HERE It IS, what you have all been waiting for … the Apple II ReVISion e. Our lead story Reving Up the Rev e by Call-A.P.P.L.E. staff writers Clif Howard and Art Schumer IS a giant cooperative effort between the authors, Apple Computer, Inc. and ourselves. You can read the full-featured review of a full-featured machine starting on Page 9. And don’t be concerned about any in- compatibilities With existing software; they will be few and far between. The Identification programs included with the review will go a long way towards resolVing potential problems.
Almost overshadowed by the e is our second lead by Ken Kashmarek, Taking a Bigger Byte. When this one came In the mail not too long ago, we were on the phone to Ken Within hours Wielding a bouquet of long-stemmed ampersands “ThiS IS good,” we said, and it was. Here is a technique we would like to see as a standard, a breathtakingly simple way to POKE or PEEK 16 bit (two byte) values with the & command.
Half way down the cover now, Dick Emerson Explores the World of Apple with a detailed introduction to interrupt handling. His Interrupts and the Apple as an example offers an interrupt driven text screen dump program.
In the realm of applications, 19 year old Jim Ganz has written a fine menu handler in hiS first major effort. Take a look at An Apple in the Kitchen.
As a companion piece to Jim’s article above, Joan (haiten reviews a program called The Dietician, Ralph Swerdlow’s A is for Apple tells about Controlling Control D and Jonathan Kandell has an interesting bit on Smooth Animation techniques. Next month commences our 1983 cross country chase of the Apple shows. The West Coast Computer foire in San Francisco will come off in March. We hope to meet more of our phone friends from the Hotline at both shows and say hello to many of our readers. These are two of the big shows each year, so plan on attending if you possibly can, and stop by the A.P.P.L.E. booth. In conjunction with the shows, you can also look forward to the March issue; one clue: it will be big, big, big.
If you were here with us now, as we write this, typing into our antique but faithful word processor, we’d bid you a happy new year. However, In the interest of reality, we’ll let it go with “See you at the shows”
