” language Apple / Microsoft CA 00-Nov-1980 41 Fortran Apple Fortran and Microsoft Fortran (for CP/M)
Home Inventory Bob Huelsdonk tutorial / programming Making Basic Behave! Part VII CA 00-Nov-1980 43 Applesoft revamping the entire program to a new purpose
DEC conversion James A. Johnston tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Nov-1980 50 Integer Basic uses the PRDEC routine
Single Step with Space Bar Neil Bennett tip / utility Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Nov-1980 51 assembly use the KEYIN ($FD1B) routine
Meeting Minutes 9/15/80 A.P.P.L.E. Staff club meeting Meeting Minutes CA 00-Nov-1980 53 A.P.P.L.E. 3rd Annual Computer Fair Empire Electronics becameThe Computer Empire
Writing the Wrongs! The Wrongdoers tip / patch CA 00-Nov-1980 54 Integer Basic Integer Basic Flash Comparing Ten Sort Algorithms from Oct 1980-
Catalog & Tip Book Val J. Golding book / tip Beagle Bros CA 00-Nov-1980 57 Books $1 “a humorous, well written catalog of Beagle Bros with many tips on” programming practices and handy information
Peelings II Val J. Golding magazine CA 00-Nov-1980 57 Magazines $15/year devoted exclusively to software reviews
Applesoft Variable LIST Statement Lee Reynolds technique / utility listing CA 00-Nov-1980 58 (10/80p56; 2/81p52; NB:2/84p12) Applesoft the underlying idea is that the program modifies itself to LIST the line(s) desired
MUFFIN CATALOG Supplement Scott Lee utility listing CA 00-Nov-1980 62 DOS 3.3 catalog 3.2 format disks from DOS 3.3 disks and vice-versa
OUTLINE: A Program to Print REMS Norman P. Herzberg utility listing CA 00-Nov-1980 63 (2/81p52) Applesoft list JUST the comments in a program
The Editor Bytes Back The Editor club news The Editor Bytes Back CA 00-Jan-1981 5 A.P.P.L.E. Magazine’s new look and continuation “Eric Goez, Lee Reynolds, Robert F Zant, Randy Wigginton” “Philip B. Ender, Richard Horsfall”
Diskpak 24A / Diskpak 8 / Directory Title Writer by Val J. Golding software Bytes From The Apple CA 00-Jan-1981 7 Software “includes a Print Pak, a Financial Pak, a Music Pak, and others” / new games and color demos / fancy inverse and flashing diskette titles
Real Variable Study Eric E. Goez technical From The Very Core of Apple CA 00-Jan-1981 “8 (All About Applesoft,p37)” Applesoft what form do floating point numbers take when stored in memory “normalize, mantissa”
Index To Call -A.P.P.L.E. — 1980 by David B. Garson and Val J. Golding index CA 00-Jan-1981 24 A.P.P.L.E.
Applesoft Substring Search Function Lee Reynolds utility Exploring The World of Apple CA 00-Jan-1981 26 (AAL:4/81p18; 5/81p50; 4/83p72) Applesoft search strings for the presence of a substring INSTR
Data Storage Techniques Robert F. Zant technique / tutorial / data management CA 00-Jan-1981 35 Applesoft an understanding of how data is organized on disk is important in order “to select the appropriate type of file, to design record formats, and to” understand the way DOS commands function “sequential, random access”
How To Enter Call -A.P.P.L.E. Assembly Language Listings tip / assembler CA 00-Jan-1981 39 Assembly in most cases the program may be entered in Monitor directly from the listing
Fast Garbage Collection Randy Wigginton utility listing CA 00-Jan-1981 40 (3/81p56; 6/81p56; AAAp25 (reprint); 8/82p9; 4/85p38; 1/86p47; Applesoft a faster routine than Applesoft’s (7/86p42; 1/87p57:NUMELS)
Pascal Zap Philip B. Ender utility listing CA 00-Jan-1981 “47 (5/81p60:DECAHEX correction, print option)” Pascal “accesses any block on the disk, including the directory and deleted” files
Quilt Richard J. Nitto demo listing CA 00-Jan-1981 49 Applesoft a hi-res quilt pattern
Adding Lines To Running Applesoft David A. Lingwood technique listing CA 00-Jan-1981 51 (9/82p9) Applesoft allow the user to make changes to a running program “function, parser”
DOS 3.3 Bug Stephen L. Billard tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jan-1981 55 DOS 3.3 DOS 3.3 hangs if you try to INIT a diskette which has flawed spots DISK PREP (ad)
BSAVING & BLOADING Arrays in Integer Basic and Applesoft “Horsfall, Richard C.” technique listing CA 00-Jan-1981 58 (6/80p44) “Integer, Applesoft”
Unclassifieds A.P.P.L.E. Staff Advertising CA 00-Jan-1981 64 A.P.P.L.E.
The Editor Bytes Back The Editor club news The Editor Bytes Back CA 00-Feb-1981 5 A.P.P.L.E.
Bytes from the Apple Val J. Golding software Bytes From The Apple CA 00-Feb-1981 7 A.P.P.L.E.
DOS Internals: An Overview Mark Pump technical Ins and Outs of DOS CA 00-Feb-1981 “8 (All About DOS,p103)” DOS 3.3 “DOS memory map, how RWTS works, DOS memory/disk track/sector cross ref,” “boot process overview, device select addresses, DOS modifications”
Universal Update J.C. Thompson utility / operating system listing (hex dump) CA 00-Feb-1981 14 (5/81p28:instructions) DOS 3.2.1 “convert any 13 sector DOS (3.1, 3.2, and 3.2.1) to a 3.2.1 master DOS,” universally bootable on both 13 and 16 sector systems
DeMuffin 3.3 Rob Moore (South New Hampshire Apple Core) utility listing CA 00-Feb-1981 16 DOS 3.3 convert DOS 3.3 files to DOS 3.2 / requires only minor changes to Muffin RWTS
How To Go Wrong Your Way Lee Reynolds utility listing CA 00-Feb-1981 18 Applesoft change the wording of DOS error messages
Using MUFFIN With VTOC and Directory on $10 Richard Landsman utility CA 00-Feb-1981 20 DOS 3.3 MUFFIN normally will not work unless the directory is on track $11
Converting DAKIN5’s Patcher to DOS 3.3 Robert Balderson utility CA 00-Feb-1981 20 DOS 3.3 a fix to make the Patcher program to work with DOS 3.3 disks
DOS 3.3/3.2 Boot Switch Richard Landsman and Richard Horton operating system / hardware CA 00-Feb-1981 22 DOS 3.3 “with this mod, pressing CONTROL before boot will switch the P5 and P5A” PROMs disk controller
Applesoft Random Function Tom Crawford technical From The Very Core of Apple CA 00-Feb-1981 24 (7/82p83; AAAp120; 1/83p29; IC:10/85p116) Applesoft Applesoft’s random number generator appears to malfunction following “about 10,000 accesses”
So What Did You Expect Dept.? Mark Pump puzzle CA 00-Feb-1981 27 Applesoft
Seeing Double with Pascal Graphics Ron DeGroat technique / graphics listing CA 00-Feb-1981 30 Pascal making Turtlegraphics work on both the primary and secondary pages of the Hi-Res screen
Utility EXEC Jari Heinonen and Ilmo Kotivuori technique listing CA 00-Feb-1981 34 Pascal run one program while another program is running “PEEK, POKE”
Bit Copiers Val J. Golding industry Editorial CA 00-Feb-1981 39 Software why A.P.P.L.E. has decided not to accept advertising for bit copiers
Moving Signs Neil Bronstein utility listing CA 00-Feb-1981 40 Applesoft the text can be entered from the program and the direction can be changed during execution / a vertical moving sign
Language Card Anomaly tip CA 00-Feb-1981 41 “Integer, Applesoft” “when Integer Basic is loaded into the Language Card, any Applesoft” routine that is wholly contained within the D800-DFFF range appears to be useable
Control-Character Finder “Golding, Val J.” utility listing CA 00-Feb-1981 43 DOS 3.3 will display control characters imbedded in a disk catalog or BASIC program listing
ERR — RING “Aldrich, Darrell” utility listing CA 00-Feb-1981 44 Applesoft “a “”pretty”” musical bell”
READSCRN “Horsfall, Richard C.” utility listing CA 00-Feb-1981 45 Integer read a character at an X & Y coordinate and print it again using lo-res graphics functions cute
Videx Keyboard and Display Enhancer rb Stephen A. Billard hardware Videx CA 00-Feb-1981 46 Hardware hardware modification allows upper and lower case entry and display
A Programmer’s Delight Bill Dufresne technique CA 00-Feb-1981 48 (6/81p57; 6/82p79) Applesoft “a quick look at Program Line Editor, Program Global Editor, and FID and” how to load them into memory all at the same time
IRS and Microcomputers: Depreciation Susan Schwab tax CA 00-Feb-1981 50 General “how to write off your computer: straight line, declining balance, and” sum-of-the-digits depreciation
The Editor Bytes Back The Editor club news The Editor Bytes Back CA 00-Mar-1981 5 A.P.P.L.E.
Bytes from the Apple Val J. Golding software Bytes From The Apple CA 00-Mar-1981 7 A.P.P.L.E. Special of the month: everything but the kitchen sink “Peeking Vol 1, 2, Combined 1980 and Anthologies 1 through 4”
Pascal Internals Mike Rosing and Keith McLauren technical From The Very Core of Apple CA 00-Mar-1981 9 Pascal “the Pascal booting process, how to use the Pascal I/O routines, an” “explanation of the Pascal directory, how 6502 machine code is used to” “understand p-code, locations of pseudo-machine registers, source code” for a 6502 disassembler
Five Video Boards In Review rb Bob Huelsdonk video board 400 Columns CA 00-Mar-1981 23 (5/81p45:Zofarry) Applesoft “Doublevision, Videoterm, Smarterm, Sup’R’Terminal, Full View 80” Software program to test video cards
Memory Mapping the Z-80 Card Wes Huntress technical Exploring The World of Apple CA 00-Mar-1981 43 CP/M / Z-80 Softcard an initial survey of the territory is provided here in the form of the memory map
Keeping Up to Date Ken Manly utility listing CA 00-Mar-1981 49 Applesoft an EXEC file to automatically back up your programs
ROM Mover David Hendel utility listing CA 00-Mar-1981 53 (5/81p68) Applesoft “by using the Language Card control codes, the user has access to both” the old and new Monitor ROMs / Monitor String Writer Routine
INPUT Almost Anything A.P.P.L.E. Staff utility listing CA 00-Mar-1981 54 (7/80p47) Applesoft “allows quotes, commas, etc. in Applesoft string inputs”
MUFFIN Problems Tim Hartley tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Mar-1981 56 (5/81p68) DOS 3.2.1 “problems when MUFFIN attempts to place data on tracks 32, 33 & 34 of the” destination disk
Data Statement Writer “Golding, Val J.” utility listing CA 00-Mar-1981 58 (6/81p55) Applesoft specify the particulars for a DATA statement and write them to an EXEC file
Detour A Dastardly DOS Dilemma Craig Peterson bug / technical CA 00-Mar-1981 60 (AADp196) DOS 3.3 system hangs when BRUNning a program which prints through the output hook at $FDED (COUT) / solution is to save the contents of $AA59 prior to the print activity
INVERSE Text Display With Pascal 1.1 Ron De Groat tip listing CA 00-Mar-1981 63 (7/80p46) Pascal
Halt Command for CP/M Bill Krantz utility listing CA 00-Mar-1981 63 “CP/M, Z-80 assembly” a command to get out of CP/M
Booting 13 Sector Disks “Sanford M. Mossberg, M.D.” tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Mar-1981 63 DOS 3.3 demuffin the BOOT13
Lower Case Display For Pascal 1.1 Ron De Groat utility listing CA 00-Mar-1981 67 (3/81p67) Pascal
Call -A.P.P.L.E. Hot Line A.P.P.L.E. Staff support CA 00-Mar-1981 69 A.P.P.L.E. one of the services available for members of A.P.P.L.E.
Unclassifieds A.P.P.L.E. Staff Advertising CA 00-Mar-1981 72 A.P.P.L.E.
A.P.P.L.E. Meeting Minutes Dr. David A. Lingwood club news CA 00-May-1981 2 (32) A.P.P.L.E. New Club Classes West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco
The Editor Bytes Back The Editor club news The Editor Bytes Back CA 00-Mar-1981 5 A.P.P.L.E. Woz agrees to visit later this year
Bytes from the Apple by Val J. Golding new products Bytes From The Apple CA 00-May-1981 7 Software ATTACH.BIOS (patch your I/O drivers to run with any version of Pascal) PROGRAM FORTFIX (allows Apple Fortran to run correctly with Pascal 1.1)
A Catalog Label Printing Program “Paul W. Mosher, M.D. & Clifton M. Howard M.D.” utility listing CA 00-May-1981 9 (7/80p7) Super Apple Basic (Applesoft preprocessor) print diskette labels for DOS 3.3 diskettes compile
Super Apple Basic “Lutus, Paul / rb David W. Walker” language / preprocessor Hayden Book Company CA 00-May-1981 17 Super Apple Basic (Applesoft preprocessor) $40 “write a program with labels, long variable names, and logical formatting” “Pascal, structure”
Pascal Bibliography compiled by David P. McCarthy bibliography CA 00-May-1981 21 a list of Pascal-related articles
In The Depths of the Pascal Directory Harvey Greenberg technique listing CA 00-May-1981 27 Pascal a procedure to determine disk capacity without exiting the program
A Text Editor as a DB Management System Lee Reynolds data management CA 00-May-1981 29 (ST:11/80p29; 10/81p75:sexism; 11/83p79) use the search command
Faire Enough Val J. Golding trade show CA 00-May-1981 32 (p55) “Hayden’s Applesoft compiler, The Last One, ZEP 80-column card, Vista” “type-ahead buffer Novation 1200 baud modem Spies “”Double Hi-Res”” board” “Omnicolor color printer, Passport Designs Soundchaser (keyboard), Videx” “Romulator (2K), real time clocks, other computers”
Pascal Text Recovery William Janes utility CA 00-May-1981 37 Pascal use the procedure UnitRead to read files whose directory has been destroyed (program designed mainly to recover damaged text files)
Serendipity David E. Goss tip CA 00-May-1981 41 (10/81p74) owners of the Language Card (or compatible) could provide the equivalent of a 2048-byte custom ROM for machine language programs / BLOAD Parameter finder
The Zofarry/Vision 80 – 80 x 24 Card rb Bob Huelsdonk hardware Zofarry Enterprises CA 00-May-1981 45 (3/81p23) a card from Australia
The Apple ][ Monitors Peeled “Dougherty, William E. / rb Val J. Golding” technical / reference Apple Computer CA 00-May-1981 46 “explains the “”old”” monitor ROM and the “”Autostart”” ROM” “/ covers memory allocation, input and output, interrupt processing, and” miscellany
Converting Binary Files To DATA Statements Jim Hilger and Val J. Golding utility listing CA 00-May-1981 47 to POKE in later
“No FLASH, the hard way” Dennis J. Thekan tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-May-1981 49 remove the 555 timer chip and put a wire jumper from pin 1 to 3
Protect an Applesoft Program from being changed Bob Murrow tip CA 00-May-1981 49 “POKE 2075,255: POKE 2076,255 changes line number to 65535”
Interger? Mike Firth spelling Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-May-1981 49 it’s INTEGER!
Multiple & Charles Kluepfel technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-May-1981 50 (1/81p26) use the CALL statement instead parameter
DOS Version Finder Val J. Golding utility listing CA 00-May-1981 53 determine the version of DOS present on a diskette and whether it is a slave or master / how to write memory independent programs
To A Faire Thee Well! David A. Lingwood trade show CA 00-May-1981 55 (p32) “A.P.P.L.E.’s booth, Zofarry (Vision-80) 80 column board, CP/M software,” The Last One
Storing Pascal Hi-Res Screens On Disk Robert E. Trammel technique CA 00-May-1981 57 Pascal a technique for storing and recalling high resolution pages to and from disk storage under complete Pascal control
Alchemy And Other Wonders Robert F. Zant technique listing CA 00-May-1981 61 find the record length of a random-access file
Lower Case +Plus rb David E. Goss hardware Lazer Systems CA 00-May-1981 65 a lower case adapter with dual user-programmable fonts Paymar chip
“BASIC “”VAL”” Function In Pascal” Arnie Berg utility listing CA 00-May-1981 66 Pascal accepts a string variable and returns a real value
Higher Text Manual by Val J. Golding new products Bytes From The Apple CA 00-Jun-1981 7 Call -A.P.P.L.E. In Depth: All About Applesoft Ap.LCase (lower case adapter) APtext (diagnostic)
Sequential Text Files “Ralph H. Swerdlow, M.D.” tutorial / programming A Is For Apple CA 00-Jun-1981 9 the basic principles of sequential text files “OPEN, CLOSE, READ, WRITE, APPEND, POSITION, EXEC”
The Apple /// rb Bob Huelsdonk computer Apple Computer CA 00-Jun-1981 15 (7/81p70:Epson) Apple /// “$4,740” “the cost, the hardware (keyboard, memory, case, ports, color output,” “monitor commands), the software (system configuration, file structure,” “device handling, text and data files, CATalog, SOS), BASIC Commands” “(variables, listings, keyboard input, strings, IF..THEN..ELSE, IMAGE),” “benchmarks, graphics, printers, clock, documentation, Audio, emulation”
Variable GOTO Finder Lee Reynolds utility Into Integer CA 00-Jun-1981 27 a program to LIST all statements which contain variable GOTO or GOSUB statements (useful before using Renumber)
CHR$ Simulation for Integer Basic Val J. Golding technique listing CA 00-Jun-1981 28 (P/79p55; 7/80p52) Integer
Apple ][ Users Guide “Poole, McNiff, and Cook / rb Val J. Golding” book / reference OSBORNE/McGraw-Hill CA 00-Jun-1981 31 “explains in non-technical terms how to learn to use the Apple ][,” “Integer Basic, Applesoft, and the monitor”
Moving the Heap to get Special Characters Ron De Groat technique CA 00-Jun-1981 35 Pascal making available characters not available on the Apple keyboard / creating protected memory space for user patches
Program Fortfix “Apple Computer, Inc.” utility listing CA 00-Jun-1981 39 FORTRAN allow user defined Pascal intrinsic units and built-in Pascal intrinsic units to work with FORTRAN
Inverse Field Input for Applesoft Charles L. Hearn utility listing CA 00-Jun-1981 43 (7/81p73; AAL:9/81p2:assembly) inputs characters strings in an inverse field of specified length
Fireworks 3 “Russ Still, Applied Microsystems” demo listing CA 00-Jun-1981 45
Higher Text On The Loose Aldrich Brothers / by Val J. Golding and Robert Clardy utility / graphics CA 00-Jun-1981 47 “when rewriting the documentation “”we were aghast at the complexity of” “the system”” / the intricacies of the Higher Text background feature”
Implementation of the PDL() Function In Forth 1.7 “Paul W. Mosher, M.D.” technique CA 00-Jun-1981 51 “Forth 1.7, assembler” “reverse-Polish notation, stack”
Loading INTEGER BASIC PLUS into the Language Card Gerard J. Vullings techique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jun-1981 55 steps to make the enhancement transparent
Extra Space on DOS 3.3 Disks “Warren Ostlund, M.D.” tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jun-1981 “56 (5/80p7, 3/82p68)” track 2 sectors 5-F and track 0 sectors A and B
Loading PLE Without Destruction Brian Bakke technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jun-1981 57 keep your program intact after loading Program Line Editor
Toggle Greg Kielian tutorial CA 00-Jun-1981 59 (7/81p68) examples of toggling between two states
Appending Machine Language To BASIC Mark Cross technique CA 00-Jun-1981 60 (7/82p59) how to add binary files to the end of an Applesoft program
Quick & Dirty Lower Case Val J. Golding technique listing CA 00-Jun-1981 60 input a string then add 32 to the ASCII value of the characters
TED Special (Integer Basic+ plus Ted II+) by Val J. Golding new products BYTES From A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jul-1981 7 Big Mac: Macro-Assembler/Ted / WordWeaver /// (Apple /// word processor) “Apple II Users Guide Beneath the Apple DOS “”As Is”” Software “ “Anthology V, Call -A.P.P.L.E. In Depth”
Loading DOS 3.3 on the Language Card Cornelis Bongers technique / technical From The Very Core of Apple CA 00-Jul-1981 9 (11/81p81; 6/82p79; 12/82p79) language card (16K card) relocate DOS from $9D00-$BFFF to $DD00-$FFF and gain 10.25K of memory DOS Mover
Beneath Apple ODS Worth and Lechner / rb Val J. Golding book / technical Quality Software CA 00-Jul-1981 23 $20 a well-written and well-reseached technical manual which explains the intricacies of DOS
So What Did You Expect Dept puzzle CA 00-Jul-1981 23
Apple Diary David Miller programming A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Apple-Cation CA 00-Jul-1981 25 (9/81p16) “One day last fall, I decided to sit down and write a diary program …” Little did I know what I was getting into “files, records, fields, LINE INPUT”
Shape and Smooth Motion Henry Roberts technique / graphics / animation A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1981 39 “Apple’s HI-RES colors, exclusive OR drawing”
Testing Memory Henry Roberts tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1981 40 (1/82p63) use the memory test from the Programmer’s AID ROM RAM
Deferred Mode and HIMEM and LOMEM in Integer Basic Henry Roberts technique A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1981 41 (3/80p13) what is deferred mode and how to trick Integer Basic into accepting illegal statements
Pascal Memory Utility Ron DeGroat utility Exploring The World of Apple CA 00-Jul-1981 43 (9/81p16) Pascal “with PMU, all parts of the Pascal system are available for disassembly,” “examination, or modification”
Cryptogram “Ronald Mintz, M.D.” puzzle utility listing CA 00-Jul-1981 53 (10/81p75:speed improvement) mini-assembler an aid in solving simple substitution ciphers POKE 32
A.P.P.L.E. Word Processor Reviews: An Introduction Jeffrey K. Finn word processor CA 00-Jul-1981 61 criteria to be used when evaluating word processors
Fair Play: Applefest ’81 Val J. Golding trade show CA 00-Jul-1981 64 “Boston, Plaza Castle, Apple’s booth combo, seminars, Apple user groups,” “computer stores, magazines, Hayden compiler, On Line Expediter compiler,” “software vendors: Highlands Computer, Broderbund, Information Unlimited,” “Adventure International, Sensible Software, Sir-Tech Software”
A Way To Underline Ralph H. Swerdlow technique CA 00-Jul-1981 66 (PRINT the _ on the next line) ———
Talk About Toggle… Dale Battson / David L. Deever technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jul-1981 68 (6/81p59) other approaches / T = (X+Y) – T
Using D$ = CHR$(13) + CHR$(4) William J. Cheeseman tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jul-1981 “68 (10/81p75,76)” an extra carriage return is written when CLOSING a file
Apple /// and Epson MX-80 “Walt Pawley, Walmar Computers” printer Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jul-1981 70 cable pinouts
a VAL Bug and a RENUMBER Bug Ernest E. Simard II bug Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jul-1981 70 (7/80p49; 10/81p76:renumber fix; 1/82p64) fix: try X=INT((X+.005)*100/100 renumber can change values in statements
A.P.P.L.E. Annual Report submitted by Robert C. Clardy business CA 00-Jul-1981 77 net income of 39520.08
The Importance of Backups The Editor tip The Editor Bytes Back CA 00-Sep-1981 5 “in a single weekend, we crashed five separate diskettes”
APFILE by Val J. Golding new products Bytes From A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Sep-1981 7 “text file reader, edtor, copier, sector read, and memory read” Call -A.P.P.L.E. in Depth: All About Applesoft Soft Seventy / Big Mac
Apple Free Speech B.C. Detterich speech synthesis A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Apple-Cation CA 00-Sep-1981 9 tape player experimenting with speech “MAXTALK, clipping”
Going Forth With Micro-Speed rb Jim Hockenhull language / coprocessor Applied Analytics CA 00-Sep-1981 17 $495 “offers structure, compilation, unlimited extensibility, recursion, and” very fast running speed (includes hardware floating point board)
MicroSPEED rb Alan B. Winston language / development system Applied Analytics CA 00-Sep-1981 27 $495 “a combination of the Apple II, the CCS 7811 Arithmetic Processor board,” and FORTH / considerations in the development of a language system “AMD 9511, joy”
Pascal Computer Simulations Ron DeGroat simulation / technique CA 00-Sep-1981 31 Pascal “two different, yet related models of physics — earth orbits and ionic” scattering experiments / goof-proof input routines
Word Processor Evaluations Jeffrey K. Finn (with Stephen Chin and Charles Stillman) word processor various CA 00-Sep-1981 41 (10/81p55; 11/81p53) “5 word processors are reviewed and compared: Apple Writer, ApType II,” “P.I.E., Super Scribe, and Super Text II”
Notes From A Novice Charles Rusch programming / troubleshooting CA 00-Sep-1981 57 (3/82p65) “a well-informed novice relates his experiences: debugging programs,” “recovering blown disks, hardware tips (power supply, game paddles),” “quickies (POKE 33,33, PLE, FID wildcard, CTRL S, SPEED)”
Depreciation “rb Paul W. Mosher, M.D. and Clifton M. Howard, M.D.” business Money Disk CA 00-Sep-1981 63 $225 “5 depreciation methods: straight-line, sum of years, 3 delining balance” rates
Clearing The Screen “Ralph H. Swerdlow, M.D.” tutorial / tip A Is For Apple CA 00-Sep-1981 67 other ways to clear the screen beside CALL -936 and HOME
Towards Longer Diskette Life maintenance CA 00-Sep-1981 71 “hub rings, backups, write protect tabs, opening the drive door, using” the reverse side
Nybble Copiers Henry Roberts utility A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Sep-1981 73 how a nybble copier (or bit copier) works and their limitations “Super Disk Copy, Locksmith, Back It Up”
What Is A Macro Assembler? Henry Roberts assembler A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Sep-1981 73 machine language and assemblers mini-assembler
transferring data to another program tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Sep-1981 75 use PEEK and POKE commands CHAIN
So What Did You Expect Dept.? Tom Crawford contest / puzzle A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Contest CA 00-Sep-1981 77 (3/82p53) explain this!
Soft Seventy / Applesoft Carpenter by Val J. Golding new products Bytes From A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Oct-1981 5 / 70 columns on the hi-res screen / simulates an 80-colmun card “/ utilities for programmers: The Lister, The Comparer, The Cruncher” “(compact programs), the Converter (Integer to Applesoft)”
Applesoft Compilers rb Dick Hubert compiler Hayden / On-Line Systems / Southwestern Data CA 00-Oct-1981 9 $200 / $100 / $135 “a comparison of the Hayden, Expeditor, and Speed*Star Compilers”
Integer Basic Compiler “Galfo, Christopher / rb David B. Garson” compiler Galfo Systems CA 00-Oct-1981 11 $150 speed up Integer Basic programs
Huffin (Pascal to DOS) Dana J. Schwartz (reprinted from Washington Apple Pi) utility listing CA 00-Oct-1981 13 (11/81p13; 1/82p78; 4/82p69) convert Pascal blocks to a DOS text file
Apple /// Disassembler “Wells, Andy” disassembler listing CA 00-Oct-1981 17 Apple /// based on the Apple II disassembler
Apple /// Entry Points compiled by Andy Wells technical / reference CA 00-Oct-1981 24 Apple /// “zero page locations, entry points, RWTS IOB, and control locations”
Hi-Res I/O Wayne Throop technique listing CA 00-Oct-1981 29 (11/81p51; 2/82p74:use with Hi-Res Character Generator) use the graphics screen to display lower case
Hi-Res Scroll C. Kenny Fan utility / graphics listing CA 00-Oct-1981 39 (2/82p23) a downward scrolling routine
Hi-Res Screen Read “Halverson, Randall E.” utility listing CA 00-Oct-1981 43 (10/80p25; AAL:1/82p2) read screen colors
Apple Pie Charter Bernard L. Webb graphics / technique listing CA 00-Oct-1981 45 “a program to draw pie charts, Venn diagrams, and other circles”
Graphing In Hi-Res David B. Garson technique / graphics CA 00-Oct-1981 49 some of the basic background information needed to generate graphs from programs
Tone Generator Henry Roberts music A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1981 51 (6/82p15) Programmer’s Aid #1 a list of note values
Problems With DOS 3.3 Henry Roberts operating system A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1981 51 “diskette media, analog board adjustment (pot adjustment)”
What Is Pascal? Henry Roberts language A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1981 51 a compiled structured language (unlike Applesoft)
Game Paddle Interference Henry Roberts tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1981 52 (AAL:9/82p21) game paddles require a short delay between the time each is accessed
Using the WAIT Routine Henry Roberts tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1981 52 values to put in the A register
Word Processor II “Stinson, Doug / rb Richard L. Turner” word processor Software Solutions CA 00-Oct-1981 55 (11/81p53) 80-column board optional $75 “speed, a selection of features, and ease and convenience”
Magic Window “Shannon, Gary / rb Jerry Brieger” word processor ArtSci CA 00-Oct-1981 58 $99 a moving 40-column window shows where you are typing
Select rb Jeffrey K. Finn word processor CA 00-Oct-1981 60 (11/81p53) “CP/M, 80-columns” $345 a fully integrated word processor for use by clerical personnel
Easy Writer Professional rb Stephen F. Chin word processor CA 00-Oct-1981 63 80-column board required $250 “most of the commands are mnemonic, processing delays encountered”
“PRINTSTRING, CHRIN, MSGIN” Andy Hertzfeld technique listing CA 00-Oct-1981 71 routines to display ASCII text or input data from the keyboard
Serendipity Revisited Tom Sethre technique CA 00-Oct-1981 74 (5/81p41) loading INTBASIC in lower memory with other programs in the RAM Card
“How Sexist, How Stereotypical!!” Jan Kottke opinion Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Oct-1981 75 I was appalled at the blatant sexism of the article
AA52:5 Lee Meador tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Oct-1981 75 “POKE 10*4096+10*256+5*16+2,5 will cause DOS to thing a carriage return” was the last thing printed
Renumber Fix Alan D. Floeter and Valerie A Floeter tip / utility Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Oct-1981 76 (1/82p64) an explanation and fix for the bug
Off and On DOS Gil Throop and Wayne Throop tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Oct-1981 76 turn on DOS only when you need it CALL 1002
Call -A.P.P.L.E. Goes Monthly magazine CA 00-Oct-1981 77 and prices go up / club officer and directors up for reelection
Automated Typesetting The Editor magazine The Editor Bytes Back CA 00-Nov-1981 7 some material has been transmitted over the phone directly to a typesetting machine
Three Macro-Assemblers “Moser, Carl; Lutus, Paul; Bredon, Glen / rb Jonathan M. Levine” assembler Eastern House / Insoft / A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Nov-1981 9 (3/82p75:S-C Assembler) $170 / $125 / $22.50 MAE supports interactive assembly (p93) ALD System II is suitable for large projects (it’s disk based) Big Mac is a best buy
Puffin (Blaise Goes Both Ways) Dr. Wo (Washington Apple Pi) utility listing CA 00-Nov-1981 13 (10/81p13) Pascal DOS to Pascal file converter
Apple /// Pascal “rb Lou Infeld, Apple Computer” language Apple Computer CA 00-Nov-1981 45 (5/82p85) Apple /// a comparison to Apple II Pascal
Calculating Pi Ralph H. Swerdlow tip A Is For Apple CA 00-Nov-1981 49 using trig functions / PI = ATN(1) * 4
Ring My Bell Ralph H. Swerdlow tip A Is For Apple CA 00-Nov-1981 49 four ways to ring a bell
Powertext rb Hank Feeser word processor / formatter Beamon Porter CA 00-Nov-1981 54 Pascal $199 “text files are created using the Pascal editor with embedded commands,” then is sent through the PowerText formatter
Word Handler rb Jeffrey K. Finn word processor Silicon Valley Systems CA 00-Nov-1981 58 $249 attention to human engineering while offering innovative features / offers 66-columns without hardware
Zardax rb Barry Smith word processor Computer Solutions CA 00-Nov-1981 65 $295 oriented towards the non-computer sophisticate
So What Did You Expect Dept Glen Bredon puzzle CA 00-Nov-1981 66
Variables Michael Thyng tutorial / programming AppleMash CA 00-Nov-1981 77 and a simple program
Notes About DOS Mover Cornelis Bongers utility CA 00-Nov-1981 81 (7/81p9) questions answered and compatibility problems
Using 6502 Assembly Language (with an introduction to Sweet-16) “Hyde, Randy / rb Val J. Golding” book / tutorial Datamost CA 00-Nov-1981 86 $20 written in terms understandable by the beginner
Symbol Simon / Big Mac.LC / AP.DRIVE by Val J. Golding debugger / assembler / disk drive Bytes From A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jan-1982 7 a symbolic debugger and an advanced assembler / an Apple compatible disk drive
Applesoft Internal Structure C.K. Mesztenyi (Washington Apple Pi) technical From the Very Core of Apple CA 00-Jan-1982 9 (8/82p40) describes the overall structure of Applesoft ($D000 – $F7FF) “CHRGET/CHRGOT, tokenization”
The $48 Trap Cornelis Bongers technical From the Very Core of Apple CA 00-Jan-1982 15 explaining a small error in DOS 3.3 RWTS
Get File Information Subroutine Lou Infeld/Apple Computer Inc. technical Exploring the World of Apple CA 00-Jan-1982 19 accessing the table of contents of a diskette from BASIC
Check Book Balancer “Ralph H. Swerdlow, M.D.” home finance A Is For Apple CA 00-Jan-1982 31 Applesoft a simple program to balance your checkbook
Not Illegal Direct! Lee Reynolds tip CA 00-Jan-1982 33 (12/83p46) READing a text file and defining a function in immediate mode
VISI-/// Utility John Mancino utility /// Corners CA 00-Jan-1982 35 Apple /// (Business BASIC listing) manipulating VisiCalc files
Selection of Disk System Dan Paymar disk drive various CA 00-Jan-1982 47 discusses the pros and cons of various types of larger disk systems
Notes From A Novice Charles W. Rusch patch CA 00-Jan-1982 “51 (3/82p65,75)” customize your Apple PIE keyboard
WRITE files without OPENing Henry Roberts tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1982 63 “if the file is not OPEN, READ and WRITE will OPEN it”
Leaving the Hi-Res Char Generator Henry Roberts tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1982 63 Toolkit need to reset the hooks: X=PEEK(-16303): X=PEEK(-16300)
INPUT after EXEC Henry Roberts tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1982 63 (AAL:11/82p17) need to use INPUT and GET before and/or after EXEC statements
Using & with RAM Applesoft Henry Roberts tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1982 63
Bugs with VAL and renumber Henry Roberts tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1982 64 (10/81p76) bug with renumber changes numbers following a * FOR … NEXT
Replacing PR#0 with PR#0 Henry Roberts tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1982 64 “to modify the PR#0 command, you must patch DOS” external terminal
What’s Where In the Apple “Luebbert, William F. / rb Val J. Golding” book / technical MicroINK CA 00-Jan-1982 69 $14.95 an overview of memory organization and a complete cross-reference of Apple memory locations “Atlas, Gazeteer”
MAE Macro Assembler by Don Earnhardt assembler Eastern House CA 00-Jan-1982 71 (11/80p9) a rebuttal to Levine’s review
Pointers On Pointers John Rodger technique CA 00-Jan-1982 75 relocating an Applesoft program (e.g. above HGR)
The Woz by David A. Lingwood meeting A.P.P.L.E. Meeting Minutes CA 00-Jan-1982 77 Steve Wozniak speaks on the development of the Apple II “/ sewing machine oil for disk drives, addresses for BLOADs, S file types” bomb FID and Muffin / Zofarry 80 column card (Vision-80)
Ap.Drive / Inside Washington Apple Pi / The Power of Visicalc by Val J. Golding new products Bytes From A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Feb-1982 5 “Program Line Editor, Woz Talks (on video tape), Paymar chip”
Examining the Video Text Buffer Bill Parker utility / technical Through the Looking Glass CA 00-Feb-1982 9 assembly change any character on the screen to any character desired
Our Logical Apples Ralph Swerdlow tutorial A Is For Apple CA 00-Feb-1982 17 (3/82p76) “binary logic, sorting, arithmetical manipulations, logic operator” “sorting, decision tree”
Hi-Res Full Scroll Edward C. So utility CA 00-Feb-1982 23 (10/81p39) scroll an area (window) in either Hi-Res page in four directions
Text Screen Dump David W. Walker utility CA 00-Feb-1982 37 (1/80p48) assembly print the standard text screen to any printer
Epson MX100 rb B.C. Detterich printer / technique Epson CA 00-Feb-1982 45 (5/82p86; 9/82p67; 7/83p62) wide carriage 9 wire impact printer / printer command sequences / gaining control of the most significant data bit (MSB) MX80
Game Paddle Printer Driver Val J. Golding and Glen Bredon utility CA 00-Feb-1982 51 (P/79p115) assembly modifying the driver to not be upset by inverse and flashing characters
Converting Apple Writer Files Frank D. Kirshner technique CA 00-Feb-1982 57 Applesoft send characters to memory instead of the printer
INPUT Routine Handling Michael Thyng tutorial AppleMash CA 00-Feb-1982 61 Applesoft the INPUT command
Applesoft Preserves Val J. Golding utility CA 00-Feb-1982 65 (4/82p72; 8/82p47; 11/82p71) saving the values of variables as program lines are added
PIE Writer word processor Hayden Book Co. CA 00-Feb-1982 68 (ad) $150.00 “a Call -A.P.P.L.E.-style ad for “”The Newest Easiest to Use Low-Cost” Word Processor
Fooling the Language Card Dave Kelly tip CA 00-Feb-1982 69 load Integer Basic without rebooting
Vandal Foiler Leighton Paul/Telephone Software Connection tip CA 00-Feb-1982 71 (3/82p76:program listing; 8/82p78) prevent listing and changing of programs / after setting the protection “flag ($D6), all keyboard commands are intercepted and executed, and a” RUN is performed instead of the intended command protection flag ($D6)
Preventing Deletions John Stahl (12 years old) tip Young Blood CA 00-Feb-1982 73 set reset to reboot (with password protection)
Putting A Formatted Number Into a String Variable Dwight U. Phillips utility Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Feb-1982 “74 (All About Applesoft,p85)” modification of Craig Peterson’s Print Using and Friends
1981 Call -A.P.P.L.E. Index by Kevin O. Donohoe and Val J. Golding index CA 00-Feb-1982 77
Ap.Controller / DICE (Dan’s I/O Control Enhancer) / Big Mac.LC by Val J. Golding new products Bytes From A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Mar-1982 7 “Apmail ][, Program Line Editor closeout, Word Weaver ///”
Pop Art “Ralph H. Swerdlow, M.D.” tutorial A Is For Apple CA 00-Mar-1982 “9 (5/82p67,85)” Applesoft using the POP statement “stack, GOSUB”
Getting the Most From a Diskette Clay Ruth technique / technical Exploring The World Of Apple CA 00-Mar-1982 13 (4/82p71; 12/82p57) “reclaiming the use of “”unavailable”” sectors” VTOC
Applesoft’s CHARGET Routine Cornelis Bongers technical From The Very Core Of Apple CA 00-Mar-1982 21 “when the BASIC interpreter wants to read the next byte of a program, it” calls the CHARGET routine. CHARGET returns with the next byte in the Accumulator “CHRGET, self-modifying, TXTPTR”
Getting the High Sine Charles Kluepfel utility Special Math Section CA 00-Mar-1982 27 (9/82p9) an assembly language routine which plugs a string formula into an “existing line of code in BASIC, converting arithmetic symbols into their” appropriate tokens parse
Trig or Treat Raymond Usher technique / math CA 00-Mar-1982 31 (5/82p85) “derive the five missing inverse trig functions (ARCSIN, ARCCOS, ARCSEC,” “ARCCSC, ARCCOT) using the built-in function (ATN)”
Mathemagics Michael Thyng technique AppleMash CA 00-Mar-1982 33 add extremely large numbers without losing the precision of scientific notation
MOD Art Wayne Eastwood tip CA 00-Mar-1982 37 Applesoft the published MOD algorithm for Applesoft Basic Programming Manual is wrong (fails on negative numbers) A MOD B = INT ( ABS(A) – INT ( ABS(A/B) ) * ABS(B) + .05 ) * SGN (A/B)
MX 100 Hi-Res Dump Bruce C. Detterich printer dump A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Utility CA 00-Mar-1982 41 (5/82p86) a fundamental Hi-Res graphics dump / a new manual and interface cards with graphics dump firmware
Out Of Sorts technique Call -A.P.P.L.E. Contest Winners CA 00-Mar-1982 51 (9/81p77) the mystery program is actually a sort “the winner is Scott Simpson, second prizes go to Luis Arana, Scott Lee,” “David Walker, Peter Lincoln, and Brian Matthews” “Double Bubble, Gravity’s Rainbow, Decreasing Entropy”
Hexadecacolor Double-Bubble Demo Sort Scott Simpson contest / puzzle CA 00-Mar-1982 53 (8/82p79) the 1st Place contest winner explains that the program uses a display a “Low-Res graphic blocks to visually demonstrate, through color and” “motion, the step-by-step workings of a two-dimensional Bubble Sort” sorting routine
Call -A.P.P.L.E. Contest Entry Comments Luis A. Arana technique / puzzle CA 00-Mar-1982 57 “the second place winner speeds up the program with a BASIC Shell Sort,” then augments it with assembly language (cutting the time from 1/2 hour to 5 seconds)
Notes From A Novice Charles W. Rusch tip CA 00-Mar-1982 65 “reboot from Pascal with “”H”” PRINTing 40 character lines replacing” “power supply switches, getting started with Pascal, Tracy Kidder’s” “The Soul of a New Machine, SOFT-STEP debugger, Apple PIE upgrade,” “Videx Enhancer II (lower case, shift key, programmable keys), RAM boards” “Legend RAM boards, extra disk space on track 2 (6/81p56)”
LCase Killer Eric Lambrecht utility A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Utility CA 00-Mar-1982 70 “searches an Applesoft program for lower case characters, then changes” them to UPPER CASE
Verbatim on diskettes David A. Lingwood meeting A.P.P.L.E. Meeting Minutes CA 00-Mar-1982 73 the care and feeding of diskettes / a Jonathon Post guide through the information-manic future
S-C Macro Assembler “Sander-Cederlof, Bob / rb Don Taylor” assembler Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Mar-1982 75 reliable and capable
A Problem with PIE “Peter G. Bartlett, Jr.” word processor Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Mar-1982 75 (5/82p88) users who exit PIE via Format will find they have to reboot (SAVE and LOAD unrecognized)
“10,000th Member Joins” user group A.P.P.L.E. INFO CA 00-Apr-1982 7 (1) Val Golding (6) Steve Alex (11) Roger Brengman (2) Michael Thyng (7) Francis Anderson (12) Dick Curtiss (3) Darrell Aldrich (8) Mike Angiuli (13) Bud Grove (4) Bob Huelsdonk (9) Richard Borschel (1000) Eric Smith (5) Don Williams (10) Bob Bradford (10000) Stanley Creed
Problems with SYMBOL SYMON by the Wrongdoers disassembler Writing The Wrongs CA 00-Apr-1982 7 involves the overflow flag and saving a symbol table with Big Mac
Disk/Tape Backup Grant Schenck utility A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Utility CA 00-Apr-1982 9 (NB:v2n8p54) copy an Apple format disk to cassette tape as well as recreate a disk from a backup tape
How About Arrays? Ralph H. Swerdlow tutorial / programming A Is For Apple CA 00-Apr-1982 17 rectangular tables of information
DICE 82 Dan Paymar utility A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Utility CA 00-Apr-1982 21 (8/82p79; 4/83p72) Dan Paymar Lower Case Adapter utility software for the Lower Case Adapter case lock
The Protection Racket Val J. GoldingT industry Feature Section CA 00-Apr-1982 43 four viewpoints on piracy and software protection
Copy Protection and The Software Producer David A. Lingwood industry CA 00-Apr-1982 45 it is time to pressure software produces to apply protection schemes that are acceptable to users / principles for software producers and for consumers to evaluate software before they buy
Another View On Piracy Jerry Brieger industry CA 00-Apr-1982 51 the only thing so-called copy protected software does is annoy and inconvenience legitimate users
Writing Text Files From The Keyboard Charlie Stillman technique A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Quickie CA 00-Apr-1982 52 save your data into a text file with these immediate commands
Protection: A Sordid Subject Barry W. Collins industry CA 00-Apr-1982 55 “I see an extremely serious problem developing in the Apple market,” “because of this “”protection paranoia””” BPI lump
Open Letter To Apple Owners “Mark Pelczarski/President, Penguin Software” software / policy CA 00-Apr-1982 57 (6/82p80; 7/82p83; 4/83p57) applications software from Pengin will now be available on non-protected disks
Hi-Res Hi-Jinx Edward S. So technique CA 00-Apr-1982 59 (10/80p25) formula to translate HPLOT coordinates to memory addresses / simulate a SCRN function for Hi-Res with the collision counter
RESTORE Eric Lambrecht utility A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Utility CA 00-Apr-1982 61 restore a program after you’ve accidently typed NEW (or FP)
Random Ideas Val J. Golding utility listing CA 00-Apr-1982 63 converting a random access file to a sequential file
Free Space Patch Val J. Golding and Mark Pump utility A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Utility CA 00-Apr-1982 65 (9/80p23; 6/82p59) DOS routine torn in half to fit it in DOS 3.3
Z-80 Card Fix P.C. Lincoln (with Richard Foulk) utility CA 00-Apr-1982 69 “CP/M, MS-Basic” adding line feeds to HUFFIN and adding line feeds to text files moved by APDOS (DOS to CP/M utility)
Get Most Follow Up Clay Ruth technique CA 00-Apr-1982 71 (3/82p13; 12/82p57) placing data on track 0 creates no problems … unless the file’s Track/ Sector List gets placed on Track 0!
