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The Newsletter of: Apple-Q Inc. The Brisbane Apple Users’ Group. January 1989 Edition P.O. Box 721, South Brisbane, Queensland 4101. Registered by Australia Post - Publication No. QBG 3485. Apple-Q Information Page This Month... Executive Committee Open Day % Vince Crosdale President (07) 351-3090 Sunday 15th January 1989 John Finch Vice-President (07) 260-5218 Hours: 9.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. Bob Godbehere Secretary (07) 808-3892 Bernie Benson Treasurer (07) 345-1545 Committee Meeting Graham Black Registrar (07) 8B3-1525 Monday 16th January 1989 Dale Rodgie Editor (075) 38-6942 Starts: 7.00 p.m. Sheryl Mann Software Librarian (071) 96-7401 Brett Dutton Hardcopy Librarian (07) 265-5112 Beginners Course Sunday 15th January 1989 Bulletin Board Starts: 2.00 p.m. at the Name: Apple-Q Inc. BBS Software. Library: Room: On-line: 24 hours a day Telephone: (07) 284-6145 (Bulletin Board) Next Month... (07) 883-1525 (Voice) Open Day Baud Rates: 300, 1200/75, 1200 & 2400 (CCITT Sunday 19th Feburary 1969 & BELL) Hours: 9.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. Data Specs: 8 Data bits, 1 Stop bit, No Parity, Full Duplex Committee Meeting Sysops: Graham Black, Vince Crosdale, Brett Monday 20th Feburary 1989 Dutton Starts: 7.00 p.m. Now with a 60 megabyte Hard Disk Membership Fees Joining Fee: $10.00 (add to Membership Fee when first joining) Adults/Family: $20.00 Pensioners: $12.00 (on production of Pensioner Card) Full Time Students: $12.00 (under 21 years & on production of Student Card) Corporate Membership: $50.00 Associate Membership: §% 5.00 (plus $5.00 joining fee - BBS only) (At the discretion of the Executive Committee) Copying Fees Apple-Q has a wide selection of Public Domain, Shareware and Demonstration software available to members. We charge a copying fee so the group can obtain more software to expand the library. The copying fee for 5.25 inch disks is 50 cents a side with a minimum charge of $2.00. For the 3.5 inch disks, the fee is $3.00 per disk. See the software librarian at the next Open Day for a catalogue. More Info... - All club meetings are held at the Hooper Education Center, Kuran Street, Waveli Heights. - The copying of Commercially produced software cannot be sanctioned by Apple-Q Inc. and members who do so risk expulsion from the group. - All contributions fo the newsletter should be handed to a committee member at the Open Day, or posted to P.O. Box 6375, Gold Coast Mail Centre, Bundall, Queensland 4217. The deadline date is the committee meeting immediately following the Open Day. - Application for membership or Renewal of membership should be sent to P.O. Box 698, Redcliffe, Queensland 4020. Ali other mail should be sent to the club's post office box - listed on the cover. - Due to space restrictions, only Apple-Q Inc. members are allowed to set up their machines at the meetings. Make sure to display your membership card on your machine, or you will be required to pay a membership fee. - No one is allowed behind the Trading Table counter except the committee members and anyone appointed to work at the Trading Table. Apple-Bug <2> January 1989 4 Apple-Bug <3> January 1989 In this issue Information Page............... Editorial......ccccee ce eeee BBS R€pOrt eeoses.< ¢ ¢.50s5 SiS & Edienene. Income & Expenditure Statement. Macro Table....... cece cere eece How to play “Dream Zone" Appleworks Tips......... Christiansen Protocol... Apple II Peeks............ Advertisements... Macintosh Software........ Membership Renewal Form........... 15 C EBEoatitoral a] by Dale Rodgie Welcome to the first newsietter for 1989. You would have noticed a few changes in the newsletter this year. Thanks to John Finch. we have a new front cover. He whipped it up on his Mac. We have also re-designed the “information page" to fit more in. Article “Authors! " ‘ We are allways looking for articles for the ae feo ne Apple-Bug. Anything to do with Apple 2 Computers and third party hardware and the compter scene can software. Write an article today for the next come along and learn but edition. The reward? Your name printed in this your Apple. The course fine publication. You are also helping the poor This Open Day we are starts at 2.00 p.m. in editor (that's me) get the best information the Software Library about