In 1979, Jeff Finn submitted a program to the A.P.P.L.E. users group for inclusion in its Diskpak 2. It was the Holiday Greeting Pak, a program which utilized the low resolution graphics capabilities of the Apple II computer. Included in the Holiday Greeting Pak were 9 different screens covering both the Christian and the Jewish […]
The Wozpak Special Edition is now priced for the Christmas Holidays. The 350 page book with the notes from Steve Wozniaks’s Apple-1 and Apple II notes was produced in coordination with Steve Woznaik by Brian Wiser and Bill Martens. It includes a number of interesting items and introductions from the men who made the Apple […]
Seattle, Washington – 23 July 2013 – Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) is proud to announce The WOZPAK Special Edition: Steve Wozniak’s Apple-1 & Apple II Computers. This book has been a year long collaboration between Brian Wiser and Bill Martens and brings out the best quality and spirit of what The WOZPAK was […]
Mystery Monologue Having written these past couple of months on A.P.P.L.E.’s accomplishments in various fields brings us to this month’s harangue\\ …er, monologue. Today, we’ll talk about A.P.P.L.E. software. Lest the reader go away thinking we have done nothing but pat ourselves on the back, we should set the record straight. For the benefit of […]
Publications and More That A.P.P.L.E. gained notice for both the quality and the quantity of its publications is a given. First came the “Wozpak,” a thick, ungainly red-covered book – if one could be that generous with “book” – that was mainly an unorganized collection of various obscure Apple ][ assembler program listings, data sheets […]
How many of you remember Little Brickout? If you do, you may be dating yourself, because it goes back almost ten years. A Lo-Res [gasp] graphics game played with the game paddles, Brickout’s simple object was to knock bricks out of a wall with a bouncing ball. How far things have come since then! Once […]
by Val J. Golding Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine March 1983 PP81 CP/MUFFIN was a rush job. We had a story submitted to us on Wordstar on a CP/M formatted diskette. Fortunately for us, we had just published a story in the December Call -A.P.PL.E. by Art Messler, which pretty well explained the structure of a CP/M directory. […]
Originally in Apple Orchard MagazineV1N1 — March/April 1980 It is curious, in retrospect, to examine ones past and attempt to determine what went wrong or what went right. As one might surmise, there is no one single factor responsible for the current popularity of Apple Pugetsound. Certainly there was no hope or expectation on behalf of A.P.P.L.E.’s founders that the group would grow to its present strength of well over 3000, or that it would achieve the measure of acceptance that […]
Originally in Apple Orchard MagazineV1N1 — March/April 1980 To define user group, we must first define user. Very simply a user is an individual who has purchased or otherwise acquired a: product. Webster defines user as “a person or thing that uses”. In the context to which we refer herein, user means an Apple II […]
The BIG NEWS for this issue is APPLESOFT WORKSHOP is here! The cost is S6.41 postpaid, and orders will be accepted, subject to the following conditions: This preliminary version will be updated several times over the next few months. Updates will be available at $2.00 postpaid. This version is disk-dependent in that it requires disk […]
18 July 1978 Meeting began promptly at 7:16. We again introduced ourselves in Lynnwood OMEGA’s meeting room and found 41 members attending. Tom Geer, who is recovering from a broken leg, sent word that he orders his APPLE hardware directly from APPLE in California and dispelled any contrary rumors that had been circulating. We’ve got […]
DAK Enterprises has a special price on cassettes, valid through March 10th, 1978. Order from Val Golding. Prices do not include shipping. HEC60 (Top of the line, cobalt) $.66 eachEC-8 (Four minutes .per side) $.68 each
The following recipe will save you loading time on your Applesoft programs. 1. Load Applesoft 2. Do not “RUN” it. 3. Using the DEL command, delete lines 0,940, inclusiv. 4. Enter this line: 950 POKE 18,255 This will give you a preset version of Option 1, Applesoft graphics mode. 5. “SAVE” this at the beginning […]
The Apple II paddle I/O Port is immediately available to connect an RS232 type. serial mode printer. Tom Geer, of the Empire Electronics store in Burien is probably the first person in the area to have a TTY up and running. If you ask, Tom would probably be glad to give you some hints on […]
The Texas Instruments Programmer is a unique calculator which provides immediate conversions from, and 4-function calculations., Base 8 (Octal), Base 10 (Decimal) and Base 16 (Hexidecimal). It will also manipulate bits in Hex and Octal modes, with One’s and Two’s, compliments, logical and, or, not and exclusive or, as well as shift left and right […]
Bob Huelsdonk and Val Golding have been hard at work assembling new programs for the software library. See the complete listing below which includes many new programs. Programs from the A.P.P.L.E. library may be ordered as follows: For copies on cassette, send $1. 00, along with 35¢ in postage, a self addressed letter size envelope […]
Users can dress up their Apple II program with a simple tone subroutine to direct attention to error messages and other items of importance. From BASIC, you simply need a Call -1050 ($FBE6). This will produce a 1·000 cycle tone to be emitted from your computer.
Loosely translated, this means there can be no output without input and effort. In order to make this group a success, we need, member input in the form of both articles for the newsletter, and programs for the library. Have you found a sneaky thing your Apple does that is not in the manual? Let […]
…is the tentative title for this newsletter. The name was chosen with some thought. That Basic (no pun intended) purpose of A.P.P.L.E. is a self-help service organization. If you need help, Call-A.P.P.L.E.. We will attempt to or assist you in solving you Apple-related problems and answer questions. If you stump us, we will try to […]
By Bob Huelsdonk and Val Golding A subroutine to find the Basic POKE statements for a machine language program or subroutine. Find the starting address of the routine you wish to Poke and convert that to Decimal. Now, in Basic, enter the following program. (n=starting address) 1000 A=n : B=A+19 1010 FOR 1= A TO […]