Spoiled Preserves Charles Kluepfel technical Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Apr-1982 72 (2/82p65; 8/82p47) an explanation of problems with Applesoft Preserves FRETOP
Apple Mail Order Sales Prevented Sutton Redfern policy / support Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Apr-1982 72 a violation of Fair Trade Laws?
“Officers Elected: Hubert, Huelsdonk, Lingwood, Clardy, Golding, Merchant” David A. Lingwood meeting A.P.P.L.E. Meeting Minutes CA 00-Apr-1982 75 / proposition passed to allow advertising of nibble copiers / results of member survey / Robert Gillespie is concerned with the social impacts of computing
Faire Enough (the seventh annual West Coast Computer Faire) Val J. Golding trade show CA 00-May-1982 7 “Off again to San Francisco and Brooks Hall: disk drives, disk emulators,” “RAM cards, Microbuffer II, 80-column cards, alphaSyntauri, On-Line and” “Softape stand-up arcade games, Hi-Res games (Sirius, DataMost,” “Synergistic, Island Graphics), International Apple Core/Apple Orchard,” “San Francisco Apple Core, other magazines”
Program Optimization David H. Bartley technique A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Tutorial CA 00-May-1982 9 “speed up your Applesoft programs: peephole optimization, loop” “loop optimizations, loop elimination, change in form, operator strength” reduction
Adding Machine “Ralph Swerdlow, M.D.” tutorial A Is For Apple CA 00-May-1982 15 you can use your Apple as an adding machine by typing PRINT and then entering the numbers you wish to add
Picture Compression Edward C. So utility / graphics listing CA 00-May-1982 21 (6/83p59) a method of storing and retrieving an Apple Hi-Res picture in less than the 34 sectors of diskette space it normally requires
Random Adventures David Sparks utility Exploring The World of Apple CA 00-May-1982 37 (7/82p83) presenting and testing a machine-language random number generator
Keep Your Cool Harry E. Brawley / Robert A. Kidder (art) hardware / homebrew CA 00-May-1982 57 (9/82p48) a solution to an overheated Apple: a small fan mounted inside the Apple which forces turbulent air across the mother board to exhaust through the slots above the power supply “convection Super Fan II Cool Stack VENTOP Sup “”R”” Fan”
Curing A Shiftless Apple Dan Paymar hardware CA 00-May-1982 63 (2/83p66:convertable mod; 5/84p68) adding a wire from the shift key to the game switch #2 input “shift key modification, keyboard encoder”
Total Amnesia Val J. Golding technical A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Technote CA 00-May-1982 67 OUT OF MEMORY are usually stack overflows / how to handle FOR/NEXT and GOSUB and ONERR correctly
Using A Firmware Card In Slot 4 David Morgenstein/Washington Apple Pi technique CA 00-May-1982 69 (3/83p9; AAL:7/83p1; AADp35; 3/84p67) using an Integer or Applesoft card along with a 16K (Language) card
So What Did You Expect Tim Jackson puzzle CA 00-May-1982 70 (7/82p84)
Stack and Status Trace For Apple Forth Guy T. Grotke/San Diego Apple Corps utility listing CA 00-May-1982 73 (6/83p75) Apple Forth useful for tracking down stack errors in a complex definition
The Inspector “Sefton, Bill / rb Charlie Stillman” utility Omega Software Products CA 00-May-1982 75 similar to Dan’s Disk Utility and Disk Zap
Things About Strings Michael Thyng tutorial Applemash CA 00-May-1982 79 the ins and outs of alphanumeric (string) variables
Look Before You JMP Ken Manly technical / technique A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Technote CA 00-May-1982 83 the indirect jump instruction will not work at all if the address referred to in the operand is at the end of a page “bug, feature, KSWL, CSWL”
Splitting a Pascal text file Joel Buckley technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-May-1982 85 dealing with files too large for the Pascal editor
More Epson Codes John M. Miller tip / printer Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-May-1982 86 (6/82p79) two more character types can be accessed by using a combination of control codes: small expanded and double-print
Trig With Integer Basic Mark Cross technique A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Quickie CA 00-May-1982 91 using the sine table in the original Hi-Res software
“Word Weaver ///, Big Mac.LC, Assembly Lines: the Book, Using 6502 A.L.” Val J. Golding new products Bytes From A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jun-1982 7 “Using 6502 Assembly Language, Global Program Line Editor”
So What Did You Expect Dept stolen from Alan Baxter/Apple Core of San Diego puzzle CA 00-Jun-1982 7
Video Interfacing Jim Hockenfull technical / video Exploring The World of Apple CA 00-Jun-1982 9 (12/82p37; 2/84p66; 4/84p48:VCR) “what a video signal is, some of the non-standard characteristics of” “Apple’s signal, and some devices designed to correct the problem and” enhance Apple’s usefulness as a video tool “persistence, raster, blanking signals, color burst, NTSC”
Pitch and Rhythm on the Apple Jack H. Bender music A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Applecation CA 00-Jun-1982 15 playing a song on the Apple
Boston in Brief Val J. Golding trade show Hold The Press CA 00-Jun-1982 17 (7/82p80) two show-stoppers: a Z-80 card with 64K RAM; Hi-Res light pen with full support software
Let’s RESUME At Your Place Don Taylor technique / utility A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Tutorial CA 00-Jun-1982 19 convincing Applesoft to handle input errors with the RESUME command
Improved Error Handling David Short tip CA 00-Jun-1982 22 “if your error trapping code did not correct the error, you could put the” program into an endless loop by careless use of the ONERR GOTO and RESUME commands
“Ins and Outs, Part One” Tom Little technical / hardware Exploring The World of Apple CA 00-Jun-1982 25 (10/82p73) “the purpose of this article is to describe I/O operations on the Apple,” “intended for the programmer / Keyboard Input Demo, Speaker Demo,” Game Paddle Demo “signal, line, bus”
Disk Verify Roger Chaffee utility A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Utility CA 00-Jun-1982 39 “calls RWTS to attempt to read every sector on every track on a diskette,” and will list the status code on the screen RWTS
Bag of Tricks “Worth, Don and Pieter Lechner” utility Quality Software CA 00-Jun-1982 43 $40.00 four disk utilities accompanied by a comprehensive manual. FIXCAT “(reconstruct a crashed disk), INIT (reformat selected tracks on a” “diskette), TRAX (display raw diskette data), ZAP (comprehensive disk” edit utility)
Universal Boot Initializer 4.0 “Schumer, Art” utility S&H Software CA 00-Jun-1982 43 $70.00 creates a diskette that is bootable on either 3.2 or 3.3 DOS
A New DOS Command: File Dump Lee Reynolds utility A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Utility CA 00-Jun-1982 “47 (7/82p41:COUT; AAL:7/82p23; 10/82p74,74:MAXFILES)” DOS 3.3 print the contents of a text file
Dual Boot Bill Bush utility A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Utility CA 00-Jun-1982 49 DOS 3.3 converts a 13 sector DOS 3.2 disk so that it may be booted with DOS 3.3 without using the Boot 13 program
Calendar Display Routine Mike Firth utility A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Apple-Cation CA 00-Jun-1982 55 accurately display calendar pages from 1752 to 2099 Gregorian
“””Patching”” The Free Space Patch” C.J. Welman utility CA 00-Jun-1982 59 (4/82p65; AAL:8/82p9; 9/82p47; 10/82p74; 2/83p67) fixing the 8-sector bug and compressing the code to fit in one area
Open Letter To Computer Widows Sabine Kurjo computing / psychology CA 00-Jun-1982 63 instead of expecting him to make you happy and be frustrated if he “doesn’t, you can learn to create happiness by yourself for yourself”
Making Mailing Labels Ralph H. Swerdlow data management A Is For Apple CA 00-Jun-1982 65 printer a program to print multiple copies of a mailing label
GETting Straight Michael Thyng tutorial / programming AppleMash CA 00-Jun-1982 67 Applesoft how and when to use the GET command
Blaise Pascal Henry Roberts profile A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1982 73 a scientific genius
Pascal Questions Henry Roberts tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1982 73 using the Pascal editor to create BASIC programs / running Pascal programs without a Language Card? / accessing a printer (get ATTACH.BIOS)
Super Scribe II rb Henry Roberts (A.P.P.L.E. Doctor) word processor CA 00-Jun-1982 73 describes the shift key modification and display 70 columns without special hardware
Incompatible Hardware Henry Roberts tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1982 74 VisiCalc incompatible with California Micro Numeric Keyboard / Corvus incompatible with certain software (which are slot-dependent) / programs which are copyprotected generally can’t be modified or made to work any way other than intended by the manufacturer of the program
Applesoft Locations Henry Roberts tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1982 74 Applesoft ROM differs from the RAM version in more than just the locations
Numerical Precision Henry Roberts technical A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1982 77 “Applesoft gives nine significant digits, while Pascal and Fortran give” only six-seven “long integer, BCD”
Integer Basic Gibberish? Henry Roberts tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1982 77 the gibberish may be a machine language routine attached to the Basic program
INIT Without DOS James A. Gant utility Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jun-1982 79 four POKEs to prevent DOS from copying itself onto a disk when initializing
Using $80 for 0 “Neil R. Ayer, Jr.” tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jun-1982 79 “T/S entry “”80/00″” when encountered will cause DOS to read track 0 “ sector 0… it is therefore feasible to create your own T/S list using $80 to denote track 0
More Epson Codes John M. Miller tip / printer Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jun-1982 79 (5/82p86) two more character types can be accessed by using a combination of control codes: small expanded and double-print
Relocating A.P.A. Abe Korn tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jun-1982 79 used modified DOS to use the DOS Tool Kit relocation program to relocate A.P.A. beneath P.L.E. with DOS in the language card
The Superplotter Unlocked “Gordon Lee Dickens, Dickens Data Systems” software Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jun-1982 80 why this program was not locked
Drive-In Window David A. Lingwood/Secretary meeting A.P.P.L.E. Meeting Minutes CA 00-Jun-1982 81 proposal to sell Big Macs at a drive-in window / Macromint SweeTalker board / Steve Ciarcia’s phoneme speech synthesizer / making diskettes at Control Data Corporation
Global Program Line Editor Val J. Golding new products Bytes From A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jul-1982 7 Ap.Coolkit (fan)
Executive Text Files Ralph H. Swerdlow tutorial A Is For Apple CA 00-Jul-1982 9 EXECing a file is like typing from the keyboard
Examining Directory Sectors David Huffman technical A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Tutorial CA 00-Jul-1982 15 symbolic guide to hex dump of one sector of diskette directory
“Ins and Outs, Part Two” Tom Little technical Exploring The World Of Apple CA 00-Jul-1982 19 sending text and graphics to the video screen (memory mapped) “/ peripheral card I/O addresses, DEVICE SELECT, I/O SELECT, I/O STROBE” “COUT1, CSW, KSW, PR#, IN#”
Word Processors Jeffrey K. Finn word processor A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Review CA 00-Jul-1982 29 a recipe for finding a suitable word processor
The Executive Word Processor rb Traci Wynn Collins word processor CA 00-Jul-1982 30 $250.00 “features are implemented in a straightforward, easy-to-use, easy-to-“ “remember fashion / program includes an internal “”cardfile”” an” “electronic mail system, and disk management utilities”
The Correspondent rb L.K. Bumgamer / rebuttal by Roger Wagner word processor Southwestern Data Systems CA 00-Jul-1982 34 $60.00 “the program, while quite sophisticated and flexible, fails to provide” “the essentials of a true “”word processor””” / Roger offers a few of The Correspondent’s positive points
Keypad Joystick Richard V. Grant technique /// Corners CA 00-Jul-1982 41 “Apple ///, Basic” a short routine to make your joystick act as a 8-direction joystick
RESTORE To A Line Number Routine Lee Reynolds utility A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Utility CA 00-Jul-1982 43 (10/82p75) “RESTORE to a line number, rather than to the very first DATA statement” in a program
Unraveling An Applesoft Puzzle Cornelis Bongers puzzle / technical So What Did You Expect? CA 00-Jul-1982 45 strange behavior occurs due to the occurrence of a situation not forseen by the creators of Applesoft “immediate, deferred, input buffer, GOSUB”
Patching DOS The Easy Way Leighton Paul technique CA 00-Jul-1982 49 DOS 3.3 a utility to greatly speed up the patching process and also allow the user to change the name of the program that is automatically run on bootup
Imbedding Machine code In Applesoft Program Files William J. Cheeseman technique Call -A.P.P.L.E. Technique CA 00-Jul-1982 51 poking machine code into the DATA statements which contain the machine code S.H. Lam
Dyanamic Loading and Linking John L. Shanks technique Call -A.P.P.L.E. Technique CA 00-Jul-1982 59 (6/81p60) load and link any number of machine code files to an Applesoft program relocatable
Dual Drive Master Create David L. Deever utility / operating system listing CA 00-Jul-1982 65 creating MASTER Diskettes on drive 2
In AMID$T Strings Michael Thyng tutorial / programming AppleMash CA 00-Jul-1982 67 use the MID$ and IF statements to look for initials in a string “LEFT$, RIGHT$”
DOS Patch For 80 Column Cards Glen Bredon utility listing CA 00-Jul-1982 75 Big Mac (LC) a patch to prevent interference with 80 column cards resulting from inverse and/or flashing characters in the catalog and to enable the control-C catalog abort feature
Binary To Text Converter Val J. Golding with Dave Lingwood utility A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Utility CA 00-Jul-1982 77 (10/82p37) convert a binary file to a text file for easier transmission over the phone lines and/or to create an EXEC file to load the binary data into memory
Moving Big Mac Symbol Table Thomas G. Williams technique / debugger listing CA 00-Jul-1982 79 (4/83p57) Symbol Simon move the Big Mac.LC symbol table to the same location as Big Mac.STD in order to be accessed by Symbol Simon
Val Golding’s impresssion of the Boston Applefest Michael Thyng/guest secretary meeting A.P.P.L.E. Meeting Minutes CA 00-Jul-1982 80 “64K Z-80 Board, high res light pen, Franklin Ace 100, XEBEC hard disk” / Tom Benett speaks on communicating with a large host computer over the phone lines
More On Random Numbers Marc Weiner tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jul-1982 83 using Crawford’s method to seed the RND function
Superior Policy on Copy-Protection Thorne D. Harris III industry Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jul-1982 84 (4/82p57; 6/82p80; 9/82p67) Superior Software and their decision not to copy-protect their software
Garbagemen Strike: Selective String Preservation Clay Ruth utility A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Technique CA 00-Aug-1982 “9 (11/82p68, 1/83p72)” selective string preservation involves continual elimination of temporary strings by allowing each new permanent string to overwrite them
Total Recall David Linker data management A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Apple-Cation CA 00-Aug-1982 15 (10/82p73) Mult Disk Ctlog (Diskpak 6B) “this program, along with a short machine language routine, will enable” “you to rapidly load, search and sort the files created by Mult Disk” Ctlog “File Cabinet II, garbage collection, & SWAP”
So What did you Expect Dept. N. D. Greene puzzle CA 00-Aug-1982 16
BASIS 108 rb Cornelis Bongers computer BASIS CA 00-Aug-1982 23 Apple compatible “features 80-columns, 64K RAM, professional keyboard, and a built-in” Z80 for CP/M compatibility
Spelling Programs “Ralph H. Swerdlow, M.D. (profiled)” spelling checker Apple / On-Line Systems / Sensible Software CA 00-Aug-1982 31 “a review of Goodspell, The DIC-TION-ARY, The Sensible Speller”
Executing Deferred Commands From The Keyboard C. Dorsman technique A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Technique CA 00-Aug-1982 40 (12/83p46) a deferred mode immediate mode statement executor which can be used as an extremely flexible BASIC debugging aid
Beware The $CFxx David Goss technical / electronics A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Tech Note CA 00-Aug-1982 43 (1/83p69:a software solution) the ROM circuit worked just fine — except that every time an Applesoft “program was run, the ROM got turned off!!! / the solution to the problem” “is, of course, to decode the full sixteen bits of the address so that” only $CFFF will disable the ROM I/O STROBE
Roasting Applesoft Preserves David G. Sparks technique CA 00-Aug-1982 47 (2/82p65; 4/82p72) tracking down bugs in a Val Golding program
Print To Disk Vince Giambalvo utility listing CA 00-Aug-1982 51 a driver routine to divert the output from the printer to a DOS textfile
Squashing A Nasty DOS Bug Art Schumer technical A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Technote CA 00-Aug-1982 57 (AAL:7/83p25) the bug arises when a program uses the APPEND command on a sequential “file, where the relative record number is larger than 32767 ($7FFF)”
Doing The Splits Roy Myers technique A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Technique CA 00-Aug-1982 61 (6/80p19; 10/80p45) “store large program blocks as subroutines, placing them on the opposite” side of the graphics page from the main program
So What Did You Expect? Paul Sandorff / Val J. Golding puzzle / contest CA 00-Aug-1982 67 announcing a contest with cash prizes
Videx Videoterm and Integer Card George Spelvin tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1982 75 the Videx Videoterm expects to find the Autostart ROM
What’s Where In The Apple \USE-TYPE\? George Spelvin reference A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1982 75 S = subroutine E = entry point P = parameter B = block B = buffer # = length in bytes H = hardware L = label F = flag
Bye-Bye DOS George Spelvin tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1982 75 “after a PR#0, CALL 1002 to turn DOS back on”
Dr. Allister Holden discusses voice recognition and synthesis David A. Lingwood/Secretary meeting A.P.P.L.E. Meeting Minutes CA 00-Aug-1982 77 The Source
Foiled Again Dan Yeager technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Aug-1982 78 “change the INIT, DELETE, and RENAME commands to other names”
TREAD Drive 2 Stephen E. Bach utility Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Aug-1982 78 (11/82p71) Apfile TREAD a file on drive 2
On RESET GOTO suggestion Robert Neuhauser tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Aug-1982 79 (AAAp133; 11/86p27) use a JSR $D683 (STKINI – clear stack) to correct a memory full error
Saturn RAM Board endorsed by criminal “James R. Florini, Ph.D.” crime Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Aug-1982 79 “RAM card stolen, rest of Apple untouched”
The Times They Are A-Changin’ Val J. Golding organization Bytes From A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Sep-1982 5 “a small, highly technical group of hobbyists becomes a modern, world-“ wide 13000 member organization / “Bob Dylan, Bob Sander-Cederlof, Apple Assembly Line”
Execute Strings Cornelis Bongers technique / utility A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Technique CA 00-Sep-1982 9 (4/85p36) add statements stored in a string as a line to a running program / execute BASIC statements that are stored in a string directly
AppleWriter control characters tip A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Quickie CA 00-Sep-1982 9 (1/83p71:inserting ESC P; 7/83p55) Ctrl-V turns on and off control character insert mode
Printer Protocol “Ralph H. Swerdlow, M.D.” tutorial / programming A Is For Apple CA 00-Sep-1982 17 issuing commands to send output to a printer
Money Manager Nelson R. Capes home finance A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Applecation CA 00-Sep-1982 21 (4/83p72) Applesoft keep track of household expenditures
Text File Fast Loader R.D. Purves utility A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Utility CA 00-Sep-1982 39 (5/83p71; 10/83p74) load text files into memory four times faster than READ/INPUT “LTXT, INPUT Anything”
Turning EXEC Files On and Off Brian Matthews tip A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Quickie CA 00-Sep-1982 39 POKE 43699
Apple Pascal: A Hands-On Approach Luehrmann and Peckham / rb Lee A. Webster book / tutorial McGraw-Hill CA 00-Sep-1982 45 Pascal $15.00 a tutorial book to learn Pascal on the Apple
Free Space On The Screen Mike Firth utility CA 00-Sep-1982 47 this routine runs on the screen!
Staying Cool Sutton Redfern / Edward Kurtz / Harry Brawley fan CA 00-Sep-1982 48 experiences with Super Fan II and an external exhaust fan
A Fourth Switch Input Joel Buckley hardware / homebrew CA 00-Sep-1982 51 a hardware modification which provides a fourth switch input for the Game Paddle I/O connector
Adventures With A RAMCard Charles Kluepfel technical / technique CA 00-Sep-1982 53 relocating the contents of the motherboard ROMs onto the RAM card for the purpose of patching them (eliminate conversion of lower case to upper case and correct a problem in the use of data field three in Applesoft)
Expanding CHRGET Anthony Rose tip A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Technique CA 00-Sep-1982 57 enable a routine that is called each time BASIC gets a character CHRGET
REMSaver Eric Lambrecht utility A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Utility CA 00-Sep-1982 59 save the REMs in a textfile and then save the program without the REMs strip
Using Mac.LC With Firmware Card David Deever technique CA 00-Sep-1982 63 Big Mac.LC “why not have Applesoft on board, Integer in slot 4, and Big Mac.LC in” “slot 0, obtained by FP, INT, and ASSEM respectively”
Wayne Winstone and Data Base Management Michael Thyng/Regular Guest Secretary meeting A.P.P.L.E. Meeting Minutes CA 00-Sep-1982 63 “three types of databases: relational, networking, hierarchical” Micro Rim
Even More Epson Codes James R. Weiner tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Sep-1982 67 elite print and double strike / graphic dumps with Epson Type II interface card
Modifiable Software “James P. Harrison, Solidus International Corp” software Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Sep-1982 67 (7/82p67) I question whether the average user is really interested in modifying his software
Shift Key Pascal “Frank C. Pinkston, Jr.” tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Sep-1982 68 shift key modification works with Pascal 1.1
Business Software Michael Thyng software AppleMash CA 00-Sep-1982 69 take a good hard look at the requirements of your business computer before you go shopping for software
The First Annual Pacific Science Center & A.P.P.L.E. Festival Michael Thyng conference CA 00-Sep-1982 78 “Rich Thayer (interface switch devices), Terry Dahl (big screen TV and” “Flight Simulator), Howard Hayes (short wave radio), Bill Crouch (Window,” “a new computer magazine), Duane Wilson and Norma Hart (play the market),” “Carl Main (audio equipment), Lisa and Michael Storrie-Lombardi (clinical” “psychiatric examinations), Doug Rasmussen (daisy wheel), Dick Turner” “(IC chips), Don Purvis (black Apple), Norma John (assembler classes)”
The Spreadsheet Val J. Golding new products Bytes From A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Oct-1982 7 (1/84p77) $22.50 “written by Randy Wigginton, Guil Banks, and Steve Wozniak”
Envelope Addresser “Ralph H. Swerdlow, M.D.” home A Is For Apple CA 00-Oct-1982 9 address your envelopes with your printer
So What Did You Expect? Frank Heffner puzzle CA 00-Oct-1982 9
Local Variables for Applesoft Charles Kluepfel technique A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Technique CA 00-Oct-1982 13 (1/84p9) the ability for internal subroutines to reference variables with the “same name as variables in the main stream of the program, but that are” actually different variables global
DOS/Pascal Bilingual Disks Mat Davis utility A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Technique CA 00-Oct-1982 17 Pascal the Pascal program BILINGUAL will create a disk that may be used by both Pascal and DOS
Selection of A Disk System — Part 2 Dan Paymar / response by George K. Peck (Vista Computer) disk drive A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Review CA 00-Oct-1982 23 “the Vista A800 controller and two QumeTrak 842 double-sided, double-“ “density 8″” floppy drives and how it met (and failed to meet) the” author’s criteria
“””Disk Zap””: Changing DOS Error Messages” Barton Feroe technique / technical CA 00-Oct-1982 29 lower case adapter print out DOS error messages in upper and lower case DOS BOSS
In The Dumps Val J. Golding utility A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Utility CA 00-Oct-1982 37 (2/83p67:filter control characters) adding ASCII translation to the memory dump utility
Passing Array Names Robert D. Purves utility listing CA 00-Oct-1982 46 “SWITCH, a program to exchange two arrays in memory (works by swapping” the array names)
Pager+ Gary B. Little utility listing CA 00-Oct-1982 49 allow paged printer output of BIG MAC assembly listings
Print Using Finds A Friend? Craig Peterson utility / technique CA 00-Oct-1982 55 two ways to relocate PUF (Print Using and Friends)
IF/THEN/ELSE Cornelis Bongers utility listing CA 00-Oct-1982 57 linking a machine language IF/THEN/ELSE handler via the & hook to Applesoft
Find It Anthony Rose utility listing CA 00-Oct-1982 63 the program FIND will search 32K for a two-byte hex string in about 1.5 seconds
Returning Your REMarks David G. Sparks utility A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Mini-Utility CA 00-Oct-1982 67 insert carriage return into your REMark statements for attractive listings Program Line Editor
Robotic Series: Overview and Orientation Michael Thyng robotics Robotic Series CA 00-Oct-1982 69 “the beginning of a series of articles that will chronologize the “”birth””” of a robot
Views On Hues Michael Thyng tutorial AppleMash CA 00-Oct-1982 71 you can draw all the Lo-Res patterns you want with only three “instructions: GR, COLOR, PLOT”
Recalling Total Recall Craig Peterson utility Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Oct-1982 73 ommission in the SWAP routine / an easier way to delete arrays
Author Gets Paddled John Messerly / Tom Little technical Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Oct-1982 73 technical corrections to Tom Little’s article about the game paddle port
More Efficient Code Valerie A. Floeter / Alan D. Floeter tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Oct-1982 74 (10/82p74) two more suggestions for writing assembly code
File Dump Generates Interest Duncan MacGregor / Robert G. Ragsdale / James A. Petrich utility Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Oct-1982 74 suggestion to use the space freed up by deactivating MAXFILES / dumping CHAIN instead of MAXFILES “/ change command to “”TYPE”””
Better RESTORE “James A. Petrich, Ph.D.” technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Oct-1982 75 (7/82p43) “POKE 125, PEEK(121): POKE 126, PEEK(122)”
Apples in France Dave Lingwood/Secretary meeting / tip A.P.P.L.E. Meeting Minutes CA 00-Oct-1982 77 GPLE goes away if you have a Non-Apple 16K card with Integer or a ROM on it. / some commercial software won’t run if you reburn your monitor ROM to keep it from converting lower to upper case / Dr. Richard Marks spoke about Apples in France and his work to adapt the Apple keyboard and Novation Apple Cat to the French language Xiten hard disk
Global P.L.E. rb M. Joseph Schaller/Cider Press utility / program editor A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Oct-1982 81 $38.50 (for A.P.P.L.E. members) a significant enhancement to Program Line Editor with global editing capabilities
Call -A.P.P.L.E. In Depth 2: All About Pascal Val J. Golding new products Bytes From A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Nov-1982 7 184 pages of Pascal reference
Color Me Apple M. A. Iannce technical Exploring The World of Apple CA 00-Nov-1982 9 (4/84p52) Apple Hi-Res graphics: how it works and its quirks additive light
So What Did You Expect Dept? “Eugene Locke, Thomas Chirpich, Jim Ganz, Stan Cleveland” puzzle CA 00-Nov-1982 “9, 32, 69 (1/83p71), 71”
Character Generator ROM Iam M. Jackson technique A Higher Text Apple-Cation CA 00-Nov-1982 21 Higher Text a way to use Higher Text fonts to burn in a new ROM for your text screen display EPROM
Playing Card Generator Vincent Aderente utility A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Apple-Cation CA 00-Nov-1982 31 the Applesoft version of Jim Hilger’s playing card generator
Champagne Graphics (On a Beer Budget) Clardy / Gabelli & Jewell / Pelczarski / Schwader / rb Andrew Berentes graphics Synergistic / Sirius / On-Line CA 00-Nov-1982 37 “$35, $50, $70, $80” four graphics packages with different strengths: Higher Graphics II (shape tables) E-Z Draw 3.3 (precise keyboard control) The Complete Graphics System (comprehensive) The Artist (color fill and animation support) Versawriter
Confessions Of A Computer Junkie Donal Buchanan experience / archaeology A Higher Text Apple-Cation CA 00-Nov-1982 47 Higher Text print out transcriptions with transliterations in special fonts “Punic, Iberic”
Graphic Garbage Collection Richard Cornelius/Melvin Zandler/Wichita State University technical A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Tutorial CA 00-Nov-1982 53 (1/83p71) a program which shows garbage collection actually taking place on the hi-res graphics screen
To Peacably Assemble David G. Sparks tutorial A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Tutorial CA 00-Nov-1982 57 Big Mac a Basic program to turn upper case character into lower in Big Mac comments / then a literal translation of the program into assembly language
Slow Plot Jim Morriset technique A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Technique CA 00-Nov-1982 63 “watch graphics images being drawn at a comfortable, contemplative speed” SYNFUL ERROR
Weed Out The Trash Clay Ruth technique A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Technique CA 00-Nov-1982 68 “handling other sources of trash: flow control strings, concatenation and” fragmentation garbage collection
Spoiling Preserves Larry Houston tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Nov-1982 71 “be careful of embedded strings in programs (e.g. 100 A$ = “”HELLO””)”
PLE.LC Reset Fix Eagle Berns tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Nov-1982 71 prevent PLE from freezing after a RESET while listing is paused
Text Screen Dump (again) N.D. Greene utility Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Nov-1982 71 Applesoft one-liner
The Ghost In The Machine Jonathan V. Post poetry CA 00-Nov-1982 72 pianissimo
Don Brown and the world of Eamon Dave Lingwood/Secretary adventure A.P.P.L.E. Meeting Minutes CA 00-Nov-1982 79 print spooler (Doubletime)
Variable Program Size George Spelvin tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Nov-1982 83 program saved is smaller than program copied because DOS doesn’t decrease the size of files unless the file is deleted before it is saved
Timed INPUT George Spelvin tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Nov-1982 83 use PEEK(-16384) within a loop
So What Did You Expect? “Michael Ziober, Dave Brown, David Lowe, Tim Jackson, Jay Bakst” puzzle / contest CA 00-Dec-1982 “5, 37, 39, 43, 46, 55, 58, 66, 70, 71, 77, 78, 82” “Ken Watters, Jonathan Kandell, Brian L. Matthews, Bob Ragsdale,” “Bob Ragsdale, Ken Kashmarek, Val J. Golding, Bill Bouma, Alan Baxter”
The Elementary Apple (a book by Bill Sanders) Val J. Golding new products Bytes From A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Dec-1982 7 hobby prototyping board Ap.RAM/16 (16K RAM card) LCM100 (connect a printer over the household AC circuits) Ap.Graphics: the Filler (color fill routine)
BASIC Suggestions Luis Hernandez programming A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Tutorial CA 00-Dec-1982 9 “clearing the screen, centering a line, double-return technique, flags,” “GOSUBs, fill-in-the-blanks method, menus, defaults, printing without” “scrolling, (still another) screen dump routine, scratch disks”
Doing It With A Naked Apple: Relocating Machine Language Bill Starbuck technique A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Tutorial CA 00-Dec-1982 15 16K Card relocating a program using only the Monitor “PGE, FIG.LEAF”
The Unknown INTFLG Kelly W. Puckett tip / technical From The Very Core of Apple CA 00-Dec-1982 23 “testing both variable type flags, VALTYP and INTFLG will completely” determine the type of variable encountered “TXTPTR, VARPNT”
New Uses For the RAM Card Mark Harris technique Exploring The World of Apple CA 00-Dec-1982 25 how to access the language card / LC PAGE 2 BACKUP is a short machine language routine which will copy a high-resolution graph (page two) to or from addresses $E000-$FFF in the language card / OVERLAY page two picture onto page one / PRINT MESSAGE (call COUT from language card)
A Program To Convert Applewriter Files Thomas G. Williams with Val J. Golding utility / tutorial CA 00-Dec-1982 31 “a BASIC program to convert Applewriter files to ASCII files, then some” machine language enhancements to speed up the program
Video Follow Up Jim Hockenhull video / electronics BDL Elec / Video Associates Labs CA 00-Dec-1982 37 $800 / $1850 / $2400 three products to convert the Apple II’s signal to NTSC: The Full NTSC “Converter, The VB-1 Computer Board, The VB-3 MICRO-KEYER” DVM/Color II
Two Decimal Algorithm Michael Thyng technique AppleMash CA 00-Dec-1982 39 (6/83p75) what did you expect? / beating rounding problems
NEXT! Wes Huntress tip CA 00-Dec-1982 43 (6/83p66) you can get in trouble when not using the NEXT argument if you are in the habit of prematurely terminating FOR … NEXT loops
Disk Mapping The Z-80 CP/M System Art Messler technical Exploring The World of Apple CA 00-Dec-1982 45 (2/83p66) the Apple CP/M disk map
Programming And Problem Solving Dr. David A. Lingwood statistics / computer science CA 00-Dec-1982 49 the accuracy of statistical calculations / computer science / problem solving steps / a plea for Apple users to treat what they do in a more scientific manner
“Extra, Extra Read All About It” Craig Peterson tip CA 00-Dec-1982 55 16K Card “if you have a RAM card, you can load the Programmer’s Aid #1 from the” INTBASIC file
“Get-Most Wrap-Up: Yes, You Really Can Put Fiules On Track 0” Clay Ruth technique CA 00-Dec-1982 57 (3/82p13; 4/82p71) more patches to make the original patches work
A Christmas Present From A Hacker Philip Chien gift CA 00-Dec-1982 63 “printer Computer Station “”Enhanced Graphics Software””” Philip’s ultimate last-second gift: a calendar with a Hi-Res picture…
PRINT ASCII Ralph H. Swerdlow tutorial / programming A Is For Apple CA 00-Dec-1982 65 using the ASC and CHR$ commands
Pascal From Basic Brown / rb David G. Sparks book / tutorial Addison-Wesley CA 00-Dec-1982 67 $13.00 a guide to Pascal which assumes the reader is already an able programmer in Basic “Bill Mudd, Professor Primple”
CTRL-C Killer S. Scott Zimmerman utility CA 00-Dec-1982 71 “intercept the keyboard input and replace CTRL-C with a “”space”” or other” character
2. The Systems Analysis Michael Thyng robotics Robotics Series CA 00-Dec-1982 75 “a Systems Analyst approach: defining the problem, establish the goals or” “limits, get the user’s approval, design the system”
Eamon Adventures: Our Biggest Contest Yet! adventure / contest CA 00-Dec-1982 77 (3/84p48) “your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to write a new EAMON” ADVENTURE
Rouding Results Cornelis Bongers tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1982 79 rounding errors occur because not all FP numbers can be represented in a finite expansion “main floating point accumulator (MFP), mantisse”
PEEK/POKE Drive Numbers Cornelis Bongers technique A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1982 79 a listing demonstrates how access a drive and the drive number with relocated DOS
Disconnected DOS Cornelis Bongers tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1982 79 the CONTROLLER and APMAIL disconnect DOS because of bugs in DOS 3.1 which result in keyboard entry being erroneously misinterpreted as a DOs command $3EA vector
Beginner’s Guide Lee Webster tutorial A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Tutorial CA 00-Jan-1983 9 getting started
Password Protection Ralph H. Swerdlow utility A Is For Apple CA 00-Jan-1983 13 protecting programs or disks
Bottoms Up! Tom Little technique A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Technique CA 00-Jan-1983 17 bottom-up programming
RND is Fatally Flawed David Sparks (profiled) technical A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Technote CA 00-Jan-1983 29 (4/83p58) the Applesoft RND function cannot be relied on as a source of properly distributed random number
A New Pseudo-Random Number Generator “Tom Hare, John Russ, Gary Faulkner” utility CA 00-Jan-1983 33 (5/83p75; 12/85p72) a better alternative to Applesoft’s RND / License Plate simulation USRND
Where To Put Machine Code Bill Parker technique Machine Power CA 00-Jan-1983 39 (7/83p67:other areas from Fretwell) there are 12 valid locations
MX-PLUS rb Drew Berentes PRINTER / UTILITY DRESSELHAUS COMPUTER PRODUCTS CA 00-Jan-1983 41 makes Epson printers more versatile and easier to use
“The Penultimate, Penultimate Input Anything Subroutine” Bob Nacon utility CA 00-Jan-1983 43 (4/83p59:quotes) getting around garbage collection Peter Meyer
Three Dee Demos David Sun graphics / math CA 00-Jan-1983 49 a hidden-line three dimensional image creating program
Using the Splitter Norman L. Kushnick (and Charles Kluepfel) utility A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Technique CA 00-Jan-1983 53 (10/80p45) a non-technical guide
WordStar and the Apple II Steve Ross tip A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Quickie CA 00-Jan-1983 55 (3/83p109; 4/83p58) 180-column card installing highlights and lowlights
Direct to Page 2 With Applesoft Bob Halfman technique CA 00-Jan-1983 57 Applesoft putting text on page 2
GETting the Point Michael Thyng (with Kay from Pennsylvania) tutorial / programming AppleMash CA 00-Jan-1983 63 “more uses for the GET statement / graphing using data from a disk file,” “data scaling, and a Lo-Res drawing program”
1982 Call -A.P.P.L.E. Index compiled by Kevin O. Donohue and Val J. Golding index CA 00-Jan-1983 66
Quadriplegic Help H.K. Moreland handicapped Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jan-1983 69 “Mike McIntyre, who is quadriplegic, has an interest in learning” computer programming with an ultimate goal of self support
Patching The Lister Stephen Bach utility Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jan-1983 69 “default WIDTH to 80, eliminate skip-a-line default, clock patch”
Poking Pascal Prefix David W. Walker tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jan-1983 69 (All About Pascal (AAP); 3/83p109) Pascal “setting the “”prefix”” to a drive number” automatically toggle the system swapping option set up Sup ‘R’ Term 80-column board
REL Bug Thomas J.D. Straub tip / bug Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jan-1983 70 DOS 3.3 Tool Kit all machine language routines using the REL feature must be one word filenames
Peachy Problems Eduardo Mariscal technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jan-1983 71 questions on using Peachtree Software disk emulator
Bugs in the Garbage Ken Kashmarek tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jan-1983 71 (11/82p53) an obscure bug in a hex/dec convertor / notes on Graphic Garbage Collection (
Doing the Shuffle “Maurice Bernstein, M.D.” technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jan-1983 72 (1/80p39) another algorithm for shuffling a deck of cards
Mummy’s Curse and Cosmic Combat (two games by Butch Greathouse) Val J. Golding new products Bytes From A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Feb-1983 7 Ap.Holder (hold books open) Ap.Graphics: The Filler (color fill) Woz Talks VHS video cassette
Revving Up the Rev e (the Apple IIe) rb Clif Howard and Art Schumer (profiled) computer Apple Computer CA 00-Feb-1983 9 (5/83p71) “new features include enhanced keyboard, built-in lower case and” “80-column display, redesigned back panel, modified main logic board,” “improved firmware, extended 80-column text card” “/ identification routines for assembly, Basic, Pascal” auxiliary memory
Taking A Bigger Byte Ken Kashmarek technique A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Technique CA 00-Feb-1983 27 (5/83p71; 10/83p74) obtain a 16 bit memory address (all at once)
Interrupts and Apples Richard L. Emerson technical Exploring the World of Apple CA 00-Feb-1983 35 interrupts halt the operation of the main computer program and the computer is directed to the start of a separate interrupt routine
An Apple in the Kitchen Jim Ganz home A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Applecation CA 00-Feb-1983 43 (7/83p67; 10/83p74) “””Recipe File”””
Branch Speeding R.L. Sakrison technique / programming CA 00-Feb-1983 53 speed up Applesoft’s branching
The Dietician rb Joan Chaiten home Dietware CA 00-Feb-1983 57 $60.00 calculating the nutrient composition of a diet
Controlling Control D “Ralph Swerdlow, M.D.” tutorial A Is For Apple CA 00-Feb-1983 59 (p65; 5/83p61; 9/83p90) Ctrl-D tells our Apple that the next order will involve DOS or some peripheral device
Smooth Animation Jonahtan Kandell technique / graphics CA 00-Feb-1983 61 “masking, ping-ponging (page flipping)”
Use of Soft Seventy w/ D.C. Hayes Gene Hite technique CA 00-Feb-1983 63 Soft Seventy
Big Mac to Toolkit George Spelvin tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1983 65 “change the file type from “”B”” to “”T”” to convert the file to TEXT” PUF
ONERR GOTO problems Ken Kashmarek technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Feb-1983 66 location 222 should be 216 in the Applesoft Reference Manual
Incompatibilities with Novation’s Apple Cat Geroge T. Miller tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Feb-1983 66 (5/83p61; 6/83p75) and VisiCalc and GPLE (and a solution by Mark Robbins)
Switchcraft: Memory Management Coleman Logan technique Exploring the World of Apple CA 00-Mar-1983 9 using a RAM card and a language ROM card at the same time
TRANSFORTH “Lutus, Paul / rb Charles Wells” language Insoft CA 00-Mar-1983 13 $125.00 contrasted with Pascal and BASIC
Anatomy of an Eamon Adventure Robert Plamondon adventure / fantasy CA 00-Mar-1983 21 the EAMON Adventure Base program (with comments) Don Brown
Ampersand Utilities rb David Sparks utility various CA 00-Mar-1983 37 (6/83p73:Peter Meyer) “Amperware, the Routine Machine, Amper-Magic, Amper Manager, Ampersoft”
A Visit With Cornelis Bongers “Ralph Swerdlow, M.D.” interview Personality CA 00-Mar-1983 47 I recently found myself in a suburban home just outside the city of Rotterdam in The Netherlands
Escape From the Motherboard “Donald W. Miller, M.D.” technique CA 00-Mar-1983 51 Applesoft and monitor code can be modified and placed in the RAM card
Apple — The Magician Luis Hernandez entertainment CA 00-Mar-1983 53 a computer implementation of a card trick
Error Message Directory Lee Webster technical / reference A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Tutorial CA 00-Mar-1983 59 an explanation of error messages
An Alternative Text Page Glen Bredon technique A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Technique CA 00-Mar-1983 67 utilizing text page two with a RAM card
APPLE FLASHER rb Walter G. Hopkins graphics / business Crow Ridge Associates CA 00-Mar-1983 71 $34.50 presents hi-res images in slide show fashion
WAIT-ing in the Monitor John K. Elberfield technical From the Very Core of Apple CA 00-Mar-1983 75 (10/81p52; 2/86p54:Ching) a disassembly of the WAIT command $FCA8
Waiting for a Keypress Ken Kashmarek utility CA 00-Mar-1983 77 a timed input routine
Microsolitude Mike Shadick poetry CA 00-Mar-1983 78
Seeing Double Safely Lawrence O’Glasser technique Pascal Graphics CA 00-Mar-1983 79 Pascal use Turtle Graphics to access the second hi-res page
CP/MUFFIN Val J. Golding with Bill Parker and David Sparks utility A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Utility CA 00-Mar-1983 81 (1/84p78) converting CP/M files to DOS
A Beginner’s Guide to the Pascal Editor Terry Reilly tutorial Jeanne’s Procedures CA 00-Mar-1983 89 step-by-step instructions
Customizing GPLE Escape Tables Edward Nutter technique A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Technique CA 00-Mar-1983 93 GPLE
Think!!! Dov Freund puzzle So What Did You Expect? CA 00-Mar-1983 96
Making It Last Robert Hanson music / technique listing CA 00-Mar-1983 99 (4/83p72) a way to produce long musical notes “Singin In The Rain, White Christmas, Java, Anchors Aweigh”
“Converting “”NEW”” to “”FP”” Type Files” W.T. Doyle technique / bug fix CA 00-Mar-1983 105 (AAAp17) correcting a problem with appending
Delete That Incubus! H. S. Bill Balsam technique CA 00-Mar-1983 107 (6/83p73) deleting mysterious alien lines
Drive Noise Herbert C. Minard (and Randy Selman) hardware Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Mar-1983 109 loss of sensitivity in the disk drive head led to picking up noise from the analog board / an aluminum shield cured the problem
Fix APCPM Murray Arnow utility CA 00-Mar-1983 111 Microsoft CP/M fixes screen clearing for Apple IIe 80 column card in aux. slot
The Word (though not necessarily from above) Mike Shadick technology / history CA 00-Mar-1983 113 “yes, that’s where a lot of the words seemed to be headed: Out of print” video
Beep: A Tale of (T)ERROR Christopher Volpe tip CA 00-Mar-1983 114 a new message for too many parentheses
3) The Design and Where To Find The Building Materials Michael Thyng robotics Robotics Series CA 00-Mar-1983 115 a diagram of our proposed robot KIM-1
Apple Introduces Lisa computer Apple Computer CA 00-Mar-1983 119 a new kind of personal computer aimed at revolutionizing the way work is done in office environments
Arcade Graphics Techniques Chris Jochumson technical / graphics Exploring the World of Apple CA 00-Apr-1983 9 (7/83p70) “how the hi-res screen is mapped out / drawing shapes, base address” “look-up table, pre-shifted block graphics” EOR
The Computer Home Burt Webb home Homing In On CA 00-Apr-1983 17 there are many uses for computers in the home
Catching Mumps rb David Walker language Richard F. Walters CA 00-Apr-1983 23 CP/M $55 (public domain) Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System / a powerful flexible language
The Joys of Relocatability Bill Parker technique U-Haul Programming CA 00-Apr-1983 27 writing relocatable machine code
Applesoft Garbage Collection Bug tip So What Did You Expect CA 00-Apr-1983 28 HIMEM
“Man, Machine and the Anagram” “Donald W. Miller, M.D.” puzzle listing CA 00-Apr-1983 31 the Anagram Helper: an aid in solving anagrams
Removing the Challenge Luis Hernandez puzzle Word Search Puzzles CA 00-Apr-1983 35 a program to do the searching for you
The Saga of Greg Grummore David Sparks fiction(?) CA 00-Apr-1983 39 the most prolific free-lance software writer for the ancient Apple II personal computer / Input-And-Substring-Search
Literal Input Gregory A. Grummore utility CA 00-Apr-1983 43 screening useless characters without garbage collection
Data Encryption Techniques James L. Paul software protection A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Tutorial CA 00-Apr-1983 “47 (7/83p69,70)” a method in which code being sent to the disk is changed
Textfile Scrambler Skene H. Moody encryption CA 00-Apr-1983 49 uses the USRND function to encode/decode Apple textfiles
So What Did You Expect Wolfgang Dederichs puzzle CA 00-Apr-1983 50
RAMPix and RAMtext: Painting the RAMcard “Donald W. Miller, Jr.” technique CA 00-Apr-1983 51 (7/83p78; 2/84p69) graphics and text transfers to the RAMcard
The Quotable Quote Val J. Golding technique A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Technote CA 00-Apr-1983 55 embedding a quote in a data statement
Penguin Policies Mark Pelczarski marketing Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Apr-1983 57 Penguin Software lowers their prices for games
Spreadsheet Technique Mike Glover technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Apr-1983 58 The Spreadsheet simulating the IF statement
Diversi DOS and Big Mac Bob Gardner tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Apr-1983 59 patch to make them compatible
“Trig, Degrees/Common Logs” W.S. Skeen math CA 00-Apr-1983 60 (1/84p77) trig FuNctions DEFined
“Two “”Trick”” Programs” Lee Reynolds technique CA 00-Apr-1983 61 display the Applesoft tokens display the Applesoft ERROR messages
Do Nothing ‘Till You Hear From Me readers utility CA 00-Apr-1983 63 programs to list Applesoft’s tokens
New Office Space Dave Lingwood meeting A.P.P.L.E. Meeting Minutes CA 00-Apr-1983 65 Jay Bakst explains structured programming and structural analysis Mike Deville covers the Basis 108 and Logo
Printing Lo-Res Graphics George Spelvin technique A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1983 65 can’t dump Lo-Res like Hi-Res
Prowriter 8510A Val J. Golding new products Bytes From A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-May-1983 7 Silentdrive / USI green screen monitor / Mockingboard / Vista V-1200 / THE Spreadsheet 20
You Think You Have a Million Dollar Program Alan and Valerie Floeter (profiled) software marketing CA 00-May-1983 9 “pick the program, documentation, peer review, marketing, reviewing the” “program, contracts and royalties”
Getting a Quart into a Pint Pot Chris W. Green technique CA 00-May-1983 13 (8/83p75) Pascal handling large Pascal programs
Magfiler Jack Olivieri data management A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Apple-Cation CA 00-May-1983 19 (11/83p79; speed up sort:3/84p46) a simple personal periodical guide
A Complete Password System “Jason K. Mintz (age 15, profiled)” technique / security Youngblood CA 00-May-1983 27 hide files until the correct password is entered
Applesoft Can Throw Your Valuables in the Trash Can Cornelis Bongers technical A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Technote CA 00-May-1983 35 a nasty bug in Applesoft’s garbage collection routine
Automated Typing Mike Shadick business An Economic Aid CA 00-May-1983 37 Cold Type has expanded its abilities to tap into a rapidly-growing area: remote typesetting (aka setting type by telephone)
WINDOW “OLDS, HENRY F. JR. AND JOHN RICHARDS / rb Michael Thyng” DISK MAGAZINE WINDOW CA 00-May-1983 39 $30.00 an electronic magazine on a diskette
SPECIAL EFFECTS “PELCZARSKI, MARK / rb Jeff Harper” GRAPHICS PENGUIN CA 00-May-1983 43 $40.00 five modules for creating a multicolor two dimensional picture
Bored with Bulletins? Michael Thyng communications AppleMash CA 00-May-1983 45 bulletin boards in general and the A.P.P.L.E. Crate and Apple II Crate in particular modem
Double Monitors for the Apple II Greg DeWilde hardware / homebrew CA 00-May-1983 47 install both the Old Monitor and AutoStart RAM
Spelling Corrector Wesley R. Felty spelling checker listing CA 00-May-1983 51 (7/83p78) “scan your file for a special symbol, ask for the correct spelling, and” replace the market word with the corrected spelling
VB-3 MICROKEYER rb James L. Hockenhull HARDWARE / VIDEO INTERFACE VIDEO ASSOCIATES LABS CA 00-May-1983 57 $2400.00 converts the Apple signal to NTSC standard NTSC
When Is an LS not an LS? Gary J. Sullivan tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-May-1983 61 errors in Apple documentation: the 74259 is not a 74LS series device
Epson CP/M Patch Patrick M. Dubois tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-May-1983 61 making the patch permanent
Another Trap Everett Ogden tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-May-1983 61 the real problem is a bug in the monitor ROM interrupt request pin
Sob Story David Taylor industry / software / hardware Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-May-1983 62 it takes nine diskettes and multiple boots to use certain software with the Videx 80-column board and Keyboard Enhancer
Changing Drives Stan Morris tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-May-1983 63 a GPLE macro for changing the active drive / MUFFIN PEEKs interest
Random Numbers Revisited David Sparks technique A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-May-1983 75 another discussion of random number generators random numbers from machine language
Call -A.P.P.L.E. In Depth: All About DOS Val J. Golding new products Bytes From A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jun-1983 7 IBM System 38
Comparing Apples and Apples (IIe vs. II+) rb Cecil Fretwell COMPUTER APPLE COMPUTER COMPANY CA 00-Jun-1983 9 (9/83p88:N-key rollover) subtle changes to watch out for
ODE To Apple //e somewhere in Dayton Ohio poem CA 00-Jun-1983 12
SPREADSHEET PROGRAMS rb Steve Ross SPREADSHEET various CA 00-Jun-1983 17 “Spreadsheet 2.0, CalcStar, SuperCalc, MultiPlan, VisiCalc”
Creating an Amper-Library Bill Parker technique / programming Machine Power CA 00-Jun-1983 23 PUF interface explained
The Arcadian Approach Michael Shadick education Preparing For Life CA 00-Jun-1983 31 a marriage between the philosophy of learning and the philosophy of the video arcade game
Education is An Adventure Game Dr. Mark Cross education CA 00-Jun-1983 35 adventure games can teach real-world knowledge rote learning
Kids and the Apple rb Kathryn Suther book / education Datamost CA 00-Jun-1983 37 $20.00 teach Applesoft to young people aged 10 to 14
MASTER TYPE rb Candy Woods EDUCATION / typing Lightning CA 00-Jun-1983 39 $40.00 an invaders-type game to teach typing
Where Have All the Typists Gone Gary Breidenstein technology A Dissenting Opinion CA 00-Jun-1983 41 is the typist about to go the way of the dinosaur and the Edsel?
