The meeting got off to a prompt start at 7:25 (after the secretary arrived, ed.) and the minutes were approved as stated in the May issue of Call-A.P.P.L.E.. There were 24 members present. (Note the continuing increase). Val started the usual introductions around the room….and some names are now becoming familiar. And then it was on to business. Val announced, that a tentative agreement been reached with Softech, Inc., to sell memberships and software to the club on a greatly…
June 1978 To all A.P.P.L.E. Members: please note that our library now has a LCOS (Limited Cassette Operating System) for all of our cassette based programs.
NOTE:Values 00 to 7F (0 to 127 decimal) are used by the standard Ascii character set. As in Integer BASIC, Apple II outputs last two rows (60-7F) as uppercase. This table is a complement to “Applesoft II Pointers and Tokens on Pages 6 & 7, and should be saved as a permanent reference chart.
The Apple ][ is country’s best seller? This is what Phil Roybal, Apple Computer’s marketing manager expressed to us when we asked him recently. Apple’s new Shuggart mini-floppy has now been officially announced at an unbelievably low $495. The Delievery is scheduled to commence in lat June. This drop of $200 was enough to influence our decision to buy. The Applesoft II ROM board will be available at $100 for an introductory period only, running through July 31st, at which…
COMPUTER COMPONENTS – formerly known as COMPUTER PLAYGROUND offers some large storage for Apple users in the form of PERSCI floppy drives. This is the first in a series of articles about the “large” floppies available for the Apple ][ The drive is the PerSci Model 277 dual diskette drive. this means it has two eight inch floppy disk surfaces with approximately 256,000 bytes for storage. Half a million bytes of disc storage per drive! optionally selectable is the dual…
We must thank Randy Wiggington of Apple Computer, Inc. for letting us bug him (no pun inteded) both by mail and by phone, and whose help was invaluable in helping to prepare the special Applesoft issue of Call-A.P.P.L.E Magazine (1978 June Issue)
By Darrell Aldrich While written for Applesoft II, this article is also applicable to Integer Basic HIRES graphics mode. The High Resolution Graphics screen is composed of 280 vertical bars (X coordinates), by 160 units high (Y coordinates). The even-numbered bars are violet in color, while the odd-numbered bars are green. The color white is produced by plotting adjacent green and violet bars. (Green+Violet=White. ) By plotting only on even bars, (even X coordinates), violet plots can be made. However,…
The Assembly Language classes are now scheduled to start June 1 at Empire Electronics. Cost $35 per persorn including Synertek manual. To sign up, call Tom Geer at (206)244-5200 or Don Williams at (206)242-6807. The course includes Number Systems, Boolean Algebra, 6502 Instruction set and Programming.
We will have available sometime within the next month the Applesoft II version of Programmers Workshop, with most of the same routines, Append, Renumber, Examine Basic, Pick a Base, Poke writer. Pricing has yet to be determined.
By Val J. Golding Here are simple routines that will allow you to append programs in both version of Applesoft. While appending can be done under program control in App. II, it is really simpler to do it without. The routines are the same in both versions; only the pointers have been changed (to protect the innocent!). A word of caution: Apple soft programs store in memory just the opposite of Integer Basic, i. e., from the bottom up. Therefore,…
We always look forward to writing this column each month, for a number of reasons. One is that since it is usually the last new material writtem ,it is this column that gives us an indication of the length of the current issue will run. Secondly, because we look at it as sort of “our own” column we feel free to let our thoughts wander a bit, and we feel this line sometimes will produce some interestbig material. In any…
We would like to extend a welcome to two new Computerland stores in Bellevue and Tacoma. Tom McConnell. manages the new Bellevue store at 14340 NE 20th, phone (206)746-2070, which opened April 28th and Dennis Griswold is in charge of the Tacoma store at 8700 S. Tacoma Way , scheduled to open May 5th. The phone far Tacoma is (206)581-0388. Welcome Aboard!
By Bob Huelsdonk I wrote this simple program to test new memory chips I bought. Just store the correct end address for your Apple in locations 4 and 5, run 300G and display 800 to the end. 300.32A 0300- A0 00 A9 55 91 02 D1 02 0308- D0 1D A9 AA 91 02 D1 02 0310- D0 15 20 18 03 90 EB 60 0318- A5 02 C5 04 A5 03 E5 05 0320- 3A FF 00 – 4C…
By Don Williams One of the minor deficiencies in Apple Integer BASIC is the omission of the Data statement. In search of a remedy for this, I wrote a program to save memory in a BASIC string assignment. This is listed as program lines 1020 through 1190. Upon embarking on the first routine, I quickly found a second omission in the language; a way to store a non-string variable into a string, the remedy for which is shown as program…
By Val J. Golding At the top of the list is Apple Computer’s new Basic programming manual. This falls just short of being a masterpiece. It is well written and easy to understand, even for a novice like this writer and is printed in a small, easy to handle spiral binding. It starts by introducing simple Basic commands in program format and in each simple program, goes on to bring a new command into action. If you have not yet…
Computerland and Empire Electronics are now offering Apple II related hardware and software classes at their stores. For more information, contact the individual store nearest you.
COMPUTER COMPONENTS (Formerly Computer Playground) of Westminster, Ca. now offers an Apple II/S-lOO bus interface. The price for the interface is set at $100. They also offer other i/0 cards and software
The OMEGA STEREO Bellevue store has now added Vector Graphics and Axiom to their current line of available computer products.
For Applesoft users, a fix decimal point routine by Bob Huelsdonk and a floating point foutine for Integer Basic by Don Williams, along with YOUR programs and YOUR articles. Our pay scale is pretty low (nothing!), but the rewards are gratifying… By submitting your programs to our library, you have helped another member with your contribution!
by Dana Redington = Apple Computer, Inc. More word on the utility Rom. In addition to the routines previously mentioned, this Rom will have new high-res operating routines, including a SHAPGEN command that will eliminate the need to manually write HIRES vectors. You will be able to directly address a d0t matrix, and there will also be a HIRES Ascii character set, displayable concurrently with the graphics. The Applesoft Rom board is scheduled for release to dealers July I st…