the Apple to the club members. Room con your right as This notice is not sponsored by: you enter the main door). All members are invited. ~Brdderbund Softwar: ! The coftee machine is provided by the Hooper Centre, and coffee costs oniy 20 cents perc cup. Money is put in the bowl on top of the machine using the honour system. The chairs and tabies are owned by the Hooper Centre. and extra tresties can be obtainea from under the school building if needed. We aren’t aliowed to nave alconotic beverages on the premises because of Departmental Regulations. The telepnone is locked and not available for outgoing calls. We do not have a key to this pnone. Someone has to clean up at the end of the day, make sure that the trestles nave been returned. rubbish put out, etc. Anyone volunteering to help ciose up (clean up. put away tcesties. etc) would be welcomed with open arms. Apple-Bug <4> January 1989 A small number of power boards are available. at Open Days. for a deposit of $20.00. Due to the number of missing power boards, we had to increase the deposit. I recommend that you bring your own as the few available will not last long. is BBS Report a by Dale Rodgie Eacly December. the Apple-Q BBS had its own Christmas present. I am talking about tne 60 megabyte Hard Drive now connected to the BBS. More public domain software nas been piaced on the BBS. Also more games and a bigger message base. I would iike to thank ali the members who donated to the Hard Disk Fund or bought the Modem disk that was on sale. We were planning to buy a 40 megabyte hard drive but the cost of the 60 meg. was about $90.00 extra. So we bought the 60 mea. However. even with the sale of some of the BBS equipment, we still are about $200.00 short of the cost of the hard drive. This $200.00 has come out of the Apple-@ funds. Graham and I would like to continue the Hard Disk Fund to pay back the $200.00 and keep raising funds tor any nessary additions in the future. So this montn we have another disk for sale. It contains a Shareware program called “Davex". Davex is a command shell for ProDOS. ProDOS has no way to accept commands trom you directly. so some sort of command interpreter is required. Davex includes a large number of “housekeeping” commands for managing your disks, directories. and files. Davex is also a starting place for using other ProDOS programs. When you run another program trom Davex (ust by typing its name), you will normally be returned automatically to Davex when you Quit the other program. Here is a list of the commands: Internal Commands This is just a list of commands. It tells you what commands are built into Davex, but it does not explain them. Consult the online help to find out now to use a specific command. help i ? display command information cat display directory prefix change prefix top set prefix to parent volume up change prefix to parent directory over move to another directory online print names of online volumes copy copy files or trees of files update replace outdated files pg display files a screenful at a time type display files (also displays Appleworks word processor files> rename change name delete destroy files create create a directory or other file filetype change file’s type (and auxiliary type) alias show or change aliases (abbreviations) config show or set various Davex options ftype display or update filetype table dev list. add. or cemove ProDOS devices Apple-Bug <S> January 1989 scan examine or change the scan list exec get keyboard input from a TXT file como cedirect command output to file or printer size show size of file or directory info print info on file lock make a file read-only unlock allow read, write, rename, delete prot protect file spool spool files for later printing eject eject a volume or all volumes from SmartPort touch touch a file. updating its modification date/time Cor set/clear backup bit) bye guit Davex cls clear screen (or send Ctr1-L to file/printer) rep repeat: execute a command several times err print ProDOS error message from code nun convert numbers between decimal and hex dt print date and time boot boot the system mon enter the Monitor echo echo string = print pathnames wait wait for spooled files to finish printing These commands are supplied with Davex. Other external commands can be written by an assembly language programmer. blist list a BAS file