About the Australian Apple Review Posts Several of the Australian Apple Review articles have been re-typeset and integrated with the main A.P.P.L.E. site as part of our push to make all material searchable and available to the general public. Many of these articles are from the old Apple II website created by Terry Allen, which […]
From Andrew Roughan — The next Australian retro computing gathering, Oz KFest, will be happening in Melbourne, Australia, April 17-19, 2015. Come join us downunder for a few of days of retro inspiration, Aussie ingenuity and camaraderie! The goal of the event is to provide a user group style environment to exchange ideas and discuss […]
An announcement by chat leader Andrew Roughan says that the DownUnder Chat which occured on local time Friday Evenings in Australia is once again a weekly event. According to the posting in CSA2, ” After a hiatus… it is time for a come back. Calling all Apple II enthusiasts who are awake between 9pm and […]
By Lynne RyderAustralian Apple Review Vol 4 No 3 PP32-33 Another topic which often causes difficulty for students, yet lends itself elegantly to the computer, is number bases. I am including two short programs – the first written by one of my students, Sandi Steeple which generates numbers for bases less than 10, while the […]
Australian Apple Review – June 1987 The caption on the box of this delightful program declares “for people of all ages’ and if the widely varying age-groups attending Sydney’s annual Teddy Bear’s Picnic in Wentworth Park are anything to go by, it’s probably true. Everyone seems to have had a Teddy Bear at one time […]
Australian Apple Review June 1987 Designed for the Apple IIGSby Gareth Powell THE flow of programs for the Apple II GS is slow but certain. The software houses realise that this machine has its own very special following and that an integration of games, graphics and business programs is what is needed. There have very […]
for the Apple II seriesby Eric HolroydAustralian Apple Review June 1987 A very useful enhancement program for owners of the Print Shop, the Graphics Expander comes complete with over 300 graphics on the disk, all of which can be used just as they are or modified to suit your requirements with the easy- to-use editing […]
Australian Apple Review June 1987 Verbatim are well-known for their disks, especially for Datalife, but not many people know they produce good software as well. The Disk Drive Analyzer is a very high quality program written to check the performance of your disk drive. It runs on all Apple 11 series and Apple /// disk […]
Australian Apple Review – June 1987Deluxe Editionby Eric Holroyd This program was originally released in 1986 and has now been re-released with the ‘Deluxe’ tag. The new version has several enhancements over it’s predecessor including improved printer drivers and the very handy option to return to the previous screen you worked on by pressing CRTUC. […]
Australian Apple Review June 1987 Chemistry concepts and theories are not the easiest to grasp for the average student and chemistry as it is taught in our schools today seems to be either loved (mainly because the student finds the chemical principles logical and simple to understand) or hated (for those students who see no […]
Strategic Studies GroupRequires 64K AppleAustralian Apple Review June 1987 Nowhere is the expression ‘one man’s meat is another man’s poison’ more apt than when describing wargames. In the days pre-computer, wargaming was not only an art of strategy and tactics on the battlefield, but also around the house where firstly irate parents would threaten to […]
Australian Apple Review Vol 4 No 3 1987 Author: Hoyt HillsmanPublisher: Little BrownSize: 16 x 22 cm x about 230 pagesCost: $36.00 Micro Doctor is not a book about a very small member of the medical fraternity, nor will’ it make you a specialist when it comes to curing micros of all their ills. What […]
by Andrew McKellarAustralian Apple Review June 1987 Using Applesoft’s INPUT statement does not allow great control over what the user types. There is no control over the number of characters lo be entered, no commas can be typed etc.. This routine replaces Applesoft’s INPUT statement. It allow a specific maximum number of characters than can […]
By Gareth PowelAustralian Apple Review June 1987 Those of us who were in at the beginning of the Apple II revolution found that the main focus of our attention from day one was on a mystery animal called DOS. This animal came in different flavours and, later, different numbers. But we happy pioneers knew, right […]
Interface Board, Cable, DOS 3.3 disk and manual.Available: Godfrey DeaneTelephone: (058) 21 7325Cost: $208.50 tax paid At its most fundamental, the FingerPrint Plus is a printer interface board. At its most functional, it is a Grappler plus emulator, an Apple Super Serial emulator and a Wildcard emulator, all at the same time. The Fingerprint Plus […]
By Graeme Philipson “New generation” peripheral cards New computers now being released (we won’t mention any names) have made the Apple II obsolete in many ways. The newer machines are bigger and faster, they have an 80 column screen as standard, they have more standardisation, they have larger capacity disk drives. But the Apple II […]
Editorial Gareth Powell Australian Apple Review Vol 4 No 2 February 1987 PP2 THE NEW Macintosh’s have arrived and we now know that Apple made the right decisions, designed the right machines, are offering the right attractive packages. Almost every review throughout the world’s press has been unreservedly congratulatory. Perhaps now we should add a […]
by Andrew MichaelAustralian Apple Review April 1986 FANTAVISION IS THE SECOND in a series of mouse operated programs produced by Broderbund. The first of these was Dazzle Draw. When I saw Dazzle Draw I thought that Broderbund had reached the top in mouse operated programs, but they have made Fantavision even better. The program works […]
by Gareth PowellAustralian Apple Review Vol 3 No 4 April 1986 Recently, I had to ask Paul Beaver, the rotund and non hirsute computer guru of Dick Smith Electronics, for the loan of some games programs. Now, understand that Paul is the consummate games person. He knows them, he sells them, he plays them. He […]
Book review by Gene Stephan Australian Apple Review – Vol 3 No 4 April 1986 Author: Thomas Rudolph Publisher: Unsinn (through Dorian Music,Qld) Size: 21cm by 28cm by about 175 pages Cost: $29.00 As an ex-editor of this illustrious publication, I have felt the pangs of horror over the last few months when seeing the […]