A new year is upon us, another 12 issues of Call-A.P.P.L.E. We would like to request again our readers Input.
What are your preferences and dislikes. Take time, if the thought appeals to you, to photocopy the contents page and rate the stories. We’re interested also in how you use your Apple, whether or not you write your own programs or plan to. Comments should be addressed to the Editorial Office at the address shown on page 2, and should include your membership number if a member. So here we are with the brand new year. Perhaps your Christmas present to yourself was a shiny new Apple. If so, you can skip the rest of this page and turn right now to lee Webster’s A Beginner’s Guide, which may prove Just the ticket to get you off the ground with your new baby.
Step up one rung and take a look at Staff Writer Ralph Swerdlow’s contribution to your peace of mind as he shows you how to implement Password Protection In your programs. Another level up, Tom little returns with Bottoms Up. some tips and techniques on structured programming, using a command interpreter as an example.
At the bottom of the cover, but deepest into Apple’s inner workings is Staff Writer David Sparks’ AND is Fatally Flawed, a grand finale exposition of the problems with Applesoft’s random number generator, for once and for all, we hope, laying the problem to rest. Dave here collaborates with John Russ, whose story A New Pseudo-Random Number Generator shares a program in common with Sparks’ feature.
Bill Parker, who joins us this issue as a Call-A.P.P.L.E. Staff Writer, offers Machine Power: Where to Put Machine Code, one of a series of articles we plan for our two magazines. Meanwhile, back on the contents page, we find one more version of the infamous “lAS,” Bob Nacon’s Penultimate Penultimate Input Anything Subroutine to once more let you enter commas, etc., in INPUTs, and we’d also like to call your attention to our annual Call-A.P.P.l.E. Index for 1982, compiled by coworker/cohort Kevin Donohoe.
Finally, to answer a often-asked Hotline question, Bob Halfman makes writing to text page 2 almost as easy as writing to page 1 with Direct To Page 2. Now with the appropriate POKEs, you can also use hi-res page 2 in mixed mode.
Next month, watch for a Valentine Gift from Apple Computer. Inc.. as we lift the shroud and unveil details of the newest version of the Apple II computer, presented by Staff Writers Cliff Howard and Art Schumer. You will also find a new utility by Ken Kashmarek which we will wish to promote as a standard, a two byte PEEK/POKE routine which makes those 16 bit ad- dresses even easier to handle than Integer Basic does.
A Call for Papers
Call it a half-baked idea … maybe, maybe not, but our ear has been bent by Bill Parker of San Diego who pro- poses that our club consider Writing and releasing a new BASIC language. We would hope that noted authors such as Cornelis Bongers. Dave lingwood. C. K. Mesztenyi, Craig Peterson and others could be coerced to partiCipate. Through this column we are inviting those individuals to contact us, and we will work with Bill Parker as coordinators. If you are technically skilled in assembly and interested in the proposed project, let us know.