in ASCII brun run a BIN file {’brun’ is actually a smal! SYS fiie. not an external command) chkmod compare modification dates on pairs of files conp set IIgs control panel options deschw describe system hardware du summarize disk usage ffind search directories or volumes for files (find by name. type. auxiliary type, need-backup) find search files for lines containing a given string gsbuff set Apple Ilgs printer/modem buffer sizes hdr print lines from the beginning of a file init initialize (format) any ProDOS block device ‘or just write Boot blocks to a volume) iw2 set up print options for ImageWriter II mx80 set up print options tor Epson MX80 pset set up print options for NEC8023 / ProWriter / Imagewriter setdate sets date and time (only if no clock availabie) setstart examine or set the startup path of a SYS application sysalias create an alias for a SYS file what determine what a file is (this can be really handy!) Tnis disk contains the Davex program and the documentation. It also has on-line heip. All this for just $5.00 at the Trading Table this Open Day. C Income & Expenditure Statement a] Beiow is the income and expenditure statment for Apple-Q Inc. This statement covers the period until 31st August 1988. Apple-Bug <6> January 1989 Opening Balance 1.9.87 Less Federal Debits Tax 1.70 -50 Cash Float 50.00 Balance transferred to Apple-@ Inc. Receipts BBS Income 972.45 Cheque Account Interest 37.94 Donations 244.17 Float 66.00 Full Memberships 2635.00 Joining Fees 898.00 Library Sales 32.00 Postage - Income 10.00 Raffles 287.80 Refunds 28.30 Software Sales $13.50 Student Membership 614.00 Trading Tabie 5067.40 Expenditure A.G.M. Advertising Audit Fees Bankcard charges BBS Expenses Cleaning Fees Equipment / BBS Federal Debits Tax Float Withdrawal Insurance Library Expenses Magazine Subscriptions Meeting Expenses Miscellaneous Newsletter PO Box Charges Postage ~ Stationery Repairs Software Purchases Trading Tabie Purchases 52.20 621.60 11,406.56 12,028.16 Apple-Bug <7> January 1989 C Macro Table Jj EDITOR: This article was found in the November edition of the AUSOM News and { thought it would bring a smile to some of our members. Observing a definite lack of computational power in most modern machines. our Engineers have produced the following list of commands that we feel should greatiy expand the scope and capabilities of the average computer. These commands are easy to remember mnemnonics for simple addition to any Marco or Instruction set. Une simple command will often eliminate many bulky routines. AAC Alter all commands FLI Flash Lights Impressively AAR Aiter at ramdom AB Add Backwards GCAR Get correct answer AFVC Add Finagles’ Variable regardless Constant GDP Grin defiantly at programmer AIB Attack Innocent Bystanders AWTT Assemble with Tinker toys HCF Halt and Catch Fire HCP Hide Central Processor BAC Branch to Alpha Centauri BAF Blow All Fuses 1SC Insert Sarcastic Comments BCIL Branch Creating Infinite Loop JTZ Jump to Twilight Zone BDC Break down and Cry BF Belch Fire LAP Laugh at Programmer BDT Burn data Tree BW Branch on Whim MAZ Multiply Answer by Zero MW Malfunction Whenever CBNC Close. but No Closer MWT Malfunction without Telling CH Create Havoc CMD Compare Meaningless Data OBL Obey Murphy’s Law CML Compute Meaning of Life CNB Cause Nervous Breakdown PNRP Print Nasty Replies to COOL Crash on Operator’s Programmers Lunchbreak CRASH Continue running after stop RA Randomize Answer or Halt RAB Read answer Backwards cs Crash System RLI Rotate left Indefinitely CSL Curse and Swear Loudly RPM Read Programmers Mind CVG Convert to Garbage RRSGWSSNK Round and Round she goes, where she stops nobody knows DBZ Divide by Zero ppc Daliy During Calculation SAI Skip all Instructions DOC Drive Operator Crazy SCCA Short Circuit on Correct DLN Don’t Look now... Answers DPMI Declare Programmer Mentally SFT Stall for Time Incompetent sos Sign Off, Stupid DPr Destroy Program DTC Destroy This Command TILO Turn Indicator Lights otf DIVFL Destroy Third Variable trom TAN Take a Nap Left TPDH Tell Programmer to Do it DW Destory World Himself TTA Try. try Again ECO Electrocute Computer Operator wSww Work In Strange and Wondrous EIAO Execute in any Order Ways ENF Emit Noxious Fumes EP Execute Program Apple-Bug <8> January 1989 C How to play "Dream Zone" q The solve assumes that you are mapping each new