THE GENERAL MANAGER rb Doug Pearson DATA MANAGEMENT SIERRA ON-LINE CA 00-Jun-1983 43 $230.00 “designed to be a complete package, but lacks examples of actual business” uses
Fast 6502 Multiplication Damon Slye technique / programming CA 00-Jun-1983 45 (AAL:2/81p11)
Nibbling Away at CP/M Murray Arnow (profiled) technical CP/Magic CA 00-Jun-1983 49 “sector skewing, RWTS for CP/M”
Memory Moves Made Simple Ken Kashmarek technique From the Heart of the Monitor CA 00-Jun-1983 53 (AAL:1/81p2) using the Monitor move routine
Apple IIe Rick Sutcliffe computer Northern Spy CA 00-Jun-1983 57 predictions about the new machine from Apple Lisa
ELECTRIC DUET “LUTUS, PAUL / rb William C. Dwyer” MUSIC INSOFT CA 00-Jun-1983 61 $30.00 write and play music
What in the Blaise is Going On? Bruce Van Norman language CA 00-Jun-1983 63 (9/83p88) Pascal adapting BIOS to the IIe arrow keys
Pascal Magic – A Better Keypress Buckley and DeGroat utility listing CA 00-Jun-1983 65 (8/83p75; 2/84p70; 8/84p69) a Pascal implementation of the built-in function
So What Did You Expect Ken Kashmarek puzzle CA 00-Jun-1983 72 an example of an undocumented program
IIe Escape Editing in 40 Column Mode R.L. Lietzke tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jun-1983 73 IIe location $1F is not available for use by the programmer
Booting //e Pascal Brian D. Silverio technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jun-1983 75 pressing RESET normally clears the language card
So What Did You Expect Dept? Garth Baulch puzzle CA 00-Jul-1983 7
80-col //e Low-Res Graphics Rob Moore technique / graphics A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Technique CA 00-Jul-1983 9 IIe REV-B accessing the (undocumented) double lo-res graphics mode
Betch Dollars to Apples “Peter C. Lincoln, Ph.D. (profiled)” utility A Specific Solution CA 00-Jul-1983 15 dollar formatting “USR, Newton”
The Inside Story Chris W. Green technique Pascal Program File Handling CA 00-Jul-1983 21 Pascal “unit to read directory of disk, check volume name and file names”
30 Crates of Apples Wes Felty (profiled) education An Apple for the Teacher CA 00-Jul-1983 31 it is not unusual for a school to suddenly find itself with thirty “crates of Apples and the giant station “”What do I do with all these?”””
Academic Skill Builders rb Kathryn Hallgrimson Suther education DLM CA 00-Jul-1983 35 $39.00 provides the necessary drill to improve or gain fundamental math skills
Apple Art Jack Bender puzzle (fun) CA 00-Jul-1983 38 match the token or CALL with the picture
Apple Blossoms Val J. Golding trade show Japan Microcomputer Show CA 00-Jul-1983 39 “Japanese computer makers, cassette software, Hudsoft”
Confessions of a Cheapskate Alan and Valerie Floeter tutorial / data management Why You Should Invest in a Data Base CA 00-Jul-1983 43 a general database program can be used for many purposes DBMS
the vote on the Apple IIe Rick Sutcliff computer Northern Spy CA 00-Jul-1983 47 “Apple was a little too cautious in designing, marketing, and production” of the IIe
Parkinson’s Law Robert A. Greenwald technology CA 00-Jul-1983 53 “””Need expands to fit availability”” / the uses to which we will put the” small computer will be the testing ground for Parkinson’s Law for the 1980s
Line: Bruce Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1983 55 use for making program easier to read
Color Monitors Bruce Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1983 55 there are two types of color monitors: NTSC and RGB / green and purple blobs
Disk Copying Programs Bruce Field utility A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1983 55 “COPYA, Wildcard and Crackshot (hardware)”
Pascal on Drive 2 Bruce Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1983 55 Pascal “SYSTEM.PASCAL must remain on the boot disk, but SYSTEM.APPLE could be” moved to another drive
Delete Files in CATALOG Bruce Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1983 55 “POKE 44502,234: POKE 44506,234”
Inserting ESC into Applewriter Bruce Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1983 55 type ESC three times after typing [Ctrl-V]
Printing Business Graphics Bruce Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1983 55 Grappler + “need to exit the program, then send the proper characters to the” Grappler +
Changing from 80-column Applewriter to 40-columns Bruce Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1983 57 not possible
Second Disk Noise Bruce Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1983 57 disk drive is probably recalibrating on the second disk
How to make drive 2 active after booting Bruce Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1983 57 “POKE 43624,2”
Why Use $300? Bruce Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1983 57 “$300 is used because it is “”safe”””
HIMEM and LOMEM Bruce Field technical A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1983 57 controls the areas of memory that contain an Applesoft program and the program variables
ENHANCING YOUR APPLE “LANCASTER, DON / rb James Hockenhull” BOOK / hardware HOWARD W. SAMS CA 00-Jul-1983 59 $16.00 “simple, low-cost hardware modifcations: color killer, field synch,” glitch stomper
American Flag Alan C. Young demo CA 00-Jul-1983 60 in lo-res graphics
Grappler+/MX-80 with Graftrax Ken Kashmarek printer / technique TechNote CA 00-Jul-1983 62 notes on using this printer/interface combination
The Game of Life Val J. Golding games CA 00-Jul-1983 65 “On the telephone, we decry games … this, however, is not exactly the” whole truth “Patti Hoffman, Kathy Pride”
Stellar Trek rb Val Golding strategy Rainbow CA 00-Jul-1983 65 “adds new and challenging features, but fails miserably in speed” “Star Trek, Wendell Sander, Allen Baum”
MILESTONES rb Val Golding STRATEGY CREATIVE COMPUTING CA 00-Jul-1983 66 $20.00 a card game of skill and chance Milles Bourne
Another Friend W.S. Skeen technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jul-1983 68 (AAA) PRINT USING AND FRIENDS modifying PUF command names
GPLE Typeahead J. Morris Prosser tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jul-1983 68 “typeahead may interfere with “”WAIT”” statements”
Not Over His Head Marsh Barton tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jul-1983 68 (All About DOS) “after using the SAVEDOS program, booting the modified DOS disk would not” run the HELLO program
Cryptic Letters Steve Wheeler / Mike C. Mayberry / James L. Paul encryption Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jul-1983 “69,70” the fallacious impression that the more steps taken to encrypt “something, the more secure it is” EOR
A New Base Harry Cheung technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jul-1983 70 a shorter base address calucation routine
Mockingboard Val J. Golding new products Bytes From A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Aug-1983 7 sound card with Microbes and Thunderbomb thrown in / AmperManager / Applesoft Carpenter ][
Taming the //e Sandy Mossberg utility listing CA 00-Aug-1983 9 assembly RESET back to IIe 80-columns
From Lisp to Logo Al Gruber language An Apple for the Teacher CA 00-Aug-1983 13 (10/83p27:Dewey Dykstra) Logo is a real language of quite respectable ancestry “Lisp, turtle graphics”
RAMfinder Mitchel Pilot utility A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Utility CA 00-Aug-1983 17 let the HELLO program know whether Integer BASIC is already present
The Time is Now Peter D. Hipson utility / clock A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Utility CA 00-Aug-1983 23 ThunderClock patch DOS to access the clock
Catalog Clock David Kelly technique / utility CA 00-Aug-1983 29 (10/83p68) ThunderClock using the ThunderClock from Basic and machine language
Digital Clock Ralph Swerdlow novelty listing CA 00-Aug-1983 32 with alarm
The Time Manager rb John Holmes calendar / scheduling Image Computer Products CA 00-Aug-1983 39 $150.00 a computerized desk calendar for appointments and task priorities
Wizardry and How to Beat It Ard Ude technique / fantasy The Gaming Room CA 00-Aug-1983 43 (12/83p61; 8/84p11) cheat using a disk zap program
Things Have Gotten Better With Time Bruce Van Norman language / tip What In The Blaise Is Going On CA 00-Aug-1983 47 Pascal UCSD Pascal has an intrinsic TIME
Name Matchcode Search Lorin Hungsberg utility A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Applecation CA 00-Aug-1983 49 find a name without having to know exact spelling
Computers in Education ’83 Suther and Stillman education CA 00-Aug-1983 51 conference at Rutgers University “CONDUIT, Logo”
The Apple’s Core rb Candy Woods education / programming language The Professor CA 00-Aug-1983 53 $50.00 an introduction to Applesoft
Numbers E. Stephen Freeman education / preschool listing CA 00-Aug-1983 55 (4/84p72) LARGE numbers appear when a number key is pressed
1984 IS COMING… But not coming true! Michael Shadick poetry CA 00-Aug-1983 57 big brother
Apple Developer’s Conference Dave Redhed conference Apple Computer Co. CA 00-Aug-1983 59 developing a relationship between a computer company and independent developers
Andromeda RAM Card Jay H. Lieske utility / RAM Card CP/Magic CA 00-Aug-1983 61 get CP/M60 to work with the Andromeda RAM Card
DOS 3.3 Renumber Patch utility / patch A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Quickie CA 00-Aug-1983 61 “eradicates bug which renumbers values following “”*”””
Nellie’s Formatter Rick Sutcliffe (profiled) technical / operating system The Northern Spy CA 00-Aug-1983 63 (11/83p67) analyzing the DOS INIT command
Lines That Refuse To Go Away Bruce Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1983 67 reconstructing pointer bytes or capture program to disk and EXEC back in
Boot Problems Bruce Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1983 67 (1/84p74:build shelves) may be due to electromagnetic interference or misaligned drives
WordStar features Bruce Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1983 67 (1/84p74) USER functions will send codes to a printer
C. Itoh Superscripts and Subscripts Bruce Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1983 67 (10/83p63; 11/83p66; 4/84p51) using the line feed command
DOS Disconnected Bruce Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1983 68 PR and IN commands turn off DOS (preceed with CHR$(4))
Pick A (unique) Number Bruce Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1983 69 Applesoft two algorithms
The Age of Silicon Jonathan Post technology / artificial intelligence Computer Futures CA 00-Sep-1983 7 the computer revolution is a turning point in the history of life on this planet / artificial intelligence: computer systems that exhibit the characteristics we associate with intelligence in human behavior
So What Did You Expect Dept? Garth Baulch / Val J. Golding / Russ Still / Stowe Keller / R. Swerdlow puzzle CA 00-Sep-1983 “10, 52, 76, 95, 96”
Where Has the Data Gone Ken Kashmarek technique / file handling D Is For Data CA 00-Sep-1983 11 Personal Finance Manager data storage and retrieval techniques; recovering data from PFM
Basic vs. Logo Lee Reynolds tutorial / education / language An Apple for the Teacher CA 00-Sep-1983 15 an introductory tour of Logo
Ceemac “Boering, Brooke / rb Jim Hockenhull” language / graphics Vagabondo CA 00-Sep-1983 21 $75.00 “a programming language which has only one purpose: to generate abstract,” animated video graphics Fire Organ
The Graphics Magician rb Harvey Gratt graphics Penguin CA 00-Sep-1983 25 $60.00 “consists of three main sets of programs: animation system, picture/” “object system, and super shape system”
Applesoft Graphics Mover Homer O. Porter utility listing CA 00-Sep-1983 29 move a high res picture (say to the center of the screen)
Shape Table Splicer Cyrus W. Roton utility / graphics listing CA 00-Sep-1983 33 “browse your library of shapes and fonts, then splice together a new” table
Extra Memory for THE Spreadsheet George Mochizuki technique / memory expansion CA 00-Sep-1983 37 (11/83p66) using multiple RAM cards with THE Spreadsheet
The Grade Book / Gradebook Plus “rb Suther, Felty, and Buck” education / administration Condor / EMA CA 00-Sep-1983 39 $60 / $49 keep track of and calculate student grades Rocky’s Boots
A.P.P.L.E. Computer Camp ’83 Charlie and Susan Stillman summer camp CA 00-Sep-1983 43 “for junior high and high school students / programming games, Zardax,” “Logo, scavenger hunt, beach seining, critter count, Koala Pad, graphics” “techniques, programming contest, piracy” “Bob Clardy, Bill Miller, Dave Lingwood”
Rocky’s Boots rb Earle Hancock education / logic The Learning Company CA 00-Sep-1983 47 $45.00 a delightful simulation that introduces elementary computer logic “logic gate, AND, OR, NOT, CLOCKs, FLIP-FLOPs, DELAYs”
Magic Square Dance J. Taylor puzzle / novelty listing CA 00-Sep-1983 51 generate geometric patterns
Nellie and the Pirates Rick Sutcliffe software piracy The Northern Spy CA 00-Sep-1983 55 Nellie Hacker encounters software piracy plus how to turn off the IIe 80-column card
Ignoring ?Extra Ignored Ari/Dov Freund utility A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Technote CA 00-Sep-1983 61 (11/83p65) ring bell instead of printing error message
Printing Esperanto Bruce Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Sep-1983 “65, 74 (ad)” Font Downloader & Character Editor for the Apple Dot Matrix Printer
Apple Has Trouble Waking Up Bruce Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Sep-1983 65 vertical bars on screen appear / probably a problem with the character generator ROM
INVERSE and FLASH lead to Peculiar File Handling Bruce Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Sep-1983 65 location 243 (ORMASK) adds 64 to ASCII value of characters for proper flashing / this interferes with DOS operations
Ignoring DOS I/O Errors Bruce Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Sep-1983 66 “POKE 48590,48: POKE 48591,29”
Messed Up Disk Bruce Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Sep-1983 66 RECONSTRUCT VTOC produces 46 errors
INPUTting Strings Bruce Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Sep-1983 66 if you respond to a string INPUT where the first non-blank character is “a “” all characters except ctrl-X ctrl-M or “” may be included in the” “response. If the first non-blank character is not a “” commas colons “ “ctrl-X, and ctrl-M may not included in the response (for both keyboard” response and DOS text files) EXTRA IGNORED
Preparing A Menu Val J. Golding tutorial / programming A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Tutorial CA 00-Sep-1983 68 a checklist of do’s and don’ts in menu writing
A Softcard LST Driver Gerald Cahill utility CP/Magic (listing) CA 00-Sep-1983 69 CP/M “driving any printer which was activated with the “”PR#1″” command under” Apple DOS
“And Now, the Winner is…” Ken Kashmarek technical From the Heart of the Monitor CA 00-Sep-1983 73 why &MOVE is faster then the monitor MOVE
SYSTEM.LIBRARY David Walker technique CA 00-Sep-1983 75 Apple Pascal making more room on your boot disk
APPLE PASCAL 1.2 rb ALLEN MUNRO LANGUAGE APPLE CA 00-Sep-1983 77 update makes system easier to run on Apple IIe
ApMail Apple-cations Ken Kashmarek technique CA 00-Sep-1983 78 (AAD) using FAST LOAD FORMATTER on Apmail
JawBreaker / Spy’s Demise rb Val J. Golding (The Gaming Room) arcade Sierra On-Line / Penguin CA 00-Sep-1983 80 $30 / $20 a PacMan variant / avoid guards while sneaking up a multi-story building
Inverse String Printer Stowe Keller utility listing (assembly) CA 00-Sep-1983 81 easily mix normal and inverse text
How I Became An Author for Call -A.P.P.L.E. Daniel T. Lyons experience CA 00-Sep-1983 82 keep the following advice in mind — keep trying
Telecommunications with Filedump Ross and Golding communications A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Applecation CA 00-Sep-1983 84 transmit data faster using FILEDUMP
Another Use for the Apple (E-COM) Bruce Bourbonnais communications Electronic Mail CA 00-Sep-1983 87 a new service from the U.S. Postal Service
Error Checking In 3.2 Richard J. Corcoran technical Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Sep-1983 88 (AAD) addresses for DOS 3.2 (modifications to All About DOS article)
BSAVING from Assembly Art Armstrong technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Sep-1983 “88 (9/84,p23)” put the command into the input buffer … then JSR $9EBD
More Pascal //e Jeff Gonion & David Bernholdt tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Sep-1983 88 SYSTEM.MISCINO designed specifically for the IIe
CP/Mystery J. Drabbe tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Sep-1983 90 CP/M function 17 does not behave as described in the CP/M 2.0 interface guide “CP/M Revealed, RESTORE”
Loses Magfile Files “Luke H. “”Pat”” Montgomery III” tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Sep-1983 90 a space in response to an INPUT X statement will result in a value of 0 (without a ?REENTER response)
Tricking DOS John Korntved tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Sep-1983 90 “by POKEing 43602,5 you can fool DOS into thinking the last character was” a [cr] CSWSTATE
E-Z Pilot Val J. Golding new products Bytes From A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Oct-1983 7 Earl Keyser’s version of the Pilot language / Ampermanager (by Rick Sutcliffe) / Modem ][ by Multi-tech
Mockingboard Speech Editor Clay Ruth (profiled) utility / speech listing CA 00-Oct-1983 7 (1/84p77; 9/84p23) Mockingboard compose speeches for Mockingboard to recite
Storage Access Ken Kashmarek utility / disk D Is For Data CA 00-Oct-1983 17 Personal Finance Manager process PFM.DATAFILE from Applesoft
PRINT SPC(0) Ken Kashmarek tip Call -A.P.P.L.E. Quickie CA 00-Oct-1983 17 any command which ends with SPC does NOT generate a carriage return
Robotics to Graphics Jonathan Post technology Computer Futures (an interactive book-in-progress) CA 00-Oct-1983 23 “robotics, graphics, personal computers”
Turtlesoft by Kathryn Hallgrimson Suther education / language A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Oct-1983 27 &LOGO commands provide a smooth transition from LOGO to Basic
An Apple for Nellie Rick Sutcliffe education CA 00-Oct-1983 29 rules for just starting with microcomputers
The Big Adding Machine Gary E. Leonard education listing CA 00-Oct-1983 35 drilling addition of sums from zero to nine (on the lo-res screen)
Spanish for the Traveler rb Helan Hamerstrom education / foreign language Southwestern Data CA 00-Oct-1983 39 $60.00 a series of easily paced lessons which guide the user through the words and phrases most needed by the traveler
Spreadsheets in the Classroom (Part One) “Jeffrey E. Jacques, Ph.D.” education The Spreadsheet Sheet CA 00-Oct-1983 43 (6/85p19) a grade book template
The Spreadsheet Video Terminal Driver Glenn R. Ferreri utility A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Technique CA 00-Oct-1983 49 driving a SOROC terminal
Quick Zapper Keller/Golding utility A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Utility CA 00-Oct-1983 52 a minimal disk zap program
Keep It Clean Jim Hockenhull hardware / maintenance CA 00-Oct-1983 53 “though computers are solid state, they are still composed of physical” “units which can break, get dirty, or wiggle loose”
Flying High (with E-Z Pilot) Earl Keyser tutorial / language CA 00-Oct-1983 55 Pilot getting started with E-Z Pilot
So What Did You Expect Dept? Garth Baulch puzzle CA 00-Oct-1983 “56, 75”
Why CP/M Murray Arnow operating system CP/Magic CA 00-Oct-1983 59 the philosophy behind CP/M BDOS
The Birds and the Bees: Genetic Engineering (Part 1) Rick Sutcliffe computer clones Northern Spy CA 00-Oct-1983 61 several machines/clones were tested over a period of 3-4 weeks: starting with the ][+
Pkaso interface and ScreenWriter II Bruce Field printing A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1983 63 it is possible to run the Pkaso special characters from within Screenwriter
8-bit Epson Graphics Bruce Field printing A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1983 63 the problem is that the interface card turns off the eighth bit
Interrupting RAM Applesoft Bruce Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1983 64 patch FA41:0 to make the IRQ handler store the accumulator at location 0
Hung Up in Saturn Bruce Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1983 64 problems may be due to the lack of an image of the monitor in the Saturn RAM card
D.C. Hayes UPPER and lower case Bruce Field communications A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1983 64 “to defeat conversion to lower case POKE 1784+slot,0”
Signature Byte Bruce Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1983 64 PEEK (-1101) [$FBB3] / detecting the auxiliary 80 column card
Clean Heads? Bruce Field maintenance A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1983 64 Bruce suggests a cotton swab with alcohol
The Monster Lives Michael Thyng robotics / homebrew Robotic Series CA 00-Oct-1983 65 “On Saturday, May 29, 1983 at 5:15 P.M., MIRT the robot (Mobile Indoor” Robotic Toy) rolled its first few inches under computer control
Disease Was Her Key to Success Michael Shadick handicapped CA 00-Oct-1983 66 “in the case of one Ms. Phyllis Duwelius, it’s not only likely that MS” (multiple sclerosis) has opened new doors for her; it’s a fact of life
Spreadsheet Printer Codes Robert Van der Cook tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Oct-1983 67 enter a control-G as the first character of the string
Apple Writer / Okidata Help Connie Kouba printing Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Oct-1983 67 “create a special “”glossary”” file to allow Apple Writer to control the” printer
Updating the Time David Kelly tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Oct-1983 68 reading the time on the ThunderClock in Mountain Computer Apple Clock format
Center Your Diskettes “Eric C. Anderson, Clear Light Inc.” maintenance Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Oct-1983 68 the most common cause of a disk crash is poor seating of the disk hub
Windo-Wizardry Greenberg and Woodhead fantasy Sir-Tech CA 00-Oct-1983 69 (press release) Wizardry III: Legacy of Llyslgamyn introduces a new concept: window graphics
ProDOS operating system Apple Computer CA 00-Oct-1983 71 (press release) uses the hierarchical file structure SOS
Trompers / Pensate “rb Val J. Golding, The Gaming Room” arcade / strategy Avant-Garde / Penguin CA 00-Oct-1983 72 $30 / $30 a dogcatcher must now capture aliens / alternative chess John Besnard
Additional Comments on A Bug in LTXT Ken Kashmarek technical CA 00-Oct-1983 74 (9/82p39) changing the attribute byte for the INIT command can have serious side effects
CT101 Computer Table rb Val J. Golding furniture Bush Industries CA 00-Oct-1983 75 $130.00 a sturdy computer work station
A DOS Self-Synch Demo John Webster technical / presentation graphics listing CA 00-Oct-1983 77 how DOS finds out where it is on a disk slide show
“What Do I Do Now, Daddy?” David G. Sparks (with Ken Kashmarek) psychology / philosophy Escaping A Mental Plateau CA 00-Oct-1983 79 “I’m tired and so I feel flat, unable to advance” burn-out
“Taking the “”Pro”” Out of ProDOS” rb Charpentier and Sparks operating system Apple Computer CA 00-Nov-1983 9 “DOS changes, pathnames, text files, binary files, Applesoft changes,” “adding new commands, /RAM, utility programs” SOS
Down the Data Path Ken Kashmarek technical D is for Data CA 00-Nov-1983 17 PFM getting and manipulating the data
Exotic Technologies Jonathan V. Post (profiled) technology Computer Futures CA 00-Nov-1983 23 behind the locked lab door; the far out future; 50 topics to explore
What’s the DIF? David G. Sparks technical Exploring the World of Spreadsheets CA 00-Nov-1983 29 a description of the DIF file structure / program to convert strings from fractions to decimals (12-1/2 to 12.5)
Introduction: Micromania Mike Regeimbal business Strictly Business CA 00-Nov-1983 37 management is reluctant to embrace the computer for a variety of reasons / PIE Writer (2/84p36) and Zardax reviewed / Without Me You Are Nothing (a book by Frank Herbert) micromania
Spreadsheets in the Classroom (Part II) “Jeffrey E. Jacques, Ph.D.” education The Spreadsheet Sheet CA 00-Nov-1983 41 (2/84p69) completing the grade management template
The Big Reducer Gary A. Leonard education listing CA 00-Nov-1983 45 reduce fractions to lowest terms
So What Did You Expect Dept? P F Steele / E Paige Darragh puzzle CA 00-Nov-1983 “47, 68”
Pre-School Alphabet rb Garry Margolis education various CA 00-Nov-1983 48 “Hodge-Podge, Stickybear A-B-C, Alphabet Beasts & Company”
Health Aide “rb Richard Wahl, M.D.” home / health Knossos CA 00-Nov-1983 51 $80.00 a complete nutrition/health program
The Printographer rb Roger Lilly utility / printer Southwestern Data CA 00-Nov-1983 53 $50.00 dump screens and much more
The TRS Connection Art Ude communications / portable computer listing CA 00-Nov-1983 55 (1/84p78) TRS-80 Model 100 upload and download to the Model 100
Conjurer’s Square J. Taylor strategy The Gaming Room (listing) CA 00-Nov-1983 59 the sum of five numbers will be predicted by Conjurer magic
Printer Interfacing Murray Arnow technical CP/Magic CA 00-Nov-1983 61 CP/M modify BIOS to solve printer problems
The Birds and the Bees: Genetic Engineering (Part 2) Rick Sutcliffe computer / clone The Northern Spy CA 00-Nov-1983 63 testing the SYSCOM and the Basis 108 clones Franklin
Lister Modification Sidney A. Powers tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Nov-1983 66 remove LET from the Lister (Applesoft Carpenter)
Apple DMP and super/subscripts Jerry Battenhouse printing Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Nov-1983 66 (4/84p51) can’t do it
Z80 Slots Steve Nelson hardware Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Nov-1983 66 try the ALS Z-80 card in slot 7 to prevent problems with memory cards
Printer Causes Surge Glen M. James tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Nov-1983 66 turn off your Prowriter 8510A when powering up from a System Saver
Sleep-Typing Jeffrey W. Baumann tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Nov-1983 67 (8/83p67) initialized disk fails to run HELLO program / booted DOS checks the value at $AA5F to see the last command executed Nellie Hacker
Continuous Printing Charles S. Stokes technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Nov-1983 67 “continue printing the next file on the same page (POKE 25000,X to save” line count)
Another Approach To: A Magazine Database Clay Carr technique / data management CA 00-Nov-1983 79 using the Correspondent (or other word processor) as a database
Koala Pad / Diskette Recovery System Val J. Golding new products Bytes From A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Dec-1983 7 draw high-res pictures with a stylus / read data from a sector while ignoring the address and data fields
“””C”” What I Mean? (Aztec C)” rb James Hockenhull language Manx CA 00-Dec-1983 9 What is a language; what is BASIC?; what is C?
The Data Processor Ken Kashmarek technique D is for Data CA 00-Dec-1983 13 PFM processing PFM.DATAFILE in its entirety
NOT RETURN After GOSUB / RETURN After GOSUB NOT Russ Bogue puzzle So What Did You Expect CA 00-Dec-1983 “20, 26”
Data Analysis (Part 1) “Jeffrey Jacques, Ph.D.” technique / statistics The Spreadsheet Sheet CA 00-Dec-1983 21 computing descriptive statistics for which no functions exist
Analyzing Capital Acquisitions Mike Regeimbal business Strictly Business CA 00-Dec-1983 27 “the payback method, internal rate of return, net present value” / Business Cycle Analysis (display data on a moving average curve or a pressure curve) / Computer Choices (book addresses problems when procuring or developing a computer system)
“Tutor, Tool & Tutee” edited by Robert P. Taylor (rb Eric Fletcher) book / education Teachers College Press CA 00-Dec-1983 34 (2/84p45) “the three main roles of a computer: TUTOR, TOOL, TUTEE”
Apple /// Revolutionizes Braille Translation Evelyn Iritani handicapped University of Washington CA 00-Dec-1983 35 a computer program that transcribes English into Braille 200 times faster than the old system blind
Two Views of the Micro God? Michael Shadick poetry CA 00-Dec-1983 36 The False Prophets / The Gospel According to Saint Micro
“Word Search, Word Match, Word Scramble / Word Attack” rb Kathryn Hallgrimson Suther education Hi Tech of Santa Cruz / Davidson CA 00-Dec-1983 37 “making word search puzzles, matching tests, scrambled word lists” “/ drills you on adjectives, nouns, and verbs”
Fixes for the Apple //e DOS 3.3 Cecil Fretwell technical A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Technote CA 00-Dec-1983 41 (6/84p65) curing //e 80 column headaches “CAPS LOCK, PR#0”
So What Did You Expect? “George A. Pleau, Michael Trinder” puzzle CA 00-Dec-1983 “42, 78”
DOS Continues Following This Interruption O.J. Sizemore technical CA 00-Dec-1983 43 handling interrupts with DOS in the language card
Mockingboard Reset Modification Michael Mahon hardware / homebrew CA 00-Dec-1983 45 allowing Apple’s RESET to reach the Mockingboard too
Technique Notes Ken Kashmarek technique CA 00-Dec-1983 46 avoiding the NOT DIRECT COMMAND / use STOP to BREAK a program and CONT to continue
Hi-Res Slide Show Stowe Keller presentation graphics A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Apple-Cation CA 00-Dec-1983 49 (4/84p74; 5/86p54) assembly a method of reducing DOS 3.3 from 10.5K to 2.5K of RAM that can quickly store and retrieve from disk
Exploiting TASC Sam F. Tass technique / compiler Microsoft CA 00-Dec-1983 55 (4/84p49) modifying the Input Nearly Anything routine to work with TASC
The Birds and the Bees: Genetic Engineering (Part 3) Rick Sutcliffe computer / clone The Northern Spy CA 00-Dec-1983 59 “problems with clones / a chart comparing II+, SYSCOM, Franklin, Basis” “108, and //e”
Out-Wizarding Wizardry Christopher H. Williams technique / fantasy The Gaming World CA 00-Dec-1983 61 (8/84p11) create a 200th (+) level bishop “Werdna, Trebor”
Checquemate Plus rb Michael Thyng home finance Masterworks CA 00-Dec-1983 62 $80.00 a small business financial bookkeeping system
Wavy Monitor Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1983 65 “problem may be with the power supply, video cable, interference, or” video signal level
Detecting Drive Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1983 65 use the ONERR command
Apple Switches Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1983 65 “to prevent worn out power switches, leave the Apple on and turn off the” power strip
?SYNTAX ERROR after editing Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1983 65 make sure you’re still not in ESC mode
Restore DOS 3.3 Tracks (without wiping out other programs Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1983 66 BRUN MASTER CREATE
Shift Key Modification Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1983 66 (5/84p68) explained in the Superscribe II manual and other places
Sorting in VisiCalc Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1983 66 manually use the MOVE command MultiPlan
Communications Card Kit Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1983 66 (1/84p74) “John Bell Electronics, Byte 4/79p20, MultiTech modem”
E.M.P./line voltage protection Bruce F. Field electronics A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1983 66 most surge protectors also protect against voltage surge and/or electromagnetic interference “varister, RFI”
Epson Screen Dump Bruce F. Field electronics A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1983 66 (3/84p68) “try the Printographer, Zoom Graphix, or Graphtrix”
Game I/O problems Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1983 67 problem could be the 558 chip at H13 or the 74LS251 at H14
Irish Apple Richard King computer Apple (Cork Factory) CA 00-Dec-1983 68 (4/84p49) changes made to the main board to accomodate PAL circuitry had disastrous side-effects
Synetix Solid State Disk “rb Lawrence K. Simon, M.D. (Write -A.P.P.L.E.)” hardware Synetix CA 00-Dec-1983 68 “reader praises this lightning fast “”disk drive”””
Quick SAVE Peter A. Lachenbruch tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Dec-1983 69 one-line program to SAVE your program (with the correct name)
An Open Letter about copy protection “Thomas E. Militello, M.D.” copy protection / software Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Dec-1983 69 “good, unprotected programs exist” “Pie Writer, THE Spreadsheet, Magicalc, Data Reporter”
ProZap Val J. Golding (Bytes From A.P.P.L.E.) disk utility A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jan-1984 7 “read, write, and edit any ProDOS block or DOS 3.3 sector”
Earl of Varspace Cornelis Bongers utility / programming From the Very Core of Apple CA 00-Jan-1984 9 (10/82p13; 6/84p67; NB:11/85p46) extend Applesoft with global and local variables “recursion, Towers of Hanoi”
The Festive Apple Burt Webb festival Special Applications CA 00-Jan-1984 23 helping out at The Folk Life Festival
Computerizing Science Exhibits Dave Taylor science Special Applications CA 00-Jan-1984 27 The Pacific Science Center uses the Apple for exhibits and programs
Higher Text in Action (at the Pacific Science Center) Steve Brugger utility Special Applications CA 00-Jan-1984 30 we have ferreted many of the available nooks and crannies on Higher Text and put many of our machine language programs there
AZTEC C (Part Two) rb Jim Hockenhull LANGUAGE MANX CA 00-Jan-1984 33 (3/84p46) “what is C? (III), a sample program, and the Aztec C implementation” “UNIX, Sieve of Eratosthenes”
Data Analysis (Part 2) “Jeffrey E. Jacques, Ph.D.” statistics The Spreadsheet Sheet CA 00-Jan-1984 37 building tabular displays
Productivity Mike Regeimbal business Strictly Business CA 00-Jan-1984 43 addressing the problem of productivity deterioration / EZ Ledger (cash accounting program) / Getting Down To Business With Your Microcomputer (book)
Flying High .. With E-Z Pilot Earl Keyser tutorial / language CA 00-Jan-1984 47 moving about and concluding your lesson
MINDSTORMS “PAPERT, SEYMOUR (rb Eric Fleischer)” BOOK / EDUCATION BASIC BOOKS CA 00-Jan-1984 49 a most valuable book for anyone wishing to utilize computers to their full potential “Logo, Piaget”
FACEMAKER Quinn and Weinstein / rb Garry Margolis EDUCATION SPINNAKER CA 00-Jan-1984 50 $40.00 goes beyond Mr. Potato Head
What’s Your Name? Mark Allen puzzle So What Did You Expect CA 00-Jan-1984 51
Telecommunications Conference Michael Thyng communications CA 00-Jan-1984 55 do we or don’t we get charged for modems?
