WERE off to greet spring-time and the West Coast Computer Faire with a special 128 page issue, our largest to date. Lest we forget, the dates for the big show of the year IS March 18-20 at Brooks Hall, In San Francisco’s civic center. Hope to see you there, and at the Anaheim Applefest In April.
From time to time in Call-A.P.P.L.E, we often feature assembly language programs which use Applesoft’s powerful ampersand (&) command, which has the capability of passing parameters directly from an Applesoft program to a machine language subroutine. John Crossley of Apple Computer, Inc. reality set the ApplesoFt world on fire with an article In the first Issue of the Apple Orchard on the use of Applesoft Internals, a corrected version of which appeared In Call-A.P.P.L.E. In Depth 1.
This now-famous article is no doubt slngly responsible for the huge inFlux of ampersand-related p rograms that have appeared In thiS and other magazines over the last two to three years Craig Peterson, In Call-A.P.P.LE. In Depth 1, Introduced the concept of combining several ampersand utilities In one program, enabled with a command parser which d istinguished the several parsed ampersand commands and routed them to the appropriate subroutine.
During 1982, a number of commercial programs appeared on the market embodying this premise. Somewhere along the line, we managed to Fire oFF five of them to staff wnter David Sparks, who has pulled together a comprehensive review with diagrams, 8 x 10 |glossy?| charts and everything. His conclusion? They’re all good. Turn to paqe 37 and see If you agree.
As we get firmly in gear For 1983, we are seeing more and more, and lower pnced 16k RAM cards making the Apple scene, the end to a means, so to speak, of getting the most from your 64k of memory Exploring the World of Apple welcomes Coleman Logan to our pages with a good deal of Information on how your Language Card or 16k RAM card is turned on and oFF and how to use it to best advantage. His Switchcraft: Memory Management is one of several articles on thiS subject currently In the works.
Another newcomer is Robert Plamondon, who In Anatomy of an Eamon Adventure explains artfully how thiS well known game series works, and additionally provides a program listing of the Base 2 program. At the same time, be sure you don’t miss our two Eamon specials which are described in this Issue’s Bytes From A.P.P.L.E.
Also appearing For the fllst time, Charles Wells presents an in depth review of Transforth, one of a multitude of variants of the popular Forth programming language. Forth is a “stack-onented” language which IS Ideal for applications where you want to add a command to those already in the language, and has the advantage of running much Faster than BASIC, almost like a compiled language. Wells’ review will fill you In on the details. Recenty stafF writer Ralph Swerdlow and hiS wife took hiatus From their daily routine and toured Europe At our suggestion, they stopped in Rotterdam to visit another of our staff writers and his family You can read about it In “A Visit with Cornelis Bongers”.
Two stories relating to CP/M appear in this issue. Our CP/MUFFIN, ably abetted by David Sparks, is a utillty to convert CP/M files to DOS, while Call-A.P.P.L.E. engineering consultant Murray Arnow found and Fixed a CPIM bug which shows up only on the Apple IIe. The cure is his program FIX APCPM Pascal users are not forgotten in this issue With Terry Reilly’s Jeanne’s Procedures: A Guide to the Pascal Editor and Lawrence O’Glasser’s Seeing Double Safely.
Who ever heard of doing card tricks on an Apple? We have, and so will vou, when VOU read AppleThe Magician by returning author Luis Hernandez. Bah, humbug Indeed I Another Call-A.P.P.L.E. technique appears In this huge March Issue; the subject Customizing GPLE Escape Tables; the author Edward Nutter.
Of course there’s more, but we’d rather use our remaining space to clue VOU In on a couple of super stories VOU can look forward to over the next couple of months. Michael J. O’Neill IS scheduled to show up soon With a Telecommunications Tutorial. Burt Webb has some Interesting projections In what we can expect to find In the Computer Home anv doV now, Gary little will present a method to spool vour printer output, and Chris Joachumson will present Arcade Graphics Techniques, the first, we hope, of a series.
As a parting shot, we’ll again ask VOU to drop a note to the editorial office letting us know vour likes, dislikes ond wonts As alwavs, we’re here for the benefit of our members, and our policies are guided by your thoughtful suggestions