area you go into and theretore does not provide much detail on how to get from one place to another. Also. you can only carry So many objects at one time. You will have to decide when and where to drop certain objects. You can have up to twelve objects in a location at a time. If you type in swear words on the keyboard, it will take you to a special place called the “Romper Room". There are two romper room’s in the game. you wil! encounter the second one after you get the crowd by the bar to leave. Don’t leave objects in the first romper room or you won’t be able to get back to them later in the game. Save the game often, accidents happen and you wouldn’t want to have to start ail over again (especially after getting through the D.0.1.). You will start your adventure in your own bedroom. Take the sandwich. Open the dresser. Wear the pajamas. Go in the bathroom and get the toothbrush and the Plunger. Don’t forget to brush your teeth (good dental hygene is the key to good relationships). Now go to your Brother’s room. Give him some money and he wili go to buy candy. Open the chest and take the squirt gun. Now you are ready to start your adventure. Go back to your room and sleep. When you start dreaming you will suddenly be transported to a very colorful world. Leave the bedroom and you will be on a sidewalk facing two doors. one is the bedroom you just left. the other is the door you must go through. Your toothbrush is the key to the door. Once you get into town there’s not much else to do except get into the bar. ‘The tox can neip you get into the bar but he will require you to get Form 69B-12C from the D.O.1. Since that 1s the only way to get in you will have no choice. Enter the D.U.i. and ask the Informer about 69B-12C. He will tell you to ask about that in N3L-D. This means: N ~- nortn elevator. 3 - third floor. L - left door, D ~ room D. Now you're in for a bit of red tape. Go to N3L-D and ask about 69B-12C Go to N4R-E and ask about Otficer S3R-D Go to N2L-D and ask about Officer S3R-D Go to S3R-D and ask about 69B-12C (take rock) Go to E4L-C and ask about 43A-81G Go to E3R-D and ask about 11X-16B Go to E2L-B and ask about 51iM-970 Go to S4R-E and ask about 17D-16B (give Officer sandwich) Go to S2L-A and ask about 16D-970 (shoot Officer) Go to E2L-B give Officer 16D-970 (get S1M-970) Go to E3R-D give Officer 17D-16B (get 11X-16B) Go to E4L-C give Officer S1M-970 & 11X-16B (get 43A-81G) Go to S3R-D give Ofticer 43A-81G (steal 69B-12C & shoot Officer) Go to S4L-B and ask about 222-131 Go to S2k-A give Officer 222-131 (get receipt) Exit the buiiding, go to the fox and buy an I.D. Go over to the crowd and say “FREE BEER". Tne crowd will stampede and carry you to the front of the bar. Type in a swear word and you will be transported to the Romper Room. Take the soap and wash your mouth out and you will be transported back to the crowd. Look at the girl in the crowd (she look’s like a girl you could take home to mother). Propose to the girl. She will be willing to marry you and she will follow you. You will be in the basement ot the D.0.1.. take the elevator to the first floor and exit the building. Go to tne cnurch and get married (don’t forget to get the waters). Go back to tne bar and go up to the roof. There you will meet a rat named Nick. Ask Nick about keys and he will let you buy tnem from him (you will need the keys to go into tne Apple-Bug <9> January 1989 bathroom once you go back into the bar). Enter the bar and take the jacket then talk to the twins. They will give you some gum. Give the wafers to the bartender and he will give you a keg. Give the keys to the bartender and you will be able to go into the bathroom. Enter the window (in the bathroom) and go south to the bigtop. Buy a ticket to see the freak show. Go to the game booths and play the games. You will nave to steal the teddy bear and the tokens. Find the kids that are fighting and give them the tokens. they will give you some candy. Go to the freak show and give Hairy the candy. Hairy will give you some hair tonic. Next, give the gum to the Grajunk. ne will now follow you. Now go back to where the crowd used to be and you will tina a pridge to the Emperor’s palace. Go to the end of the dock and go swimming. Enter the cave and you will meet Jacque the Water Rat. Give him the keg and he will give you the Pearl. Go to the Swordsmith