1983 Call -A.P.P.L.E. Index Suther/Golding index CA 00-Jan-1984 57
So What Did You Expect? William K. Dolen puzzle CA 00-Jan-1984 59
KOALA PAD and Micro Illustrator rb Alan R. Fischer GRAPHICS PAD KOALA CA 00-Jan-1984 61 (5/84p70) $125.00 a pad the plugs into the game port Steve Dompier
FAT CITY / Chivalry rb Val J. Golding ARCADE / strategy Weekly Reader Software CA 00-Jan-1984 64 $40 / $50 demolish ten cities with a wrecking crane “/ a meld of adventure game, board game, and arcade game”
LEGACY OF LLYGAMYN WOODHEAD AND GREENBERG / rb Val J. Golding FANTASY SIR-TECH CA 00-Jan-1984 64 the third Wizardry scenario features windowed graphics displays
THE SPY STRIKES BACK rb Val J. Golding ARCADE PENGUIN CA 00-Jan-1984 64 sequel to the Spy’s Demise
ProDOS and Friends Cecil Fretwell operating system CA 00-Jan-1984 65 technical notes on ProDOS MLI
A Canadian Harvest Rick Sutcliffe publication / computer Northern Spy CA 00-Jan-1984 70 Canadian computer magazines and the Circle 64 clone
Using the Game Port to drive modems Bruce F. Field (and George Kinal) hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1984 74 Bizcomp and MFJ sell software for their modems that use the game port
//e Motherboard Upgrade Bruce F. Field hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1984 74 (5/84p68) rev B board support double hi-res graphics (with extended memory card)
Ampersand Routines Bruce F. Field technique A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1984 74 how they work
Changing Volume Numbers Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1984 74 (2/84p65:Disk Library) try Bag of Tricks or FID
Upgrading II+ to //e Bruce F. Field computer A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1984 74 sell your II+ and buy a //e
Apple In Another Country Bruce F. Field computer A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1984 75 “the Apple will work at 50 MHz, but TVs and monitors may not be so happy”
In Use Light Flickering Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1984 75 due to capacitance / suggests removing diskettes before power off
Motherboard Revisions Bruce F. Field computer A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1984 75 “board has changed from rev. 0, rev. 1, … rev. 7, through IFR Rev. D”
DTACK-Grounded MC68000 Board Peter W. Soule hardware Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jan-1984 77 ten million 32-bit random numbers takes less than half an hour
Bugs in the Apple IIe 80 column board Denis Anson bug Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jan-1984 78 problems with GET and up-arrow
the DMP is not the Prowriter Frank F. Vicenzi printer Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jan-1984 78 won’t handle sub and superscripts
Poet-tree Michael Shadick / Sallie Stephenson poetry CA 00-Jan-1984 79 My Micro Mom! Raising and Lowering The Mightiest of Rivers — With An Apple! A Rather Salty Apple
Apmail.Pro Val J. Golding new products Bytes From A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Feb-1984 7 Apmail has been improved and converted to ProDOS “/ Cater Killer, an arcade game by Jeff Koftinoff”
LISA’S OFFICE SYSTEM rb Dave Redhed INTEGRATED APPLE CA 00-Feb-1984 9 Lisa “Desktop Manager, LisaGuide, LisaCalc, LisaDraw, LisaGraph, LisaList,” “Lisa Project, LisaWrite”
“If You’ve Seen One 68000, Have You Seen Them All?” Dave Redhed microprocessor / benchmark various CA 00-Feb-1984 17 “Apple II / Apple ///, 68000” “benchmarking development systems: Pascal for Apple II, Apple ///, Lisa,” “Macintosh, Sage, Saybrook 68000”
Souper puzzle CA 00-Feb-1984 22 Applesoft
QWERTY QPAK-68 rb Bill Parker COPROCESSOR (68000) QWERTY CA 00-Feb-1984 23 $695.00 there is no matching the elegance and sophistication of the 68000
Data Analysis Part 3 “Jeffrey E. Jacques, Ph.D.” statistics The Spreadsheet Sheet CA 00-Feb-1984 28 contingency tables (or crosstabs)
The Ten Commandments of Documentation Bill Parker documentation CA 00-Feb-1984 32 IV. Thou Shalt Speak Plainly
T.V. Typewriter W.S. Skeen utility listing (assembly) CA 00-Feb-1984 33 permits typing over the entire screen without string input
Polite Printing Mike Crosier utility / tip Quickie CA 00-Feb-1984 33 print to the printer on the IIe without disturbing the screen
Planning Mike Regeimbal business Strictly Business CA 00-Feb-1984 34 a practical approach to addressin the planning function “/ Bizpak II (general business, accounting, ordering) (4/84p27)” / Basic Computer Programs For Business (book)
So What Did You Expect? Leon Beritz / Michael J. Paris / Leon Beritz puzzle CA 00-Feb-1984 “36, 57”
A Sample LOGO Program Lee Reynolds education / tutorial / language listing CA 00-Feb-1984 37 answer questions about dates (Calendar.Questions)
STICKYBEAR BOP “Hefter, Richard / rb Gary Margolis” EDUCATION / ARCADE XEROX CA 00-Feb-1984 43 $40.00 “shoot the Stickybears / unfortunately, the second level is too difficult”
MICRO MOTHER GOOSE rb Gary Margolis EDUCATION / ARCADE SOFTWARE PRODUCTIONS CA 00-Feb-1984 43 nine nursery rhymes with animation and music coupled with three simple enjoyable games
Teaching Teachers Burrows/Felty education CA 00-Feb-1984 45 so what should teachers know? “/ show the teachers how to use the computer, not to program it” Robert Taylor (see book review 12/83)
Flying High With E.Z. Pilot Earl Keyser tutorial / language CA 00-Feb-1984 48 “R statements, math, and special effects”
T.H.E. REVIEW rb Lee Webster EDUCATION / JOURNAL INFORMATION SYNERGY CA 00-Feb-1984 50 Technological Horizons in Education / articles on the computers and technology in education – ranging from the philosophical to practical discussions
Apple Anniversary Lee Webster experience CA 00-Feb-1984 51 “I now owned a brand new Apple II with 16K RAM, RF modulator, cassette” “cables, Applesoft on cassette, Breakout Game and Color Demo on cassette,” “Integer Basic manual, Applesoft manual (blue cover), and a copy of the” now infamous red Reference Manual.
The Supreme Micro Sacrifice Michael Shaddick poetry / programming Poet-Tree CA 00-Feb-1984 53 “Last night, I tried to do” Assembly language.
The ALF 8088 Co-Processor Keith K. Davison coprocessor ALF CA 00-Feb-1984 54 $345.00 “speeds up Applesoft, times events, runs CPM86”
Procrastination Computerized David J. Geraghty experience / technology CA 00-Feb-1984 55 I only had a 40 column display. This was the cause of all my troubles! … Well almost.
ProDOS Prefix Command Cecil Fretwell utility listing (assembly) CA 00-Feb-1984 57 set prefix to last volume accessed
Micro Moonlighting “J. Norman Goode, Micro Moonlighter Newsletter” business (entrepreneurship) The Right Opportunity CA 00-Feb-1984 60 “what can I do to earn money with my computer? software development,” “word processing, consulting, newsletter publishing, puzzle generating”
File Transfer Devices Murray Arnow utility CP/Magic CA 00-Feb-1984 63 using PUN: (punch) and RDR: (reader)
Driving Relays With Annunciator Outputs Bruce F. Field hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1984 65 a circuit which uses parts from Radio Shack
What’s In The Glass? Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1984 65 explaining the random number program in the Applesoft Tutorial
Applewriter II One-Page Preview Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1984 65 use .EP1 and .EP0
Graphmagic and Epson RX-80 Bruce F. Field tip / printer A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1984 65 the RX-80 has different graphics capabilities than the MX-80
Double Characters Bruce F. Field tip / maintenance A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1984 66 occasional printing of two characters with one keystroke may be due to a problem with the keyboard encoder chip
VT-100 Emulation Bruce F. Field communications A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1984 66 try VT100 Emulator (Apple Special Delivery) or Softerm (Softronics)
160 Columns? Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1984 66 IIe you cannot use another 80 column in slot 3 if you have a card in the auxiliary slot
80-Column Character Set Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1984 66 IIe adjust the vertical height or program a new 2732 EPROM
Modem and Super-Serial Card Bruce F. Field communications A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1984 66 (5/84p68) “if you want to have more capabilities than a dumb terminal, try Visiterm” or Datalink
Keypress Documented Dave Hendel utility Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Feb-1984 70 Attach documenation explains\UNITSTATUS Keypress
Engineering Format Bob Thomas utility / math Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Feb-1984 71 Applesoft output numbers in engineering format
/// E-Z Pieces integrated Haba CA 00-Feb-1984 75 Apple ///
A TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROTOCOL PRIMER Cecil Fretwell TUTORIAL / COMMUNICATIONS CA 00-Mar-1984 10 the intricacies of two-way data communications
MacTuesday (the MACINTOSH) dave redhed / val j. golding COMPUTER APPLE CA 00-Mar-1984 “16, 58, 74 (press release)” the Tuesday Mac came to town Randy Wigginton
ABC’s of ABBS’s Philip Chien communications / bulletin board CA 00-Mar-1984 20 questions and answers on running a bulletin board
Telecommunications Security “Ralph Swerdlow, M.D.” communications / security listing CA 00-Mar-1984 “25 (8/84p67,68)” Applesoft encode and decode text files
A Software Vending Machine (TELEPHONE SOFTWARE CONNECTION) Ed MAGNIN COMPANY / COMMUNICATIONS CA 00-Mar-1984 29 software via phone
AUTO-MODEM rb Michael J. O’Neil COMMUNICATIONS COMPUTER STATION CA 00-Mar-1984 30 Micromodem II $40.00 “a “”turnkey”” system to permit communication over the phone lines”
HELLO CENTRAL! “Kallick, Bruce / rb Michael J. O’Neil” COMMUNICATIONS HOWARD W. SAMS CA 00-Mar-1984 33 $100.00 includes all the features needed for the average user
Data Analysis (part 4) “Jeffrey E. Jacques, Ph.D.” statistics The Spreadsheet Sheet CA 00-Mar-1984 37 “measures of association: asymmetric lambda, gamma, Pearson product” “correlation coefficient, cross-product deviations, contingency tables”
So What Did You Expect? Kenelm W Philip / Michael Ziober / Ziober / Golding puzzle CA 00-Mar-1984 “43, 50, 57, 61”
THE Spreadsheet Ultraterm driver Paul Smith utility listing (assembly) CA 00-Mar-1984 43 Ultraterm display up to 160 columns
Versacard Interrupts Ken Kashmarek (Write -A.P.P.L.E.) communications / hardware Prometheus CA 00-Mar-1984 46 jumpers must be closed to use interrupts
Eamon Contest Winners Thyng/Brown adventure CA 00-Mar-1984 48 The Feast of Carroll (Daniel and Jonathan Lilienkamp) “The Master’s Dungeon (Jeff Seeck), Crystal Mountain (Ken Hoffman),” “The Lost Adventure (Jeff Seeck), The Manxome Foe (Ray Oszewski)”
COMPUTER LITERACY: A HANDS ON APPROACH LEUHRMANN AND PECKHAM BOOK / EDUCATION MCGRAW HILL CA 00-Mar-1984 49 a computer curriculum which educator can use to help students become “””computer literate”””
Infra-Red Remote Controls in the Classroom Robert Zimmerer education / hardware / homebrew CA 00-Mar-1984 52 multiply your classroom Apple utilization / allow a group of students to respond individually and privately to multiple choice questions and have the computer analyze their answers IR
UltraTerm: 160 column display rb Steve Johnson video display Videx CA 00-Mar-1984 56 $379.00 nine distinct combinations of lines and columns with video attributes
Communications Compatibility “Novation, Inc.” communications CA 00-Mar-1984 57 we should not set tommorrow’s standards by conforming to today
Where Were We On The Mac? Val J. Golding company policy / support A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Editorial CA 00-Mar-1984 58 (6/84p62; 10/84p41; 3/85p40) left in the dark by Apple Computer Inc. Randy Wigginton
ProDOS Filer bug Cecil Fretwell bug / patch A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Quickie CA 00-Mar-1984 62 Integer ROM patch the Filer to work with the old monitor ROM
Using Interrupts With DOS Wilton Helm tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1984 67 both DOS and the Monitor use $45 / patches to change DOS to use $46
Reading Volume Numbers Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1984 67 PEEK(47094)
Printing Graphs on Okidata Microline 80 Bruce F. Field tip / printer A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1984 67 how to print the Hi-Res screen on a printer “Grappler, Printographer, Zoom Grafix, dump”
PLE DOS Mover Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1984 68 moves DOS to RAM card
Undependable Electricity Bruce F. Field maintenance A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1984 68 consider a spike suppressor or a UPS
Mini-Assembler for the IIe Bruce F. Field assembler A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1984 69 it’s in INTEGER BASIC (the file) CALL -2458
Keyboard Buffer position Bruce F. Field technical A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1984 69 X register contains the position of the last character
Audio To Monitor Bruce F. Field hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1984 69 you need a small circuit that couples the speaker signar to the monitor using capacitors or a transformer Happ Electronics
The Moving Finger… Val J. Golding career CA 00-Apr-1984 7 “The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on…” “swan song, Kathryn Hallgrimson Suther”
Table Lookup Randi Rost tutorial / graphics The Graphics Toolkit: Part 1 CA 00-Apr-1984 10 (12/85p60:slow it down) table lookups
Adding XPLOT to Applesoft Mark Harris utility listing (assembly) CA 00-Apr-1984 17 HPLOT in reverse mode
Low-Res Color Change Stowe Keller utility / graphics listing (assembly) CA 00-Apr-1984 19 convert all occurrences of a specified color to another color
Data Analysis (Part 5) “Jeffrey E. Jacques, Ph.D.” statistics The Spreadsheet Sheet CA 00-Apr-1984 21 linear regression
Dynamics of VisiCalc “Bayer and Sobel / rb Jeffrey Jacques, PhD” book / spreadsheet Dow Jones – Irwin CA 00-Apr-1984 25 a tutorial without templates
Organizing Mike Regeimbal business Strictly Business CA 00-Apr-1984 27 “five organization structures: functionalism, team, federal” “decentralization, simulated decentralization, systems structure” / The Personal Computer Book (by Peter A. McWilliams) Peter Drucker
ABC’s of ABBS’s Philip Chien communications Telecommunications CA 00-Apr-1984 31 writing or personalizing your BBS
DMA Protocol “Peter Baum, Apple Computer, Inc.” technical / hardware From the Very Core of Apple CA 00-Apr-1984 35 the hardware protocol of doing direct memory access bus
Setting I/O Hooks in ProDOS Cecil Fretwell technique Technical CA 00-Apr-1984 39 ProDOS change the I/O hooks to send characters to a specified device or receive characters from a specified device Mutatis Mutandis
Converting Random Files to ProDOS Ken Kashmarek utility listing CA 00-Apr-1984 42 first convert the file to sequential before using CONVERT to transfer “the file, then convert back to ProDOS”
Indexing Files Scott G. Smith technique / programming CA 00-Apr-1984 44 (4/85p40:bug fix) there comes a time when a data file becomes too large to be kept entirely in memory
Safe HIMEM Under ProDOS Cecil Fretwell technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Apr-1984 48 (6/84p66) “if one performs files processing, odds are that machine code will be” wiped out (and Cecil’s fix to this problem)
PIE and Andromeda RAM Card John Wallace tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Apr-1984 48 (8/84p66:Robert H. Bernard) remove IC U13 and bend pin 10 outward…
Hex Dump Initialization Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1984 51 it is not necessary to initialize the Y-register before calling -589
Applewriter II First Page Length Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1984 51 set the default print values to the same values that the dot commands specify
WordStar and RAM Drive Murray Arnow tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1984 51 no simple way to alter the BIOS to use the extended memory as a RAM drive
Changing Boot File Name Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1984 52 (10/84p30) “the greeting program name is stored on track 1, sector 9, location $75” HELLO
The Fourth Annual Pacific Coast Computer Fair Rick Sutcliffe trade show The Northern Spy CA 00-Apr-1984 53 “Amber monitors, DMP printer, time cards, portables, clones, Lisa, Mac”
Koala Pictures Lorana A. Jinkerson technique / graphics CA 00-Apr-1984 57 Grappler dump picture to printer without leaving Koala Pad
Zoom! Big Time Program Earl Keyser tutorial / programming Flying High… With E-Z Pilot CA 00-Apr-1984 58 Pilot using labels in conjunction with U statements
GPLE Cursor tip A Call -A.P.P.L.E. Quickie CA 00-Apr-1984 59 change to a non-flashing cursor with a disk edit utility
A.P.P.L.E. Aids Blind Patrick Schwab handicapped CA 00-Apr-1984 62 Northwest International Blind Bowling Association / software calculates handicap and the division
Chairman of the Board David I Pontius home finance / politics / humor CA 00-Apr-1984 63 the next step would be to influence the Chairman of the Board (my wife) that this program was a necessary purchase
Pascal Low-Res in the High School Ian Jackson tutorial / programming An Introduction to Structured Programming CA 00-Apr-1984 64 Apple Pascal “instead of Turtle Graphics, try the library unit LORES”
Errors in Ampermanager Rick Sutcliffe utility Writing the Wrongs CA 00-Apr-1984 72
DVM-III RGB CARD AMDEK CA 00-Apr-1984 75 (press release) $195.00 PP8412222
Number Commander science/engineering / statistics ComputerEase CA 00-Apr-1984 79 allows scientists to use a computer without programming
The End of an Era “Dick Hubert, President” magazine Letter from the President CA 00-May-1984 4 “in tribute to Val Golding, we acknowledge the end of an era” The Apple’s Apprentice
a first look at the APPLE IIC rb Dave Lingwood COMPUTER APPLE CA 00-May-1984 7 (8/84p64) 65C02 an exclusive preview 65C02
About Robots: An Account of Costs Michael Thyng robotics Robotics CA 00-May-1984 10 “a recipe for building a mechanical friend, including parts and prices”
HEROS and Apples John Covington and Burt Webb (profiled) robot CA 00-May-1984 13 (8/84p64) how to control a Heathkit HERO-1 robot with an Apple
Artificial Intelligence: The Myth and the Reality “Jim Wicker, M.A.” AI Robotics CA 00-May-1984 17 is the day here that computers will think like humans?
Using an Apple to Speak English to a Robot “Susan K. Lynch, RB Robot Corp.” robotics CA 00-May-1984 19 RCL (Robot Control Language) with Savvy a new language for the RB5X
Walt Gardner by Don Elman profile Member Billboard CA 00-May-1984 22 A.P.P.L.E.’s hardware technician
Hi-Res Routines Randi J. Rost tutorial / graphics The Graphics Toolkit: Part 2 CA 00-May-1984 23 “three more routines: HCOLOR, HPLOT, HPOSN”
“GIBSON LIGHT PEN: an “”etch-a-sketch”” graphics system” rb Lee Webster LIGHT PEN GIBSON LABORATORIES CA 00-May-1984 27 $350.00 “a super graphics system: sketching, boxes, font editor, text, geometric” “shapes, grid draw, penpainter, pattern editor, Multi-Draw”
APPLE MOUSE II rb John Cox MOUSE APPLE CA 00-May-1984 34 adds pointer control to the Apple II / Bill Budge’s MousePaint “Mac, Lisa”
APPLE II CIRCUIT DESCRIPTION “GAYLER, WINSTON D. / rb Leonard H. Anderson” BOOK / hardware HOWARD W. SAMS CA 00-May-1984 39 details all aspects of the motherboard and keyboard schematic
Adding a TYPE Command to ProDOS Cecil Fretwell utility / technique listing (assembly) CA 00-May-1984 42 expandability of ProDOS/BASIC.SYSTEM demonstrated by adding a command MLI
ProDOS — Pros and Cons Cornelis Bongers operating system CA 00-May-1984 51 (AAL:3/84p20; 9/84p51; 3/85p38) “a balanced view, plus a comparison between the BASIS 108 and Apple IIe” / getting ProDOS to run on a BASIS 108 “garbage collection, hierarchical”
Data Analysis (Part 6) “Jeffrey E. Jacques, Ph.D.” statistics The Spreadsheet Sheet CA 00-May-1984 55 inferential statistics / CHI Square and tests of statistical significance
TOPO — A Tutor and Tool for your Classroom Harvey Barnett education / robot CA 00-May-1984 61 a tangible Logo turtle
The Turtle as a Helpful Robot Nola Sheffer robotic turtle / education CA 00-May-1984 62 children learn abstract concepts
Touch Sensors for Screen Turtles Jeff Sandys education listing CA 00-May-1984 65 Logo make your Logo turtle bounce off walls (find hi-res coordinates)
Scrambled DOS Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-May-1984 68 “power program and data were intact after power outage, but DOS was” scrambled
Geometry On Print Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-May-1984 68 “to combine text and graphics, try Gutenberg or dump the graphics screen” to the printer “Mac, Zoom Graphix, The Blue Book”
Printer As A Typewriter Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-May-1984 69 (12/84p40) a short program to send a character to the printer as soon as it’s typed
Apple Writer Header Problem Bruce F. Field tip / word processing A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-May-1984 69 headers printed lower and lower / limit title line length to less than 80 columns
Writing Text on High-Res Screen Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-May-1984 69 there are several ways to print text on the hi-res screen “AppleVision, Bob Bishop, Higher Text, Apple Mechanic, HRCG”
Timely Interrupts Stephen Williams hardware Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-May-1984 70 seems to be incapable of producing interrupts at minute and hour intervals / storing data in a table of more than 256 bytes
Expanding with ALF and Aztec A. Wasserman compiler / coprocessor Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-May-1984 70 Aztec C compiler for CPM-86 can now be run on an Apple
3A Computer Products L.A. Walton company Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-May-1984 71 Ron Maleika replaces mistaken products free of charge
SCRIBE PRINTER PRINTER / COLOR APPLE CA 00-May-1984 75 $299.00 a thermal transfer printer
the Apple IIc: did the earth move? Don Elman computer Apple CA 00-Jun-1984 5 how will the IIc appeal to the customer?
Grab the Music and Run John A. Oakey music listing CA 00-Jun-1984 6 (10/84p41) an Applesoft counterpart to the Programmer’s Aid routine
A Shortcut to Music Programming in Applesoft Dave Kelly music / technique CA 00-Jun-1984 9 interface Applesoft to the Programmer’s Aid #1
Eighteenth Centrury Dice Music Games William K. Dolen music / history CA 00-Jun-1984 10 (8/84p69:Apple Waltzes) “compositions written, often by well known musicians, for the would-be” composers with absolutely no knowledge of theory or composition
Metronome Jack Bender music / novelty listing CA 00-Jun-1984 13 a high-res simulation with a variable tempo pendulum
ALF MUSIC CARD rb Dave Kelly / Lee Webster MUSIC / HARDWARE ALF CA 00-Jun-1984 17 $169.00 a 9-voice music synthesizer “the envelope: attack, decay, sustain, release”
MOUNTAIN MUSIC SYSTEM rb Greg Dunn MUSIC / HARDWARE MOUNTAIN COMPUTER CA 00-Jun-1984 23 $395.00 “like having a dedicated ensemble in your living room — with keyboards,” “woodwinds, strings, brass, percussion, and other instruments”
SOUNCHASER rb William K. Dolen MUSIC / HARDWARE PASSPORT DESIGNS CA 00-Jun-1984 27 $1270.00 “a powerful, sophisticated musical instrument”
Drum-Key rb Gary Kruger music PVI CA 00-Jun-1984 31 $139.00 percussion synthesizer
The Sound of Logo Jeff Sandys music / technique listing CA 00-Jun-1984 32 Apple Logo Toolkit Disk make your turtle sing
A CONDUIT to Educational Software by Lee Webster education / math CONDUIT CA 00-Jun-1984 “34,72 (8/84p66)” the Math Demo Disk #2 (samples from Graphing Equations and Interpreting Graphs)
Surveying the Software Market Rick Sutcliffe industry / software The Northern Spy CA 00-Jun-1984 35 prediction about future trends: academia and arcademia
Data Analysis #7 “Jeffrey E. Jacques, Ph.D.” statistics The Spreadsheet Sheet CA 00-Jun-1984 38 (7/84p35) more on the chi square inferential test
Loan Amortization John Pinkerton finance listing CA 00-Jun-1984 47 make your own amortization schedule
Save the Toolkit – A Call to Arms Dave Redhed software development CA 00-Jun-1984 50 Lisa Apple has decided to support for the Toolkit without making it a formal product object-oriented
IMAGINATOR: a 3D Graphics Package rb William R. Miller GRAPHICS / 3D SHELTER RESEARCH CA 00-Jun-1984 53 $129.00 “create, edit, manipulate and display 3D graphic images”
][+ vs. //e Monitor ROMs Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1984 58 some (undocumented) ROM routines have been moved in memory / soft-swwitch differences
Unscheduled Surger Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1984 59 isolating problems with peripheral cards
Underlining In Applewriter Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1984 59 (7/84p54) two different ways to underline a word
Lo-Res Screen Dump Bruce F. Field tip / printer A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1984 59 (10/84p30) Epson Douglas Seely’s Paint By Number program draws an outline for the Lo-Res picture crayon
Paint by Number “Seeley, Douglas A.” graphics listing CA 00-Jun-1984 60 draws an outline of a low-res picture
Frustration With Apple Ross / Cheadle / Baltrusch / Popenoe / Cragg / Kwok / Womble / Cielazyk support Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jun-1984 62 (3/84p62; 7/84p56; 1/85p40) A.P.P.L.E. should be supported by Apple
40/80 SWITCHING ON APPLE IIE Joe Stoutenburgh tip / 80-COLUMN CARD Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jun-1984 65 a warning when using FLASH in 40 column mode on the //e / restoring 40 column mode from 80 column mode in a program (CTRL-U)
THE Spreadsheet and Smarterm II Bob Callagham spreadsheet Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jun-1984 66 patch to get the SPREADSHEET to work with Smarterm II
ProDOS Convert Michael Trinder tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jun-1984 66 check for spaces in filenames
ML in ProDOS Bill Burd technical Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jun-1984 66 (4/84p48) stashing machine language programs in ProDOS “Fretwell, GETBUFR, HIMEM”
Variable vs. Variable Ellis R. McDaniels technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jun-1984 67 “a modest approach for “”local variables”” / letter-digit names with a” &CLEAR command to remove them
Keyboard Compatibility John Russ keyboard Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jun-1984 67 (12/84p42) Mac user presents a routine to trap the delete key code and replace it with a backspace
Ode to Val’s Basement by Dave Lingwood history CA 00-Jun-1984 68 a trip through THE Basement is like travel through time “Val J. Golding, sediment”
Skyscraper of Babel Don Elman language The Inner Circuit CA 00-Jul-1984 4 at the heart of the computer language issue is the question of control BACCI
Computer Languages Jonathan V. Post language CA 00-Jul-1984 6 “are we building a high-tech Tower of Babel? / assembly language,” “FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC, APL, LISP”
BRINGING UP FORTH Andrew Bernat LANGUAGE / technique CA 00-Jul-1984 8 (8/85p45) bringing up FIG-Forth on the Apple Leo Brodie
A Review of Foreign Language Learning Software by Kaiulani Schuler education / foreign language various CA 00-Jul-1984 “14,58” “La Guillotine (French), La Carte de France, Le Present et le Passe” “Compose; Soflight Language Series (Italian); Augmentez Votre Voculaire,” “Lecciones de Espanol, DASHER, The Great Creator, Lamplighter Language” Lab
Hilbert and the Alligators Don Williams benchmark / language CA 00-Jul-1984 18 (9/84p53) Pascal / Applesoft / Assembly how a persistent programmer developed a recursive graphics benchmark the Filler
MICROSOFT BASIC ON THE MAC rb Tom Sethre LANGUAGE MICROSOFT CA 00-Jul-1984 “25 (9/84p46,52)” Mac a comprehensive language with key elements lacking
P-LISP rb Vince Glambalvo LANGUAGE GNOSIS CA 00-Jul-1984 28 $100.00 “not as many built-in functions as on a larger machine, but enough to get” the job done “ELIZA, HANOI”
AMPERMANAGER “SUTCLIFFE, RICK” technique / UTILITY Northern Spy CA 00-Jul-1984 30 how an &-utility works; including a hybrid DOS 3.3 / ProDOS disk
APPLE ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE “MAURER, W. DOUGLAS / rb Lee Webster” BOOK / ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE COMPUTER SCIENCE PRESS CA 00-Jul-1984 40 $20.00 designed as a textbook
Questions & Answers about Lisa & Macintosh Dave Redhed computer Something Over 32 Bits CA 00-Jul-1984 41 Lisa / Mac “how the Mac differs from other computers, color capability, Mac-Lisa” “compatibility, speed, font appearance, why the Mac?”
Running Applesoft Programs with ProDOS Richard D. Norling programming CA 00-Jul-1984 43 changes needed when converting from DOS 3.3
MIT Logo vs. LCSI Logo by Jeff Sandys language CA 00-Jul-1984 51 what are the differences between these two dialects “Harold Abelson, Seymore Papert”
Fasten Your Keyboard Robert Knight tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1984 54 “before buying a new decoder, check those solder joints”
Perils of Pascal Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1984 54 using a CCS 7710B asynchronous serial interface / procedure too long (Apple Pascal has an internal limitation of 2400 bytes of object code per procedure)
Clipped Cables Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1984 54 some early ImageWriter printers were shipped with pin 20 clipped off
Plugging In The Plus Bruce F. Field hardware / tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1984 54 you can plug the floating-point ROMs right into the motherboard of the Apple II (Integer)
Should the Disk Drive Door be left open or closed? Bruce F. Field maintenance A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1984 55 yes and no
Apple III 5-bit Serial Communication Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1984 55 (9/84p50) sending 5 data bits from the Apple /// Telex I
Stretching Binary File Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1984 55 “increase length greater than 32767 with POKE 43364,255” BSAVE
Double Hi-Res On The II+ Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1984 55 (12/84p40) some interesting double hi-res effects can be done on the II+ (but not “””true”” double hi-res)”
An Open Letter to Software Pirates William G. Wright software piracy Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jul-1984 57 (9/84p52) “what you are doing is stealing, regardless of your rationalization to” the contrary
Modem Problems Solved G. Lane Arbuthnot hardware Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jul-1984 57 “bad disk controller card would not let the Multi-Tech modem turn on,” since theere was a contention for the upper end of RAM with the Copy Master II
80-Column Graphics Mike Powell technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jul-1984 57 “after installing Applied Engineering 80-column card, could not view” graphics from GBASIC (CP/M)
Videogame Aesthetics – The Serious Side of Fun Jonathan V. Post gaming / history CA 00-Aug-1984 6 putting it in the proper perspective “Pong, Spacewar, Space Invaders”
WIZARDRY WOODHEAD AND GREENBERG (rb Monte Shultz) FANTASY SIR-TECH CA 00-Aug-1984 8 $50.00 “beyond dungeons and dragons / Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord, The” “Knight of Diamonds, The Legacy of LLylgamyn”
Backdoor Wizardry “George T. Miller, Jr.” tip / technical / gaming CA 00-Aug-1984 11 (8/83p43; 12/83p61; 10/84p38) Wizardry 3 rendered the old cheat methods useless / exploring and altering the data in the character files
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One At A Time Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1984 54 wants to use two printers with WordStar
PORTFOLIO by David G. Sparks SIMULATION / FINANCE FLEXIBLE CA 00-Aug-1984 55 $65.00 simulates investment decision making stock market
OLYMPIC DECATHLON rb Eric Flescher ARCADE / SPORTS MICROSOFT CA 00-Aug-1984 56 $30.00 let your fingers do the competing
TRANSYLVANIA rb Larry Neibauer ADVENTURE PENGUIN CA 00-Aug-1984 58 Apple / Mac $40.00 suddenly a wolf howls in the distance
MUMMY’S CURSE rb Larry Neibauer ADVENTURE HIGHLANDS CA 00-Aug-1984 59 $30.00 Indiana Jones never had it so good
The IIe 80 Column Card Cecil Fretwell tip / technique CA 00-Aug-1984 60 avoiding quirks in the //e’s widescreen mode HTAB
Questions & Answers About Appl’es Lisa and Macintosh Computers Dave Redhed tip Something Over 32 Bits CA 00-Aug-1984 62 Mac/Lisa speed ration / Lisa forgotten? / color Mac? / Lisa Toolkit status / MacPaint vs LisaDraw
Music To Our Ears Norman A. Haynes music Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Aug-1984 64 “Apple Organ, Sounds Out of Game Paddle Port, ALF, Mountain Computer” “Music System, Soundchaser”
65C02 and Robotics “Jack W. Lewis, Micromation” microprocessor / robot Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Aug-1984 64 “additional opcodes in Rockwell chip, S-C Cross Assembler, Robot Voice” “Recognition System, HERO-Apple interface”
Poor Man’s Color Printing L.H. Axtell printing Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Aug-1984 64 wants a program to simplify color printing
Computers and Education “Pax Nidorf, Ph.D.” education Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Aug-1984 66 (9/84p52) the aim of Psychological Psoftware Corporation is to develop software that teaches one to be successful to the fullest extent of the word values
Deciphered David August / John Riegsecker technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Aug-1984 67 Swerdlow’s cipher easily broken
Driving Straight T. Stewart Hrris technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Aug-1984 68 assembly language routine to resetting drive 1 after activity on drive 2
BANK STREET WRITER / HOMEWORD rb Rick Sutcliffe WORD PROCESSING SCHOLASTIC / SIERRA CA 00-Aug-1984 70 $95 / $70 two word processors for home and school
Relocatable Assembly Language Neil Bronstein technique listing CA 00-Aug-1984 71 (4/85p40) adding assembly language at the end of BASIC programs
Darwin’s Apple Keith Stattenfield science / simulation listing CA 00-Sep-1984 6 evolution and natural selection
Apple of Steel Alton Loe application / science CA 00-Sep-1984 8 controlling a spectrophotometer with an Apple
LIFE – In the Fast Lane Vass & Strickland math / simulation listing (Applesoft / Macrosoft) CA 00-Sep-1984 10 cell patterns Conway
Speakalarms Tim Kendrick speech / clock listing CA 00-Sep-1984 16 ECHO II / TimeMaster a talking alarm clock/calendar
Call Your Apple Clay Ruth hardware / homebrew CA 00-Sep-1984 20 (12/84p44; 1/85p41; 6/85p41) A computer-based telephone answering system
Speech Writer Enhancements Clay Ruth speech listing CA 00-Sep-1984 23 pronounce the letter G and using the String Swap function
HI-RES ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN rb Lee Webster home / ARCHITECTURE AVANT-GARDE CA 00-Sep-1984 30 $30.00 planning your dream home
CRYPT OF MEDEA rb Larry Neibauer ADVENTURE SIR-TECH CA 00-Sep-1984 33 $35.00 more thrilling than a Saturday Matinee
SIMULATED COMPUTER rb Lee Webster EDUCATION / microprocessor EDUSOFT CA 00-Sep-1984 34 simulates the internal workings of a computer
Microcomputing at Minuteman Tech Earl D. Hancock education CA 00-Sep-1984 38 unlimited uses for Apples at a vocational high school
An Apple Helps Rodney Sheryl Blix handicapped CA 00-Sep-1984 40 (11/84p28; 1/86p50; 7/86p46) adapting an Apple for a very special boy
Low-Res Drawing on the Apple – A Utility for Teachers Russ & Adams education / graphics listing CA 00-Sep-1984 42 construct color graphics displays with a minumum of key presses or other programming skills
ROBOTWAR – Review and Challenge “WARNER, SILAS (rb Jeff Sandys)” STRATEGY / PROGRAMMING MUSE CA 00-Sep-1984 45 programming your own electronic champion
Questions & Answers About Apple’s Lisa and Macintosh 32-bit Computers Dave Redhed computer / tip Something Over 32 Bits CA 00-Sep-1984 46 “Microsoft BASIC disk ejection, printing Mac programs running under Lisa” “MacWorks, MacWorks and hard disk, pasting MacPaint documents, Lisa color” “printer, MacPaint printing on Lisa”
ProDOS Profiles (and ApMail.Pro) Ken Kashmarek operating system / data management (mailing list) CA 00-Sep-1984 48 “ProDOS files, pathnames, ApMail.Pro and pathnames, fitting a mailing” label database on /AP.MAIL
Rana Speed Adjustment John Smyth maintenance A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Sep-1984 50 adjust the correct potentiometer
Printer Interfacing Bruce F. Field tip / printing A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Sep-1984 50 “Orange Micro Bufferboard, APIC interface and graphics, sending control” commands to the printer
Using The Flip Side Bruce F. Field hardware / tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Sep-1984 50 (2/85p38) write to the other side of the disk without punching a notch
Disk Array Files Bruce F. Field technique A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Sep-1984 50 saving arrays to disk
CP/M Alternates Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Sep-1984 50 an 8088 card will/may allow you to run IBM software
Apple II Compatibility Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Sep-1984 51 most II+ software will run on the IIe without modification
“That’s Wrong, Mr. Wright” Mike Ungermann piracy Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Sep-1984 52 all things are a matter of degree
Computer Eduction and Personal Values Mark O. Johnson education Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Sep-1984 52 learning facts is a very important and fundamental part of education
Very Special Applications “Gary M. Kruger, Publisher” technology / industry CA 00-Sep-1984 54 “the microcomputer is truly enriching our lives, but the state of our” industry could not be more chaotic Softalk
“Apple Writer II, version 2.0” word processor Apple CA 00-Sep-1984 58 for Apple //e and //c
Pascal: From a BASIC User’s Viewpoint Wesley R. Felty language CA 00-Oct-1984 6 what the manuals don’t tell you about starting to use Pascal
Curley Brackets and His Band Bill Collins technique listing CA 00-Oct-1984 10 Pascal using special characters in 80-column Pascal
Pascal Patch for External Terminal David Hendel utility listing CA 00-Oct-1984 12 modifying Pascal 1.2 to work with external terminals
SCREENWRITER II rb Rick Sutcliffe WORD PROCESSING SIERRA CA 00-Oct-1984 16 (7/85p42) the new improved IIe version
WORD JUGGLER IIE rb Rick Sutcliffe WORD PROCESSING QUARK CA 00-Oct-1984 19 ProDOS innovations and inexplicabilities
WRITE AWAY “STINSON, DOUG / rb Rick Sutcliffe” WORD PROCESSING / COMMUNICATIONS MIDWEST CA 00-Oct-1984 22 works with UltraTerm
Questions & Answers About Apple’s Lisa and Macintosh 32-bit Computers Dave Redhed computer / tip Something Over 32 Bits CA 00-Oct-1984 28 (1/85p39) “68000 not really 32-bit, Lisa Toolkit update, Mac to Lisa graphics,” “assembly on the Mac, Lisa Workshop Mac supplement, larger MacPaint” “patterns, LisaProject terminated by Apple-Period”
Card Sorting Loren Engrav hardware / tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1984 30 cards in slot 2 and 3 can contaminate Epson parallel card in slot 1
“Ultra ROM, ViewMaster-80, & ROM GPLE” Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1984 30 can’t use ROM GPLE in 80-column mode
AppleWriter II Line Breaks Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1984 31 “creating “”required”” spaces”
Avoiding Card Conflicts Bruce F. Field technical A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1984 31 the area $C100-$CFFF is reserved for memory on peripheral cards
Keyboard Kit Kinks Bruce F. Field hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1984 31 signal interference with the Key Tec keyboard kit
Hello? … Hello? … Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1984 33 “POKE 34,24 is accidentally modifying DOS”
UltraTerm Overscan Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1984 33 loses characters when displaying more than 80 columns
SOFTALK: THE MAGAZINE THAT DARED TO SING “Tommervik, Margot and Al / by Val J. Golding” MAGAZINE SOFTALK CA 00-Oct-1984 34 “Softalk, you will be missed”
Wizardry Use and Misuse Sir-Tech Software gaming Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Oct-1984 38 changing data files may have undesirable consequences
Apple Music Paul Nix music Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Oct-1984 41 “diverting sound from the Apple speaker: Hi-Fi adapter, game-paddle port” “amplifier “”Fancy Programming in Applesoft”” Cornell”
Macintosh Pascal language Apple CA 00-Oct-1984 42 (press release) Mac interactive
Lisa 7/7 integrated Apple CA 00-Oct-1984 43 (press release) Lisa enhanced versions of the Lisa Office System
Let the Computer Compute! Ellis McDaniels education / software design CA 00-Nov-1984 6 (4/85p39) accessing the computer’s calculating power with interactive software KEWPIE DOLL
Demystifying the Macro Steven Meuse technique / programming CA 00-Nov-1984 10 assembly (Big Mac aka Merlin) how to use macros in assembly language
Computers in Higher Education “Jeffrey E. Jacques, Ph.D.” education CA 00-Nov-1984 22 finding optimum balance between technology and educational objectives
Peeking at the Line Number in Microsoft Basic Dave Redhed tip Something Over 32 Bits CA 00-Nov-1984 26 Mac PEEK(106723)+PEEK(106722)*256
Using DMP with MacWorks Dave Redhed tip Something Over 32 Bits CA 00-Nov-1984 26 Lisa a driver is available
The Mac Serial Connector Dave Redhed hardware / pinouts Something Over 32 Bits CA 00-Nov-1984 26 pinouts
Mac Debuggers Dave Redhed debugger Something Over 32 Bits CA 00-Nov-1984 26 “seven debuggers: MacsBug, SmallBug, TinyBug, MidiBug, MaxBug, TermBug,” Termite
More Help For Rodney Joyce Conklin / Jock Root tip / handicapped Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Nov-1984 28 (9/84p40) ideas for helping Rodney handle diskettes
RENUMBER READJUSTMENT J. MORRIS PROSSER tip / technical Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Nov-1984 29 another bug has surfaced / if a program has been installed above the “buffers (e.g. PLE), the MAXFILES command does not set HIMEM to 38400 and” the relocation routine does not work correctly
LEARNING GENERAL CHEMISTRY rb Lee Webster EDUCATION / SCIENCE COMPRESS CA 00-Nov-1984 30 “$350 (7 disks, documentation)” lessons and practice problems suitable for any general chemistry course “(high school or college level): periodic table, nomenclature, chemical” “formulas and equations, atomic weights, percent composition, Chemaze” “(game), Ideal Gases (gas laws)”
DIGITAL PAINTBRUSH rb Larry Neibauer GRAPHICS / hardware (graphics pad) COMPUTER COLORWORKS CA 00-Nov-1984 36 64K $300.00 “offers the freedom of a light pen, the convenience of a mouse, and the” versatility of a graphics touch table
Wordstar Double-Print George Kinal tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Nov-1984 37 (12/84p40) using two printers with WordStar
Apple II Super Expansion Bruce F. Field hardware / tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Nov-1984 37 (3/85p37) Mountain Computer expansion chassis Douglas Electronics
Rounding Ratios Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Nov-1984 38 A = INT(1000*A + .5)/1000 PRINT USING
Decimal-Binary Precision Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Nov-1984 38 (7/85p15) inherent limitations of Applesoft cause column formatting problems / PRINT 6.017 produces 6.01700001
Two Steps Forward Don Elman computer The Inner Circuit CA 00-Dec-1984 6 two of the high points in 1984 were the introduction of the Macintosh in January followed by the //c in April
Computer Haves and Have-nots Jonathan V. Post society CA 00-Dec-1984 9 will the computer divide or unite humanity?
