Tag: Val J. Golding
Seattle, Washington – 28 July 2024 – Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) is proud to announce a new, ‘extra special’ 3rd Edition of The WOZPAK Special Edition: Steve Wozniak’s Apple-1 & Apple II Computers. The WOZPAK was the first official technical resource for the Apple II computer, with original material provided directly by Steve Wozniak and Apple Computer president Mike Scott to the A.P.P.L.E. User Group. 2024 Update: a mere 11 years after we released the “Special Edition,” we…
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 holidays, giving users a variety of screens which could be personalized as well. Originally written in Integer Basic, not only was it formatted for the…
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 II computer what it became. It is normally available for the list price of $49.95, but during the holidays, it is 20% off at just…
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 those of you who are hearing about the club — A.P.P.L.E. (Apple PugetSound Program Library Exchange) and the later A.P.P.L.E. co-op and Tech Alliance –…
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 and entry point information. The Wozpak was rushed into publication to supplement Apple Computer’s skimpy user manual of about 32 pages, familiarly known as the…
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 upon a time, personal computers were thought of as little more than sophisticated toys, good only for playing games. Little did we know or foresee,…
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…
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. As it turned out, the clues in that story were sufficient to start us on the right path. We were working in the dark, not…
HERE It IS, what you have all been waiting for … the Apple II ReVISion e. Our lead story Reving Up the Rev e by Call-A.P.P.L.E. staff writers Clif Howard and Art Schumer IS a giant cooperative effort between the authors, Apple Computer, Inc. and ourselves. You can read the full-featured review of a full-featured machine starting on Page 9. And don’t be concerned about any in- compatibilities With existing software; they will be few and far between. The Identification…
A new year is upon us, another 12 issues of Call-A.P.P.L.E. We would like to request again our readers Input. What are your preferences and dislikes. Take time, if the thought appeals to you, to photocopy the contents page and rate the stories. We’re interested also in how you use your Apple, whether or not you write your own programs or plan to. Comments should be addressed to the Editorial Office at the address shown on page 2, and should…
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 it has, nearly strangling to death along the way, under the burden of a staggering work load. If any single factor can be held to account, it would have to have been the news releases printed in the summer, 1978 issues…
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 computer user. Further, in our own definition user group implies . in our own definition, user group implies a gathering or association of people with…
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 for certain routines, including Append. Every attempt has been made to debug it, but some may still remain. Please allow 30 days for delivery on…
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 about 800 dollars in the treasury and most of it is committed to prior obligations. Ron and Darrell Aldrich have been busy working on a…
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 of a blank cassette and follow it with saves of programs written in Option 1. For Option 2, do the same except make line 950…
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 how to proceed. There is a simple machine language program in the revised Apple II manual to enable a printer. Empire has ordered a number…
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 functions. Binary conversions are printed on the face, above the appropriate digits, and the machine performs floating point” negative balance arithmetic in decimal mode. It…
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 $1. 00, along with 35¢ in postage, a self addressed letter size envelope and the names of the programs desired, to Val. For listings only, a self addressed, stamped envelope. As soon as Val has a printer up…
Users can dress up their Apple II program with a simple tone subroutine to direct attention to error messages and other items of importance. From BASIC, you simply need a Call -1050 ($FBE6). This will produce a 1·000 cycle tone to be emitted from your computer.