and talk to him about the sword. Now go to the Emperor’s rock garden and walk along the wall. A Ninja wiil come at you from the wal!, shoot him, you will now be allowed to enter the Paiace. But before you do, go to the middle north part of the rock garden and dig. You will find an old vase and some worms. Now go see the Emperor. Give him the rock and he will let you roam about the Palace. Find the Servant room and give the servant the vase. He will open the room that the princess is in (the Emperor’s bedroom). You can enter the Emperor’s bedroom from the Palace room (north of the dining room). Give the Princess the teddy bear and she will follow you. Take the rock, then take the Princess back to the Swordsmith and he will give you the sword. Then give him the jacket and he will give you some rice. Take the rice and go back to the rock garden (southwest corner), and look for Sushi (the rat). Give Sushi the rice and John the rat will owe you a favor (you can tind him in the bathroom of the bar). Now go back to the bar and outside to where the fox was and in his place you will find a loan shark. Ask him about a loan (buy loan), he will loan you 100.000 tuna. Now go back to the bar and go in. Enter the bathroom, the window. and go to the Airship Terminal. Buy a ticket and go south to the airship, then talk to the Captain about tne castle. Give him the Pearl (globe>. You will not be able to take off because you are still anchored to the ground. Go back to the bathroom in the bar and talk to John the rat about the task (he owes you a favor). He will follow you back to the airsnip and , take care of tne rope. You will still not be able to take off yet (can’t go till you pay your debt). Go back to the Emperor’s Palace to the dock and go fishing. You will catch enough to pay off the Loan Shark ‘you need the worms from tne rock garden). Now go back and pay off the Loan Shark. Now you’re ready to go back to the airship and take off (say’ready>. When you dock, exit the airship and go north. Now you need to find the drunk so jump west. When you find him, hit him. He will drop a bottle otf wine... Take the wine (don’t drink it). Now jump. You will catch the trap-door and swing up to meet Rambone Rat. Give Rambone the tonic and he will leave you alone. The only place is up from here. Now you will be in front of the key (the key will be in some kind of display>. Replace the key with the rock (your wife will do it, you don’t nave enough fineese). Now you have two ways to get back down. You could take the airship, but it is quicker to just swear (that will take you to the Romper Room. then use soap and you will be in the basement of the D.O.I1). At this point you have completed most of your quest, the only thing left is to get back to your bedroom. To do this you must face a Deamon. Just throw the wine on him and he wili dissolve. Now to open the door. You try to use the key and oh-oh, the Grajunk swallows the key. Time to whip out the plunger and use it on the Grajunk. Got the key, use it on the door and you’re home free. Once you’re back in the bedroom, go to your brother’s room and give him back the squirt gun. That will complete the game. { Reprinted from the Devil’s Playground Times, November 1988 ] Apple-Bug <10> January 1989 C Appleworks Tips J] EDITOR: Here are just three tips from the Appleworks disks advertised in the November Apple-Bug. The disks contain heaps of hints to make the best use ot Appleworks. Eixing CONTROL-9 in Appleworks version 2.0 From the MAIN MENU April, 1987 AppleWorks 2.0 won’t allow a Control-9 in its custom printer codes. Apple has released a program to its dealers to patch AppleWorks 2.0 or you can key in the following program and run it. Enter BASIC and type in the following program. 10 DS = CHRS( 4) 20 PRINT D$:"BLOAD /APPLEWORKS/APLWORKS .SYSTEM,A$2000 .TSFF" 30 IF PEEK (13055><>46 THEN END:REM Check for version #. 