Spreadsheet of the Future “Jeffrey E. Jacques, Ph.D.” spreadsheet CA 00-Dec-1984 10 what we would like to see in the next generation Bill Graves
THE IIC VS THE IIE (Part 1) BY CECIL FRETWELL AND GARY LITTLE COMPUTER APPLE CA 00-Dec-1984 14 “what has been done to “”upgrade”” the //e to the //c: size keyboard “ “internal hardware, software, firmware”
“A “”Computer”” Poll” politics CA 00-Dec-1984 16 the only two counties that had voted for every winning candidate in this century is narrowed to one “Reagan, Mondale”
Graphics Windows Randi J. Rost tuturial / graphics The Graphics Toolkit: Part 4 CA 00-Dec-1984 18 “establishing and using a “”graphics window”””
Poor-man’s Superfast Ramdisk Steven Meuse utility / RAM disk listing (assembly) CA 00-Dec-1984 23 extended 80-column card primarily intended for fast storage and retrieval of high-resolution graphics
Smartmodem Operator Ken Kashmarek telephone dialer listing CA 00-Dec-1984 32 Smartmodem dial your telephone number or display and set status of your Smartmodem
Mac Stuff utilities Dave Redhed tip / computer / company policy Something Over 32 Bits CA 00-Dec-1984 38 / word processors and data managers for the Mac / What ARE Apple’s plans for Lisa? / Toolkit activities
The Byte Before Christmas Charlie Stillman poem CA 00-Dec-1984 39 the program is hung by a bug hidden there the code’s all spaghetti and the design’s only fair
Applewriter Typewriter Paul Pagel tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1984 40 Apple Writer //e provides a means to connect the Apple //e keyboard to the printer
The IIe Game I/O Sockets Bruce F. Field hardware / technical A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1984 40 (4/85p35:Paddle-Adapple) corresponding pinouts of the 9 pin and 16 pin connectors
Facilitating File Formats Bruce F. Field tutorial / file handling A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1984 40 create multiple fields per record
Keyboard Kinks Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1984 42 modifying the KEYIN routine
Language Card and the Monitor Bruce F. Field technical Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Dec-1984 42 activating the language card after booting ProDOS
Printer Interfacing Bruce F. Field tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Dec-1984 42 tab with Pkaso interface card
Using AppleWriter II with Ultraterm David Gregg tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Dec-1984 43 use more features than given by the pre-boot disk
Attaching a Non-Apple Disk to the Apple //c Alan Knutsen technique / hardware Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Dec-1984 44 pin correspondence between the DB19 connector on the //c and the 20 pin ribbon cable connector on Apple //e type drives Rana
Visifile to AppleWorks conversion Rollie Hammer technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Dec-1984 44 via DIF
DOS 4.0 operating system Rune CA 00-Dec-1984 “48 (press release), 50 (ad)” $95.00 enhances performance and increases disk storage / includes a CMOS 6502
USING AND CHOOSING HOME FINANCE PROGRAMS rb NORMAN J. WOOD HOME FINANCE VARIOUS CA 00-Jan-1985 7 (3/85p41) “Basic Accounting, Certified Personal Accountant, Dollars and Sense,” “Money Street, Personal Finance Manager, The Practical Accountant,” “The Accountant, The Home Accountant, Time is Money”
A Clock for the IIc Fretwell and Little clock / technical listing CA 00-Jan-1985 16 Apple IIc clock routine for the IIc (assembly listing)
PRODOS PROSE FROM A PRODOS PRO rb Ken Kashmarek OPERATING SYSTEM APPLE CA 00-Jan-1985 26 “ProDOS products, BASIC.SYSTEM, Ampersand routines”
Menumaker Ken Watters utility listing CA 00-Jan-1985 33 Applesoft standard file menu program
Expense-Ive Sorting Bruce F. Field technique A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1985 36 (5/85p38:Versacalc!16) “sorting VisiCalc files, accounting programs” Multiplan
Word Processor Screen Bug Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1985 36 (5/85p38) bug in Screenwriter buffer storage to disk
Machine Language Downloading Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1985 36 with Zoom Telefonics Networker modem
Hot Chips Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1985 36 120ns vs 150ns chips
Reviving Applewriter programs Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1985 36 Applewriter use a disk zap program and change the first byte from 0 to another ASII character
Understanding the Applesoft WAIT command Bruce F. Field technical / programming A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1985 37 Applesoft designed to stop an Applesoft program from running until some device sends a signal to the Apple
Self Diagnosis Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1985 38 B6FF- A=D0 X=5F Y=F0 P=34 S=F9 means you have a problem
SERIAL INPUT THRU GAME PORT Bruce F. Field TECHNIQUE A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1985 38 sending data from an IBM clone / circuit and program
68000 32-bit? Dave Redhed computer / tip Something Over 32 Bits CA 00-Jan-1985 39 Lisa going away? / ToolKit User’s Group / Microsoft BASIC 2.0 / Lisa/Macintosh SIG newsletter / smaller MacPaint erase / Mac PDS
Appleworks Audio Alteration Steven Weyrich tip Write-Apple CA 00-Jan-1985 40 Appleworks changing the beep routine
BELLS ARE RINGING CLAY RUTH SPEECH SYNTHESIS VARIOUS CA 00-Jan-1985 41 “Heath HD-15 phone patch, Sweet-Micro 4050 chip”
“Road Maps to Apple II Disks: DOS 3.3, CP/M, Pascal, and ProDOS” Skillman C. Kim Hunter technical / operating system CA 00-Feb-1985 10 (4/85p39:Bag of Tricks) how each operating system stores information on a disk
Extended Help for ProDOS Ken Kashmarek utility listing CA 00-Feb-1985 22 ProDOS / Applesoft Adding invaluable commands to ProDOS
Data Analysis — Part 9: Analysis of Variance “Jeffrey M. Jacques, Ph.D.” tutorial / statistics / spreadsheet THE Spreadsheet Sheet CA 00-Feb-1985 32 THE Spreadsheet “analysis of variance, T-Tests, and regression equations” ANOVA
IIE 80-COLUMNS WITH MODEM Murphy Sewell TECHNIQUE / COMMUNICATIONS A.P.P.L.E. DOCTOR CA 00-Feb-1985 39 the standard ready to receive communication code (X-ON) causes the 80- column card to display 40 columns
MousePaint Printout Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1985 39 (3/85p37:MousePrint; 7/85p38; 2/86p50; 3/86p52) printing out to non ImageWriter printers
Problem Paddles Bruce F. Field paddles / maintenance A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1985 40 readout from paddles is unstable / could be due to timer chip
Hi-Res Scribe Dumping Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1985 40 use the Printographer
Game Port Connections Bruce F. Field technical / hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1985 40 Apple II+ / Apple IIe differences between II+ and IIe gameports
MICROSOFT BASIC GET COMMAND (MAC) DAVE REDHED (Something Over 32 Bits) PROGRAMMING MICROSOFT CA 00-Feb-1985 41 a strange formula associated with the GET command (due to the way the screen in mapped into memory)
Neurotic Computer? Bob Bragner tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Feb-1985 42 IIc does your Apple IIc have an identity crisis? (run the program listed)
Premium Softcard Trade-Offs James A. Nelson hardware Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Feb-1985 42 CP/M the new premium card runs faster but necessitates a different approach to I/O
1984 Call -A.P.P.L.E. Index index CA 00-Mar-1985 4a
A NOVICE PROGRAMMER’S VIEW OF MODULA-2 by JOHN CRAIG LANGUAGE VOLITION SYSTEMS / AND OTHERS CA 00-Mar-1985 10 will this new language make Pascal obsolete?
TAMING I/O IN MODULA-2 RICK SUTCLIFFE TECHNIQUE / LANGUAGE CA 00-Mar-1985 18 “practical applications of Modula: strings and scalar types, sets, I/O” “library, WriteREAL”
PUF WITH PRODOS Cecil Fretwell (AND CRAIG PETERSON) UTILITY CALL-APPLE CA 00-Mar-1985 23 (All About Applesoft) implementing the PRINT USING command in ProDOS
“Data Analysis #10 – ANOVA, continued” Jeffrey M. Jacques spreadsheet / statistics THE Spreadsheet Sheet CA 00-Mar-1985 25 (5/85p29) finishing up the ANOVA template
Fat-Mac Memory Management / handy utilities / adding a personal touch Ken Watters tip MacTips CA 00-Mar-1985 31 Mac first in a series of valuable pointers for getting the most of your Mac
ANDY HERTZFELD: A PERSONALITY BEHIND THE MAC “HERTZFELD, ANDY (WITH DON ELMAN)” INTERVIEW APPLE CA 00-Mar-1985 33 Mac “a master programmer’s views on the past, present, future of Apple”
Questions & Answers about Lisa and Macintosh Dave Redhed (with Andy Hertzfeld) computer Something Over 32 Bits CA 00-Mar-1985 34 Lisa / Mac Inside Mac / AppleTalk specifications / Pascal / Application Switcher / MacWrite 3.3 / DL5 / Finder Improvements / erase MacTerminal text / multi-tasking / MacBasic / LaserWriter and 7/7 / GEM / Mac Terminal book / flat screen for IIc / color Mac / MacPaint and wide printers / Tecmar hard drive / LaserWriter price
Questions & Answers about Lisa and Macintosh Dave Redhed (with Larry Tesler and Andy Hertzfeld) computer Something Over 32 Bits CA 00-Mar-1985 36 Lisa devolution / Mac XL screen adjustment “/ double-sided 3.5″” disks / color Mac / MD5 assembler / C and Forth” / 68020 / 6502X project / Mac XL screen adjustment / the Switcher
Daryl’s Apple Digest Bruce F. Field index A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1985 37 $30 (6 bimonthly issues) a bibliography of 17 microcomputer publications from Daryl Jones (Australia)
More On The LAM Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1985 37 (AAAp30; 8/85p40) if you wish the LAM routine to work in a subroutine replace D823G with D9C6G
The New Apple Processors Bruce F. Field microprocessor A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1985 37 “the 65C02, 65802 and 65816 processors”
Booting ProDOS on a Franklin Bongers and Stout operating system A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1985 38 (10/85p42:F8 ROM; 1/86p46) ProDOS / Franklin rehashes Bongers and Stout’s original articles
Room To Convert Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1985 38 “getting “”no room”” message when converting DOS 3.3 to ProDOS on one drive”
Applewriter ESCapes Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1985 38 sending stubborn control codes to the printer
AppleWorks Works Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1985 “38 (5/85p38,42)” using more than 128K / negative review of AppleWorks in InfoWorld
Compressing The Spreadsheet Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1985 38 change default settings to The Spreadsheets
In Search of the Z80 Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1985 38 CP/M must be configured to work with specific hardware
More 80-Column Quirks on UltraTerm Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1985 38 (8/85p40) Magic Office System won’t work with UltraTerm
Printer Control Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1985 38 (10/85p42) may need to use Pkaso commands instead of printer commands
Apples and Video Tape Recorders Bruce F. Field video A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1985 39 use your VCR as an RF modulator / Corvus permits use of a VCR for backup
Hackers and Big Apple “John R. Raines, M.D.” support Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Mar-1985 40 (5/85p40; 8/85p45:Apple Canada; 10/85p45; 1/86p49) a further example of Apple’s continuing to rid itself of hacker/hobbyist customers and to woo the non-technical person to its corporate fold / Customer Tech Support Hot Line has been discontinued
Joystick Sound Effects Steven Russell (age 13) sound effects Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Mar-1985 41 assembly generate sound effects with your joystick or paddles Hendrix
Softcard Compatibility with the IIe Dave Huffman operating system Write-Apple CA 00-Mar-1985 42 CP/M / IIe some SoftCards don’t work with the IIe (try Orbital Systems Z-Card)
SOURCEROR AND THE IIE UPDATE Glen E. Bredon UTILITY / UPDATE / bug ROGER WAGNER PUBLISHING CA 00-Mar-1985 42 fixing a IIe incompatibility
Blankenship BASIC language John Blankenship CA 00-Mar-1985 44 (press release) $25.00 a structured BASIC interpreter
Planting a Seed Peter C. Weiglin magazine CA 00-Apr-1985 6 “our goal is simple: to provide sufficient “”meat”” in each issue to hold” the attention of the Apple user once he or she gets past the initial “””gee-whiz”” stage” Apple Orchard
A Tale of Two Computers Ken Watters communications CA 00-Apr-1985 10 Apple / Mac getting the Apple II and Macintosh to really talk to each other Eliza
WINDOWS: A PROGRAM FOR THE APPLE II Jan G. Eugenides UTILITY LISTING CA 00-Apr-1985 14 S-C Macro Assembler “open windows with an “”opening window”” effect” BASCALC
“POKE 7,0: AN INTELLIGENT RESET TRAP” SANDY MOSSBERG UTILITY LISTING CA 00-Apr-1985 18 “Getting Control over that “”nasty”” RESET key”
Practical Guide to AppleWorks — part I Joyce Conklin & Peter Weiglin tutorial / integrated CA 00-Apr-1985 22 AppleWorks touching some of the introductory bases
THE WRITE CHOICE “WAGNER, PETERSON, BRITT (rb Landin-Young)” WORD PROCESSING / education / TYPING ROGER WAGNER CA 00-Apr-1985 27 $45.00 A low-cost multi-featured word processor (and a typing tutor)
THUNDERSCAN “HERTZFELD, ANDY (rb Storrie-Lombardi)” Digitizer / GRAPHICS / HARDWARE THUNDERWARE CA 00-Apr-1985 29 MAC $229.00 giving eyes to the Mac through and Imagewriter
Bundle and Bozo Bits Ken Watters tip / technical Macintips CA 00-Apr-1985 31 Mac set the bundle bit with Fedit to show icons
MAC-APPLE II WEDDING “WATTERS, KEN” TECHNIQUE / COMMUNICATIONS Macintips CA 00-Apr-1985 “31 (6/85,p 35)” connect the two machines together using a cable from the Mac’s modem port to the II’s serial port RS-232
Is the Mac XL really a Macintosh? Dave Redhed computer Something Over 32 Bits CA 00-Apr-1985 33 Mac “””break”” key / BASIC animation / shutting off the screen / modem data” buffer / MacPaint pictures into LisaDraw / The Complete Book of Lisa Mark Twain
The Complete Book of Lisa “Schmucker, Kurt / rb Dave Redhed” book CA 00-Apr-1985 34 Lisa covers Lisa in depth with emphasis on understanding its applications
Chip Off The Old Board Bill Skeen hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1985 35 manufacture of the 5740 encoder chip has been discontinued
Paddle-Adapple Combo Monte Midkiff hardware / tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1985 35 has 16-pin and mini D sockets and a switch to choose which one you want
RESET To Nowhere Jack James tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1985 35 (12/85p60) Apple hangs when reset is pressed (switch on RAM card in wrong position) “/ if paddle button is pressed, RESET will do self-test”
Sticky String Input Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1985 35 ProDOS / Applesoft preface each line with a quotation mark
Program Listing Formatter Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1985 35 80-column program listings / setting up the Program Listing Formatter
RAM Mixing and Matching Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1985 36 “in general, RAM cards for the Apple II that are larger than 16K do not” use the same convention for switching the memory banks around
Equation Input Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1985 36 (9/82p9:Cornelis Bongers) Applesoft converting user’s INPUT from a string to an equation
Finding Time Bruce F. Field tip / clock A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1985 37 ProDOS modifying ProDOS to work with your (non Thunder)clock
Line-Feed Suppression Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1985 37 Apple Pascal sends a line-feed appended to the carriage return SYSTEM.MISC.INFO
Graphics For The Spreadsheet Bruce F. Field tip / spreadsheet A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1985 37 “try Visiplot, VisiTrend, or Versaplot”
VisiCalc Data Duplication Bruce F. Field tip / spreadsheet A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1985 37 replicating numbers without replicating formulas
Bug Hunt Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1985 38 (10/85p42; 2/86p50) Micromodem interfering with the Grappler
GARBAGE COLLECTION BUG Bruce F. Field bug A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1985 38 (reprinted 7/85p40; 12/85p72; 1/86p47) “a bug in the Fast Garbage Collection code (All About Applesoft, p25)” NZTAB
//c vs. //e Terry Nelson computer Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Apr-1985 39 (10/85/p45) “most user group members refuse to accept that being a “”hacker”” is no” longer a prerequisite to using a personal computer
Buffer Pitfalls “William F. Gwynn, PhD” tip Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Apr-1985 40 (10/85p46:WordStar patch) Buffered Grappler Plus interface traps control codes
INTERFACING APPLEWORKS AND PROWRITER Butch Greathouse INTEGRATED / TECHNIQUE APPLE CA 00-Apr-1985 41 (7/85p42) AppleWorks how to print superscripts and subscripts printer codes
OPENAPPLEWRITER – PRODOS WORD PROCESSING / UTILITY CONDICOM CA 00-Apr-1985 43 (press release) ProDOS $29 ($39 for DOS 3.3 version) switch between AppleWriter and Applesoft without disk involvement program editing
MACNOSY “JASIK, STEVE” DISASSEMBLER JASIK DESIGNS CA 00-Apr-1985 44 (press release) MAC recover source code
Pity the Dealer? Peter C. Weiglin industry Planting a Seed CA 00-May-1985 6 discount selling methods are killing the storefront dealers customer support
A.P.P.L.E. Co-op Annual Membership Meeting organization CA 00-May-1985 9 “A.P.P.L.E. obtained co-operativie status as of September 20, 1984”
A DIFFERENT WAY TO TYPE (DVORAK) GREG DEWILDE HARDWARE / homebrew LISTING CA 00-May-1985 10 (8/85p42) IIe unlocking the Dvorak keyboard in your IIe QWERTY
THE APPLE IIE ENHANCEMENTS by KEN KASHMAREK HARDWARE / ROM / upgrade APPLE CA 00-May-1985 16 (7/85:MouseText) making the IIe more compatible with the IIc Mouse Text
THE SECRETS OF APPLEWRITER’S WPL BY RICHARD LOGGINS tutorial / WORD PROCESSOR / language APPLE CA 00-May-1985 18 AppleWriter using WPL to increase the power of AppleWriter
Data Analysis #11 – Multiple Regression Jeffrey M. Jacques statistics THE Spreadsheet Sheet CA 00-May-1985 21 concluding the series on data analysis
THE SIDER rb Charlie Stillman & Butch Greathouse HARD DISK FIRST CLASS PERIPHERALS CA 00-May-1985 30 $695.00 mega-memory at an affordable price
MAC SPELL RIGHT rb Douglas Fraser SPELLING CHECKER / Thesaurus ASSIMILATION CA 00-May-1985 32 MacWrite 3.3 or later accessible from MacWrite
I LIKE IKE-ONS BY KEN WATTERS TECHNIQUE MacinTips CA 00-May-1985 33 MAC “create your own Mac screen icons “”from scratch””” “RMover, Fedit, ResEdit”
MacWrite Page Limittations / MacWrite bomb Dave Redhed tip Something Over 32 Bits CA 00-May-1985 36 “Lisa, Mac” / Lisa 3.0 Workshop and QuickDraw Demo diskette / Lisa ToolKit Users’ Group / SmallTalk on the Mac / printer buffer
//e and //e Compatibility Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-May-1985 38 not always compatible
AppleWorks and Extended 80 Column Card Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-May-1985 “38, 42” random characters may be due to bad RAM chips
Accessing Text Files from BASIC Bruce F. Field technique A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-May-1985 39 Applesoft reading and displaying text files from BASIC
Intelligent(?) Calendar Bruce F. Field clock Apple Doctor CA 00-May-1985 39 (1/86p51) ThunderClock / ProDOS how did it figure out the year?
Jogger “Parsons, Jim” health Parsons Software CA 00-May-1985 40 soft(shoe)ware for joggers
Cold ProDOS Problem Mark Cunningham bug / quirk Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-May-1985 “42 (10/85p46:POKE 230,32)” ProDOS clearing the hi-res screen with CALL -3082
APPLEWORKS ON A II+ INTEGRATED / MODIFICATION CHECKMATE TECHNOLOGY CA 00-May-1985 43 (press release) II+ WORKS WITH MULTIVIEW 80/160 VIDEO CARD
Practical Guide to AppleWorks — Part 2 Joyce Conklin & Peter Weiglin tutorial / spreadsheet Practical Guide to AppleWorks CA 00-Jun-1985 12 AppleWorks a spreadsheet gradebook template
Improving the Gradebook “Jeffrey M. Jacques, Ph.D” education / spreadsheet / tutorial THE Spreadsheet Sheet CA 00-Jun-1985 19 (10/83p43) THE Spreadsheet using lesser known functions to improve the gradebook
Getting Ready for Screen Animation Randi J. Rost tutorial / graphics / animation The Graphics Toolkit: Part 5 CA 00-Jun-1985 23 Applesoft developing graphics routines that would be useful for animation “bitblt, shape table”
A BUG IN THE PRODOS CHAIN COMMAND PETER MEYER bug / operating system APPLE CA 00-Jun-1985 30 (11/85p49) ProDOS tracking down and fixing / when the combined length of the simple variables and array variables (ie. STREND minus VARTAB) is an exact “multiple of 256, the CHAIN command fails to preserve the values of the” variables
MODULA-2 ON THE MAC rb KEITH BECHARD LANGUAGE MODULA CORP CA 00-Jun-1985 31 Mac $150.00 “for a low-cost programming language, MacModula-2 is a super deal”
A BLACK BOX KEN WATTERS COMMUNICATIONS / APPLE II TO MAC Macintips CA 00-Jun-1985 35 (7/85p35:corrected; 1/86p49) Apple / Mac connecting the Mac to an Apple II serial
Mac XL cancelled — why? and what now? Dave Redhed computer Something Over 32 Bits CA 00-Jun-1985 38 Mac XL Switcher on CompuServe
AppleWorks on 64K Bruce F. Field integrated A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1985 39 runnable on 64K but would leave only 10K of workspace
Printer I.D. Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1985 39 “it is possible to tell what kind of printer interface is plugged in, but” not the printer
AppleWorks Line Numbers Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1985 39 lists line numbers from the beginning of the document
Trans-Porting Applesoft Programs Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1985 39 transferring Applesoft programs to other machines via modem / converting programs to text files
Hello Dates Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1985 40 (11/85p43) preserving variables across programs: POKE the data or WRITE it to disk
Double Duty Drives Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1985 40 (8/85p40) “write the file to drive 1, then to drive 2”
Booting From Drive 2 Bruce F. Field technique / hardware Apple Doctor CA 00-Jun-1985 40 how to boot a diskette from drive 2 (modify DOS or the interface card)
Improving Video Output Bruce F. Field tip Apple Doctor CA 00-Jun-1985 40 video cards and monitor resolution
MOCKINGBOARD SPEECH UPDATE Clay Ruth SPEECH Sweet Micro Systems CA 00-Jun-1985 41 (9/84p20) Mockingboard C the Apple Answering System modified to work with the Mockingboard C
Passing Through Pascal Craig Gilchrist technique / programming Letters CA 00-Jun-1985 42 Apple Pascal “quit the editor, clear the workfile, and return to the editor”
Kyan Pascal language Kyan Software CA 00-Jun-1985 46 $70.00 a full Jensen/Wirth implementation with a full screen text editor and graphics support
MACDRAW ARCHITECTURE / GRAPHICS APPLE CA 00-Jun-1985 48 Mac $195.00 a tool for creating professional presentation materials
“Is the “”Personal Computer Market”” in bad shape?” Peter C. Weiglin industry Planting a Seed CA 00-Jul-1985 5 current trends in the computer market
APPLE COMPUTER INC.: AN INSIDE VIEW by QUINCY FLUGELHEIT COMPANY APPLE CA 00-Jul-1985 12 (11/85p48) Steve Jobs is finally out of power / behind the reorganization at Apple “John Sculley, Del Yocam, Bill Campbell, Jean Louis Gassee”
FLOATING POINT ARITHMETIC IN APPLESOFT BASIC JAMES W. THOMAS LANGUAGE / math APPLE CA 00-Jul-1985 15 (11/84p38) Applesoft little known irregularities in calculation accuracy SANE
SANE PROGRAMMING ON THE APPLE by J.B. KOONS PROGRAMMING APPLE CA 00-Jul-1985 19 (11/85p47:slow) $35.00 a numeric computation package for demanding mathematicians
The Secrets of Apple Writer’s WPL – part 2 Richard Loggins tutorial / language CA 00-Jul-1985 21 Apple Writer / WPL using variables and subroutines to access files
THE Spreadsheet as Cabinetmaker John Geddis furniture / template CA 00-Jul-1985 25 THE Spreadsheet building structures with THE Spreadsheet — literally
Adjustable Planning Calendar Harold Shuckhart planning / scheduling / calendar CA 00-Jul-1985 31 (6/86p61) Applesoft a program that creates customized date blocks
Mac Up and Down Ken Watters communications MacinTips CA 00-Jul-1985 34 (6/85p35) Mac telecommunicating Macintosh style “BINHEX, XMODEM, Red Ryder”
AN APPLE-TO-MAC CONNECTION JAN EUGENIDES COMMUNICATIONS LISTING CA 00-Jul-1985 36 Mac / Apple bare-bones method of transferring data from Apple II to Mac game port
MousePaint and Fontrix S.C. Kim Hunter printing A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1985 38 Fontrix can print MousePaint screens
Switch-A-Slot Problem Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1985 38 “if mouse card is put in the Switch-A-Slot, no other card in the” Switch-A-Slot can be used
ProDOS vs. DOS 3.3 Bruce F. Field operating system A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1985 38 ProDOS is faster and supports pathnames and directory files
Sideways with ImageWriter Bruce F. Field printer A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1985 38 special programs must be used
Switching Cards Bruce F. Field hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1985 38 almost all cards that work in a II or II+ should work on the IIe
Spreadsheet Consolidation Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1985 38 (1/86p46:way) no way? DIF
Locked into Lower Case Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1985 39 release the caps lock key on the IIe
Sorting Backwards Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1985 39 Super File Cabinet with Ampersort sorts strings and numbers in ASCII order
Don’t Stop to POKE Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1985 39 POKEing values into a buffer and change a running BASIC program / can’t be done from a running program
Modified Input Anything Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1985 40 (4/86p48) modified BASIC program may be due to faulty memory
A Card Problem Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1985 40 serial card will not work from BASIC with 80-column card / turn off the card before printing with CHR$(21)
A Problem with Slots Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1985 40 //e extended 80-column cards won’t work with II+
A Question of Resolution Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1985 40 “new ROMs give new graphics characters, but have the same resolution”
A Couple Good Books Bruce F. Field reference A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1985 40 Beneath Apple DOS and Beneath Apple ProDOS are recommended
MOUSETEXT — APPLE’S LAST WORD “BRUCE TOGNAZZINI, Apple Computer Inc.” ROM ENHANCEMENT / history APPLE CA 00-Jul-1985 41 (12/85p70) “it’s one (1) word, Ken / a weird and twisted reason why MouseText is in” the middle of upper-case inverse characters / Running Man to run away entry points
FastFind Bug Fix Phil Bryan and Jim Hammond utility / bug Write-Apple CA 00-Jul-1985 41 getting FastFind to run on Apples with the old monitor ROM
Pascal INVERSE Tester Keith A. Van Wagner II utility Letters CA 00-Jul-1985 42 Apple Pascal find control characters to turn INVERSE display ON and OFF
ScreenWriter IIe Improvements Erik Kauppi word processor / tip Letters CA 00-Jul-1985 44 (10/84p16) ScreenWriter defining macros to replace ESC sequences
PLUS-WORKS (APPLEWORKS ON THE II AND II+) INTEGRATED NORWICH DATA CA 00-Jul-1985 46 (press release) $23-$53
The Home Non-Users Peter C. Weiglin industry Planting a Seed CA 00-Aug-1985 6 where’s the home computer market?
A Sporting Application Jeffrey M. Jacques spreadsheet / sports / template THE Spreadsheet Sheet CA 00-Aug-1985 12 THE Spreadsheet organizing your baseball team’s records with THE Spreadsheet
PRODOS CHR$(4) PROCESSING IN ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE CECIL FRETWELL TECHNIQUE / PROGRAMMING APPLE CA 00-Aug-1985 19 ProDOS ProDOS Technical Note #2 aids DOS 3.3 users in transporting assembly language programs to ProDOS / passing commands to BASIC.SYSTEM “READ, WRITE, APPEND, RESET”
Part 3: Some Data Base Wrinkles Peter C. Weiglin & Joyce Conklin tutorial / data management The Practical Guide to AppleWorks CA 00-Aug-1985 29 AppleWorks creating a customized data base
UNIPRINT rb Philip Chien PRINTER INTERFACE VIDEX CA 00-Aug-1985 32 $89.00 “a low-cost, multi-featured printer card for the Apple II”
ENSEMBLE rb Michael & Lisa Storrie-Lombardi INTEGRATED HAYDEN CA 00-Aug-1985 34 MAC $300.00 an integrated versatile data base program
LisaTalk Teleconference by Dave Redhed conference Something Over 32 Bits CA 00-Aug-1985 37 Lisa an electronic discussion / Redhed’s last column “ToolKit User’s Group (TUG), MacApp, 32 Little Apples”
Back ‘Em Up Dale Meyn technique A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1985 40 (6/85p40) copying a file by alternately READing from and WRITEing to the previously opened files
Pre-Boot Defined Bruce F. Field technique A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1985 40 running a utility program before running the main application program bootstrap
“””PROGRAM TOO LONG””” Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1985 41 length bytes may be incorrect after modem transfer
Problems In Slot 6 Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1985 41 flaky disk drive in II+ is probably due to bad electrical connector
Printing In 80-Column Format Bruce F. Field tip / printing A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1985 41 (8/84p52) “PRINT CHR$(9)””80N”””
Full and Half Duplex Bruce F. Field communications A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1985 42 F1 is full-duplex on Apple 1200 baud modem (page 26 is wrong)
Save Those ROMS Bruce F. Field technique A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1985 42 saving contents of ROMs onto disks
Dvorak keyboard Bruce F. Field hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1985 42 (12/85p58) EPROM to change keyboard mapping Videx Keyboard Enhancer
You Need Potentiometers Bruce F. Field hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1985 42 (NB:v4n6p162; 11/85p44:Wico) using Atari joysticks (sorry)
MacTutor Dave Kelly magazine Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Aug-1985 45 Mac “no-fluff, no-nonsense, no-vapor journal dedicated to Mac programming”
Forth for the IIe Tony Alley language Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Aug-1985 45 (7/84p8; 10/85p49:MasterForth) SkyForth by Tom Tosch
EXPANDING MACWRITE’S WINDOW Dan Paymar technique APPLE CA 00-Aug-1985 45 Mac / MacWrite using ResEdit to modify MacWrite’s default window
ProDOS B and E Parameters Cecil Fretwell technical / operating system Write-Apple CA 00-Aug-1985 “46 (NB:6/85p9, OAp40; NB:8/85,p9)” ProDOS “””problem”” with BSAVE is not a bug but a feature”
The Legal Remedies Peter C. Weiglin law / industry Planting A Seed CA 00-Oct-1985 6 what recourse for unhappy customers? customer support
What’s in a Cover Date? Don Elman publication Call-Apple CA 00-Oct-1985 10 Call-Apple skips September
Part I: the card and the user rb Dr. David A. Lingwood hardware / speed-up card Speeding Along with the Mach 3.5 CA 00-Oct-1985 14 Apple $210.00 a cache memory card with its own 65C02 processor / benchmarks accelerator
BASIC to Text Converter Bob Luster utility / programming CA 00-Oct-1985 18 Applesoft Edit your BASIC strings with a word processor EXEC
ProDOS Memory Buffer Management Cecil Fretwell technique CA 00-Oct-1985 22 (NB:9/85p81; 3/87p44) ProDOS how to provide for safe areas of memory under ProDOS DOS Technical Note #9
Hi-Res Packer Michael Ackerman utility / graphics listing CA 00-Oct-1985 29 (NB:11/85p91) Apple squeeze more pictures on your disk / includes references
Practical Guide to AppleWorks — Part 4 Peter C. Weiglin & Joyce Conklin tutorial / home finance Practical Guide to AppleWorks CA 00-Oct-1985 33 AppleWorks it’s all in the balance (a checkbook template)
Quality Standards for Apple II Peripheral Boards “by Andrew P. Niemic (president, Checkmate Technology)” hardware / quality control Checkmate Technology CA 00-Oct-1985 37 what to consider before you fill your slots “IC’s, sockets”
Jazz: a closer look rb Michael & Lisa Storrie-Lombardi integrated Lotus CA 00-Oct-1985 39 Mac $595.00 “after the initial hype, will the melody linger on?”
