If you have a newer Apple with the silent keyboard, Don Williams has written a short and sweet machine language routine to solve your problem. 0300: 48 PHA 0301 : A9 20 LDA #$20 0303: 8D 30 CO STA $C030 0306: 20 A8 FC JSR $FCA8 0309: 8D 30 CO STA $C030 030C: 68 PLA 030D: 4C 1B FD JMP $FDIB 0038: 00 03 Once you store the address ($0300) in location $38 and hit return, your keys will click…
Date: 20 June 1978 Time: 7:07 pm The meeting got off to a flying start at 7:07 PM as we introduced ourselves. Our official membership now stands at about 64, with 31 present at this meeting. (And in the two weeks since the meeting, has increased to over 100!) Val reported that the new Call -A. P. P. L. E. “Hot Line” has been installed and that the number is 932 -6588. (Where have we heard that number before?) This…
By Val J. Golding A problem that arises in any such organization as A.P.P.L.E. is that of “Bootlegging programs.” We have a number of programs in our personal library which we have purchased from a software vendor,and when a friend says: “Gosh, that’s a neat program .. will you run me a copy off?”, we have to decline. Not because we don’t want to pass the program on, but because we happen to believe that the author / owner of…
This issue is devoted to you, and particularly those that live without the Seattle metropolitan area. We have recently received tremendous amounts of mail, largely a result of being mentioned in the club columns of some of the major computer periodicals. Letters have been coming in at the rate of 6-12 per day, and it has certainly solved any problem as to what to do in our spare time.! Those members who live out of state are at a distinct…
We would like to announce the installation of the Apple “Hot Line”, (206) 932-6588. This number is now available so your club can assist you with questions, problems, etc. If we don’t have an answer immediately available, which is quite likely, we will either attempt to find an answer or refer you to another member who can answer. If might be well to mention at the same time (especially for distant members who may tend to overlook time zones), call…
We are pleased to report the formation of an Apple user group south of the border, Apple Portland Program Library Exchange. We attended their organizational meeting in May and spent an enjoyable evening in Portland as the guest of Terry Ashton of Computerland of Portland, who also hosted the initial meeting. We are happy to see that their membership now numbers in the 30’s. Their dues and program rate structure approximate sours, and we anticipate a good deal of interaction…
By J.A. BACKMAN If you have dumped a program by hitting “RESET” when you meant to hit “RETURN” and Ctrl-C wouldn’t bring the program back – – I’ll bet the air was as blue around your APPLE II as it was around mine! – ! – ! A sweet little fix is a simple gadget that stops accidental keying “RESET” but does not stop its operation when it is needed. It does not hide the key, and doesn’t require lifting…
For all owners of the A.P.P.L.E. Library Pak 1A, please note: There is a partial dropout in program No. 8 (Color Game Pak) in early copies. Try loading at a higher volume setting. If this does not work, let us know and we will replace. The same issue occurs with our early copies of Basic Tutorial.
Last issue I talked about the general specs of the PERSCI 277 eight inch floppy disk drive. This issue I want to discuss some of the uses for a floppy disc and why anyone would even want one. But first, let me digress. Since Apple has announced its own Disc II, why should I be telling you about the Persci floppy? Two reasons. 1) Computer Components announced its own floppy as available before Apple did, and 2) I’m using one…
As usual, we are down to the wire again as it comes time to write this column. We are still receiving applications from all over the country as we pass the 110 mark in membership, and we would also at this time like to extend a special welcome to our first overseas member, Paul Moortgat who lives in Nieuwkerken, Belgium! There are many special features for new members in this issue, and we would like to refer you to the…
MEMORY RANGE* DESCRIPTION ———————– —————————————- 0.1FF Program work space; not available to user. 200.2FF Keyboard character buffer. 300.3FF Available to user for short machine language programs. 400.7FF Screen display area for text or color graphics. 800. 2FFF APPLESOFT BASIC compiler. (Cassette Tape Version) 800. XXX User Program (ROM version – A2B0009X installed) where XXX is maximum available RAM memory 2000.3FFF High Resolution Graphics Display page 1. May be used by Ror-1 (A2B0009X) version of App1esoft II only. 3000. XXX User…
By Bob Huelsdonk Some protocol is a must if you use a printer with greater than 40 columns with your Apple. This comes about because it tries to write beyond the screen area and into the variables area in Integer BASIC or into the operating system in Applesoft. The following fix will help prevent this problem: Start your printer driver routine with a JSR FC58. This will home the cursor and clear the screen. Do not return to the screen…
By Val J. Golding APPLESOFT I I Extended Precision Floating Point Basic. $20 from Apple dealers or direct from Apple Computer, 10260 Bandley Drive, Cuptertino, CA 95014. Supplied free with new 16-48K Apples. A ROM version is expected to be released about July 1st for $99. One’s first impression might be that charging for this updated version of Applesoft is unfair, which was our snap judgement. However, consideration must be given to other facts, the first being that Apple Computer…
Coming up in the July issue of Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine: Annotated Memory Test by Bob Huelsdonk Using Color Mask in HIRES by Darryl Aldrich Mystery Program — A Contest by Val Golding Programming Hints from Apple to Z Integer Basic Floating Point by Don Williams Reviews, New Product Announcements, Etc.
by Val J. Golding This routine will allow you to format Applesoft REM and PRINT statements on screen without having to worry about the lines being different. One item to take note of: This program only works in 40 column mode in this format: 10 REM ROUTINE TO FORMAT REMARKS LINES AND PRINT STATEMENTS IN APPLESOFT II BY VAL GOLDING – 5.20.1978 20 REM APPLE PUGETSOUND PROGRAM LIBRARY EXCHANGE 6708 39TH AVE SW SEATTLE, WA. 98136 90 HOME:VTAB4 100 PRINT…
A complete program listing is given below to convert a program written in Applesoft I so it will load in Applesoft II. This program is available from the club library, as is a version of Applesoft I with corrections made. Load the converter program in Integer BASIC and RUN. The program will instruct you when to load your Applesoft I program. When the conversion is complete and you have re-saved your Applesoft I program, load it into Applesoft II and…
The May 1978 Contact! newsletter from Apple Computer, Inc. contained a number of required patches to repair bugs in Applesoft I. Array Indexing Problem Fix Long line Fix “END” Statement Fix FRE(0) Function Fix