40 POKE 13057.112: REM Change version number 50 POKE 11760,242: REM Fix Control-@ problem 60 PRINT D$:"BSAVE /APPLEWORKS/APLWORKS .SYSTEM,.A$2000 ,L8531 , TSFF 70 END Non-stop patch for 3.5", RAM. or hard disk (Both versions) 1, BLOAD APLWORKS.SYSTEM,TSYS,A%2000 (Version 1.3) 2. POKE 13193.44 [this stops the spacebar stop to switch to program disk] 3. POKE 13855.208 POKE 13856.19 (this accepts the default date or reads it from a clock card] (Version 2.0 pokes) 2. POKE 14468,44 (Spacebar stop] 3. POKE 14148,208 POKE 14149.19 [(Date/clock card bypass) (Both versions) 4. BSAVE APLWORKS.SYSTEM,TSYS,A$2000 CURSOR CHANGE PATCH Submitted by Richard Marchiafava Do you find the Insert cursor to be small. hard to find at times, or just plain borina? | do. The following patch will let you change the Insert cursor marker to almost anything that you find useful. An ASCII character table which included Mouse Text characters yielded some possibilities for a bolder. more distinct cursor. An enhanced //e. or a //c will allow selection of Mouse Text characters. I tried some characters to see wnich are bold enough to be useful. The solid Diamond character is very good. tne Riant Arrow and Hourgiass (7) are usable, but I have selected the Solid Apple for my use! Apple-Bug <11> January 1989 Those who do not have an enhanced //e may find the ] right bracket character bold enough for use as a cursor. Since the cursor flashes, there would be no probiem distinguishing it from the same character on screen. Character Value Diamond SB Right Arrow SS Hourglass ¢?) 42 Solid Apple 40 ] 1D This patch, from Open-Apple suggested using a checkerboard character. which looks like the RETURN marker. or an inverse box. The checkerboard was not bold enough. tne inverse box looks like the overstrike cursor. Work with a backup copy of AppleWorks. Boot ProDOS and run Basic.System. From basic enter: BLOAD APLWORKS.SYSTEM,A$2000 ,TSYS CALL-151 For AppleWorks 1.2 enter 2D80:<value> For AppleWorks 1.3 enter 2D8B:<value> For AppleWorks 2.0 enter 2DAi:<value> 3D0G BSAVE APLWORKS.SYSTEM,A$2000 ,TSYS For <value>. use the 2 character code corresponding with the ASCII character selected. There are no Oh characters in the patch above, only zeros. When you are satisfied with the cursor you have selected, replace APLEWORKS.SYSTEM on your application disks by copying with a file management utility. Your new insert cursor will make data entry easier for you. C Christiansen Protocol a What is Christiansen protocol and how does it differ from Xmodem? Are they compatible? Does Apple Access support the Christianson protocol? “Xmodem" is more or less a media representation of Christensen protocol.. Originally xmodem was just a program on RCP/M systems that used the protocol. It eventually became a generic buzzword for the protocol itself, unfortunately. The official name of the protocol is Christensen, from it’s original designer, Ward Christensen. There are a number of different implementations of it - some of which are very brain damaged. By the way, you can find ASCII Express for as low as $85 at various discount software operations. Apple Access is a toy program. First otf, Christensen’s protocol was originally developed for CP/M, and he named his protocol program "XMODEM" -- hence, we’ve adopted the name. He’s also come out witn MODEM7. and a few others. So to answer your question, yes, "Xmodem" and “Christensen Protocol" are compatible since they are, for the most part, the same. The incompatiblity tactor comes when you’re trying to make good use of this protocol in an environment that really needs more information than is sent with xmodem. For example, under CP/M (where xmodem orginated), file sizes were always MOD 128 bytes in length, and terminated with °*Z most likely, to flag the end of file. Files under Apple-Bug <12> January 1989 CP/M really don’t have “types", as far as the operating system is concerned, other than a three character "dot extension" to let the user know what kind of program it is. Now, let’s look at DOS 3.3, which requires a loading address parameter. a tiletype identifier. and probably something else (I’m no DOS 3.3 expert). AE Pro needs to save an xmodem receive to disk in such a way as to make the data useful -- so Bill Blue and Mark Robbins came up with a scheme of moving speciai Apple-oniy tile information along with the transfer so that the receiving side (most likeiy another Apple) could restore the original file to its proper state (to maintain tile type. loading address, etc). The ProDOS version of AE Pro is even more compiex. It sends an extra data packet at the end of the transfer that tells ali sorts of information about the file in question (type, time and date created/modified, biock size, loading address, record size, number of bytes. etc.) This speciai implementation