Enlarged Mode Printing Mike Firth tip / printing A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1985 42 (3/85p38; 12/85p58) Epson MX-80 always turned off enlarged print at the end of the line “Pkaso, expanded”
AppleWorks and Extended Memory Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1985 42 (11/85p43) intermittent problems with AppleWorks and extended 80-column card (problem with certain MMU chips)
Why CP/M? Bruce F. Field operating system A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1985 42 large number of programs available
Try A Z-Ram Card Bruce F. Field memory expansion A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1985 43 a Z80 card with extra memory from Applied Engineering
Help With Assembly Language Bruce F. Field reference A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1985 43 recommends Assembly Lines: The Book by Roger Wagner and Call -A.P.P.L.E. In Depth: All About Applesoft
Modify AppleWorks Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1985 “43 (12/85p58,72)” “””80N”” appears in printout / use the Configuration Utility Disk to change” the interface card installed
Disable That Printer Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1985 44 printer activates when turned / check your greeting program
Time To Re-Boot Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1985 44 program lines don’t show up / program may be messed up by POKEs or a hardware problem
Circuit Design Assistance Bruce F. Field hardware / electronics A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1985 44 (3/86p52) building a serial/parallel converter / Steve Ciarcia’s Circuit Cellar (see BYTE 2/85) “Discwasher, PBI”
Time To Re-Boot technical CA 00-Oct-1985 44 Applesoft how Applesoft is stored in memory
Give Apple Computer a Chance Jared Gordon support Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Oct-1985 45 (3/85p40) receives free ProDOS update to solve printing problems
Scribe Sorrows rb Dean W. Fuller printer Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Oct-1985 45 does not recommend this slow thermal-transfer printer
Users’ Comments About Apple Computer Suzanne M. Thomas / Hank McGill company / support Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Oct-1985 45 a problem Apple refused to face: user loyalty IBM
Setting Your Hi-Res Screen by Stowe Keller tip Letters CA 00-Oct-1985 46 Apple “response to “”Cold ProDOS Problem”” May 1985″
MacPascal: Good News and Bad News rb Steven C. Leach language Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Oct-1985 46 Mac “very good debugging facilities, but editor hangs when program exceeds” 30K
Setting ProDOS’s Time and Date by Wes Felty utility / technical / operating system listing CA 00-Nov-1985 12 ProDOS “how the Time/Date is read from memory, set, and stored in memory” TIME.STAMP
Date Computer Cecil Fretwell technique / calendar listing CA 00-Nov-1985 18 (2/86p53) clock card read the date and time and compute the day of the week
An Error Filter or the Clean Error Act of 1985 Ken Kashmarek utility / programming listing CA 00-Nov-1985 22 Applesoft / assembly a selective ERROR handling routine &ONERR
Part 2: Theory and Optimization Dr. David A. Lingwood (and Steve Wright) speed-up card / technical Speeding Along with the Mach 3.5 CA 00-Nov-1985 28 theory and design of a cache memory speed-up card / benchmark timings “for utilities, operating systems, and languages / programming for speed” tag memory
SuperCalc 3A “rb Jeffrey M. Jacques, Ph.D.” integrated / spreadsheet Sorcim CA 00-Nov-1985 35 (12/85p28) 128K $195.00 a third generation spreadsheet with built-in graphing
Excel (the new king of spreadsheets) rb Richard P. Loggins spreadsheet MicroSoft CA 00-Nov-1985 40 Mac $395.00 “a number crunching powerhouse that includes excellent graphics, an above” “average database, and powerful macros” Jazz
AppleWorks and the 80-column card Bruce F. Field bug A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Nov-1985 43 (4/86p52) AppleWorks “replace MMU chips with a data code of 8314, 8424, 8425, or 8426” / problem with extended 80-column card fixed in AppleWorks 1.2
Null Characters with AppleWriter R.A. Royall technique / printing A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Nov-1985 43 AppleWriter (DOS 3.3) patch to imbed null characters (ASCII 0) using AppleWriter
Backups Within AppleSoft Bob Delaney utility A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Nov-1985 44 ProDOS making data file backups with a ProDOS COPY command CompuServe
Using Atari Joysticks John Willis joystick / hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Nov-1985 44 $20.00 Wico sells and adapter to allow using Atari joysticks with Apples
Reading Keys From Applesoft Bruce F. Field technique / programming A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Nov-1985 44 Applesoft use the GET or INPUT command with the ASC function use PEEK to detect the open- and closed-Apple keys
New 65C02 Opcodes Bruce F. Field technical A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Nov-1985 45 65C02 list of new instructions with opcodes and addressing modes opcode
A Difference In Chips Bruce F. Field hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Nov-1985 46 extended 80-column card can’t accept 256K chips
“POKE 33,33” Bruce F. Field technique A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Nov-1985 46 list programs to printer in 80 columns
Hardware versus SANE Thomas Wieland benchmark / floating-point arithmetic Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Nov-1985 47 68000 SANE cannot compete in speed with the 68000 HALGOL
Spreadsheet Word Puzzles Tom Yelland technique / game Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Nov-1985 48 THE Spreadsheet using a spreadsheet to generate a word puzzle
ProDOS Chain bug Oliver Mayes tip / bug / fix Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Nov-1985 49 (6/85p30) ProDOS sometimes the program will hang after being CHAINed
“Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation” magazine CA 00-Dec-1985 7 “23,715 paid”
Selling Your Soul to Maxwell’s Demon rb Larry Neibauer debugger APPLE Co-op CA 00-Dec-1985 12 Big Mac (Merlin) $35.00 monitor the operations taking place within the 6502/65C02 processor
Tax Templates Jeffrey M. Jacques spreadsheet / tax THE Spreadsheet Sheet CA 00-Dec-1985 20 THE Spreadsheet help make end-of-the-year tax planning decisions “Schedule A, Schedule B, 1040”
ProDOS Input Anything Routine Ken Kashmarek utility listing CA 00-Dec-1985 30 ProDOS / Applesoft the ProDOS Input Anything Routine is invoked by coding the length parameter (Lxxx) on the READ statement BASIC.SYSTEM
Screen Image Animation Randi J. Rost tutorial / graphics The Graphics Toolkit: Part 6 CA 00-Dec-1985 32 assembly moving screen images “block shapes, DRAW, XDRAW”
Making (Sound) Waves with Macintosh William K. Dolen technique / sound / music CA 00-Dec-1985 40 BASIC turn your Mac into a music synthesizer with this BASIC program “Fourier Analysis, The Harmonic Series, timbre”
The ABC’s of BBS’s Part 3: the user by Philip Chien communications CA 00-Dec-1985 46 tips for getting started on the electronic BBS circuit
Mouse Calc rb Steve Ross spreadsheet International Solutions CA 00-Dec-1985 50 Apple / mouse $150.00 A Mac-like spreadsheet for the Apple II
Willy Byte in the Digital Dimension rb Clay Ruth arcade / education Data Trek CA 00-Dec-1985 56 (2/86p54) supports Mockingboard $40.00 an enjoyable way to learn what goes on inside your computer
An AppleWorks Quirk Gene Carter bug / technique A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1985 58 AppleWorks anything you had previously sought to find is left there unless you clear the buffer with a Control-Y
Converting To Dvorak Bruce F. Field hardware / keyboard A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1985 58 (8/85p42) Apple IIe converting the standard IIe keyboard from QWERTY to Dvorak
Upgrading Your II+ Bruce F. Field computer upgrade A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1985 58 “the Apple IIe Reference Manual describes the IIe, but two custom” integrated circuits will be hard to copy
Emulating Open and Closed Apples Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1985 60 simulate a RESET on the Franklin by turning the computer on / Open and Closed Apples uses the game I/O (4/85p35)
Slowing Down The Graphics Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1985 60 (4/85p10) slow down Randi Rost’s program by putting in a delay routine ($FCA8)
16-bit 6502’s microprocessor Western Design Center CA 00-Dec-1985 65 (press release) “enhanced versions of the 6502 announced: W65C802, W65C816”
Where Are Those Entry Points? Dennis Doms reference / documentation Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Dec-1985 70 there is no official list of the ROM entry points / sometimes going through the entry points is not possible “MAGIC MENU, THE INFINITE NUMBER OF MONKEYS”
32 Little Apples Becomes Mac A.P.P.L.E. magazine Member Billboard CA 00-Jan-1986 11 (3/86p56) Call -A.P.P.L.E. becomes an exclusive Apple II journal again
Clipping Randi J. Rost tutorial / graphics The Graphics Toolkit: Part 7 CA 00-Jan-1986 12 (11/86p39) clipping the shape to the graphics window boundaries
ProDOS MLI & Assembler Macros Ken Kashmarek technical / operating system listing CA 00-Jan-1986 16 “MLI calls, control blocks, and macros”
Accessing DOS 3.3 Disks from Pascal Christopher Howerton utility / disk listing CA 00-Jan-1986 24 Pascal RWTS33 will dump the contents of any sector on a DOS 3.3 diskette
THE Spreadsheet as Illuminator John Geddis science CA 00-Jan-1986 28 (3/86p55:candela) spreadsheet the point-to-point method for measuring illumination
A Lab Instrument Interface David A. Gregg & Daniel J. Macero hardware / homebrew CA 00-Jan-1986 36 $40.00 connect a household or laboratory instrument to the game connector
Inverse Catalog Printer Val J. Golding utility listing CA 00-Jan-1986 42 Apple converts any INVERSE or FLASH characters to NORMAL before sending it to the printer
Blankenship BASIC “Blankenship, John / rb Stan Goering” language Blankenship & Associates CA 00-Jan-1986 43 $25.00 solves many of Applesoft’s drawbacks “structure, modular”
ProDOS For Franklin Larry Washburn hardware / operating system A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1986 46 Franklin how to modify your F8 ROM to make it ProDOS compatible EPROM
Consolidating Spreadsheets Dr. George LaCroix technique A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1986 46 instructions for cross-referencing related spreadsheets in the same file
Simulate A Shift Key Mod Steve Muse hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1986 46 //e solder a 500 ohm resistor across the connector at X6
Keeping the RESET Key On Bruce F. Field hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1986 46 resetting the Bufferred Grappler+ with a Keytronic keyboard
Welcome To The Twilight Zone Bruce F. Field technical A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1986 47 ANOTHER bug in the fast garbage collection routine SBC STREND+1
Handling Long Lines Bruce F. Field technique A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1986 47 wants to modify compressed Applesoft in the Data Factory “/ EXECing a “”long”” listing” ProCmd
Numeric Filenames in DOS 3.3 Bruce F. Field technical / patch A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1986 48 Apple getting DOS 3.3 to accept filenames that start with numbers (to be able to convert them to ProDOS) “VisiCalc, SuperCalc 3”
Adjusting Printer Output Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1986 48 (2/86p50:Master Catalog) “ImageWriter condensed mode, horizontal tabs, and double line spacing”
Pin Assignments on the ImageWriter by John Earnest and Ken Watters hardware information Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jan-1986 49 Mac pin assignments on the Mac ports
Updating ProDOS on the Sider Hard Disk Raymon P. Ratte hard disk / operating system Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jan-1986 50 (5/86p54:Rev. B support utilities) ProDOS is actually loaded from the Sider DOS 3.3 partition
ProDOS Time Bomb Disarmed Clay Ruth tip / ProDOS Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jan-1986 51 ProDOS the ProDOS date algorithm expires on 12/31/87 and a patch to extend it to 1990
Reducing or Encouraging Piracy Dan Paymar policy Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jan-1986 53 (4/86p54; 6/86p61) you can buy a non-copy protected copy of ThinkTank 512 for $40
Your Well Tempered Music Synthesizer William K. Dolen music / theory listing CA 00-Feb-1986 15 “Applesoft, Microsoft Basic (Mac)” “create tuning files compatible with the Soundchaser “”Turbo Traks”” and” other music programs octave
Tax Sheltered Savings Benefits Gerhald Hansel tax / savings / investement listing CA 00-Feb-1986 18 compare the income you would receive from funds which have been placed in a tax sheltered report with those placed in an account in which the interest would be taxed each year
ProDOS Undelete Wes Felty utility / disk listing CA 00-Feb-1986 22 (NB:10/85p81) “where ProDOS stores information on a disk, how ProDOS erases a file, how” “ProDOS.UNDELETE works, reading and writing to the disk directly”
ProDOS MLI & Assembler Macros – part 2 “Kashmarek, Ken” technical listing CA 00-Feb-1986 30 more on macro usage and general purpose file copying
A Lab Instrument Interface — part 2 David A. Gregg & Daniel J. Macero hardware / electronics / homebrew CA 00-Feb-1986 42 additional function circuits which allow the converter to read D.C “current, bipolar voltages, and voltages in the millisecond range”
Assembly Cookbook for the Apple II/IIe “Lancaster, Don / rb Mike Ching” book / assembly language Howard W. Sams CA 00-Feb-1986 46 a book full of hints and routines from an experienced assembly language program
1985 Article Index index CA 00-Feb-1986 47 title/author index organized by subject
MousePaint With The Epson “Gardner, Bob” graphics A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1986 50 (3/86p52) $7.95 modifies Mousepaint to work with Epson printers
Micromodem II and Grappler + Ray Merlin tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1986 50 (4/85p38; 5/86p55) choose Grappler + instead of Grappler
Store Your Results In Column C Bruce F. Field technique A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1986 50 can’t sum columns A and B and store back in B (use column C)
IF (Label) Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1986 50 spreadsheet wants to copy a word based on the condition of a label
Eat The Swordfish Ron Wartow tip / gaming A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1986 50 how do you get by the statue in Pixel’s Revenge crackerjack
Memory Capabilities and Apple’s CPU Bruce F. Field technical A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1986 50 how bank switching gets around the 64K limitation
Changing A Program On The Fly Bruce F. Field technique A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1986 52 you can EXEC in a program line with some limitations
A/S List Protection Bruce F. Field technique / copy-protection A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1986 52 (NB:v2n4p87; NB:v2n6p65) LIST makes program run / move disk directory to another track
Educational Bargains Marilyn L. Winans education / software Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Feb-1986 54 Game Power For Phonics (Cecil Albert) “Elf ABC, Games, and Coloring Book (Elfware)”
Vertical and Horizontal from AppleWorks David Norman technique Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Feb-1986 54 codes for controlling vertical and horizontal movements of rhte Dynax Dx-15
Is There A ProDOS Driver for Corona S. Richard Ravich support / hard disk Write -A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Feb-1986 55 Corona sold Apple hard disk technology to Rana which is out of business
X-10 Powerhouse home control X-10 Inc. CA 00-Feb-1986 62 (press release) remote control of lights and appliances
Sound Tester — Part 1 Ed Sachs sound effects listing CA 00-Mar-1986 12 (9/80p7; 8/86p48:Big Mac.C; NB:1/87p14) create your own noise or tone by entering parameters
Data Scaling Don Ravey technique CA 00-Mar-1986 22 “Basic, Pascal” “when you wish to represent data values visually, you must apply an” appropriate scaling factor to each data value
ZBasic rb Jeffrey M. Jacques language Zedcor CA 00-Mar-1986 30 (4/86p55:precise but slow) 128K $90.00 “faster, more structured, and more powerful than Applesoft”
“1986 Report, Election and Ballot” “Dick Hubert, President” company A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Mar-1986 34a report to the members on the state of the Co-op
Screen Control Cecil Fretwell utility listing CA 00-Mar-1986 39 store or retrieve a character from anywhere on the 40 or 80-column screen
PFS: Write to ProDOS ASCII Converter Wes Felty utility / word processing listing CA 00-Mar-1986 44 (6/86p30) convert PFS:Write files to ASCII files which can be read by AppleWorks and other programs PROVERT.1
ProDOS MLI & Assembler Macros — part 3 Ken Kashmarek technical listing CA 00-Mar-1986 48 the BASIC.SYSTEM global page provides support for MLI calls $C0-$D4 and converts MLI error codes to Applesoft error codes
MousePrintz (Dark Star Systems) Bruce F. Field utility / graphics A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1986 52 $35.00 print pictures to any dot matrix printer and other features
Pixy Plotter Pinouts Bruce F. Field plotter A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1986 52 wiring a cable to connect the Pixy Plotter to a CPS multifunction card (or other serial card)
Parallel To Serial Converters Bruce F. Field printing A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1986 52 “Tigertronics sells one, but you might consider buying a serial card” instead
You Don’t Need To Change Your Motherboard Bruce F. Field hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1986 52 no //e changes are needed to use RAMWorks / consider Apple’s new RAM card
Increasing The Power Output Bruce F. Field hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1986 52 try an ALF or IBM PC/XT power supply
It Could Be A DIP Switch Problem Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1986 53 (8/86p45) there is a DIP switch in your printer that controls whether italics is the default typestyle
Try Typing A Bit Slower Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1986 53 (8/86p45; 11/86p56) it is possible for fast typists to overtype the buffer in Apple Writer
Problems In Terminal Mode Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1986 54 firmware on the Super Serial Card checks that a carrier is present before sending any data to the modem
Two Problems With Cards Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1986 54 CP/M card comes without software
Please Update Big Mac Jim Popenoe assembler Write A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Mar-1986 55 Big Mac won’t assemble 65802 instructions
MacroDisk utility / word processing MacroDisk CA 00-Mar-1986 60 (press release) $30.00 enhances AppleWriter
Master Cat David G. Sparks utility listing CA 00-Apr-1986 8 (10/86p30) “ProDOS, Applesoft” a program to list all of the files on a ProDOS disk subdirectory
Double Hi-Res LogoMaker Scott Anthony utility / printer listing CA 00-Apr-1986 14 “IIe/IIc, 128K” “print out a double hi-res picture to create letterheads, logos, etc.”
Silicon Intelligence Michael & Lisa Storrie-Lombardi book / AI various CA 00-Apr-1986 26 “texts to look at: Build Your Own Expert System (Naylor),” “The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence (Forsyth & Naylor),” Artificial Intelligence (Winston) “minimax, alpha-beta”
Sound Tester — Part 2 Ed Sachs sound effects listing CA 00-Apr-1986 28 auto-generation and random generation of sound effects
Locking Out Control-C Mark Apfelstadt technique listing CA 00-Apr-1986 42 lock out control-C while a program is loading
Deep in the Heart of Taxes Ed Sachs tax / technique listing CA 00-Apr-1986 44 spreadsheet the 1040 Tax form
Input Modifies Program Yvan Koenig tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1986 48 (7/85p40) the pointers for T$(6) and G$ point to the memory area within the program that contains the 000
IIe Shifting with Apple Writer Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1986 48 no modifications to the IIe are required to use the Shift Key with Apple Writer II
Apple Writer Control Codes (again) Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1986 48 sending control codes to your printer with Apple Writer
Available Reference Manuals Bruce F. Field reference A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1986 50 Apple manuals available from Addison-Wesley
Configuring Printer For AppleWorks Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1986 52 should be no problem
Revision B Motherboard Bruce F. Field hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1986 52 (6/86p58) allows the display of double hi-res
A.P.E. rb Paul G. Stout utility / programming A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Apr-1986 54 better than G.P.L.E.
Recycle the II+ Fan Bruce Walker fan Write A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Apr-1986 54 move to speaker in the IIe to make room
ThinkWorks outline processor MegaHaus CA 00-Apr-1986 57 (press release) outlining program that works in conjunction AppleWorks
Lisa/Macintosh XL Trade-In Program computer Apple Computer CA 00-May-1986 9 trade-in for Macintosh Plus and Hard Disk 20 / John Sculley guarantees MS-DOS capabilities on future products
Quicksilver Jenny Schmidt graphics / utility listing CA 00-May-1986 12 a line drawing that smoothly transforms into another line drawing
Apple’s New Unidisk rb Cecil Fretwell technique / disk drive Apple CA 00-May-1986 20 “an 800K disk drive / creating subdirectories, installing Merlin, AMDOS” “(bootable UniDisk for DOS 3.3), modifying ProDOS QUIT code,” the Protocol Converter (supports I/O devices)
Not For Beginners Only: Part 1 Jeffrey M. Jacques technique / spreadsheet Issues in Using Spreadsheets CA 00-May-1986 25 steps in the construction of a worksheet or template
Apple Pascal 1.3 rb Donald J. Geenen language Apple CA 00-May-1986 30 (7/86p46:ProFile) 64K $250.00 supports 128K and can access UniDisk 3.5 and hard drives “/ the documentation, operating system enhancements, pascal language” “enhancementes, complaints, update information”
Treesearch for Pascal 1.3 David G. Sparks utility listing CA 00-May-1986 46 Apple Pascal 1.3 recreating the missing procedure (in Pascal 1.3) needed for the FORMAT program / locates data very quickly in a TREE memory scheme binary tree
^ Control In AppleWorks Bruce F. Field tip / printing A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-May-1986 50 “Niceprint interface requires a caret (^) as an enabling command, which” makes it hard for AppleWorks
Where Is That Entry Point? Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-May-1986 50 the entry point for DRAW ($F601) depends on how you use it
Replacing Your Power Supply Bruce F. Field hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-May-1986 50 easier to buy a new one than to fix the old one
Running Out Of Pascal Memory Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-May-1986 52 Pascal “ways to maximize memory space: swapping option, INCLUDE directive, 128K” interpreter (uses extended memory card) “Puffin, Volition Advanced System Editor”
Shift Key Mod Stops Working Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-May-1986 52 wire runs from shift key on the keyboard to pin 4 of the game port (push button 2)
Saving TEXT Files Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-May-1986 53 the only safe way to use compound print statements is to explicitly “print a delimiter, such as a comma, between the elements”
GRAFMAGIC rb Vin Hawley (Write A.P.P.L.E.) graphics / handicapped A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-May-1986 54 allows display of large characters on monitor suitable for visually handicapped students
Disappointing Monitor Victor L. Houser monitor Apple CA 00-May-1986 55 (9/86p48) customer angry that monitor fails after three months of use John Sculley
More Micromodem incompatibilities Jim Sims hardware Write A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-May-1986 55 the Microcom ERA2 modem software would not activate the printer properly
Problems with the Controller Card Keith Davison hardware Write A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-May-1986 56 (8/86p48:ProDOS) Copy II Plus 6.0 won’t boot on certain LS323 & LS259 combinations on the disk controller card
The Apple II-LaserWriter Connection by Scott Anthony technique listing CA 00-Jun-1986 14 assembly “thanks to the help of Don Lancaster “”my two year old //e is happily” “spewing out PostScript programs written with AppleWriter”””
PFS: File to ProDOS ASCII Converter Wes Felty utility listing CA 00-Jun-1986 30 (3/86p44; 3/87p59) how pfs:file stores its data and how to convert files to AppleWorks and a Mac PROVERT.2
Computereyes rb Jim Hockenhull digitizer Digital Vision CA 00-Jun-1986 34 $130 ($400 with camera) translates a standard video signal into an Apple hi-res image
Not for Beginners Only: Part 2 Jeffrey M. Jacques technique / spreadsheet Issues in Using Spreadsheets CA 00-Jun-1986 46 six questions to ask when designing a template or worksheet
“Silicon Intelligence, Carbon Intelligence, Intelligence” Michael & Lisa Storrie-Lombardi artificial intelligence CA 00-Jun-1986 54 “a race through history, expert system basics, definitions” / Artificial Intelligence Programming on the Macintosh (Dan Shafer)
More and More on AppleWorks Printing Chuck Cronan tip / printing A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1986 58 “modified the STARTUP disk to get rid of “”80N”””
AppleWriter MouseText Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1986 58 (NB:4/85p63) mouse text characters appear on top line of AppleWriter IIe
IIc ProDOS Bruce F. Field operating system A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1986 58 should run latest version of ProDOS (version 1.1.1) on the IIc
AppleWriter II 80-column mode Bruce F. Field word processor A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1986 59 try pre-boot or Apple Writer //e
Modifying file names in the directory Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1986 59 use a disk zap program (or Hopper’s catalog edit program)
Diagnostic Memory Check Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1986 59 the diagnostic self-test also checks the extended 80-column card
“Views from a “”Loyal Oppositionist””” Larry Brockman user group / industry Write A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jun-1986 60 (8/86p48; 10/86p55:Apfelstadt; 11/86p56) “is the Co-op becoming less of a “”Co-op”” than a “”distributor “” more a” vendor-based group than a user-based one
The Bard’s Pro-Am Writing System rb Dave Harkness (Write A.P.P.L.E.) word processor Writing Software International CA 00-Jun-1986 “61, 69(ad)” $70.00 “with 50,000 Spell Checker and Animated Graphic Tutorial”
Stepping Lightly through ProDOS Sean Nolan technical / utility listing CA 00-Jul-1986 11 (3/87p59:ProDOS 1.2) display ProDOS MLI calls as they are made ProDOS Wedge
Slot Saver Clock Driver Ken Kashmarek utility listing CA 00-Jul-1986 15 Versacard multifunction board free up a slot for the mouse by replacing the ProDOS clock driver with a custom clock driver for the Versacard clock phantom slots
Issues In Using Spreadsheets: part 3 Jeffrey M. Jacques technique / spreadsheet CA 00-Jul-1986 20 9 more questions to ask when designing templates / determining your net worth
Kyan Pascal rb Michael Fink language Kyan CA 00-Jul-1986 26 ProDOS $75.00 a full implementation of the Jensen & Wirth standard plus several useful predefined library functions / KIX enhancement to ProDOS
Silicon Intelligence by Michael and Lisa Storrie-Lombardi artificial intelligence CA 00-Jul-1986 36 (from MA:5/86) “language choice in AI, expert systems”
Fast Garbage Collection Bruce F. Field utility A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1986 42 (1/81p40) Randy Wigginton’s famous program
Apple-IBM Conversion Without A Modem Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1986 42 (9/86p47:Vertex out of business; 9/86p52:MatchPoint PC; 12/86p52) “Turnover allows the PC to read and write 5-1/4″” disks in Apple format”
IIc Serial Port Settings Bruce F. Field hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1986 43 (12/86p52) create an EXEC file to simplify setting up the serial port
Okidata Printer Problems Bruce F. Field printing A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1986 43 the lower case a is curled down in correspondence mode / line feed may be off
Call Waiting and BBSs Bruce F. Field communications / tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1986 43 change the setting on the modem to take longer to hang up
AppleWorks Problems Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1986 44 ragged margins (printer may be set for proportional print) / 0N on printout (change interface card in Configuration)
Disk Drive I/O Errors Bruce F. Field hardware / maintenance A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1986 44 “reseat connectors and cables, clean edge connector, adjust drive speed”
RAM Card Access Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1986 44 each program must be written to use the extra memory
Pros and Cons of Hard Disk-Ing It Bruce F. Field tip / hard disk A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1986 44 (12/86p52:ProSel backup) anyone who stores unrecoverable data on a hard disk is looking for trouble backup copy
More Help For Rodney Jan Sand handicapped / furniture Write A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jul-1986 46 (9/84p40) drawings of a computer setup for a quadraplegic patient Tero
Pascal 1.3 with ProFile Ken Kashmarek hard disk Write A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jul-1986 46 new SYSTEM.ATTACH will provide ProFile support
Pinpoint Experiences Dennis LaMonica utility Write A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jul-1986 48 (11/86p55) “Pinpoint approach has merit, but Graphmerge crashes system”
Request for Printer Configuration Programming Milorad M. Rogic printing Write A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jul-1986 48 wants to add other printers to his Apple Writer enhancement program
Developer Disk #2 utility / ProDOS Nite Owl CA 00-Jul-1986 50 (press release) programming tools and program building blocks for ProDOS
Upgrade Your II to a IIe hardware Impossibilities CA 00-Jul-1986 51 (press release) enhanced IIe $399.00 includes a new keyboard and motherboard
So What Did You Expect? Sean Nolan puzzle / bug CA 00-Jul-1986 57 Applesoft 10ORDER = CHAOS
Simulating a Simulation Language Craig Crossman language / simulation listing CA 00-Aug-1986 11 Applesoft GPSS is a simulation language that relies on a unique form of flowcharting / The Bank Teller Model “modeling, Dynamo”
Getting AppleWorks and the Spreadsheet to Behave – part 1 by Jeffrey M. Jacques technique Upgrading Your Spreadsheet CA 00-Aug-1986 20 (6/87p57:CHOOSE) “what to do about the “”missing”” logical functions MOD function” Zeller’s Congruence
“Using 3.5″” Disks to Backup DOS 3.3. Floppies” Sean Nolan utility / disk listing CA 00-Aug-1986 24 Merlin.Pro back up DOS 3.3 floppy disks onto either a hard disk or the new 3.5 inch disk drives
Smart Bar Ralph Knight utility listing CA 00-Aug-1986 35 (9/86p48) an inverse bar menu routine
DOS Enhancer Wesley Weber utility listing CA 00-Aug-1986 38 execute or load any type of file with a short command
“Creating an Expert Assistant, Part 1” by Michael and Lisa Storrie-Lombardi artificial intelligence Silicon Intelligence CA 00-Aug-1986 42 “instead of starting out trying to make an immediate expert, what if we” “built an intelligent “”girl-Friday”” first?” “Alan Kay, Angelina”
Applewriter II and Missing Keystrokes William Hanna tip / word processor A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1986 45 (11/86p56) doesn’t believe missing characters is due to software limitations
RAM Applesoft Bruce F. Field language A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1986 45 Applesoft was first distributed on tape and was loaded into RAM Integer BASIC
DOS Commands and Printing Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1986 45 activating the printer from the Monitor
Who’s Driving? Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1986 46 program sometimes doesn’t show up
Searching and Replacing Carriage Returns Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1986 47 (9/86p45:use a different delimiter; 12/86p53; 1/87p56) how to remove carriage returns with Applewriter II (and an Applesoft program)
Truth is Stranger than Fiction! William Jackson puzzle Write A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Aug-1986 48 random number seed changes unexpectedly expect
ProDOS and Disk Controllers W.A. Craven hardware Write A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Aug-1986 48 Memory Plus Distributers disk controller doesn’t work with ProDOS 1.1.1 on the II+ / Apple and Jameco drives work without problems
Hackerman Stan and His Ampersand Band utility CopperSoft Solutions CA 00-Aug-1986 51 (press release) $50.00 a program that writes programs plus a set of new BASIC commands
HiRes Graphics and Animation Using Assembly Language “Malkin, Leonard I., Ph.D.” book / graphics Hayden CA 00-Aug-1986 53 (press release) the secrets of producing professional hi-res animated graphics for games and other applications
Introducing APDA “Dan Cochran, Languages and Tools Manager, Apple Computer Inc.” support / software development CA 00-Sep-1983 9 the birth of Apple Programmer’s and Developer’s Association
In the Beginning There Were User Groups by Steve Wozniak (transcribed by Jack Connick) technology / history CA 00-Sep-1986 11 (also MA) “how Apple got started: TV jammer, mini-computer designing,” “Home Brew Computer Club, computer magazines, computer kits,” Microsoft BASIC “Dial-A-Joke, Captain Crunch”
Cauzin Softstrip rb Donald J. Geenen hardware Cauzin CA 00-Sep-1986 17 $200.00 read/write software and paper data strips
The 65816 Microprocessor — views of an assembly language programmer rb Sean Nolan technical CA 00-Sep-1986 22 (11/86p55:Paymar; 3/87p58:position independent) the new instructions found on the 65816 are likely to change programming styles relocatable code
Pascal Assembly Languagge David G. Sparks tutorial / language CA 00-Sep-1986 34 Apple Pascal Assembler attaching assembly language modules to Pascal programs is much easier than doing the same thing in Applesoft
Creating an Expert Assistant – part II Lisa & Michael Storrie-Lombardi artificial intelligence / programming Silicon Intelligence CA 00-Sep-1986 42 recursion / factorial in LISP / word search in LISP / factorial in BASIC
WordPerfect and Fingerprint Bruce F. Field printing A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Sep-1986 45 (11/86p53) “Fingerprint uses different “”mask”” bytes for monitoring the status of the” printer
Pausing At The End Of The Page Bruce F. Field printing A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Sep-1986 45 choose stop at end of page option in AppleWorks
Getting Print Shop To Work Bruce F. Field printing A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Sep-1986 45 setup the program
Clearing Keystrokes With A POKE Bruce F. Field technique A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Sep-1986 45 “POKE -16368,0 will clear the keystroke buffer”
SuperBase Bruce F. Field data management A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Sep-1986 45 (11/86p53) name a program other than Dbase II which has a command language
MS-DOS Coverage? Darryl Holder / Jeff Lambert / W.E. Fells / Doug Trueman computer Write A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Sep-1986 46 NO
FTL Modula-2 rb John A. Palsedge (Write A.P.P.L.E.) language Workman & Associates CA 00-Sep-1986 48 CP/M $50.00 “editor, compiler, linker, library routines, and a 200 page manual”
Magic Menus Ralph L. Jones utility Write A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Sep-1986 48 (8/86p48) a simple subroutine for a menu which uses the arrow keys for selecting
The Robotic Telephone Assistant phone dialer School Office Software Systems CA 00-Sep-1986 53 (press release) $1200.00 automatically send a recorded message to parents (or other parties)
The Apple II Evolves: First Impressions of the New Apple IIGS rb Don Elman computer Apple Computer CA 00-Oct-1986 “11, 57” “a new and improved CPU, new audio and video capabilities, a new external” “appearance, and a Mac-like human interface (in color)”
Under the Hood of the Apple IIGS by Rick Sutcliffe computer / hardware Apple Computer CA 00-Oct-1986 18 “the 65C816, memory, toolbox routines, compatibility, ports, ProDOS/16,” development environment
And then there was Apple by Steve Wozniak (with Jack Connick) company / history CA 00-Oct-1986 22 “the 6502, Integer BASIC, dynamic RAM, Steve Jobs, forming a company,” “the Apple I, keyboard, Hewlett-Packard, Breakout, generating color,” “the Apple II, paddles, computer show, Hughes Aircraft, Commodore,” “Mike Markkula, Alan Baum, the competition, VisiCalc, the floppy disk,” “user groups, Jean Louis-Gassee, piracy, Apple Link”
AppleWorks Master Catalog Robert Schack utility listing CA 00-Oct-1986 30 revision of Master Cat to allow a preview of the screen and to prepare text files to load into word processors or other programs
Working with business equations Jeffrey Jacques business Upgrading Your Spreadsheet CA 00-Oct-1986 45 spreadsheet common financial functions for investing and loans
Super/Subscripts Bruce F. Field printing A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1986 52 need to first put the NEC (or ImageWriter) into Incremental Line mode
Underlining With Applewriter II Bruce F. Field printing A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1986 52 underlining with the shift key mod and underlining methods
Blowing Fuses and Trashing Disks Bruce F. Field hardware maintenance A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1986 54 the Apple power supply is pretty rugged when it comes to blowing fuses / turning on printer shouldn’t ruin disks
Transylvania Hints Ron Wartow adventure A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1986 54 where is the Black Box?
WordPerfect printing problems Harvey Welker word processing Write A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Oct-1986 55 correcting the buffer overflow problem with the Apple Super Serial Card
Mail Merge with AppleWorks Charles H. Newby business Write A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Oct-1986 56 AutoWorks modifies AppleWorks to provide a mail merge feature
Programming The 65816 “Eyes, David and Ron Lichty” book / programming Prentice Hall CA 00-Oct-1986 60 “65816, 6502, 65C02, 65802” a teaching manual and reference guide to the entire 65x family
Simple Worms William R. Buckley & Dr. James Hauser programming listing CA 00-Nov-1986 13 a self-perpetuating computer program which keeps on the move
Quiz Maker Harold Shuckhart education listing CA 00-Nov-1986 20 AppleWorks “using the data base and clipboard to write quizzes, and accumulate” questions in a test bank for future reference and use
Breaking the RAMDisk Barrier Edd Marquardt technique CA 00-Nov-1986 24 (2/87p58:DATA statements) ProDOS BLOAD and BSAVE files of any type to the RAM disk (/RAM)
Resetting RESET Cecil Fretwell technique CA 00-Nov-1986 27 (AAAp133; 8/82p79) ON RESET GOTO / ProDOS $3EA logic / ON RESET BOOT / ON RESET RUN / ON RESET IGNORE / ON RESET LOCKUP
Tearing Randi Rost tutorial / graphics The Graphics Toolkit: Part 8 CA 00-Nov-1986 39 “the causes of “”tearing”” that sometimes occurs when shapes are moved” about on the Apple’s hi-res screen “flicker, double buffering”
An Alphabetical Pascal Directory Donald J. Geenen utility listing CA 00-Nov-1986 43 Apple Pascal a utility to print out an alphabetical list of files from Pascal/FORTRAN
The Real World of Expert Systems Michael & Lisa Storrie-Lombardi artificial intelligence / language Silicon Intelligence CA 00-Nov-1986 49 Analyza / Expert System Basics / using ExperOPS5 (OPS5 on the Mac) Rete Algorithm
Losing Data On Track 0 Bruce F. Field hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Nov-1986 53 (2/87p55:patch; 3/87p56) replacing the power supply cures the problem
Amper Disk Store & Recall on IIe Dick Johnson utility A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Nov-1986 53 unenhanced IIe routine at $F7D9 is absent on the IIe
The Filing System for AppleWriter Bruce F. Field (and Jim Pirisino) data management A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Nov-1986 53 AppleWriter WPL “has capabilities of generating and filing input forms, report printing,” and mailing labels
Apple IIe as a print buffer Bruce F. Field hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Nov-1986 53 want to use the Apple as a print buffer for the Mac
Plus-Works and 80-column cards Bruce F. Field software A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Nov-1986 54 will allow you to run AppleWorks on a II+ “Memory Plus, disk drives, Viewmaster 80”
Pinpont Experiences Followup Charlie Stillman (and Dennis LaMonica) software / support Write A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Nov-1986 55 “outrage, hurt, and denial gave way to Technical Note TN-PPO22”
Missing AppleWriter Characters Robert Flickinger word processing Write A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Nov-1986 56 problems occurs only in DOS 3.3 and is caused by the updating of the Data Line
Sun System Remarketing company CA 00-Nov-1986 57 “besides the Apple ///, Sun now offers a remarketed Apple II Plus and” Macintosh X/L (Lisa)
LifeLike Sean Nolan simulation Curiously Reptilian Software CA 00-Nov-1986 59 (press release) $15 (shareware) “explore 25,165,824 different cellular-automata universes”
“Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation” magazine CA 00-Dec-1986 10 “21,048 paid”
The Apple Writer Solution Don Lancaster graphics / publishing CA 00-Dec-1986 11 “PostScript, Apple Writer, Laser Writer” ProDOS Apple Writer II can produce superb graphics on a LaserWriter “/ capturing graphics, text page images, creating tables with columns,” “multiple fonts and images, grays, graphics page images, technical” illustrations
A IIGS Developer’s Conference Keith Nemitz conference / programming CA 00-Dec-1986 18 GS what can developers expect in the future: a two-day conference “concerning marketing plans, a technical overview of the machine, and” face-to-face meetings with the engineers and product planners “compatibility, John Sculley”
Let’s Start Publishing Usable Assembly Language Code Bob Bishop technique / programming CA 00-Dec-1986 21 proposed set of guidelines for programs published in magazines: “subroutines, resource confiscation, documentation”
The Unidisk 3.5 Ken Kashmarek disk drive / technical Call -A.P.P.L.E. Tech Notes CA 00-Dec-1986 26 the format of the 3.5 inch disk
The Penultimate Quit Call Rick Sutcliffe utility CA 00-Dec-1986 29 (2/87p58; 5/87p56:ProDOS 1.2) an improved ProDOS exit routine
AppleWorks Rank Ordering Harold Shuckhart technique / education CA 00-Dec-1986 36 AppleWorks spreadsheet determine a students rank on a set of tests and see how different weightings affected the student’s final score
Working With Macros within Spreadsheets: part 1 Jeffrey Jacques tutorial CA 00-Dec-1986 41 using macros when changing spreadsheet templates
Non-Animation Shape Tables Randi Rost tutorial / graphics The Graphics Toolkit: Part 9 CA 00-Dec-1986 “47 (2/87,p58)” final installment: another type of block shape
The Envoy Board Bruce F. Field (A.P.P.L.E. Doctor) hardware ASKY CA 00-Dec-1986 52 (7/86p42) plug in IBM drives and convert DOS 3.3 and ProDOS files to MS-DOS Turnover
Change the Default Values on the IIc Serial Port Murphy Sewell and Wilton Helm utility A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1986 52 (7/86p43) a program to change the defaults values on the IIc serial port
Extraneous Carriage Returns Chris Arndt tip / data transfer A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1986 53 (1/87p56) don’t answer the width question with a number when uploading files from the Model 100
Losing Modem Characters Bruce F. Field tip / communications A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1986 53 with Prometheus ProModem 100 and Apricorn Serial card “/ the problem is with the slow 80-column firmware on the IIe, change” software or send nulls from the host
Status Checker Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1986 54 UniDisk 3.5 an early 3.5 disk controller bug causes problems when writing to a write-protected disk
Evil Levels of Voltage? Bruce F. Field (and Tom Vier) hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1986 54 the fan has as much effect on the line voltage as a mouse pushing an elephant / replacing the $2 capacitor in your power supply
Using the PKASO Superfont option Larry Neibauer technique / printer interface Write A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Dec-1986 55 with ScreenWriter II
Loading ScreenWriter files with AppleWorks John P.M. Ehrling tip / word processor Write A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Dec-1986 55 save as ASCII files
Diablo and AppleWorks Larry Neibauer printer Write A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Dec-1986 56 try Custom printer
Telecommunications Software Review rb Cecil Fretwell communications various CA 00-Jan-1987 11 “Commworks, Modem Magician, MouseTalk, Point-to-Point, ProCom-A”
“Part 1: A “”Dazzling”” Start” Bob Bishop programming Modular Assembly Language Programming CA 00-Jan-1987 22 EDASM SAVE0: save X and Y registers and page zero locations on the stack DAZZLER: dazzling animation effects “COLORMAP: maps each lo-res pixel into its “”next”” lo-res color”
Using EDASM To Generate Relocatable Code Bob Bishop technical CA 00-Jan-1987 26 using the EDASM Linking Loader
SmallTalk Part 1 Michael & Lisa Storrie-Lombardi artificial intelligence / tutorial / language Silicon Intelligence CA 00-Jan-1987 45 Smalltalk-80 (Mac) the landmark archetype of all object-oriented programming (OOP) languages Alan Kay
IIGS Developer’s Conference: the 2nd day by Keith Nemitz computer CA 00-Jan-1987 49 GS “fitting features into ROM, the 65816, memory map, control panel, desktop” “bus, entry points, serial ports, I/O buffering, Appletalk, ImageWriter” “emulation on LaserWriter, use the firmware, disk drive support,” SmartPort
Dr. Alan Kay at the Pacific Science Center by Keith Nemitz profile / education CA 00-Jan-1987 53 “PARC, Children and Smalltalk, three types of learning: symbolic,” “visualization, reflex/motor; Vivarium” Logo
Observing the GS “Sam L. Pemberton, Jr.” computer Write-Apple CA 00-Jan-1987 55 (NB:2/87p92) “cost, updating ProDOS, Apple Pascal 1.3 incompatibilities, Catalyst 3.0,” “mouse, AppleWorks 1.3, Apple IIGS Memory Expansion Card, Sony speakers,” documentation
No Carriage Returns George Katzenberger tip / data transfer A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1987 56 (6/86p45; 12/86p53; 4/87p49) use the Model 100 modem from within the TEXT program
A Foiled Monitor Bruce F. Field hardware / monitor A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1987 56 aluminum foil to shield monitor fixes problems with booting disks
“””G”” Won’t Go” Bruce F. Field hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1987 56 (2/87p55) “the “”G”” command in the monitor will not execute / may be due to bad RAM” chip
Garbage Collection Numels Bruce F. Field utility A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1987 57 limited to 64
HP 7475A plotter Bruce F. Field plotter A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1987 57 wants driver routine to dump Print Shop or Newsroom graphics
Three New Approaches to Word Processing rb Marc Apfelstadt word processor “StyleWare, Writing Software International, Roger Wagner Publishing” CA 00-Feb-1987 11 (4/87p52) “MultiScribe, the Bard’s Pro-Am, MouseWrite”
From IIe to IIgs and Beyond Cecil Fretwell computer / technical CA 00-Feb-1987 15 (5/87p58:cable wiring; 8/87p38) “first impressions of the GS: nosing around the accessories, Applesoft,” “ROM monitor code, miniassembler”
A Musical Fanfare Bob Bishop music Modular Assembly Language Part II CA 00-Feb-1987 22 play 3-note chords
A COPY Command for ProDOS Steven Ohmert utility listing (assembly) CA 00-Feb-1987 30 (4/87p52:sparse files; 4/87p52:corrections) adding a new command to ProDOS
“Working With Macros, Part II” Jeffrey Jacques technique / business The Spreadsheet Sheet CA 00-Feb-1987 44 service record and accounts receivable
Please Pass the Graphics Ken Watters graphics / technique CA 00-Feb-1987 53 RLE passing graphics between the Mac and the II
A Fellow Conspirator Bruce Field / Robert Platt support A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1987 55 Robert Platt (Pascal expert) joins the column
ProDOS versions Tom Vier operating system A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1987 55 (3/87p56) there are three version of ProDOS (the 18-Sep-84 version solves the problem of track 0 errors)
ROM/RAM Test Bob Anderson technique / maintenance A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1987 55 a simple technique to test ROM
Apple-IBM Conversions Bruce Field / Robert Platt utility A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1987 55 MatchPoint and Envoy will let PC users read and write Apple disks
AppleWorks/MacroWorks boot problems Bruce Field / Robert Platt troubleshooting A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1987 55 try replacing the disk controller
Newspaper Headlines Bruce Field / Robert Platt publishing A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1987 56 “suggest Print Shop, Fontrix, or Apple Mechanic” / or try a Mac(!)
Automatic Program Execution Bruce Field / Robert Platt tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1987 56 (6/87p55:EXEC) “making a STARTUP program for DOS 3.3, ProDOS, Pascal” HELLO
Modem Magician and Cermetek Applemate modem communications Write A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Feb-1987 57 configure for Super Serial Card and Apple/Hayes compatible
Making A CALLing Keith Nemitz programming Write A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Feb-1987 57 how to pass parameters with the CALL statement
An AppleWorks Bug? Larry Neibauer tip Write A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Feb-1987 58 (8/87p59) AppleWorks 2.0 sending CTRL-@ CTRL-A to the ImageWriter for slashed zeros
Comparing Three CAD Programs rb Lee Webster CAD “Kitchen Sink, Hearlihy, MATC-CAD” CA 00-Mar-1987 10 “CADDRAW, discoverCAD, MATC-CAD”
A Simple Hardware Interface to the Standard Apple II I/O Slot Peter Baum (profiled with Allen Baum) hardware / homebrew CA 00-Mar-1987 18 a simple hardware interface for a peripheral card that plugs into an Apple II slot noise
The Curtain Rises Bob Bishop utility / graphics / special effects “Modular Assembly Language Programming, Part III” CA 00-Mar-1987 22 bringing up the hi-res secondary screen
Wiretapping into BASIC Sean Nolan utility CA 00-Mar-1987 28 record everything that is printed out to the screen onto a file
Sensible Writer / Bank Street Writer Plus / Manuscript Manager rb Marc Apfelstadt word processor Further Adventures in Word Processing CA 00-Mar-1987 34 “Word Perfect, AppleWorks, AppleWorks Add-Ons”
Apple IIGS Compatibility Enrico Colombini computer CA 00-Mar-1987 42 solving hardware and software compabililty problems
ProDOS Memory Management Dick Winslow technique / technical CA 00-Mar-1987 44 (10/85p22:Fretwell) locate free pages of memory (independent of Basic.System)
Tracking Investments Jeffrey M. Jacques investing The Spreadsheet Sheet CA 00-Mar-1987 47 “keep track of original price, update prices, generate statistics”
Smalltalk and Object Logo Michael and Lisa Storrie-Lombardi language / artificial intelligence Silicon Intelligence CA 00-Mar-1987 52 more points about Smalltalk-80 and a look at a derivative of Smalltalk: Object Logo
Losing Data on Track 0 Mel Holliday tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1987 “56,58” it happened in DOS 3.3 also / changing power supply solved problem
Should I turn off my printer? Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1987 56 any piece of equipment that contains semiconductor chips probably benefits from being left on
Plug In Warning Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1987 56 do NOT disconnect or connect disk drives with the power on
Pulse and Touch-Tone Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1987 56 modems can work with both pulse and touch tone lines
Recovering Lost Data Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1987 56 try to copy the file or use a disk zap / recommends 2 backups
AppleWriter IIe Extra Return Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1987 57 extra return appears to be generated in glossary function
Shift Key Mod Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt tip / hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1987 57 how to do the mod on a Revision 1 board
65816/65C02 BRK Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1987 58 the 65816 generates a 2 byte BRK
“Different 3.5″” Drives” Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt disk drive / technical A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1987 58 “the UniDisk 3.5 was designed to work with the Apple II, IIe, and IIc” “/ the Apple 3.5 drive is similar to the “”dumb”” Mac external drive and” will work with the GS and the Mac
new IIe motherboard Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1987 58 “the famous “”shift key”” modification will hard-wired into the machine”
Latest ProDOS Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt operating system A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1987 58 it’s version 1.2 with a date of 6-SEP-86
Track 0 Bug Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1987 58 program to patch ProDOS 1.2 to stop track 0 crashing
Manufacturing Defect Marv Wager hardware Write-A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Mar-1987 59 super serial clone has a minor manufacturing defect that can prevent it from working with the ImageWriter II (resistor soldered to wrong pad)
Chip Not Manufactured Alan D. Floeter chip Write-A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Mar-1987 59 looking for a new MM5740 keyboard decoder chip / try Morris Horn & Associates
Magazine Index index Kula Software CA 00-Mar-1987 66 (ad) $8.00 an AppleWorks database indexing major articles and reviews for 1986
Apple IIGS Graphics Hardware Laurence A. Thompson hardware / technical CA 00-Apr-1987 10 “an “”inside”” look by a member of the GS design team”
Visualizer rb Jeffrey M. Jacques business graphics PBI CA 00-Apr-1987 14 (7/87p58:rebuttal) GS $100.00 a first generation business graphics package
Lo-Res Kaleidoscopes Lucia Grossberger and Bob Bishop graphics / demo listing CA 00-Apr-1987 18 assembly create animated kaleidoscopes
Anatomy of the IIGS System Disk Ken Kashmarek technical CA 00-Apr-1987 24 “contents, layout, and organization of the ProDOS 16 system disk”
TML Pascal Conference Michael Fischer and Tom Leonard language GEnie CA 00-Apr-1987 33 a question and answer session about the new language for the GS “MPW, APW”
Memory Expansion in the Apple II Peter & Allen Baum upgrade / technical CA 00-Apr-1987 37 (6/87p58:Saturn 128K board) protocols of auxiliary memory expansion and Apple memory expansion
A Hi-Res Movie “The “”Pack-Man”” (Bob Bishop)” utility “Modular Assembly Language Programming, Part IV” CA 00-Apr-1987 40 “RWBLOCK, a module to access the 64K auxiliary memory” / using the auxiliary memory as a DOS 3.3 RAM Disk RWTS
Object Logo: a place where words and numbers finally meet Michael & Lisa Storrie-Lombardi language / artificial intelligence Silicon Intelligence CA 00-Apr-1987 46 a look at its special features
Magnetic Interference Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1987 49 interference from monitor prevents disk drive from reading correctly / a small metal shield for the read/write head is missing in some IIc drives
IIGS SCSI Card has stack management problems Tom Vier tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1987 49 causes the f’s (?) to crash occasionally
Model 100 Carriage Returns Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt communications A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1987 49 how to access the Tandy modem
Compiler Problems Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1987 49 there will problems when trying to compile a program that contains machine language routines CAT SCAN (6/87p58)
UniDisk Not Found Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1987 50 use the latest version of ProDOS “RunRun, Copy II+, AppleWorks 2.0”
Displaying Only Uppercase Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt technique A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1987 50 identify a II+ and display only upper case if detected
AppleWorks with Grappler and MX80 Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1987 50 AppleWorks category names / C compiler / p-System for GS (Pecan) / THE Spreadsheet and UniDOS 3.3 (use only DOS 3.3)
AppleWorld ’87 Kathryn Hallgrimson Suther trade show / industry CA 00-Apr-1987 51 “Del Yocam, Steve Wozniak, Jean-Louis Gassee speak” John Sculley
Monitors and 80 columns “T. Rand Collins, Ph.D, M.D.” monitor Write-A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Apr-1987 52 the Apple color monitor doesn’t display 80-columns in double hi-res well The Bard’s Pro-Am
You II Can Be Musical! rb Marc Apfelstadt music various CA 00-May-1987 10 “Music Construction Set, The Music Studio (7/87p59), Music Printer,” Musician’s Toolbox “MIDI, Supersonic Stereo Card, Supersonic Digitizer”
Peeking at and Poking Around the Apple IIGS Monitor Michael Fischer tutorial / technical CA 00-May-1987 15 GS “includes list of system monitor routines; verify command, pattern” “command, disassembly command, modifying memory, move command, zap” “command, restore command”
A Simple Periodic Interrupt Card Peter & Allen Baum hardware / homebrew CA 00-May-1987 22 “a method for “”waking up”” a background task” / the daisy chain protocol (designed to allow interrupt devices to arbitrate their priority in hardware) “IRQ, NMI, Jeeves”
the Apple IIGS Bob Bishop technique / computer “Modular Assembly Language Programming, part V” CA 00-May-1987 28 (rejoinder 8/87p58:David Lyons) emulation mode vs native mode / using APW / using EDASM / an example: super hi-res plotting “Tool Sets, Toolbox”
Cellular Automata on the IIGS using TML Pascal Enrico Colombini simulation listing CA 00-May-1987 37 display linear cellular automata
Comparison of Three CAD Programs: part 2 rb Lee Webster CAD various CA 00-May-1987 42 “CADDRAW, discoverCAD, MATC-CAD”
AppleWorld ’87: a continual commitment by Kathryn Hallgrimson & Larry Neibauer conference CA 00-May-1987 48 featuring the Apple II panel update discussion “Gassee: “”if you have a product that sells you don’t get rid of it you” “keep improving it””” user groups
Using Mac Drives Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt disk drive A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-May-1987 54 how to use the Mac 400K drive with the IIe (Universal Disk Controller) / routine to eject the disk
Z80 Compatibility With GS Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt software A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-May-1987 54 some Z80 cards (Microsoft and Digital Research) and interface cards that use interrupts will not work properly on the GS
ProDOS Shape Table Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt graphics A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-May-1987 54 wants to label items within graphs / transferring Apple Mechanic shape tables to ProDOS
Detecting Printer Status Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt technique A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-May-1987 54 (7/87p59; 9/87p58:impossible with a parallel card) the way you can tell what your printer is doing is to send it a character and see if it responds
AppleWorks Password Protection Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-May-1987 55 encrypt and decrypt them outside AppleWorks / Super MacroWorks will password protect AW 2.0 files
AppleWorks Multiple Columns Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-May-1987 55 (7/87p60) use the spreadsheet and clipboard / or try MacroWorks
Memory Expansion Boards for II+ and GS Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-May-1987 55 RAMFactor or Apple Slinky should work in both machines
Color Monitor fuses Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt monitor A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-May-1987 55 the original fuse was too limiting
Using 80 (not 88) Column Mode Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-May-1987 55 “PR#3, POKE 1403” GET
Restoring Uppercase Characters Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-May-1987 55 (9/87p58) the II+ will automatically convert lower case characters to upper case when copying over with the right arrow keys
Tidbits from a reader Scotty Shipley tip Write-A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-May-1987 58 “disk problems 3.5″” disk drive problems The Menu Cauzin Print Shop” “(line up prices), PinPoint”
Repeating Characters Larry Houston hardware Write-A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-May-1987 58 (10/87p82:bad cable) intermittent connections between the keyboard and the motherboard
A Review of APW and TML Pascal rb Rick Sutcliffe language / programming environment Apple / TML CA 00-Jun-1987 10 “GS, 1MB and 2 800K drives” $100 / $125 “APW: fast and powerful / TML: good, but not for the novice”
Announcing the TERC BASIC Enhancements Sean Nolan language shareware CA 00-Jun-1987 19 Apple $4 / $15 (shareware) Applesoft enhancement package
An Overview of Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) Peter & Allen Baum technical / hardware Apple CA 00-Jun-1987 24 GS “physical connections, hardware signal levels, register 3, collision” detection and handler IDs
Peeking and Poking Around the Apple IIGS Monitor Pt. 2 Michael Fischer tutorial CA 00-Jun-1987 28 (7/87p59) GS how to use the monitor to do various functions / user (control-Y) command / utility (toolbox) command / base conversion commands / computation commands / input/output redirection / video display commands / leaving the monitor / the Mini-Assembler / diagnostic routines
“A “”Long Real”” Data Type for Apple Pascal” Donald Geenen technique / utility / programming CA 00-Jun-1987 34 Apple Pascal 1.3 new data type provides 36 digits of precision SANE
Fun With the Cassette Ports Bob Bishop (The PACK Man) tutorial / programming Modular Assembly Language Programming CA 00-Jun-1987 42 Apple Speech Recording / Lie Detector / Low-Cost LAN self-modifying code
“The Ethical Subroutine: “”Put ‘Em Back the Way They Was””” David G. Sparks tutorial / programming CA 00-Jun-1987 47 GS (65816) one way to assure that a running program will not have the state of the 65816 processor arbitrarily changed by a subroutine
Still More Adventures In Word Processing: part 3 rb Marc Apfelstadt word processor various CA 00-Jun-1987 50 (7/87p59:WordPerfect GS; 10/87p82:Graphic Writer) GS / IIe and IIc “IIGS: Word Perfect GS, Graphic Writer, MultiScribe GS, Writer’s Choice” “Elite / IIe and IIc: HomeWord Plus, Trio, Paper Clip IIe, SuperScript,” “Fleet System 3, PFS:Write, The Write Choice (runs on II+)”
Invoking an EXEC File Paul Lucas tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1987 55 ProDOS “making a STARTUP EXEC file (ProDOS performs a “”smart”” RUN on any file” named STARTUP)
ProDOS 8 version 1.3 – 1.4 Bruce Field / Robert C. Platt operating system / bug / patch A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1987 “55, 57 (10/87p79; 1/88,p64:Auxmove)” ProDOS quirks/bugs of the new versions / patch for the track 0 bug (7/87p56)
Using AUXMOVE Bruce Field / Robert C. Platt tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1987 55 (7/87p57:nope C312: 1/88p64:$C311 it is) “should be C312, not C311”
Configuring Laser 128 Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt computer A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1987 56 set up the Laser serial port for 8 data bits
Identifying Applesoft or Integer BASIC in ROM Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1987 56 Apple II / II+ STA $C080 LDA $E000 if accumulator = $20 then INTEGER if accumulator = $4C then Applesoft
“Titan Accelerator, Epson MX100, Grappler Interface” Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1987 56 try getting rid of the Grappler
BINARY2 Protocol Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt communications A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1987 56 CompuServe a protocol for sending multiple binary ProDOS files under XMODEM
Pink Fringed GS Desktop Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1987 56 (7/87p57; 10/87p79) Apple is working on the problem
Pinpoint and 3 EZ Pieces Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1987 57 Pointpoint won’t work on the Apple III
Testing the Auxiliary Memory “Bredon, Glen / Bruce F. Field / Robert C. Platt” utility A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1987 57 Apple IIe / IIc (uses MouseText) machine language listing of a program to test auxiliary memory
ProDOS Update A.W. Finamore / Larry Neibauer operating system Write-A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jun-1987 57 differences between ProDOS 1.1 and 1.3 summarized
CAT SCAN simplified Bill Parker utility listing CA 00-Jun-1987 57 (All About DOS) now compatible with the Beagle compiler loads file names into an Applesoft array
Apple THREE News & Views H. Joseph Dobrowolski publication Apple THREE Group International CA 00-Jun-1987 58 Apple /// $15.00 monthly newsletter
Saturn 128K Board “rb Roger L. Cole, P.E.” hardware / memory expansion Saturn CA 00-Jun-1987 58 II+ a third memory expansion protocol / RAM Disk implemented
Instant Pascal 1.5 language Apple CA 00-Jun-1987 60 128K
New Books for the GS book / reference Osborne/McGraw-Hill / Addison-Wesley CA 00-Jun-1987 61 GS Apple IIGS Technical Reference (Fischer) / Apple IIGS Toolbox / Apple IIGS Hardware Reference / Apple IIGS Firmware Reference / ProDOS 16 Reference
VisionPlus Card / ComputerEyes/2 rb Ken Watters digitizer AST / Digital Vision CA 00-Jul-1987 10 (9/87p57) GS $395 / $250 “digitize a video tape image and save it to disk in “”Screen”” format”
DOS 3.3.5 Rick Sutcliffe operating system / patch listing / shareware CA 00-Jul-1987 13 (9/87p45) GS $10.00 patch DOS 3.3 to work on SmartPort devices (e.g. 800K drives)
After the Keys Go Down Peter & Allen Baum technical / keyboard CA 00-Jul-1987 “23 (4/88,p62)” IIe / IIc / IIGS all about keyboard plus a remote keyboard emulator
“Modules, Merlin, Menus…” Bob Bishop programming / technique Modular Assembly Language Programming CA 00-Jul-1987 26 (8/87p33; 10/87p82) reading paddles / using Merlin instead of EDASM / Of Mice and Menus
Making the GS Desktop Easier to Reach Patrick Gormley utility listing CA 00-Jul-1987 36 (8/87p33; 9/87p57:Merlin) GS bypass the Program Launcher and execute Desktop1
Like Clockwork Val J. Golding clock / technique CA 00-Jul-1987 40 (8/87p33) accessing the ProDOS clock
AppleWorks Utility Cecil Fretwell utility listing (AppleSoft and assembly) CA 00-Jul-1987 “42 (12/87,p59)” AppleWorks tools to catalog the disk and protect files
Numerical Analysis or how to get real work out of your life Lisa & Michael Storrie-Lombardi artificial intelligence Silicon Intelligence CA 00-Jul-1987 52 MS-Basic 3.0 (Mac) solving a differential equation using numerical analysis
Using AppleWriter on the IIgs Don Lancaster word processor / patch CA 00-Jul-1987 55 GS patch to allow AppleWriter to print on the IIGS
Activision software on the IIGS Terrell Gibbs bug A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1987 56 GS has problems if certain interface cards are installed “Music Studio, Tas Times”
MouseTalk compatibility Robert C. Platt software A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1987 56 not programmed to access RAM on the IIe auxiliary slot
Attaching disk drives to the IIGS Robert C. Platt disk drive / hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1987 56 (8/87p58) GS “althoug the Smartport has the theoretical ability to chain 127 devices,” the current version of ProDOS will only allow you to access four drives “/ Apple 3.5″” drive should come first in the daisy chain” “/ hooking up a 5.25″” Disk II to a IIGS or IIc (use an adapter)” / Attaching a DuoDisk to a IIGS
“the “”Pink Fringe”” problem” Robert C. Platt bug A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1987 57 (6/87p56; 10/87p79)) GS “pink fringes appear on the IIGS desktop, fixed in new motherboard”
Super Hi-Res (SHR) Graphics “Robert C. Platt / Harper, Jason” graphics / technical A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1987 57 GS what are they? and how can you convert to them? SHRConvert
GS Upgrades Robert C. Platt hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1987 57 upgrade to put IIGS motherboard into IIe case / upgrade for Apple SCSI
Advanced Pascal Programming Techniques “Sand, Paul” book / programming Osborne McGraw Hill CA 00-Jul-1987 57 routines written for Pascal 1.2 should still work in 1.3
Printing Multiple Columns in AppleWorks Christopher Van Buren (Exclusive Reference) technique CA 00-Jul-1987 60 AppleWorks
GS Memory Cards Compared rb Sean Nolan memory expansion various CA 00-Aug-1987 “10 (11/87p24:ProSEL, AppleWorks expander software)” GS the pros and cons of six memory cards for the GS: Apple IIGS Memory “Expansion Card, RamPack GS, RamStack Plus, OctoRam, GSRam, GSRam Plus”
Generating Mandelbrot Images Bob Bishop fractal Modular Assembly Language Programming CA 00-Aug-1987 18 (9/87p57:coloring book) an explanation of fractals and how to generate them
The Apple IIGS Slots Peter and Allen Baum with Jay Rickard technical / hardware Apple CA 00-Aug-1987 25 GS a description of slot signals and the differences between the IIe & GS
Freeware: a definition of Public Domain Software by Doug Trueman software / freeware CA 00-Aug-1987 30 PDS revealed — what’s available and where to get it?
Le Grayhaven Cookbook “rb Doug Trueman / Griffith, M.E. and Minnette Lesser” home Big Red Computer Club CA 00-Aug-1987 31 “add, delete, and print recipes” Tanstaafl
Mono Hi-Res: another new GS display mode Laurence A. Thompson technique CA 00-Aug-1987 32 GS another graphic option besides Super Hi-Res
GS Key Locations Val Golding technique CA 00-Aug-1987 36 a keyboard read routine that handles the modifier keys “KEYMODREG, Apple-Key, Option-Key”
Beginner’s Woes by Cecil Fretwell tutorial CA 00-Aug-1987 38 (9/87p36) “Cecil responds to Billy Chipp, a new Apple II owner” ProDOS
A Real-Time Application Jeffrey M. Jacques technique The Spreadsheet Sheet CA 00-Aug-1987 43 keeping track of events as they develop and produce essential summary data: a bowling template
Edit Your INPUT Jenny Schmidt utility listing CA 00-Aug-1987 48 (1/88p64) Microsparc Assembler “an enhanced INPUT statement with insert and overstrike modes, deletions,” “recalls of default reponses, and programmable field length”
Exclusive Reference “Van Buren, Christopher” newsletter CA 00-Aug-1987 55 newsletter for AppleWorks users
AST Sprint Disk and AppleWorks Alan Mitchell troubleshooting A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1987 55 fix supplied by Norwich Data Systems
Dumping Graphics Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1987 55 Apple IIc built-in printer interface does not have a built-in graphics “dump, use a program use as Triple-Dump”
Applesoft References Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field reference A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1987 56 “Applesoft Tutorial, What’s Where In The Apple, All About Applesoft”
Desk accessories Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field desk accessory A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1987 56 GS what it is and how to install it “CDA, NDA”
Diversi-Copy “Basham, Bill” utility CA 00-Aug-1987 56 “copies 3.5″” disks in one pass”
Fontmunger utility Apple Computer CA 00-Aug-1987 56 converts Macintosh fonts to the IIGS
Copy II Plus on GS Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field utility A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1987 56 “version 7.4 may destroy data when while writing to a 5.25″” disk”
Patching FID to work with more than two drives in a slot “Vier, Tom” utility / patch A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1987 56 allows FID to handle up to 9 DOS 3.3 drives
Converting AppleWriter and Visifile data to the Macintosh Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field data conversion A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1987 56 use the Apple File Exchange and a UniDisk 3.5 / or transfer by serial cable / converting Microsoft Word from the Mac to the Apple II
Mountain Music Card interference Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field troubleshooting A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1987 57 Desktop 1.1 won’t recognize external disk drives with Mountain card installed
Recovering and Returning to AppleWorks Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Aug-1987 57 AppleWorks a last resort in case AppleWorks hangs pray
Daisy Chaining “Ray Montagne, Apple IIGS Software Engineer” technical Write-A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Aug-1987 58 GS clarifications regarding SmartPort and disk drives on the IIGS
Input Almost Anything (on the GS too) Cecil Fretwell utility Write-A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Aug-1987 59 GS “the routine now “”universalized”” to the GS”
Take the Plunge! by Leon Raesley communications CA 00-Sep-1987 10 how to get started in telecommunications BBS
To BBS or Not to BBS by Val J. Golding communications CA 00-Sep-1987 14 different types of BBSs A.P.P.L.E. Crate
GEnie and AppleLink rb Laurel Pagliaro communications service General Electric / Apple Computer CA 00-Sep-1987 17 two commercial services
“ISDN: 64,000 baud over home telephone lines” by Marc Bernstein communications / technical CA 00-Sep-1987 18 Integrated Services Digital Network: nothing short of the development of the infrastructure for the Global Village’s communications network “network, Project Victoria”
PC Pursuit rb Shari Carnahan communications Telenet (a U.S. Sprint company) CA 00-Sep-1987 20 unlimited connect time for $25 per month
Why 2.8MHz? Laurence A. Thompson hardware / technical The Fast Apple IIGS CA 00-Sep-1987 22 “the working of dynamic RAM chips, the ROM chip, the reasons for the 2.8” “MHz processor clock, and some fundamental differences between 65C816 and” other types of microprocessors Mega II
Speaking of Hardware Peter & Allen Baum technical / hardware CA 00-Sep-1987 26 “memory expansion, 6502 false-read problem, ProDOS Slot 3 disk recognizer”
Getting Started with the Apple IIGS Wesley R. Felty tutorial CA 00-Sep-1987 “36 (1/88,p65)” GS “setting the control panel, display options, RAM disk, setting up disks” “to use with GS, SYSTEM.DISK, ProSel” Diversi
DOS 3.3.5 Revisited Rick Sutcliffe operating system (patch) CA 00-Sep-1987 45 (7/87p13) “answering questions, corrections, and an improvement”
Enter the Perception Michael and Lisa Storrie-Lombardi artificial intelligence Silicon Intelligence CA 00-Sep-1987 47 parallel processing in intelligent systems: computers that simulate the human central nervous systems’ ability to recall memory even if you destroy many of the storage sites “neuron, content memory device”
Some GS Graphics Modules Bob Bishop graphics Modular Assembly Language CA 00-Sep-1987 50 super hi-res “intializing the screen, generating Mandelbrot images”
RAM disks and IIGS Startup Disks Robert C. Platt and Bruce F. Field technical A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Sep-1987 55 what files to copy from the System Disk / how to use a RAM disk as a startup disk / speeding up the Launcher by using a RAM disk
Testing the Clear Key Robert C. Platt and Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Sep-1987 56 (10/87p79) the clear key generates a Control-X / Control-2 generates a null string
CHAIN bug Robert C. Platt and Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Sep-1987 56 “for BASIC.SYSTEM version 1.1, POKE 41859,3 before you CHAIN”
SoftSwitch Robert C. Platt and Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Sep-1987 56 GS quickly switch back and forth between (say) AppleWorks and Simply Perfect CDA
Calling GS ROM from Applesoft Robert C. Platt and Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Sep-1987 56 Roger Wagner may have a package to access the GS Toolbox through & commands
Apple IIe enhancement Robert C. Platt and Bruce F. Field technical A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Sep-1987 55 IIe $70.00 “adds mouse text, modifies ROM, and replaces the 6502 with a 65C02”
IIGS Cursor Wes Felty tip Write-A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Sep-1987 57 use CTRL^ followed by the key that you would like for a cursor
Eliza “Paymar, Dan” artificial intelligence Write-A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Sep-1987 57 $5.00 a version written in XPL (subset of Pascal)
A New Beep M.F. Gillis tip Write-A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Sep-1987 58 “modify the “”beep”” on Big Mac LC”
Lower Case Adapter Dan Paymar hardware Write-A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Sep-1987 58 AP L CASE and DICE
GS Tips Wes Felty utility Write-A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Sep-1987 58 Diversi.Cache and System.Disk 2.0 SoftSwitch on System 2.0 (not enough room) Diversi.Hack contains a screen dump for 40 or 80 column text
Graphics Spectacular! Five Graphics Packages for the Apple IIGS rb David G. Sparks graphics various CA 00-Oct-1987 10 GS “PaintWorks+, 816/Paint, Deluxe Paint II, Draw Plus, Top Draw”
Graphics Fundamentals Scott Smith technique CA 00-Oct-1987 “18 (12/87,p59)” “scaling objects to fill a window, avoiding distortion, labeling pictures” drawing circles
Memory and Processing Cycles Laurence A. Thompson hardware / technical The Fast Apple IIGS CA 00-Oct-1987 26 “historical GS architecture / RAM refresh, Mega II synchronizing” “memory expansion slot, the FPI”
Everything You’Ve Ever Wanted to Know About Apple II Floppy Disk Drives Peter and Allen Baum hardware / technical Speaking of Hardware CA 00-Oct-1987 30 9 different floppy disk incarnations; the disk signals and pinouts; IBM-compatible drives
Getting Data Into The Spreadsheet: A ZBASIC Solution Jeffrey M. Jacques utility CA 00-Oct-1987 52 ZBasic how you can move data currently stored in several different files into one file which may be read into the spreadsheet of your choice DIF
Let’s Get A Handle On This Memory Ken Kashmarek technical CA 00-Oct-1987 “61 (AA,11/87,p22)” how the GS memory manager deals with handles and pointers
One Hundred Times Faster Enrico Colombini technique CA 00-Oct-1987 64 (12/87p62) APW C “a lot can be done by “”simply”” thinking about the problem” “algorithm, optimization”
Playing With the Apple IIGS Color Registers Bob Bishop technical Modular Assembly Language Programming CA 00-Oct-1987 74 interesting effects achieved by changing the Super Hi-Res color registers “color cycling, vertical blanking, palette, Mandelbrot, EDASM”
DuoDisk Modification Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1987 79 free modification to allow DuoDisk to work on IIGS Smartport
ProDOS Patch Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1987 79 make sure you have version 2.0 before patching
New System Disk and ROMs for IIGS Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1987 79 (7/87p57; 11/87p58) what’s on the latest IIGS System Disk / new ROMs and a new video chip to “solve the “”pink fringe”” problem”
Shift Key Modification Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1987 79 what to check if the mod is not working
Something Burning Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1987 79 it is very easy to incorrectly plug in disk drive connector (and blow out the 74LS125 chip)
Apple DeskTop Bus Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1987 80 “allows the Mac SE, Mac II and Apple IIGS to use interchangeable” keyboard and mice ADB
Accessing the Mouse from Applesoft Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field technique A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1987 80 a sample Applesoft program
IIGS Motherboard Upgrade for IIe Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1987 80 has a ADB port as well as the traditional keyboard socket
Proper Care Procedures Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field maintenance A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1987 80 is it better to leave the Apple on all the time or turn it on and off? (yes and no) / booting up the computer / don’t attempt to clean the vent slots of the IIc
Booting Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field technical A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1987 “80 (1/88,p64)” “what determines which slot and drive will be used for “”booting”””
ProDOS Books Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1987 80 recommend books are Beneath Apple ProDOS and ProDOS Inside and Out
Apple Protection Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1987 80 the difference between a surge protector and a line conditioner
“Running DOS 3.3, Eamon on the GS” Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1987 80 (1/88p64) booting a DOS 3.3 disk
Identifying Your Apple Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1987 80 “ID bytes ($FBB3, $FBC0, $FBBF) will identify the II, II+, IIe, IIe Plus,” “IIGS, IIc, IIc Plus, ///”
Bob Bishop Corrected Norman Dodge tip Write-A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Oct-1987 82 (7/87p26) DSK need not follow REL
A New Machine Art Radcliffe computer Write-A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Oct-1987 “82 (12/87p62:Lyons,Kashmarek)” Art describes his dream machine
Zip Chip hardware / speedup chip ZIP Technology CA 00-Oct-1987 84 (press release) $130.00 transparently increases the Apple II’s speed
Applefest by Kathryn Hallgrimson Suther technology / history CA 00-Nov-1987 11 parts of the keynote addresses of Del Yocam and Steve Wozniak “Dick Cavett, piracy, copy protection”
Maniac Mansion rb Val J. Golding adventure (graphics) Lucasfilm CA 00-Nov-1987 12 128K $35.00 joystick control replaces typing Brickout
Vegas Video Poker / Beating the House at Black Jack rb Val J. Golding strategy / card Applications Plus CA 00-Nov-1987 12 $30 / $35 teaches gaming table strategies
Softdisk rb Val J. Golding disk magazine Softdisk CA 00-Nov-1987 13 $10 / $70 for 12 issues this issue features John Besnard’s Double Trouble (an assortment of five arcade games)
Computer Game Forum rb Val J. Golding magazine Golden Empire CA 00-Nov-1987 13 “pun-filled, fun-filled, non-machine-specific magazine covering many” aspects of gaming with emphasis on gaming by mail
SETUP.SYSTEM (a proposed startup file standard) Sean Nolan utility listing CA 00-Nov-1987 14 (AAA:10/87p29) ProDOS-8 install customizing routines (such as a RAM disk and clock card drivers) upon boot up into ProDOS
GS Memory Cards – A Follow Up rb Sean Nolan memory expansion various CA 00-Nov-1987 24 “three new cards: MemorySaver (Checkmate Technology), MegaRAM and MegaROM” “(Parallax, Inc.), GS Juice (Applied Ingenuity) / AppleWorks modifier” software works only on Applied Engineering cards
A User’s Guide to Floppy and Hard Disk Drives Peter and Allen Baum disk drive / technical Speaking of Hardware CA 00-Nov-1987 26 “5.25”” and 3.5″” third-party drives hard disks tape backup a strategy” “for expanding your disk devices, moving up to the IIGS, moving up to the” Macintosh / modification of the ProFile interface card for use with the IIGS “seek time, latency, interleave”
Memory Shadowing Laurence A. Thompson hardware / technical The Fast IIGS CA 00-Nov-1987 32 GS part of the solution in making the IIGS compatible with the II family native mode
Getting Inside the Apple IIGS: a hobbyist’s tour Wesley Felty technical / computer / utility CA 00-Nov-1987 34 GS “the IIGS has a number of additional operations, registers, and soft” switches that add a lot of power / SoftSwitch (Roger Wagner Publishing) “system monitor, BIT, AND, ORA, registers, soft switch”
Softswitch rb Jeffrey M. Jacques utility Roger Wagner CA 00-Nov-1987 “42, 40” GS $60.00 “easily switch between any three programs, including programs with” different operating systems (ProDOS and DOS 3.3)
Oscilloscope Subroutines for the GS Bob Bishop science Modular Assembly Language Programming CA 00-Nov-1987 45 MDIdeas Card supported digitize sounds and display the resulting wave forms on the screen
Setting the Standards “by Charles Stillman, Ph.D.” standards CA 00-Nov-1987 54 a report on a panel discussion sponsored by APDA “Michael Fischer, Rich Williams, Roger Wagner”
The Difference between the IIGS Finder and Desktop program Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field operating environment A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Nov-1987 58 Finder runs under ProDOS 16
Testing for the IIGS and IIc ROM updates Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field technique A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Nov-1987 58 watch the IIGS startup screen / enter the Monitor and type Shift-1 / IIc motherboard upgrade free to UniDisk owners
Starting Up With AppleWorks Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Nov-1987 58 make sure the program disk is not write-protected and has the same volume name as the original
Printing AppleWorks Labels Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Nov-1987 58 turn off top-of-page commands / MacroWorks will print two or three across labels
Transferring from AppleWorks to Apple Writer Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field technique / word processing A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Nov-1987 59 print the file to disk
Deleting AppleWorks Formatting Codes Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Nov-1987 59 -Z and -D
Erasing Screen Lines Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Nov-1987 59 (12/87p61) Applesoft CALL -868 will erase the rest of the line
Identifying SmartPort Devices Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field / Tom Vier utility A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Nov-1987 59 “the SmartPort code for ejecting a 3.5″” disk is same as formatting SCSI” hard disks / make sure you check for the device type before ejecting
AppleWorks 2.0 Odd Behavior Larry Niebur and Cecil Fretwell bug / tip Write-A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Nov-1987 60 GS sometimes pressing -P to print will cause the disk drives to start running RAMdisk
“Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation” magazine CA 00-Dec-1987 9 “15,341 paid”
The Apple Assembly Language Landscape Sean Nolan programming / assembler various CA 00-Dec-1987 “10 (2/88,p57)” “EDASM, S-C Macro Assembler, ORCA/M version 4.1, Merlin, APW, ORCA/M” version 1.0 for IIGS compared / APW Editor Command Key Table “65816, ProDOS-16, toolbox, linker, macro, ECP-8”
Run Your Own Train / Design Your Own Train rb Val J. Golding hobby Abracadata CA 00-Dec-1987 “23 (2/88,p57)” $35 / $50 model trains simulated on a computer
Legacy of the Ancients rb Val J. Golding fantasy Electronic Arts CA 00-Dec-1987 24 $40.00 dozens of games in one RPG
Ski Crazed rb Val J. Golding arcade / sports Baudville CA 00-Dec-1987 25 $20.00 ski with a joystick
Aliens rb Val J. Golding arcade Activision CA 00-Dec-1987 25 $36.00 multi-level game which gets easier
First Encounter “Besnard, John / rb Val J. Golding” logic Magazines on Disk CA 00-Dec-1987 25 $30.00 48 arcade-type logic tests
Halls of Montezuma “Besnard, John / rb Val J. Golding” war Strategic Studies Group CA 00-Dec-1987 25 $40.00 a battle history of the Marines
Mean 18 rb Jeff Hurlburt simulation / sports (golf) Accolade CA 00-Dec-1987 27 GS $45.00 the year’s best entertainment value
Thexder rb Jeff Hurlburt arcade Sierra On-Line CA 00-Dec-1987 28 GS $35.00 combat arcade adventure
Tower of Myraglen rb Jeff Hurlburt fantasy PBI CA 00-Dec-1987 28 GS / external stereo recommended $55.00 rich color and comprehensive sound effects
Sea Strike rb Jeff Hurlburt arcade PBI CA 00-Dec-1987 29 GS no-perspective graphics and OK sound
GBA Championship Basketaball: Two-On-Two rb Jeff Hurlburt simulation / arcade / sports Activision CA 00-Dec-1987 29 GS / joystick recommended $40.00 “surprisingly everything works fine, lack of dual-joystick option”
Cavern Cobra rb Jeff Hurlburt arcade PBI CA 00-Dec-1987 30 GS $50.00 an arcade accident best avoided
Shanghai rb Jeff Hurlburt strategy (solitaire mahjongg) Activision CA 00-Dec-1987 30 GS $45.00 wins the 1987 Elegance prize
Bard’s Tale / Tass Times in Tonetown / Hacker II rb Jeff Hurlburt fantasy / adventure Electronic Arts / Activision CA 00-Dec-1987 31 GS favorites re-released in GS format
ProDOS 16 GSBASIC for the Apple IIGS rb Ken Kashmarek language APDA CA 00-Dec-1987 37 GS $50.00 “moves into the world of a full-function language, but it has competition” takes advantage of expanded memory and TOOLs
Apple II Timing Specifications Peter & Allen Baum technical Speaking of Hardware CA 00-Dec-1987 46 more on disk drives / Central Point 800K Drive the timing of peripheral cards for the Apple II family
Using TOOLs with the Apple IIGS Wesley Felty tutorial / programming CA 00-Dec-1987 50 “GS, APW” “leaving behind the “”old”” habits and entering a new world”
AutoWorks Review “Bird, Alan / rb Cecil Fretwell” utility (macro) The Software Touch CA 00-Dec-1987 “56 (4/88,p43:more macros)” AppleWorks $49.00 “add mouse control, macros, program selector to AppleWorks”
Foreign Languages & the IIGS Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field language A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1987 60 ImageWriter producing foreign language printed output
High-Pitched Tone on Apple Color Monitor Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1987 60 the switch back transformer is probably loose
Interpreter/Compiler Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field programming A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1987 60 the difference between an interpreter and a compiler
Programming Environments Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field programming A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1987 60 programs and files which allow you to produce finished programs “/ Applesoft, UCSD p-system, APW”
Integer BASIC on GS Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1987 61 need to boot DOS 3.3
Fast Copy Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field utility A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1987 61 GS on System Disk 3.1
II Plus Accessories Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field hardware A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1987 61 “consider buying memory expansion, 80 column card, hard disk”
Better Living Through Outline Processing Jim Tankard outliner various CA 00-Jan-1988 12 “First Draft, ThinkWorks, Calliope, Outliner” 50 things to do with your outline processor
A Super Hi-Res Font Conversion Aid Ken Kashmarek utility CA 00-Jan-1988 17 GSBASIC converting the 7 pixel wide ASCII Double Hi-Res font to an 8 pixel wide font for Super Hi-Res
TIC.TOC Jeff Hurlburt utility (clock/calendar) listing CA 00-Jan-1988 25 GS / ProDOS 8 time/date display STARTUP
A Survey of APW Products Mike Westerfield programming / languages Programming on the Apple IIGS with APW and related products CA 00-Jan-1988 26 “APW, ORCA/M, APW C, ORCA/Pascal, TML Pascal, Apple IIGS Debugger, Merlin” “to ORCA/M translator, ORCA/M Utility Package #1, TML Speech Toolkit”
GS16Forth for the Apple IIGS rb Thomas Tosch language GSF CA 00-Jan-1988 31 GS $30.00 a 16-bit implementation of Forth specifically designed for the IIGS
Turbocharged AppleWorks Marc Apfelstadt spelling checker / publishing/ business graphics / data management Beagle Bros / Data Transforms / PinPoint CA 00-Jan-1988 35 AppleWorks “Time Out Series (very exciting), Printrix, Graphic Edge, ProFiler 3.0”
Handling Variable Length Records Efficiently Scott G. Smith technique / file handling CA 00-Jan-1988 41 making random access files efficient
Print Shop IIGS: the next generation rb Donald J. Geenen publishing Broderbund CA 00-Jan-1988 44 GS $60.00 a worthy sequel
Bank Switching / Serial Interface Code Cecil Fretwell technical Consultant’s Corner CA 00-Jan-1988 50 how does the processor decide between a read and write and know which bank to go to? / serial interface code to the ImageWriter II AUX memory
FrEdWriter Version 4: an alternative solution “Lutus, Paul and Al Rogers / rb Doug Trueman” word processor CA 00-Jan-1988 53 “remarkably complete, powerful, bug-free and cheap”
Speed-Up DOS / Floating Point Arithmetic / Isolation Transformers Bruce Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1988 55 “All About DOS (book), GS System Disk 3.1”
Organizing Disks Paul D Hobson tip Write-A.P.P.L.E. 64 free up space required for the HELLO program
A Faster Solution Doyle H. Brown tip Write-A.P.P.L.E. 65 an even quicker IIGS boot disk
A.P.P.L.E. Co-op Celebrates a Decade of Service by Val Golding and Kathryn Suther history (interviews) / user group CA 00-Feb-1988 12 “with Darrell Aldrich, Ron Aldrich, Bob Clardy, Val Golding, Dick Hubert,” “Bob Huelsdonk, Neil Konzen, Dave Lingwood, Charlie Stillman, Kathryn” “Suther, Mike Thyng, Don Williams”
Tools for the raving bit-twiddler Sean Nolan technique / programming Bit Twiddling CA 00-Feb-1988 28 assembly “Mah-jong tiles,, Visit Monitor” classic desk accessory (CDA)
Using APW on Small Systems Mike Westerfield technique Programming on the Apple IIGS: with APW and Related Products CA 00-Feb-1988 31 APW / ORCA/M explore the glamorous world of the diskstyles of the rich and famous
Word Processing Update: specialized products and new releases Marc Apfelstadt word processor various CA 00-Feb-1988 37 “Term Paper Writer, Gutenberg Senior, MultiScribe GS 3.0,” “GraphicWriter 2.0, Word Perfect GS 2.0”
“BOOT SYSTEM with GPLE, APA, and TIME-Stamping” by Michael J. Paris utility CA 00-Feb-1988 “44 (4/88,p43:try Program Writer; 6/89,p28)” automatically load GPLE and APA under ProDOS and time stamp files
Fantavision rb Jeff Hurlburt graphics / animation Broderbund CA 00-Feb-1988 51 GS animated movies
Aspects of RS232C Cecil Fretwell technical Consultant’s Corner CA 00-Feb-1988 53
IIGS Finder / Magnetic Interference / Printing Applesoft Listings by Robert C. Platt and Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1988 61 “File Backup Bit, distinguish between UniDisk 3.5 and Apple 3.5 drive” “AppleWorks 2.0 and the GS, Apple RGB Monitor, GS RAM, OCRs”
Financial Planning by David Sparks “home finance, tax, spreadsheet, simulation” CA 00-Mar-1988 “12 (5/88,p53)” “Dollars and $ense, 1040 Works, Multi-flex Spreadsheet, Millionaire II”
APW C 1.0: raw power for IIGS Programmers rb Enrico Colombini language Apple CA 00-Mar-1988 18
Screen Mover Cecil Fretwell utility CA 00-Mar-1988 28 assembler (Merlin) moving screen windows and memory
Parameter Passing Sean Nolan technique Bit twiddling CA 00-Mar-1988 39 differences between C and Pascal conventions 6502 Getword subroutine
GS Notes & Observations Marc Apfelstadt computer CA 00-Mar-1988 43 GS ENIAC
Customizing the Shell by Mike Westerfield technique / systems design Programming on the Apple GS with APW and related products CA 00-Mar-1988 47 how you can change the names of shell commands and add new commands
The ROM Alternatives Peter & Allen Baum ROM Speaking of Hardware CA 00-Mar-1988 54 needed for development “EPROM, EEPROM”
Hires Graphics page 2 / Applesoft random number / IIGS BASIC random seed Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1988 61 converting Applesoft to IIGS BASIC / EDIT in IIGS Basic / installing fonts / IIGS boot problem / convert hex to dec / ProDOS date routine stack
The Apple IIGS Pascal Revue by Christopher Howerton and Lee Purvis language various CA 00-Apr-1988 12 a survey of Pascals for the Apple II “Apple Pascal, Pecan Pascal, TML Pascal, Orca Pascal”
Bridging the Gap Allan R. Martin / Cecil Fretwell support Consultants Corner CA 00-Apr-1988 18 advice to a GS user wants to learn more how to set up a bootable disk to place the GS in the 8-bit world argot
Mixing Apple & Oranges / Designating Slots David Wakefield / Elmer Meissner / consultant: Cecil Fretwell tip / patch Consultants Corner CA 00-Apr-1988 51 books / why GS programs are so slow / mixing ProDOS versions making AppleWorks recognize /RAM7 / GS interrupts
“Bugs, Updates, and Software Development” Marc Apfelstadt software development Consultant’s Corner CA 00-Apr-1988 52 why GS programs crash often / how software is developed / support listing GS BASIC programs to printer / change from SLOT to PORT “user profile, virus”
Fjord Glyphs Sean Nolan technique Bit Twiddling CA 00-Apr-1988 19 a random number algorithm April Fools: bouncing Apples
Pascal Fonts Scott G. Smith utility CA 00-Apr-1988 23 Pascal modify any of the character shapes in SYSTEM.CHARSET
Mixing Languages Mike Westerfield technique / programming Programming on the Apple IIGS with APW and Related Products CA 00-Apr-1988 30 “C, Pascal, assembly” how to use assembly language with Pascal implementing recursion in assembly “bubble sort, profiler, relocatable code, macro, quick sort”
AutoWorks Macros examples “W. Henry Linton, Jr.” tip Write-Apple CA 00-Apr-1988 43 AutoWorks “bring up a list of files to add to desktop, return address, display” right-justified paragraph
Two Megabyte IIc Ed Wheeler and Myk Manon technique / hardware Write-Apple CA 00-Apr-1988 “58 (IC,3/88,p12)” use both Applied Engineering and Apple memory card in the IIc (at the same time)
Quicken / On Balance / Smart Money “rb David G. Sparks (Financial Planning, part 2)” home finance Intuit / Broderbund / Sierra On-Line CA 00-Apr-1988 46 “disk blocks, copy-protection”
Best Actor — More on Booting a disk drive Peter & Allen Baum technical Speaking of Hardware CA 00-Apr-1988 57 “Central Point’s UDC scans, then stops / booting directly into a program” “Guenther drive build a memory card “”Great”” new products that die” daisy-chain
Beware of the degaussing coil / quality fonts w/ AppleWorks (SuperFonts) Robert C. Platt and Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Apr-1988 61 GS maximum font height / print text on the GS / IIGS BASIC listings
Meet the Technical Editor Cecil Fretwell magazine From the Technical Editor’s Desk CA 00-May-1988 11 goal: to present the technical aspects of Apple II computers
Desktop Publishing From Your Apple II Marc Apfelstadt publishing various CA 00-May-1988 12 Personal Newsletter / Publish-It! / Springboard Publisher / GEOS Multiscribe GS / Graphic Writer 2.0 / Thunderscan / PaintWorks Gold The Graphics Studio / ShowOff
Glossary of Desktop Publishing Terms Gordon McComb (The Desktop Publishing Newsletter) publishing CA 00-May-1988 18
The Character Factory ver 2.1 rb Lee Webster publishing Seven Hills CA 00-May-1988 20 adding special characters to word processing documents
AC/BASIC rb Ken Kashmarek language Absoft CA 00-May-1988 “22 (1/89,p18)” GS $125.00 a BASIC compiler for the IIGS in a desktop
MAKE (sort of) Mike Westerfield utility / programming Programming on the Apple IIGS with APW and Related Products CA 00-May-1988 28 APW simulating the Unix MAKE utility UHK
A Screen Blanker Cecil Fretwell utility listing CA 00-May-1988 38 GS avoiding screen burns “control register, interrupt”
A Voyage into the world of fantasy Val J. Golding fantasy Game Plan CA 00-May-1988 41 a review of Legacy of the Ancients gone wild Alternate Reality: the Dungeon RPG
World Games / Dream Zone / rb Jeff Hurlburt simulation/arcade (sports) / adventure (graphics) Epyx / Baudville CA 00-May-1988 47 GS
Smartport eject command problem / identifying computers / Apple II Plus tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-May-1988 48 “Apple IIGs graphics, finder, icons, fonts, IWEM, storage” “running Integer BASIC, Applesoft hi-res conflict”
Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know About Running an Apple II Faster Peter & Allen Baum technical Speaking of Hardware CA 00-May-1988 50 The Zip Chip uses disk caching cache
Making a GS Turnkey System / Launching Programs in BASIC “Cecil Fretwell, Shari Carnahan, Larry Neibauer” technique / tip Consultant’s Corner CA 00-May-1988 54 AppleWorks spelling checkers / IIc hard disk drives
Making AppleWorks recognize a RAMFactor card in the GS patch CA 00-May-1988 55
An Easy Choice Douglas C. Brower technique listing CA 00-May-1988 56 a selector for multiple-choice questions
GS Works integrated StyleWare CA 00-May-1988 61 (press release) GS GS is to the GS what AppleWorks was to the II
TeleWorks Plus / MouseFiler Network Utilites communications / network Activision / Harbor CA 00-May-1988 62 the first communications program designed specifically for the GS enables Apple II to work with AppleShare on AppleTalk
Demystifiying MIDI Marc Apfelstadt music CA 00-Jun-1988 12 GS “Future Sound, GS File, Music Studio 2.0, Instant Music, DiversiTune” “Super Sequencer, MasterTracks, PolyWriter, MusicWriter 2.0, MusicShapes” MIDI
COMPACT utility problem (in APW Shell) tip Write-A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jun-1988 18 AppleWorks double column macro IIc satisfies 99.9% of computer users needs
Apple IIGS Compiler Timings Ken Kashmarek language / benchmark CA 00-Jun-1988 19 GS “comparing performance aspects of APW/C, ORCA/Pascal, and AC/BASIC” QuickSort “Sieve of Eratosthenes, Ackerman’s Function, Fibonnacci, Savage”
More on Running an Apple II Faster — implementing the Zip Chip Cache Peter and Allen Baum technical Speaking of Hardware CA 00-Jun-1988 27 the Zip Chip cache method and drawbacks to caching DMA
The Real World Mike Westerfield tutorial / programming Programming on the Apple IIGS with APW and Related Products CA 00-Jun-1988 “30 (3/89,p60)” “how numbers are represented in the computer: integers, fixed-point,” “floating-point, BCD, SANE, Will Troxell’s 68881 co-processor”
Centering Text with Print Shop IIGS / tracing an Applesoft crash Donald J. Geenen / Cecil Fretwell / Julian L. Pugh technique Consultant’s Corner CA 00-Jun-1988 37 Note Sequencer and Note Synthesizer (Apple IIGS Tools) / BRL instruction Shape Tables & QuickDraw / Super Hi-Res Convert utility
PaintWorks Gold by David G. Sparks graphics Activision CA 00-Jun-1988 40 GS $100.00 much more than PaintWorks Plus a graphics package both powerful and intuitive to use
Lebensraum for Memory Hungry Programs Sean Nolan technique Bit Twiddling CA 00-Jun-1988 43 auxiliary memory on the IIe and IIc and how assembly language programs can access it “AUXMOVE, XFER, softswitch”
Computer Viruses / speed up SuperFonts / ASCII and text files Robert C. Platt and Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1988 “48 (7/88,p57:uncheck TEXT before conversion, BLU; 11/88,p59:BQY)” “Mac to GS conversions (Apple File Exchange), Using the Applesoft TRACE” “QuickSort, Bunnying and Squeezing files, ThunderClock and ProDOS dates”
“Picture Smoothing, Maze Solving and Cellular Logical Operators” Rick Chapman graphics / technique CA 00-Jun-1988 50 CLOs are a good place to start learning about image processing
AppleLink – Personal Edition by Vince Cooper communications service CA 00-Jul-1988 8 The Apple II Telecommunications Forum Leader takes us on a guided tour of the system
Telecommunications: the on-going saga by Cecil Fretwell communications CA 00-Jul-1988 14 “a discussion of bulletin board systems, file transfers and protocols” “MouseTalk, Point-to-Point, ProTERM, TeleWorks” squeezed files
The Long-Awaited ZIP CHIP by Peter and Allen Baum; and introducing: Hannelore S. Maddox accelerator Speaking of Hardware CA 00-Jul-1988 “21,53” “when the chip runs, it works like a charm” “tested against: Transwarp, stock IIGS, IIe”
“Segmentation, Part 1” Mike Westerfield technique / programming Programming on the Apple IIGS with APW and Related Products CA 00-Jul-1988 24 how to create programs with multiple code and data segments “relocatable, register, direct page”
The Spring Developers’ Conference Frank Catalano conference Pub Darts CA 00-Jul-1988 45 Apple from the top down: preaching to the converted Apple wants to control every bit of information going out about it
Problem with CONVERTing programs from DOS 3.3 to ProDOS Joel Buckley tip Write-A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jul-1988 53 Applesoft files transferred from DOS 3.3 to ProDOS that had been saved from an addressed other than $801 are given an incorrect auxiliary type
Lebrensraum for Memory-Hungry Programs (Part II – The GS) Sean Nolan technique Bit Twiddling CA 00-Jul-1988 54 getting at additional memory found with the IIGS shadowing
remove floppy disk? / disk retainer / testing disk drive speed Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1988 56 “random number seeds, random numbers with TML Pascal, inverse file names” AppleWorks 2.0 on GS hard disk / rename folders in GS Finder
Intermittent Flashes during disk operations / DOSCMD problems Cecil Fretwell tip / technical Consultants’ Corner CA 00-Jul-1988 “60 (10/88,p44)” “using GET with 80-column card (don’t), the stack concept” using Prometheus VersaCard / inaccurate arithmetic in Applesoft
ProDOS V parameter / Using ONERR with GOTO Cecil Fretwell tip / technical Consultants’ Corner CA 00-Jul-1988 62 add and delete buffers with GETBUFR and FREEBUFR “using MLI in BASIC.SYSTEM global area / using HIMEM $73,$74 buffer area”
Behind the Scene: dreams become a reality Kathryn Hallgrimson Suther interview / industry AppleFest/Boston CA 00-Jul-1988 64 behind the scenes at Zip Technology (ZIP CHIP) and Bits & Pieces Technology (ROCKETCHIP)
NDAs 101 Tim Swihart technique CA 00-Sep-1988 10 an introduction to writing NDAs desk accesory
CDAs Without ProDOS 16 David A. Lyons technique CA 00-Sep-1988 “18 (2/89,p64)” Apple IIGS Classic Desk Accessories can be used without booting ProDOS P8CDA (Roger Wagner Publishing)
“Using the IIGS Text Tools with Assembler, C, and Pascal” Ken Kashmarek techique / programming CA 00-Sep-1988 20
Too Much of a Good Thing Frank Catalano computer Pub Darts CA 00-Sep-1988 28 reconciling the Apple II and Macintosh lines
Weekend Programming on the Apple IIGS Joe Abernathy language various CA 00-Sep-1988 41 deciding which language/environment to use
All About GEnie: General Electric’s Online Information Service Tom Weishaar communications service CA 00-Sep-1988 46 Tom gives us a tour “65832, Binary II”
Iconix / Sonix / Disk Commander rb Marc Apfelstadt graphics / sound / disk utility So What CA 00-Sep-1988 51 GS
Behind the Scene: the Breakfasts and the private interviews Kathryn Hallgrimson Suther conference AppleFest/Boston CA 00-Sep-1988 53 “The Developer’s breakfast: Del Yocam (Apple), Barney Stone (StoneWare)” “Kevin Harvey (StyleWare), Brian Dougherty (Berkely Softworks)”
My Favorite AppleWorks Tricks “Chris Van Buren, Editor: The AppleWorks Journal” technique CA 00-Oct-1988 10 AppleWorks “all-purpose printer code, multiple record insert, database subtotals,” “spreadsheet graphing, jump to end of line, keeping different AW versions”
A Visit with the Trickster (Chris Van Buren) Kathryn Hallgrimson Suther interview CA 00-Oct-1988 16 the editor of the AppleWorks Journal
AppleWorks Spreadsheet Bar Graphs Lorin Hungsberg technique CA 00-Oct-1988 19 represented as calculated numerics
“Segmentation, Part 2” Mike Westerfield technique / programming Programming on the Apple IIGS with APW and Related Products CA 00-Oct-1988 20 OMF (Object Module Format) 1.0 vs. 2.0 / Direct Page Segments Startup Segments
Intermittent Flashes clarified / stack usage / ONERR Clarifcation Cecil Fretwell / Julian Pugh tip Consultant’s Corner CA 00-Oct-1988 44 “Programming Mouse Routines / APW C Tips: handling calls, long pathnames” Starting/Shutting Down GS Tools
Using lots of fonts and desk accessories / GS Memory Requirements Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Oct-1988 50 font family / upgrading to Pascal 1.3
Variations on the Apple II disassembler James A. Hodge technical CA 00-Oct-1988 “52 (1/89,p61)” GS “the GS disassembler and implementing an “”old-style”” disassembler on the” GS
The Graphics Studio rb David G. Sparks graphics Accolade CA 00-Oct-1988 56 GS $50.00 a surprisingly complete graphics program
“Pathnames, Directories, and Prefixes” Gary B. Little tutorial / operating system CA 00-Oct-1988 58 three fundamental ProDOS concepts
Home is Where the Apple is: Recognizing computers outside the office Frank Catalano industry Pub Darts CA 00-Oct-1988 60 is there a place for home computers in the home?