should not cause a properly-written xmodem receiver to choke on tne transfer. It should get AE’s special characters at the beginning of the transfer and just flag them as errors. AE sees these errors and then knows that it isn’t talking to another Apple. so it reverts into a standard Christensen mode. The basic protocol is MODEM2 released by Ward Christensen in 1979. It providea for both a terminal mode and a file transfer mode. All Christensen compatibie modem programs use this protocol, but was enhanced with the addition of CRC mode as explained in the body of this document. XMODEM uses the same protocol as MODEMé but with the deletion (X’ed) of the terminal mode for use by RCPM operators so that callers had the use of file transfer capabilities compatible with MODEMZ. Tris deletion and naming ot XMODEM was done by Keith Petersen. Obviously. it was desirable to be able to prevent remote users trom putting the program into terminal mode. The program also prevented users from transferring executable files to an RCPM and then being able to execute them. They had to be renamed so that the extension part of the name would prevent execution until renamed by the RCPM Sysop. MODEM? is the name of the original expansion of MODEM2 that added batcn file capability. This was done by Mark Zeiger and James K. Mills in 1980. There are many variants of this program with enhanced terminal mode capabilities, printer buffering etc. - but the claim to be a MODEM? compatible protocol should be reserved for programs that are first, MODEM2 compatible; and second, batch mode capable with file name sending compatible with the MODEM7 filespec protocol. Other batcn name protocols such as in MINITEL and YAM are not MODEM? compatible. c C Apple II Peeks 1] PEEK( 74/$%4A)+PEEK( 75/$4B)*256 =: Current LOMEM PEEK( 76/$4C )+PEEK( 77/ $4D)*256 : Current Integer HIMEM RND¢ PEEK( 78/$4E)+PEEK(79/$4F)*256) : Provides “trcue" ramdom number generation in Applesoft PEEK(115/$73)+PEEK(116/$74)*256 : Current Applesoft HIMEM PEEK( 202/$CA )+PEEK( 203/$CB)*256 : Returns Memory Location of first line of integer program PEEK(218/$DA)+PEEK(219/$DB)*256 : Applesoft Line Number where an Error occurred it an Onerr was taken PEEK(222/8DE) : Returns Error code which identifys the Error which caused an Onerr to be taken Apple-Bug <13> January 1989 PEEK(36/$24) : Read Horizontal Cursor Position. Values: 40 colomn screen (0 - 39), 80 column screen (0 - 79) PEEK(37/$25) + Read Vertical Cursor Position (Values 0 - 23) PEEK(-21902/$AA72)+PEEK(-21901/$AA73) *256 : To find Starting Address of last BLOADed program or data (Dos 3.3 only) PEEK( 43702/$AAB6) : Returns the Language that is active (O=INT 64=FP 128=FP on tape or disk) (same as address -21834) PEEK( 46064/$B3F0 > : Returns the Number of Sectors on disk currently being used (16 = DOS 3.3 13 = DOS 3.2) (same as Address -19472) PEEK(-18070/$B96A) : If 150 is returned then you are using Dos 3.3 this PEEK works for both Applesoft & Integer PEEK(~16384/$C000) : Read Keyboard. If value is >127 then a key was pressed. This PEEK should be followed by a POKE-16368,0 PEEK(- 16352/$C020 > : Toggles the Cassette Output Port PEEK( -16336/$C030) Toggle the Speaker once for every two PEEKS PEEK(~-16287/$C061) : Read Paddle Switch (0). If value >127 = switch is on PEEK(-16286/$C062) : Read Paddle Switch (1). If value >127 = switch is on PEEK(-16285/$C063) + Read Paddle Switch (2). If value >127 = switch is on C Acivertisements J] FOR SALE Contact: Don Bajenoff, phone (07) 376-8235 1 x GS tmeg RAM CARD - brand new in unopened box - seli at the landed price - $700. 1 x Sendata Modem 1200/75 offers. FOR SALE Contact: Graham Black at the Trading Table or phone (07) 883-1525 Samsung Monitors Green/Amber screen with swivel base $225.00 Samsung Monitors Green/Amber screen Standard $199.00 FOR SALE Contact: Roy Rich, phone (07) 202-6135 1 x Apple IIc $1700.00 Includes: Serial Status Display, joystick/paddles, rapid fire unit, RF modulator, mouse (with Mousepaint), software and disk box. Must Sell!! C Next Month Jj What’s in next months edition? Well I don’t know. We are planning to put together more interesting articles about the Apple. The February edition of Appie-Bug is comming to a letter box near you... Apple-Bug <15> January 1989 Membership Number: ........... 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