FORTH Language / Beyond Games / Passe Languages? Donald T. Wile / George H. Purdue / Bruce C. MacLeod language / programming CA 00-Oct-1988 66 FORTH is marvelous / programs should be delivered in upprotected ProDOS wants articles using BASIC and Pascal (in addition to assembly and C)
Alien Mind / Defender of the Crown / King’s Quest: Quest for the Crown rb Jeff Hurlburt entertainment various CA 00-Nov-1988 8 GS Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel / Beyond Zork / Monte Carlo “Blackjack Academy / World Tour Golf, Mean 18 / Bubble Ghost”
Randomizing Applesoft’s RND Functions under ProDOS Bob Bragner technique Write-A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Nov-1988 12 randomizing the RNG in an unpredictable way
Apple Italy support Write-A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Nov-1988 49 Bad News from Italy: Apple has virtually withdrawn from the personal computer market
NDAs 102: Applying the Example Tim Swihart technique CA 00-Nov-1988 14 ORCA/Pascal v1.2 an NDA which gives a sample of what a selected font looks like
“Segmentation, Part 3” Mike Westerfield technical Programming on the Apple IIGS with APW and Related Products CA 00-Nov-1988 23 dynamic segments thrashing
All About Compuserve Marc Apfelstadt communications service CA 00-Nov-1988 44 “MAUG, “
“Kaleidoscope, Elf Scale, Dimension, Agility, Chandelier” David Wicker novelty One-Liner CA 00-Nov-1988 “47,48,56”
IIGS Text Screen Dumper Sandy Mossberg utility / technical CA 00-Nov-1988 “50 (1/89,p64; 3/89,p52)” locating the entry environment from within a CDA “CDA, IRQ”
“IIGS Configuration, but first a lesson on the boot process” Cecil Fretwell technical Consultants’ Corner CA 00-Nov-1988 “57 (1/89,p61)”
A Choice of languages for the IIGS language CA 00-Nov-1988 58 Pascal and C
Converting to Super Hi-Res / Specifying Startup Program Cecil Fretwell / Tim Swihart tip CA 00-Nov-1988 59 BQY corrections
IIGS System Disk 3.2 / Applesoft Erase to end of line Robert C. Platt tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Nov-1988 60 renaming a IIGS file or folder / Wide Spreadsheet print (use DIF file) color monitors / GIF files
A.P.P.L.E. Co-op is changing it’s name to TechAlliance company CA 00-Dec-1988 9 “Apple Computer Inc. doesn’t seem to appreciate the word “”Apple”” in our” name
Using Apple’s New MIDI Tool Set Jim Mensch technical CA 00-Dec-1988 10 GS “Note Synthesizer, Note Sequencer, MIDI tools” MIDIScope: a program to let you see the data going across the MIDI bus
Apple IIc Plus / HyperStudio / Tutor-Tech / Do-Re-Me rb MarketPlace computer / creative environment / education / integrated CA 00-Dec-1988 20
GS/OS: the next generation by Ken Kashmarek operating system Apple CA 00-Dec-1988 “21 (3/89,p61)” why was GS/OS introduced? “ProDOS 16, interleave, cache, FST, bootmeter”
Groking Grep or Practical String Searching Mike Westerfield technique Programming on the Apple IIGS with APW and related products CA 00-Dec-1988 27 C a utility that lets you search a file for a string Blaise Pascal
Affordable Languages Michael J. Paris (Readers’ Forum) language various CA 00-Dec-1988 “35 (OA,4.55)” “languages for CP/M: Ellis Computing, Nevada FORTRAN and COBOL, FIG-Forth” “Turbo Pascal, MIX C, Blankenship BASIC, Universal File Converter”
Preinitialized Variables in IIGS Pascal James Luther technique CA 00-Dec-1988 49 “TML Pascal, ORCA/Pascal” “use the assembler to create an object module format (OMF) file,” then link this OMF file to the OMF file containing the Pascal object
New TechAlliance BBS BBS CA 00-Dec-1988 53 supplants A.P.P.L.E. Crate
PC Transporter rb Rick Sutcliffe coprocessor Applied Engineering CA 00-Dec-1988 54 V-30 “$1017 (for 768K, one drive, installation kit)” “how it works, what you get, setting it up” 10% slower than an Epson Equity-2
Some Tech Notes on IBM Cecil Fretwell technical CA 00-Dec-1988 60 a huge sidebar to Sutcliffe’s Transporter review
Racer One-Liner / Oriental Rug / Veil / NicoMagic David Wicker novelty CA 00-Dec-1988 “62,67,76”
“Systems, System 4.0 from 3.1 / Installer / Shut Down / Hex to Decimal” Robert C. Platt tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Dec-1988 66 EAMON / DIF Files
Facing Some Hard Options by Vince M. Cooper hard disk various CA 00-Jan-1989 8 “First Class Peripherals (Sider, D4T, D4A), Chinook Technology,” “GCC Technologies (formerly General Computer), CMS” “SCSI, tape drive”
TML BASIC rb Ken Kashmarek language / compiler TML CA 00-Jan-1989 “15 (5/89,p20:Ackermans revision)” GS / GSBASIC $125.00 a Basic compiler for the IIGS in a desktop environment
AC/ BASIC and the AC/Exerciser Joe Abernathy language / programming Launching into BASIC CA 00-Jan-1989 18 GS introduction to capabilities and limitiations “Toolbox, top-down”
The Source rb Joseph Kohn communications service CA 00-Jan-1989 25 “AppleSIG, Scripts, Apple IIGS Buyer’s Guide”
Debugging Programs / Computational Entomology Mike Westerfield programming Programming on the Apple IIGS with APW and Related Products CA 00-Jan-1989 44 “sources of, detecting, locating, eliminating, and avoiding bugs” “debugging tools: logic analyzer, NiftyList, debuggers”
UniDisk 3.5 and Apple 3.5 disk drives / interleave factor Robert C. Platt tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1989 50 “GS/OS, FST / GS and Sider D2 / installer blow up / disk cache, RAM cache”
“Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation” magazine CA 00-Jan-1989 51 “12,429 average paid or requested”
Bug Juice or exploring the APW Linker David G. Sparks programming CA 00-Jan-1989 52 “APW, TML Pascal”
Starting out with Pascal on the GS / Dialog Boxes in APW assembly Joe Abernathy / Cecil Fretwell tip / technique The Consultant’s Corner CA 00-Jan-1989 58 “accessing disk controllers under DOS 3.3 / AUXMOVE and XFER (5/89,p60)” Lam on the GS
Thanks to Julian Pugh Jim Collins support Write-A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jan-1989 64
Color Patterns One-Liner David Wicker novelty CA 00-Jan-1989 66
Higher Education Applications Marc Apfelstadt education CA 00-Feb-1989 8 “the university environment / WordPefect, Bookends Extended, ZIP CHIP,” “MouseWrite, ManuScript Manager, DB Master Pro, APPSTATS & GRAPH,” “APA, STATISTIX, MagnaCharta, Report Card II, Sensible Grammar”
GS/OS: The Next Generation (Part II) Ken Kashmarek operating system Apple CA 00-Feb-1989 14 “what’s available and some of its capabilities / device drivers,” “compatibility, Class 0 CALLs, Procedure SetLoad” FST
“Input and Output and Pipes, Oh My!” Mike Westerfield software development Programming on the Apple IIGS with APW and Related Products CA 00-Feb-1989 22 Wizard of Oz
Big Changes in APDA organization CA 00-Feb-1989 28 being taken over by Apple
TML BASIC Shell Joe Abernathy software development Launching Into BASIC CA 00-Feb-1989 41 introducing a standard programming environment for TML BASIC that will enable you to produce useful desktop software
The Inquisitive EXEC James Hodge technique CA 00-Feb-1989 49 the limits of an EXEC file and how it can be made more useful
AUXTYPE: A Shell Utility for ORCA/M or APW Sandy Mossberg utility CA 00-Feb-1989 54 ProDOS 16 the fundamentals of writing a shell utility and a convenient method of manipulating the auxiliary type attributes of files loaded during boot redirection
AppleWorks GS / GS/OS / Slots / Startup Drive Robert C. Platt tip / technical A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Feb-1989 62
Using TML BASIC CALL% and R.STACK / Loading Graphics with AC/BASIC Jim Luther / Cecil Fretwell tip Consultant’s Corner CA 00-Feb-1989 64 Applesoft array address
HyperStudio rb David G. Sparks authoring tool Roger Wagner Publishing CA 00-Mar-1989 8 GS $129.00 HyperMedia for the GS HyperCard
Tutor-Tech rb Lee Webster authoring tool TechWare CA 00-Mar-1989 11 $195.00 designed for the creation of lessons in the classroom
Mouse Basics Kenn Scribner technique Programming the AppleMouse II CA 00-Mar-1989 13 “from Applesoft, from Assembly Language”
FORTRAN-77 for the IIGS rb Donald J. Geenen language Pecan Software Systems CA 00-Mar-1989 20 GS / ProDOS-16 $250.00 operates under the UCSD Pascal-based Power System an alternative to the dead Apple Fortran p-code
Fission / Guess A Number / Oriental Rug David Wicker novelty One-Liner CA 00-Mar-1989 “26,35” Racer
presenting the The First Tools in the Call-A.P.P.L.E. libraries Joe Abernathy programming Launching Into BASIC CA 00-Mar-1989 “27 (6/89,p50: compiling the listing, defining a PROC; 1/90,p127)” AC/BASIC “low-level text, window, and dialog handlers; a startup screen generator;” and a goodbye usage screen generator
A IIGS Heartbeat Screen Blanker Sandy Mossberg utility CA 00-Mar-1989 36 ORCA/M Assembler interrupts and how to implement timed background activities vertical blanking
Battery Operated Puzzle Paul Nix simulation Two-Liner CA 00-Mar-1989 47 the object is to light all the buttons
A Text File Editor James Hodge editor CA 00-Mar-1989 48 a simple utility to create EXEC files Input Anything
Aoplesoft and the ProDOS prefix Cecil Fretwell / Yvan Koenig and Sandy Mossberg technical / tip The Consultant’s Corner CA 00-Mar-1989 50 ASCII codes for storing characters to screen memory
Base Conversion with a Classic Desk Accessory Patrick M. Gormley utility CA 00-Mar-1989 54 GS / ORCA/Pascal undocumented CDAs and a CDA to convert hexadecimal to/from decimal
“Z-Link Plus virus / 3.5″” floppy tracks have more sectors” Robert C. Platt tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Mar-1989 “58 (7/89,p64:ROM card clarification)” “IIc plus identification / SCSI, Sider / RAM card, ROM card” “GS vertical resolution, GSBASIC, MUFFIN, HUFFIN, PUFFIN”
About Numerical Analysis Chuck Butler mathematics CA 00-Mar-1989 “60 (6/89,p28)” errors commonly made about numerical and error analysis
Micol Advanced BASIC rb R.M Yost (Write-A.P.P.L.E.) language Micol Systems CA 00-Mar-1989 62 GS
Problems Apple owners are having in Italy Cecconi Maurizio support CA 00-Mar-1989 62
“MIDI Madness, MIDI Magic” by Marc Apfelstadt music various CA 00-Apr-1989 “8 (6/89,p28; 1/90,p149)” GS “new: Sonic Blaster, DiversiTune, Music Writer, MIDI On Stage, Z-Mann” Apfelstadt’s personal setup / getting started
An APW Command File Ken Kashmarek programming / utility listing CA 00-Apr-1989 13 ORCA/Pascal build your own memory resident command processor “command line, EXEC”
A Purge Utility Mike Westerfield utility Programming on the Apple IIGS with APW and Related Products CA 00-Apr-1989 “20 (7/89,p64)” APW purges all purgeable blocks and compacts memory internal Memory Manager data structures
Passive Mouse Operations Kenn Scribner technique Programming the AppleMouse II CA 00-Apr-1989 23 from assembly language “interrupt, poll”
NicoMagic / Ocular One-Liner David Wicker novelty CA 00-Apr-1989 27
recovering from AppleWorks hangs / edit APW source with AppleWorks Cecil Fretwell / David Hill / William A. Robbins tip Consultant’s Corner CA 00-Apr-1989 28 using the Lam technique on the GS / sharing printers with an AT clone varied print quality on the GS
Public Domain Software Catalog by Doug Trueman software CA 00-Apr-1989 29 the TechAlliance PDS Library
The Last Word on Random Numbers in Applesoft David G. Sparks technical CA 00-Apr-1989 “44 (6/89,p28:hex code; 7/89,p64:BASIC approach; 9/89,p145)” re-presenting the Faulkner replacement random number generator WAIT
Apple IIGS Data Structures Joe Abernathy tutorial Launching Into BASIC CA 00-Apr-1989 48 data structures common to AC/BASIC and TML BASIC and a library of routines to manage data for a customer database scratch
Hard Drives: following up with more options rb Vince M. Cooper hard disk / benchmarks Intuition Systems / Applied Ingenuity / First Class Peripherals CA 00-Apr-1989 53 WARP Q84 and Inner Drive (internal drives) Sider D9 and C96T (large capacity) LAN
Programming the Apple IIGS in Assembly Language “Lichty, Ron and David Eyes / rb Cecil Fretwell” book / tutorial Brady CA 00-Apr-1989 “58 (1/90,p156:errata)” APW $30.00 “take the “”Hello World”” program and develop it into a complete IIGS” Desktop Application
“The Deep, Dark Secrets of IIGS Launchers” David R. Hill utility CA 00-May-1989 “8 (7/89,p63)” GS / APW-ORCA/M a short history / how launchers work / a simple program selector
Micol Advanced BASIC rb Ken Kashmarek language / compiler Micol Systems CA 00-May-1989 15 GS / 512K $145.00 may be just the tickert for Applesoft programmers looking to step up to the advanced functional capabilities of the IIGS / Pascal-like features “procedures, parameters, recursion, benchmark”
Living on the Edge: Interfacing Assembly Language Routines to APW C Paul B. Harwood technique CA 00-May-1989 21 GS / APW/C (originally in ORCA/M) an assembly language function MKDIR which illustrates the techniques necessary for marrying C and assembler routines “data stashing, stack storage, frame pointer, heap”
Interrupt Environments Kenn Scribner technique Programming the AppleMouse II Part 3 CA 00-May-1989 26 assembly how the mouse runs in an interrupt environment Toolbox
Fixing a Bug in TML Pascal (version 1.50 for APW) David G. Sparks language / bug CA 00-May-1989 44 a problem with the INT2HEX call in the Integer Math group “typecast, univ”
Enhanced Data Facilities of TML BASIC Joe Abernathy technique Launching into BASIC CA 00-May-1989 46 TML BASIC adding windows to the TML Shell (2/89) and implementing a library of customer database tools / Joyreader (Phil Shapiro) “records, pointers, handles”
Desktop Publishing: the saga continues Marc Apfelstadt publishing various CA 00-May-1989 52 “additions and revisions: Publish It 2, Springboard Publisher 2.01,” “Graphic Writer II, Medley 1.1, GeoPublish 2.1, Graphics Exchange,” “MiniPaint, Rocket Chip, GS Juice Plus”
Viruses Robert Schack maintenance CA 00-May-1989 “56 (7/89,p63)” protection and an annexed Applesoft program which checks for CyberAIDS and Festering Hate (viruses) “bombs, Trojan Horse”
AUXMOVE/XFER revisited / AppleWorks WP Recovery Brian Massey / Cecil Fretwell technical / tip Consultants’ Corner CA 00-May-1989 60 customized cursor (IIc) / condensed print with IIc serial interface
“Apple Technotes / TFF and FST / .EXE suffix, .BNY suffix, unBNYing” Robert C. Platt technical / communications A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-May-1989 63 “AppleWorks Expander 2.54 (for AppleWorks 2.0+), AppleWorks 2.1 upgrade” “AppleWorks patches / TML, ORCA and APW / ORCA Pascal Linker bug” Finder Icon Colors
Lo-Res Design Tool David Wicker graphics One Liner CA 00-May-1989 64 design a Lo-Res screen
“The Trouble with Fonts or “”what you see isn’t what you get””” Mark Collins technical CA 00-Jun-1989 8 GS “overcoming the Font Gremlin: font number conflicts, point size” “Font Manager, QuickDraw II, Print Manager, Font Doctor”
NDAs 201 — Menu Mania: Font Boss Tim Swihart utility listing CA 00-Jun-1989 13 GS (Pascal) demonstrating a variety of Menu Manager and Font Manager routines
Changing the Desktop Color: a new desk accessory David R. Hill utility listing CA 00-Jun-1989 20 GS (assembly) “demonstrates the structure of an NDA, modal dialog elements,” “ToolBox_Desktop call, colored controls” “Gary Little, Clock NDA, JumpStart”
“ProDOS “”auxtype”” / Display ProDOS Subtype / The Graphic Exchange” Robert C. Platt tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jun-1989 25 device driver / Apple Single and Double file formats GS/OS resource forks / CP/M
“360 Text Toolkit / CDA Power, volume one / 360 Desk Extender” rb Ron Berntson programming aids 360 MicroSystems CA 00-Jun-1989 26 GS text drivers and routines / seven Classic Desk Accessories load and unload over 600 CDAs
Program Writer and APA / non-APW assemblers tip Write-A.P.P.L.E. CA 00-Jun-1989 28
A Walk on the Wild Side: C Pointers for Assembly Language Programmers Paul B. Harwood tutorial CA 00-Jun-1989 “42 (9/89 p146:””pre-indexed””)” C a basic introduction for programmers considering C
Micol Advanced BASIC and programming issues Joe Abernathy language Launching Into BASIC CA 00-Jun-1989 48 TechUtil: a handy disk utility “TML BASIC, metacommand”
Filling the Graphics Screen: part 1 Mike Westerfield technique Programming on the Apple IIGS with APW and Related Products CA 00-Jun-1989 55 GS flood fill “Noah, arc, bucket”
The Case of the Appending Garbage Andrew H. Eliason technical Consultant’s Corner CA 00-Jun-1989 58 a subtle difference between DOS 3.3 and ProDOS “CLOSE, APPEND”
AppleWorks Load Modules (you can delete unncessary ones) Cecil Fretwell / Marc Apfelstad / Sandy Mossberg tip Consultant’s Corner CA 00-Jun-1989 “59 (9/89,p144)” reducing ambient noise on the GS / Zip Chip vs Rocket Chip vs TransWarp GS/OS and hard disk problems / Losing Memory with System Disk 4.0 “UPS, ProSel”
A Skeleton Desktop Application: Tools Part 1 Sandy Mossberg program development CA 00-Jul-1989 8 GS/OS / APW assembler bare bones code that gets a model application up and running “fragmentation, dereferencing, G-strings”
Merlin 16+: high performance assembly language program development “Bredon, Glen / rb Ken Kashmarek” assembler Roger Wagner Publishing CA 00-Jul-1989 “15 (9/89,p93)” ProDOS 16 or GS/OS $125.00 “new version provides full screen editor, IIGS linker, disk utilities” “Hodgepodge, Lichty and Eyes’ Hello World”
Programming the Apple IIGS in Assembly Language Lichty and Eyes / rb Ken Kashmarek book / programming CA 00-Jul-1989 22
C Programming on the Apple II Paul B. Harwood programming C Side Tales CA 00-Jul-1989 23 why it’s called C / C vs. Pascal “C construction: preprocessor, variable declarations, functions” “K&R, ANSI C, APW, language number, pragma”
“printing with GSBASIC / Apple IIc Plus and memory expansion, RGB monitor” Robert C. Platt tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jul-1989 28 disk drive connection to IIc Plus / System Utilities for IIe and IIc converting AppleWorks to Macintosh / ProDOS 8 startup disk
TechUtil continues Joe Abernathy programming Launching into BASIC CA 00-Jul-1989 41 Micol BASIC Micol Advanced BASIC 3.0 / FILE command bug corrected “pull date, interleave, Iconix”
displaying Super Hi-Res Mode (use QuickDraw II) Joe Abernathy tip The Roar of the Crowd CA 00-Jul-1989 48 “plotting trig functions (1/90,p127) / print out listing from GSBASIC”
“Filling the Graphics Screen, Part 2” Mike Westerfield technique Programming on the Apple IIGS with APW and Related Products CA 00-Jul-1989 50 GS translating the flood fill algorithm from Pascal to assembly language
RISCy Business Allen and Peter Baum technology / hardware CA 00-Jul-1989 58 the philosophy of RISC and why it works 6502
printing ASCII characters higher than 127 on GS Mark Collins / Cecil Fretwell / Karl Bunker tip Consultant’s Corner CA 00-Jul-1989 “62 (9/89,p142:INPUT, IBM to Apple)” ESCaping from INPUT / launching P16 applications from BASIC transferring IBM to Apple (via modem)
The first quarterly edition of Call-A.P.P.L.E. magazine CA 00-Sep-1989 2 the eleven-year old magazine is no longer a 68-page monthly
System Software 5.0: The Times They Are A-Changin’ by Matt Deatherage operating system CA 00-Sep-1989 6 GS “speed and power: GS/OS 3.0, The Toolbox, The Resource Manager, TextEdit,” “other tools; Finder, Applications, and Utilities; Fidgeter (5.0 demo)” resources
Apple IIGS revised computer Apple CA 00-Sep-1989 40 $1149 (still) “memory increased, non-specific slots, sticky keys”
The IIGS Message Center Sandy Mossberg technical CA 00-Sep-1989 41 GS a way station for communication between applications
NDAs 202: Two Apples Are Better Than One Tim Swihart utility / tutorial CA 00-Sep-1989 47 GS / ORCA/Pascal add a second Apple NDA menu
A Beginner’s Tour of Toolbox Programming on the Apple IIGS Robert B. Hess tutorial / programming Enter the Programmer CA 00-Sep-1989 58 TML Pascal by using the Toolbox routines you can exceed the capabilities of programs written for pre-GS systems / the main event loop GUI
TML Pascal II rb Robert B. Hess language TML Systems CA 00-Sep-1989 69 GS “text editor, Resource Editor”
C Compilers for Apple II Computers: a comparative review rb Paul B. Harwood language / compiler “Apple, Manx, The Byte Works” CA 00-Sep-1989 70 “APW C, Aztec C65-c, C65-p, C Prime, ORCA/C”
File Transfers: XModem and Its Derivatives Michael Fischer communications Modem Mania CA 00-Sep-1989 84 “details of file transfer using XModem, XModem CRC, and Relaxed XModem” “Binary II, BLU, NuFX, Shrinkit, CRC”
Co-existence With APW and ORCA/M Ken Kashmarek assembler Merlin 16 / 16+ CA 00-Sep-1989 88 65816 or 65802 the features of Merlin 16
SuperGraphix rb Marc Apfelstadt utility / graphics Lynx Computer Products CA 00-Sep-1989 95 GS “$99 (with SuperMusic), $44 (SuperPuzzle)” control Super Hi-Res graphics via the Applesoft ampersand
XCMDs: HyperStudio’s Ampersand David G. Sparks technique CA 00-Sep-1989 98 external commands for HyperStudio
Help for TechUtil Joe Abernathy tutorial / programming Launching into BASIC CA 00-Sep-1989 102 how to implement help in the desktop environment modal
Games and Graphics Programming Joe Abernathy programming Roar of the Crowd CA 00-Sep-1989 106 “Micol Advanced BASIC, ORCA/Pascal, Sierra Online’s development system,” AC/BASIC
BASIC.SYSTEM: Changes and Bugs Cecil Fretwell language Apple CA 00-Sep-1989 107 bugs fixed (and added) with BASIC.SYSTEM 1.3 “BSAVE, BLOAD, V parameter”
Virus Mike Westerfield technology CA 00-Sep-1989 108 “how a virus works and how to protect, prevent, and detect it” Vaccine
“A Skeleton Desktop Application: Menus and the Event Loop, Part 2” Sandy Mossberg tutorial / programming CA 00-Sep-1989 124 APW Assembler creating menus and bringing the application to life with an event loop
“The Inquisitive EXEC, ORCA/APW Style” James A. Hodge technique CA 00-Sep-1989 130 obtaining input from the keyboard
algorithms / Numerical Recipes – The Art of Scientific Computing Robert C. Platt tip A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Sep-1989 134 “using an Epson printer with GS/OS / ProDOS path name, prefix” ProDOS 16 multiple prefixes / changing prefixes / Tech Notes
A2-Central Developer Conference “Weishaar, Tom / rb Cecil Fretwell and Andy Nicholas and Tim Swihart” conference CA 00-Sep-1989 138 “Jonathan Eder, Barney Stone, Western Design Center and Bill Mensch” “animation, native development, cross development, Eric Soldan,” “bug busting, Roger Wagner, Mike Westerfield, Vince Cooper, Ron Lewin”
To SCSI or not to SCSI? / Hooking up Ehman hard drive to TransWarped GS Vince Cooper / Ken Franklin tip Consultant’s Corner CA 00-Sep-1989 141 INPUT routine with enabled ESC
MS-DOS to Apple II to Mac and Back Carl C. Bringardner technique Consultant’s Corner CA 00-Sep-1989 143 “MatchPoint, PC Transporter, MatchMaker, II in a Mac”
IIGS Fonts and Foreign Characters Marc Apfelstadt / Kashmarek & Mossberg / David Sparks & Elliot Chandler tip Consultant’s Corner CA 00-Sep-1989 143 loss of memory: quit call parameter list more random number generators
Like Yesterday “Kathryn Hallgrimson Suther, Editor” history The Inside Track CA 00-Jan-1990 2 Kathryn recounts her experiences with Val Golding and Call-A.P.P.L.E. in this final issue Iowa Gang
Full Circle “Val J. Golding, editor emeritus” journal The Editor Bytes Back CA 00-Jan-1990 3 “I wouldn’t have missed it for anything. The moving finger, having writ,” moves on…
Animation Tricks on the Apple IIgs Brian Greenstone technique / animation CA 00-Jan-1990 8 65816 (Merlin 16+) “bit mapped shapes, simple animation, complex animation, tiling, putting” all the pieces together
Customizing the Apple IIGS Desktop Vince Cooper technique Desktop Magic CA 00-Jan-1990 24 Pascal addressing some of the new features available in System 5.0 allowing communication with the Window Manager’s desktop drawing routine
starting up and shutting down tool sets Sandy Mossberg technique Consultants’ Corner CA 00-Jan-1990 40 The Tool Locator on System Disk 5.0 provides two calls that simplify the “process of starting up and shutting down tool sets: StartUpTools,” ShutDownTools StartStop record
Font Editors Revisited Marc Apfelstadt utility Consultants’ Corner CA 00-Jan-1990 154 GS “Font Factory GS, GS Font Editor, Font Doctor, Font Editor”
FingerPrint GSi and Transwarp GS are not compatible Marc Apfelstadt hardware Consultants’ Corner CA 00-Jan-1990 155
File Resuscitation Marc Apfelstadt technique Consultants’ Corner CA 00-Jan-1990 155 “ProSel’s Mr. Fixit, RepairWorks”
Roll Your Own Icons Mark Collins technique / technical CA 00-Jan-1990 42 GS incorporating icons within programs “FontDoctor, Little Rez, DesignMaster, The Call Box, Genesys”
Hyperstudio XCMDs in Pascal An Iowa Gang Amalgamation (David Goliath Sparks and Kenneth Kashmarek) programming technique CA 00-Jan-1990 45 TML Pascal / ORCA Pascal compiler code must end with an RTL instruction $APW
Custom Utilities — The Building Blocks of a Programmer Robert Hess programming Enter the Programmer CA 00-Jan-1990 51 TML Pascal / ORCA Pascal a Pascal Unit and how you can use it to create a specialized set of tools
TML Pascal II / TML Source Code Library II rb Robert Hess language TML Systems CA 00-Jan-1990 67 GS System Disk 5.0 a brand new environment to same old compiler
Stalking the Wild Tab / Source Formatting Paul Harwood programming C Side Tales CA 00-Jan-1990 74 a text filter to convert tabs and carriage return/line feeds C Traps and Pitfalls / ORCA/C “#include, #define, Argc, Argv, Main(), braces”
Classic Desk Accessory Development Without Booting or CDA Loading Ken Kashmarek technique Merlin 16/16+ CA 00-Jan-1990 84 a CDA that will display a memory map of the memory in a IIGS system TransWarp GS
The Binary II File Standard and file format Michael Fischer communications Modem Mania CA 00-Jan-1990 93 ensures that file attributes are included when a file is transferred “Gary Little, archiving and compression, BLU, NuFX, ShrinkIt”
Playing Historian Andy Nicholas communications / technical NuFX CA 00-Jan-1990 97 a way to place information into a more compact format; placing several files together inside the same file “archival, Binary II, BLU, Jim Mensch, Morgan Davis, ShrinkIt, CRC”
Internet Joe Abernathy network / technology National Science Foundation CA 00-Jan-1990 107 the forefront of telecommunications is the construction of a data superhighway linking computer users everywhere to the world’s computer “centers, business networks, research teams — and to each other” “ProLine, gateway, networking terminology”
Farewell Address / To the Tractor Man Cecil Fretwell / K farewell CA 00-Jan-1990 110 “thanks to Kathryn Hallgrimson Suther, Charlie Stillman, Val Golding,” Janine West
Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about monitors… “Elmer, Allen, and Peter Baum” monitor / electronics CA 00-Jan-1990 111 the different types of monitors and display devices used by Apple over “the years: monochrome, color, digital RGB, analog RGB” “refresh, resolution, NTSC, Synch”
Transducers and Light Detectors David Gauger homebrew The Weekend Hardware Hacker CA 00-Jan-1990 115 “a simple, inexpensive light transducer that interfaces to the game port” “A-D, breadboard, calibration”
Micol BASIC desktop programming Joe Abernathy language Launching into BASIC CA 00-Jan-1990 120 Micol Advanced BASIC — version 3.0 a birthday salute to BASIC a program shell providing the infrastructure and logic for using the “desktop in Micol / MD-BASIC, ProTools v2.0, Micol IIe Update,” “AC/BASIC for System Disk 5.0, Supergraphix 256 / Mastering Applesoft” “Graphics, Exploring GS/OS and ProDOS 8 / How to Write a Computer Manual” “Scrap Manager, AUTOEXEC, C, #INCLUDE, #DEFINE”
Trig Graphing Porgram / GSNumerics Joe Abernathy help The Roar of the Crowd CA 00-Jan-1990 127 “problems with TML BASIC: PRINT USING, RANDOMIZE, output to printer” loading shape tables
Reading Directories in Micol BASIC Joe Abernathy technique The Roar of the Crowd CA 00-Jan-1990 128
“Null Events and Shutting Down GS/OS, Part 3” Sandy Mossberg technique A Skeleton Desktop Application CA 00-Jan-1990 130 adding a few more bones to the skeleton desktop application
From the Iowa Gang “Ken Kashmarekt, Cecil Fretwell, David Sparks” farewell CA 00-Jan-1990 136 we want you to know what an extraordinary experience it has been to work with you
GS Memory Saver Jim Lazar utility / technique CA 00-Jan-1990 137 Merlin 16 an example of how to access the ProDOS MLI from a CDA swap
Master Tracks Pro for the IIGS rb Marc Apfelstadt music Passport Designs CA 00-Jan-1990 149 GS $395.00 you can now edit… everything! “MIDI, Humanize, Sysex”
ProDOS BSAVE B parameter / IIGS Font Number Conflicts / FONT.LISTS Robert C. Platt help Call-A.P.P.L.E. Doctor CA 00-Jan-1990 152 drawing Super Hi-Res graphics colors / FDHD / hex numbers on ImageWriter GS/OS System 5.0 installation / CDEV / transfer Amiga to Apple via GIF